✪ Black Fistory Month ✪

I always like to remind folks that George Lucas originally wanted Toshirô Mifune to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in the StarWars series, because he was a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa films. We could’ve had a FINE as Obi-Wan.

“Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.”

~ Nina Simone 🌸🌸🌸

#BlackHistoryMonth ❤️🖤💚
#BHM2026 ❤️🖤💚

It’s is Black History Month. I want us back on code.

We , our stuff , our relationship to each other is sacred.

Not homogenous or even always harmonious but SACRED .

We may fight like hell .. but we not managing or explaining things no more . Sharing teaching fine ?

But let fools FAIL

I have been reeling from this since reading it in her book a few weeks ago. She adds that he did nothing more than that with her, but I just don't think there's a way to excuse getting a foot massage from a trafficked 17 year old.

Homer writes on his anonymous blog that, and I quote, "some crazy creeps on an island somewhere are secretly running the world."

Knowing that Matt Groening flew on the Lolita Express sure makes this scene from The Simpsons S12E06 a lot more interesting:

Yeah, it brings me zero pleasure to report that not only is Groening mentioned in the Epstein Emails (albeit not alongside any implications of wrongdoing), but the late Virginia Giuffre said she was forced to give him a foot massage on the Lolita Express when she was 16:

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

The founders fetishized local control of elections in part because some wanted to protect slavery. It’s funny that the same system now prevents the wannabe dictator from implementing top down disenfranchisement. Gift 🎁

Poppies. Frilly Yellow. Pink. Red. In a vase with art and sculpture behind them.

Some small beauty. Poppy edition.

3 words. Fugitive slave patrols.

How are we not supposed to terrified of ICE when they’re indistinguishable from these guys?

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

“The exaggerated features and the darkened skin, she [Nekima Levy Armstrong] said, reminded her of when the bodies of enslaved people were left disfigured to deter uprisings on plantations, or during Jim Crow when racist propaganda would depict Black people as caricatures.”

Every university that capitulated to Trump’s financial demands looks so fucking stupid right now

Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

I wonder if Columbia & all the rest have regrets? 🎁

Charlottesville Council to vote on honorary street name honoring Mel Walker For nearly four decades, Mel Walker fed the masses from West Main Street in Charlottesville. Now, a block of that street could be named in his honor.

This is what I've been waiting for.

Charlottesville City Council passes the resolution renaming a portion of West Main Street in honor of the universally loved restauranteur Mel Walker. If you know this city, you already know what part of West Main.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 ❤️

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BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”

HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!

I wonder if ICE detention center populations will impact state funding. They"re already being used as jobs programs.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Hey everyone!

Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!

But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.

I just resorted our list to put those on the top.

Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

Dearborn police launch first-of-its-kind real-time crime-fighting system with drones and integrated cameras The Dearborn Police Department has become the first in Michigan to deploy FUSUS, a state-of-the-art real-time crime-monitoring system that integrates thousands of cameras with drones to fight crime.

Robocop was not supposed to be aspirational.

Chuck gave them two weeks to do everything he demanded so they could vote to fund ICE

Story of my life lol

Never let anyone tell you your little made-up comic and cartoon stories are too silly or out of pocket when real life exists.

🌹

Never buying the bullshit about "liberal leftost academia" because a slightly left-of center statement can get you expelled, and fired if you dare honestly grade an assignment from a drunk, shit for brained right-wing "student".

Meanwhile they let fascist shit get promoted all the fucking time

Potentially gets more damning after seeing this. Communication as far back as 2013, presumedly. I won't put anything past any of them at this rate. bsky.app/profile/mega...

Sometimes you only get in life what you needed the most in the short term as opposed to what you wanted in the long term. Life sucks sometimes but having the insight to be able to recognize that & move on in the now VS recognizing when a situation was probably bad for you in hindsight is a blessing

Thomas the Tank Engine and The Cask of Choochootillado

G I V E U S M O R E S N O W

Take time to read it.

Ain’t nothing like internal peace.

PS i know the answer to that “how” question already but Jesus Christ is it bleak to acknowledge (and also part and parcel to how Academia can suck if youre a person of color atm)

Like, Im pretty sure that at every college I’ve ever attended or taught at that would be immediate grounds for dismissal or expulsion without a single bat of an eye