k? k. just k.

i have about two million followers across three platforms. statistically, about 20,000 of you are in the top 1% in terms of wealth. if any of you feel like leaving me your home in a walkable neighborhood when you die, that would make for a very heartwarming social media story.

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man Incarcerated for 44 years, the political prisoner remains unbowed in the face of medical neglect.

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man

America.
America has a problem.

Statue ☑️
Jersey retired ☑️
SC HOF ☑️

Congrats, A'ja Wilson on being inducted to the University of South Carolina A'thletics Hall of Fame

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Just bringing this thread back for reasons.

An untenured woman assistant professor burned a flag in her class for pedagogy in 1989 and it remains the most badass thing any colleague I’ve had has ever done and I’ve had some pretty badass colleagues

The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common

new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Enslaved Blacks invented blue jeans A few weeks ago, on Feb. 14 to be exact, I tweeted the following:

So I vaguely recalled in the wake of Sweeney jeans ad discourse (which I was genuinely trying to avoid) that at some point I thought I learned that Black people gave us jeans — I just couldn’t recall the source until today. There is a doc which this article summarizes, with sources cited. Cheers.

me side eyeing corporations posting the pan african flag colors for #juneteenth 🫠

And I resent the way companies are trying to force it. The other day Slack emailed saying they were adding AI to their product that already functions fine. I immediately cancelled that account. I don’t want it. It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke. I am happy on this hill even if I am alone

Cute!

🫩

10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of 'Mother Emanuel' Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

Los Angeles immigration raids protests began a week ago on June 6. The @pressfreedomtracker.us is investigating:

- 32 assaults on journalists
- 6 detainments/arrests of journalists
- 4 equipment damages
- 2 equipment searches/seizures

View our database: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

We're living under fascism. ORGANIZE YOUR OWN THINGS IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT'S ON OFFER. Jesus Christ.

When are the people who said nothing while student protestors were attacked for their free speech last year going to admit they made a catastrophic mistake? That would actually be useful. Weaken their rhetorical tools.

Admit you made a huge fucking mistake

Paige Bueckers going to the WNBA is ON!!!

I'm gonna love this Dallas Wings team #WNBA

Educators, neighbors, everyone. We at Teachers College are doing what we can to stand against Trump's attack on education, not just on our campus but beyond.

Please read our statement and share.

Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.

www.reuters.com/world/us/col...

Was putting up a Ramadan display at my library and realized we don't have any YA fiction by and about Black American Muslims. A quickie google search didn't turn anything up either. Given that Black Americans make up nearly 20% of the US Muslim population, this seems like a big gap. Any recs?

Yeah, we loved Windsor's Chinatown... we don't have one here because of racist federal highway policies deliberately destroying ours.

Once I came back with an out of town friend. We'd crossed the border to have dinner. US Customs hassled us with "aren't there good restaurants in the United States?"

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Yes

If there’s one thing I hope everyone is learning with all the dismantling of DEI initiatives is that no corporation is going to save us. We are the only ones that can save ourselves through community.

you are allowed to unplug, unwind, & just exist

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things