Michael Harriot

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What do I know about fascism?

There is the same number of police officers in DC today as last week.

Just more men with guns

That was the whole point

Throwback Thursday: The Black Person's Guide to Making White People Feel Safe Are your white brothers and sisters feeling unsafe? Here's the solution.

If you're as concerned about white people feeling "unsafe" as the president, gentrifiers and the staff of Morning Joe, here's a handy-dandy guide on how you can help.

Black Migrants Brace for Intensified ICE Raids and Mass Deportations Under Trump While discussions about immigration and mass deportations often center around the Mexican border, Black migrants are disproportionately targeted by ICE.

So far, Trump's plan to make immigrants white again has targeted:

A Ph.D. candidate in Africana studies
An R&B singer
A Morehouse alum
A Black American citizen
An entire basketball team

😂😂😂😂 “Methodology”

If you have a student attending Howard: My new course, "The Black University" [AFRO 121-02] was finally listed as open for enrollment. I have seats available for a few students who want to join this class. This one, part of the larger work to #JailbreakTheBlackUniversity , going to hit different.

There Is No Such Thing As Fascism. Everything Is Fine. America's capital is now occupied by a few hundred highly trained, armed killers. I'm sure it'll work out well.

Serious question:

What is the one specific thing that would convince you that you’re living in an authoritarian state?

It’s only been ONE DAY and I’m already tired of hearing white people explain why a few hundred armed, trained killers might make the public feel safer.

You know which “public” they’re talking about.

Gonna be a long week.

Take Names There's no way to prevent Donald Trump's authoritarianism, but we can still hold the people responsible for American fascism accountable.

"Holding them accountable is not just our duty; it is as close to a commandment as ever existed. If we did this, we wouldn’t have to worry about Confederates, Nazis or a fascist, racist, incompetent insurrectionist president." @michaelharriot.bsky.social

And kudos to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for continuing to point that out

The fallacy in this “capitulating” narrative is the assumption that billionaires & elite institutions are being strongarmed by Trump, but they don’t really WANT a white supremacist, Christian nationalist authoritarian oligarchy

Do you have any evidence that they’re victims and not co-conspirators?

Take Names There's no way to prevent Donald Trump's authoritarianism, but we can still hold the people responsible for American fascism accountable.

What happens to a democracy when Confederates and lynch mobsters and segregationists and all-white jurors and gerrymanderers and vote suppressors and insurrectionists and election deniers aren't held accountable for their actions?

This.

Take Names There's no way to prevent Donald Trump's authoritarianism, but we can still hold the people responsible for American fascism accountable.

The latest superb @contrabandcamp.bsky.social post from @michaelharriot.bsky.social, a writer who uses history to tell urgent truths instead of cherrypicking it for propaganda. Highest recommendation!

The Original 33: Why Everybody Ain’t Invited To The Cookout (featuring Roland Martin, Nina Hibbler Webster and Brian Forte) Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/2dM0...

Throwback Thursday: So You Want to Throw a Slave Mutiny? A lost supplement from the New York Times Bestseller "Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America."

Read the previously unreleased chapter that was cut from "Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America"

“In a second version of the American Eagle ad, the camera follows as she walks, lingering on her classic Caucasian derriere as brief and thin as the Gettysburg Address.”

damnnnn…I love that sentence.

The White History Behind Sydney Sweeney's Eugenics Campaign American Eagle newest spokesmodel joins a long line of great American eugenics influencers like Thomas Jefferson, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump.

How did American Eagle get people to buy jeans that look like how celery tastes?

They used the same marketing strategy that made Kellogg's Cornflakes the world's #1 cereal
It's why America's 1st billionaire nepo baby funded German "research" in the 1930s
It's why the SAT exists

The White History Behind Sydney Sweeney's Eugenics Campaign American Eagle newest spokesmodel joins a long line of great American eugenics influencers like Thomas Jefferson, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump.

We shouldn't condemn Sidney Sweeney for accepting the role of American Eagle's official dog whistler. Even if race scientists and eugenicists were America's ORIGINAL influencers, it's not her fault. As Sweeney already told us...

It's in her genes.

If you consider their fame AND their hair, which celebrity had the #1:

1. High top fade
2. Jheri Curl
3. Afro
4. Asymmetrical
5. Cornrows
6. Locs
5. Low Ceaser
6. Non-afro natural

STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS MORONS

If you give half a shit about the future of our country and you're not already reading @michaelharriot.bsky.social you're wrong. Fix it.

Well I for one am TOTALLY SHOCKED that one of the most staunchly anti-DEI assholes had to sneak into Harvard through the sewers because his grades didn't cut it. SHOCKED.

There Was an Actual Conspiracy to Redefine CRT and DEI. Now They Have a New Target The billionaire-funded propaganda group that demonized CRT and DEI just released a plan to make universities white again.

www.contrabandcamp.com/p/there-was-...

Don’t worry about book bans, AI read them all so you won’t have to.

The only Hulk I acknowledge is Hypnotic and Hennessy

Can’t decide if they should arrest the person who created this or give them the Nobel Prize

My favorite fact about Alina Habba is NOT that she graduated from 1 of the worst law schools in America

Or that she served as lead counsel on exactly THREE cases before unsuccessfully representing Trump

It’s that the highest position she ever held was…

You gotta read it for yourself

But DEI tho

I just misidentified a picture of a crosswalk, 3 traffic light photos and 5 squiggly letters

I didn’t go to law school but I’m pretty sure this means I’m legally a robot.

In Loving Memory of Black Twitter ... ... And all social media.

Scan your news feed.
Now browse your favorite Black Twitter account.

Why is the algorithm feeding you posts from weirdos with 17 followers and suppressing the accounts you actually follow?

"Social media" is no longer social. It's just media