Minkah Makalani

Thomas Chatterton Williams' Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 09/11/2025 · 1h 32m

At risk of loosing my job or, worse, cancellation, this hilarious evisceration of Chatterton at the level of the sentence is just brutal. @jamellebouie.net has been using kid gloves by comparison. I mean, can a writer really write this poorly?
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Crab cake—Koco’s Pub

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of?

The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

The Defense Secretary is proud of people who committed treason against the United States so as to maintain a race based slave system.

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

Brutal: “The reader will find here no argument she could not have inferred from the titles of a dozen identical books on wokeness; nothing has been added but sentences.”

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By a party my German colleagues tell me is far to the right of AfD!

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

Brilliant. Anti DEI is not abt merit but monopoly:
“We are a university..
committed to truth and to truth-seeking.. Sure; it may sound inspiring to say, “It doesn’t matter where you start in this country.”. It may [be what] one says to .. CEOs or from the stage of a TED talk. But it is not fact”

Small Axe new issue has great section discussing Otto and Hermina Huiswoud w some amazing scholars. @mkimba.bsky.social has one of my favorites, but all are bangers. Happy to be in the convo

Blunt critique at its briefest and best.

These approaches have no interest in actually grappling with reality, esp when doing so creates holes in their takes; much easier to shave the corners off the square pegs

Why did I fear this is who you were reading.

Iron Mike Tyson may not win this, but Paul is exposed as a hack!

So you definitely MUST attend a game this year. You’d be part of history!

What happened?

The Book of Clarence is severely underrated!!! #TheBookOfClarence

*looks around*

WELP.

I better hurry up and finish this book while it’s still legal for black people in the US to read.

they are letting trump monologue and finish his statements and cutting off biden

God Biden is still sharp but need not admin. Stay on point man. Stop going off script!

DEI programs toppled amid a surge of conservative lawsuits A year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions, a campaign by conservative legal groups is forcing public and private institutions to abandon diversity programs.

“The Harvard decision has so transformed the legal landscape that some companies are abandoning diversity programs as a defensive measure even before any litigation is filed.”

“defensive measure”

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Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for? A holiday meant to commemorate the end of slavery has become a symbol of how little has really changed since 2020's police brutality protests.

new from me: I wrote about Juneteenth and the sense of “…okay but is this it?” that a lot of people (including me) seem to be having four years after the George Floyd protests

Oh my God, I didn't realize this is literally the exact story I told in ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles was instrumental in spreading these Ten Commandments monuments across America in the 1950s ... as part of a promotional tour with the Cecil B. DeMille epic.