Caleb Smith

This is absurd but also unwarranted. No one knows if using the word “Black” would violate the law because the law does not define what it prohibits and state officials have been intentionally vague, using only phone calls to university officials to order censorship. FAMU should test the law.

The Sunday Interview: How Blood and Soil Nationalism Went Mainstream w/Seth Cotlar Podcast Episode · Straight White American Jesus · 02/08/2026 · 1h 17m

In case you’re the sort of weirdo who wants to pre-game the Super Bowl by listening to @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and I talk for an hour about the history of White Christian Nationalism in Oregon and elsewhere, this podcast episode is for you! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Good luck!

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

I did convey how over the course of US history the protection & coverage of legal citizenship shifted arbitrarily to cover & uncover different groups based on politics. But I could only explain it via a book that took me 16 years to write. Pre-order now for March 24 delivery. More: shorturl.at/qZXae

Graph titled: Black people experience police misconduct at six times the rate of white people

Black people disproportionately experience police misconduct – including slurs, bias, and sexual harassment – during encounters with police

Is this really what it means for police to serve & protect?

Image of Justice Clarence Thomas dressed in a black judges robe, staring blankly, borderline angrily

Have reviewed thousands of documents from the Epstein Files.

I have located one and only one Black child rapist, a sole Black child abuser,

amidst the entire avalanche of disgustingness:

Justice Clarence Thomas.

Zero surprise there. Gross.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like The White House took 12 hours to remove a video depicting the former president and his wife as apes.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:

1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI

www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

the national voter ID push should be perceived in light of all this, btw

I agree that this is an improvement but why is “is racist“ so hard.

He's racist, we been knew that. That's what the conniptions over "woke" and "DEI" and immigrants and everything else has always been about.

You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership.

I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.

Opinion | The Risk We Face in Opposing Trump

always read @roxanegay.bsky.social , especially now.
"People often misunderstand nonviolent protest. It is not merely eschewing violence. It doesn’t mean that we are silent or that we are not angry."
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2 days ago, Trump called out Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia as cities where feds need to run elections

It's not rocket science to spot the racism

1) Horseshit, but also

2) you're telling us some 4-chan gutter racist has access to post from the POTUS's social media account where he routinely makes policy pronouncements as if that's supposed to make us feel better?

Just want to say, I see all the comments saying it’s a sign of his senility or mental decline. You could be right but I have a thing about linking racism to mental acuity. Not sure it needs to be, most of the time, and I don’t like the idea of racism as deviant, for a lot of reasons.

Trump market tested his campaign with Birtherism and inaugurated his run calling Mexicans “rapists and murderers.” There’s no new information in the latest outrage. But there is further confirmation that commentators who denied racism was Trumpism’s central motivating factor should be shunned.

I know it’s not the most important point, but there are no ape characters in The Lion King.

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Happy international Clash Day to all you young punks and young punks at heart! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Between Jeff Bezos' evisceration of The Washington Post, Bill Gates' appearance in the Epstein Files, and, you know, every single thing Elon Musk has done, at least we'll see the end of the Myth of the Benevolent Billionaires.

Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

"Referred to by the cast and writing staff as officially the worst movie they ever riffed. Monster A-Go Go is cited as a close second due to its total lack of coherent narrative, but Manos is considered more loathsome in terms of subject matter." Behind the episode: mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/MST3K_4...

It's about hierarchy. "Beauty" is subjective, the idea of a black woman portraying the most beautiful woman in the world offends them because white people are supposed to be the most beautiful and it is therefore offensive, it's so straightforwardly racist bsky.app/profile/radl...

Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

That second episode of the Boondocks doesn't age well.