Losing my mind a little over this.
26.06.2025 17:16 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@cossandro.bsky.social
historian / black studies phd student working on histories of race, space & education currently @ harvard aaas / formerly @ uva history fisk alum / #hbcugrad | she/her
Losing my mind a little over this.
26.06.2025 17:16 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Amen.
24.06.2025 14:22 β π 217 π 40 π¬ 2 π 1NEW YORK (AP) β Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
25.06.2025 02:32 β π 11655 π 2204 π¬ 203 π 860Itβs not my monkey, nor my zoo but this nyc mayor race is something else.
22.06.2025 19:59 β π 954 π 53 π¬ 9 π 8We wake up this morning knowing that Ella Baker's words are still true.
15.06.2025 15:04 β π 26 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Tim Walz speaks in a blue jacket
Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in βa political assassination.β
14.06.2025 14:53 β π 8765 π 2591 π¬ 273 π 409Please don't talk to me about history unless you've actually read history.
10.06.2025 00:59 β π 316 π 23 π¬ 10 π 2I agree with those who say that by attacking sanctuary cities, the administration was trying to provoke a response they could exploit. But here's the thing: there is no perfect move for a community under siege. Cooperation and the passive absorption of violence are also highly exploitable moves.
09.06.2025 20:45 β π 798 π 174 π¬ 11 π 6Another world is possible if we fight for it.
09.06.2025 20:00 β π 1054 π 713 π¬ 9 π 44When the story of troops sleeping on the floor in California after Trump sent them with no plan went viralβ¦ Muskβs Grok quickly sprang into action and told people the SF Chronicle pics were actually from Afghanistan in 2021.
BBC Verify: Grok lied.
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Who could have imagined that two men who famously fuck people over and have public meltdowns about it would try to fuck each other over and have public meltdowns about it?
05.06.2025 19:29 β π 1091 π 160 π¬ 33 π 10I wish them both the worst.
05.06.2025 20:30 β π 15665 π 1997 π¬ 498 π 225For me the most important histories in the world are those of Haiti & Palestine. If you understand them, you understand it all.
04.06.2025 21:35 β π 153 π 23 π¬ 3 π 1Spends ~3x more than it saves
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What was your child, or a child you love, doing last Wednesday?
Dylan in the Bronx took the day off of school for an immigration hearing with his mom. Before the day was over, they had both been handcuffed, & Dylan was kidnapped by ICE, out of contact with family & lawyers & without medical care.
Why is it so hard for many to concede that the US has always incubated its share of homegrown terrorists & xenophobes? Some hide behind masks and hoods; others in uniform move freely in the open with badges on their chests.
24.05.2025 20:07 β π 35 π 9 π¬ 3 π 1Has anyone tabulated how much all of these Trump-instigated lawsuits are costing taxpayers?
23.05.2025 16:41 β π 89 π 17 π¬ 6 π 1Everyone noticed how these people went from βHarvard discriminates against Asiansβ to βHarvard is colluding with the Chinese!!β
Right?
Penn State University's trustees voted Thursday night to close seven of its 19 branch campuses β Dubois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre, and York β amid declining enrollments, demographic shifts and financial pressures that backers say made it a necessary decision.
23.05.2025 10:47 β π 28 π 9 π¬ 3 π 1BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's decision to bar foreign student enrollment at Harvard. Follow live updates.
23.05.2025 16:04 β π 484 π 108 π¬ 17 π 17BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.
22.05.2025 15:46 β π 3004 π 632 π¬ 86 π 55The fascists are planning to dispossess 4 million children or more of food along with cutting healthcare. They are still supporting tacitly or actively genocides in Gaza Congo & Sudan. We will have to riot.
21.05.2025 22:00 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Harvard Affinity Groups Plan Commencement Celebrations Without University Support At least six Harvard affinity groups will host unofficial celebrations for students graduating next week following the Presidential Priorities Fund, Calls on Alumni to Back Harvard in Fight with Trump
These two headlines from the front of The Crimson are wild. Harvard is implementing Trumpβs agenda against students of color while asking alums β including alums of color β to help them βresist.β Fuck you guys
21.05.2025 13:10 β π 309 π 62 π¬ 7 π 4The fascist win if you lose your compassion for other people. That's part of the war. You have to keep compassion.
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