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Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

I had to come back to this. This man turned 10% of his own community over to ICE for around 20 thousand extra dollars and a dodge charger for work. He feels badly about it though😒

Imagine a world where people do things that haven’t been validated by a focus group. Imagine a world in which important men—even presidents—can’t separate people from their shared sense of what is right and necessary.

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A

Saying that LLMs are somewhat similar to the way humans process language, and therefore they're just like us fr fr is very strange to me, because even if I grant you that an LLM is similar to my language processing machinery, that's not all my brain is.

I’ve seen Black people across social media platforms talking about picnics at lynchings and so many white people are in our mentions insisting that the last public execution was 1936 and that lynchings were “mob murder” not state sanctioned. So confidently loud and incredibly wrong.

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

A nation built on violence must socialize its citizenry to fantasize about violence through visions and dreams of overpowering and defeating “violent people.” The fantasy is one of socially acceptable dominance. This is a libidinal economy.

"Racism will die when the boomers do" was a comfortable lie they told/tell themselves in order to remove the amount of work required to defeat white supremacy at its core.

My momma told me to look in that backpack until I found some damn homework. And I did. I found it.

“And she pulls my head down to her enormous breasts and starts gently patting my back, going, ‘I know, honey. I know. Just let it out.’ “Can you believe it?! Dolly Parton comforted me through the experience of meeting Dolly Parton!”

All that hemming and hawing they did about “not using our resources.” Whole time it’s just so they can use the resources to collaborate with the regime. Shit is so dark-sided I can barely stand it.

He’s credibly accused of defrauding the university and damaging its reputation. The university has a fiduciary responsibility to investigate.

Defending the indefensible and calling it principled is arrogant and delusional.

What is pretense when I’m in love with you???

If Victor Wembanyama has the courage to catapult a basketball thirty five rows and one story deep, we could end this national nightmare

You do not spend generations suppressing a people you believe are weak.

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

But here’s the part that that we leave out AND IF FIDELITY IN CHRIST REQUIRED BEFRIENDING THE PEDOPHILE THAT’S WHERE I GET OFF BECAUSE MY MORALITY DOES NOT ACCOMMODATE PEDOPHILES

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

reposting with alt text and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

Can’t stop thinking about all the people who’ve lost their jobs. Losing your job in this country, it’s like annihilation—not least because it usually means losing health care, too. And for so many people, their entire sector has been eviscerated. I wouldn’t be able to feed my kids. It’s terrifying.

An essential read. About fighting back against the system being imposed on us… Lots of important thoughts. Of the many, these ones stood out to me

There is no amount of genuflecting that will work here. This creature thrives on dominance and destruction. Squeals and applause arouse him equally. I understand the craven lack of will to fight, but try not to preemptively squeal.

This happened to me once. I’s married now!