Cassondra Hanna

Quiet as it’s kept, “dialogue” won’t cure what ails this godforsaken nation.

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

We are living in some supremely absurd times.

I am a professor because the McNair Scholars Program showed me what I was capable of. I will fight with everything I have to make sure others have the same opportunities.

McNair matters!

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Those of you who like to say, "History will not be kind to them" have not read much history.

Losing my mind a little over this.

Amen.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

It’s not my monkey, nor my zoo but this nyc mayor race is something else.

We wake up this morning knowing that Ella Baker's words are still true.

Tim Walz speaks in a blue jacket

Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in “a political assassination.”

Please don't talk to me about history unless you've actually read history.

I 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.

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Another world is possible if we fight for it.

When the story of troops sleeping on the floor in California after Trump sent them with no plan went viral… Musk’s 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?

I wish them both the worst.

For me the most important histories in the world are those of Haiti & Palestine. If you understand them, you understand it all.

Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says President Donald Trump’s big bill will cut taxes by $3.75 trillion but increase deficits by $2.4 trillion and leave 10.9 million more people without health insurance over the next decade.

Spends ~3x more than it saves

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A Bronx high schooler showed up for a routine immigration court date. ICE was waiting. A NYC public school student’s arrest was part of a nationwide blitz of immigration authorities detaining migrants in courthouses in an effort to speed up deportations.

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.

Has anyone tabulated how much all of these Trump-instigated lawsuits are costing taxpayers?