My Father’s Daughter

“Whiteness is ownership of the earth.” - W. E. B. Du Bois

So the real question would be,' he said finally, 'if people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?'

- Taylor Branch, as quoted by Isabel Wilkerson in Caste

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

The great replacement theory goes global. Watch for this to be the central cause of JD's political career going forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

SCOTUS “reinstated the Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map in Texas after it was blocked by a lower court, with the Roberts court once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken protections for minority voters and entrench GOP political power”

No

It is a waste of educators’ labor to worry about policing students’ work or jury rigging AI-proof assignments.There are desultory ways of going about responding to such papers. But that doesn’t mean acquiescence. That means working towards and demanding structural changes at our institutions.

“We now find ourselves very much concerned with… “post-truth”…there is little here that George Orwell did not capture 7 decades ago in his notion of “double-think.” - @timothysnyder.bsky.social On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century

Ken Burns, Peter Coyote, and Rhiannon Giddens at once?

They’re reaching levels of PBS never thought possible.

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“When vaccination is delayed…by months or by years, we see predictable & preventable increases in new infections, chronic disease, liver cancer, & related deaths; these findings show how impt timely protection at birth is for safeguarding children’s long-term health.” hepvu.org/news-updates...

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#GeneralStrike #GSUS

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely…We’re running out of resources, we’re using too much stuff…In this system if you don’t own or buy a lot of stuff, you don’t have value…We’re on this crazy work-watch-spend-treadmill…so just stop. hiltner.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/de...

Same

“Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.” - Vanna Bonta

At Texas Tech, Professors Now Need Permission to Teach About Race and Gender Faculty say the policy is vague and a violation of the First Amendment.

A very quick story time about Texas Tech and why this feels like less of a deviation than par for the course.

If you dont want to read to the end of the thread, the big deviation is that it’s explicit.

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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

There is a difference between inheritance and action. I cannot help who my ancestors are, but I can make my own choices. That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; that so much of the mainstream media conveys this bigotry through tired, obfuscating euphemisms; that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

U.S. job cuts have reach 1.17 million this year, the most since 2020.

Nancy Mace with all of her histrionics about trans women in the ladies’ room now figuring out that her male christofascist colleagues hate cis women too is pure gold.
Cope harder, xenophobic troglodyte.

Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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I know we’re used to him being a racist, shit bag, but this is pretty off the charts racist.

“Working people can run things themselves. Working people are creative. You have to understand the roots of people’s anxieties & address them. You have to take immigration politics seriously….when you think abt work & working people, you have to imagine all working people & all work.” - Dana Frank

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland

When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

LT. COL. Shawna Kimbrell is the first African American female fighter pilot in the history of the United States Air Force.
Thank you for your service!🇺🇸🫡

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Pantone Chooses White as Color of the Year for the First Time Pantone's color of the year for 2026 is Cloud Dancer, a 'billowy white' that is meant to bring calm to a chaotic world

High level trolling. Don’t fall for it.

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Parallel Events in the Rise to Power of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump This comprehensive analysis examines striking parallels between the political ascendancies of Adolf Hitler in 1920s-30s Germany and Donald Trump in modern America.

here’s one - just text www.prepyou.eu/parallel-eve...

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

a reminder that if you use AI to summarize things you were supposed to read and then use those (most likely inaccurate) generated summaries to write a paper/article/essay, you have, in fact, used AI to write your paper/article/essay.