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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

@keeanga.bsky.social

historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire https://www.keeangataylor.com/

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doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

25.07.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1512    πŸ” 620    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 13

very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It

24.07.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Civic Forum - S1E3 - Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Rory Truex Register now for The Civic Forum - S1E3 - Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Rory Truex on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on July 17, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT.

Please join me this Thursday at noon EST for our second session of The Civic Forum. We'll have a discussion with
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:

14.07.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a good thing there is nothing else happening in the world while we spend 3 days talking about the racisms of the NYT

04.07.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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UN Expert Exposes Dozens of Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide, Apartheid in Palestine Amazon, BlackRock, and Keller Williams LLC are some of the companies named in the report.

COMPLICIT:
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

02.07.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

03.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 98568    πŸ” 38514    πŸ’¬ 4581    πŸ“Œ 2735

🧡Solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.

Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.

Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

01.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 888    πŸ” 315    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 9
A meme. In the first frame there is a T-Rex from Jurassic Park pictured with the words "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ZOHRAN MAMDANI." In the second frame there is an image of Barney the Dinosaur shrugging along with text that reads "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING DONALD TRUMP."

A meme. In the first frame there is a T-Rex from Jurassic Park pictured with the words "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ZOHRAN MAMDANI." In the second frame there is an image of Barney the Dinosaur shrugging along with text that reads "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING DONALD TRUMP."

True story.

29.06.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4506    πŸ” 1186    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 40
29.06.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

25.06.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 35110    πŸ” 3859    πŸ’¬ 860    πŸ“Œ 305

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

25.06.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 15601    πŸ” 3048    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 97

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

25.06.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11609    πŸ” 1163    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 35

🀣

25.06.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout

25.06.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4125    πŸ” 362    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 32
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Holy shit

25.06.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 403    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 22

Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.

12.06.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The thing is, even for what most (white) people take as their model of effective protest, contemporaneous polling showed that most white people still felt it was harmful to the cause. In other words, the finger-waggers will never approve of a protest, even if it remains nonviolent.

11.06.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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In The Straight State, Margot Canaday reveals how the government enforced sex & gender conformity & relegated gays to second-class citizenship.

For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/Β£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.

press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

11.06.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.

"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strikeβ€”the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."

inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

10.06.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1230    πŸ” 427    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 24

reading your book now!

11.06.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1,800+ 'No Kings' Rallies Planned Across US as Trump Deploys Military to Crush Protests | Common Dreams Trump deploys National Guard to quell anti-ICE protests in LA. Protests planned to counter military parade on June 14.

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

09.06.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Illegal aliens invaded America.

The government of California aided and abetted that invasion.

Violent mobs, incited by California leaders, attacked ICE officers to keep them from removing the invaders.

California officials refused to send the police to rescue the ice officers, hoping the rioters would succeed in shutting down ICE raids.

This is an organized insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.

Illegal aliens invaded America. The government of California aided and abetted that invasion. Violent mobs, incited by California leaders, attacked ICE officers to keep them from removing the invaders. California officials refused to send the police to rescue the ice officers, hoping the rioters would succeed in shutting down ICE raids. This is an organized insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.

🚨🚨ESCALATION: Stephen Miller has tweeted that there is an "organized insurrection" against the United States, at 2:26 PST.

This could mean Trump will formally invoke the Insurrection Act, which would legally allow him to deploy those Marines on LA streets (last done in 1992)

09.06.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 13
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This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

09.06.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 19131    πŸ” 5446    πŸ’¬ 371    πŸ“Œ 600
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LA Community Organizer Describes Hourslong Street Battles Against Border Patrol An activist who helped organize the protests said demonstrators successfully turned back immigration agents.

"Working people everywhere should see this as an attack on working-class people, and they should all unite in solidarity to repel these attacks against our community. And so, again, we’ve proven time and time again, when we organize ourselves, we can defend ourselves." -Ron Gochez, UniΓ³n del Barrio

09.06.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.

09.06.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3109    πŸ” 1281    πŸ’¬ 725    πŸ“Œ 1009
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From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020’s summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: β€œThe pressing question is how w...

No more urgent conversation for this moment: @keeanga.bsky.social and @asha-rrs.bsky.social offer a critical reflection on summer 2020 rebellion: β€œThe pressing question is how we went from twenty-six million people on the streets to a fascist in the White House?” www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...

08.06.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8
 β€œI’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

β€œI’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

25.05.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 13420    πŸ” 4115    πŸ’¬ 289    πŸ“Œ 146

did some yapping about this youtu.be/9e6nJ8-9kms

22.05.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2411    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 22
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Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

21.05.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2929    πŸ” 1085    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 53

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