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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

A screen shot from the Guardian which reads - and I am so serious - "Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein's sordid men's club."

🗣️MORE. 🗣️WOMEN. 🗣️PEDOPHILES.

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Children are an oppressed class and it's essential that we see them as one. Child liberation must be foundational to our movements for freedom, or they will continue to fail. Excellent thread:

It has been the female sex of most species that determine which male is most fit. Humans are also like this, unless violence is involved, and this isn’t any different.

ICE are slave catchers and y'all want better trained slave catchers? Y'all want slave catchers with better rules? Fuck out of here

people on the left spent years getting smeared for claiming the Epstein network was a lurid ruling class project of networking, initiation rituals, and blackmail. I don't want to hear a fucking thing about some stupid ass nonsense shitcoating like QAnon being right

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Just so we're clear, 'young women', as per Elon Musk, are not women. They are children. The news can call them girls or young women or whatever they want, but ultimately, the goal is to rape *under age* children. Let's not lose sight of that. They are not young women. They are *children*.

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

the difference between "was there a conspiracy" (yes) and "the conspiracy theories" (specific narratives that may still be wrong even in the presence of thematically similar evidence)

The conspiracy of the ruling classes has almost always been one of broad tolerance and studied obliviousness within a shared understanding of mutual interest, they have always had the most meaningful class consciousness, it does not require actual conspiring it's just how one acts

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.

Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

I feel like someone's gotta say something, so l guess it's going to be me. I'm 100% certain that I either know, have met, or have sought meetings with people who have done horrible things in their lives, too. How about y'all? Association is not causation, and it's not guilt - of anything. (1/8)

The problem with applying this logic to Epstein associates is that vanishingly few have come forward before their names show up in these document dumps.

Epstein has been an issue of public concern for a decade! Where is the public reckoning among elites for their entanglement with this asshole

i think the fairest solution for everyone named in the Epstein files is to just send them all back to the island and never let them leave. and then we send in the wild dogs,

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

The hell he is.

ICE is assaulting and at war with americans. we are all their enemy. no other way to look at it at this point

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Also, I fucking hate people who speak from a position of authority about history when they know exactly nothing about history.

I know it's very far from the worst thing occurring in America right now, but the right wing's ability to lie through their teeth about the historicity of literally anything and have people baldly accept it at face value is one of the biggest reasons we're exactly where we are right now.

The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

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if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line