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therapist: it’s just a poem it can’t hurt you

the poem:

Illinois Democrat Running For U.S. Congress Goes Viral With Genius Attack Ad—On Herself

Beat 'em to the punch.

protest people with a banner lesbians against the nazi's and the klan

Dimecres 4, a les 20 h, recital presentació de
NO DIGUEU QUE SOM MORTS de Danez Smith
amb el traductor Toni R Juncosadit, Maria Isern, Raquel Pena, Laura Ramos i Yerson Montero.

a L'Horiginal - La Deskomunal de Sants
#nodigueuquesommorts #danezsmith
@horiginalpoesia.bsky.social

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Portrait of Harry Belafonte, in an oval form, with his head tipped back in song and hands gesturing

Close-up of portrait of Harry Belafonte

Charles White's stunning portrait of Harry Belafonte, iconic singer, actor & civil rights activist born on this day in 1927

Yes, read.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

I typed "life is putting it on me" and some AI thing from the depths of an automatic opt-in upgrade from the pits of hell suggested I rewrite it as, "life is difficult."

If i wanted to sound like a midwestern white male newscaster, I would do that. I do not.

Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

Bless this word. Thank you.

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Import the War, Export the Border | Dylan Saba If we are to avoid the worst possible outcomes of this conjuncture, we need an electoral left willing to countenance the collapse of liberalism and to be honest about the need to deconstruct our overs...

Trump’s second-term foreign engagement amounts to a rejection of even the fiction of US moral leadership, or of an “international community” to be led. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

B&W photo of a figure - Alexander Calder - holding up a stick on which is balanced a mobile with multiple hanging discs

Calder created a series of "Snow Flurry" mobiles; here he is activating one of them in a 1963 photo calder.org/historical-p...

If you're in the Triangle area, the @post45.bsky.social grad symposium is happening tomorrow and Saturday, organized by the excellent Julia Gordon and @cassandraluca.bsky.social. Plus, a talk by me and a roundtable on sociality and the university!

A New Era of Scholarship Is Shining a Light on the Black Philosophical Tradition Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors.

“Historically, Black philosophical traditions emerged less from philosophy departments than from Black intellectual culture — churches, newspapers, political movements, labor struggles, and independent study.”

I Love Libraries. My Mayor Doesn't. | FT Get more from FT on Patreon

I wrote about how much I love the public library, and how upset I am that Zohran Mamdani is not only breaking his promise to increase the library budget, he’s actually threatening to CUT the library budget.

Includes action items for New Yorkers!

No paywall.

Painting of a skinny old man naked and showing his bare butt riding on a skinny old horse the man has a lance in one hand of shield in the other and a Barbers Basin as a helmet on his head

Don Quixote — Marcel Nino Pajot

Sidney Poitier e Tony Curtis

🔥 REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “The ascent of populist movements tells us governments have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class… economic elites are taking the lion’s share of growth and leaving crumbs for the working class.”

(P.S. “resign, Pam Bondi”)

So does Belfast. I love seeing our American icons pop up in unexpected (to me) places.

A mural on the end wall of a curved Edinburgh street. It shows an older black man with a grey beard and hair wearing a white collar and dark jacket

There is a lovely mural on a bus route in Edinburgh. Such a wonderful speaking tour in Scotland and very influential.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?”

Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Jean-Luc Nancy:

“Evil is precisely refusing the world, wanting to substitute an empire for it—whatever the sovereign may be… This may be the empire of money or ‘me’ or a god, or the empire of technology drunk on itself or piety drunk on itself.”

(from a 2003 interview)