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A great thing Kristie Dotson said to me about distortions in academic philosophy: she recalls constantly being asked in grad school, “Who’s your guy? Who do you work on?” Kristie’s response: “Who’s my guy? My guy is me.” None of the other “guys” had the answers she needed.

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I think a lot of people's fears of urban life are fed by the luxury belief that violence is about stranger danger and dark alleyways when it's more often about family and poverty. Any woman could get on the rankest subway car at 1 a.m. and statistically be safer than they are at home

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I will take AI seriously when my smart speaker understands the phrase “original broadway cast recording.”

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When researching for my dissertation, I came across an article in off our backs that claimed the plenary of the NWSA’s 1982 annual conference was delayed because keynote speaker Angela Davis failed to “produce a proper badge.”

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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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I hope that no one ever treats Liz Bruenig the way she wants the state to be able to treat us.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Awful time to be alive but truly an amazing time to be a hater

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

It’s really tiring, isn’t it, being scared and upset all the time

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

WHATS ON THE SIGN @travisradina.bsky.social

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WE CAN'T SEE THE CODE #a2council

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Everything is bad and now it is slightly worse because the #a2council summer game code remains a mystery. Council is taunting me.

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fuck yeah

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This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

Everything is bad but adding insult to injury is that we’re doing anti-kink discourse, during Pride, ABOUT SABRINA CARPENTER???? ffs

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rude.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

1. You voted to confirm her. 2. Why did you stand there it looks like you’re wearing a wizard hat

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

This is the status quo. People can't afford to live here. If you want change, sign the petition at neighborspetition.org to urge the #a2council to adopt a land-use plan that promotes higher density and greater diversity in housing. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

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Whole lot of people saying “she must resign” who should be saying “I am introducing articles of impeachment.”

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

NY times: Spirited Kristi Noem Briefing Interrupted by Annoying Sound of Democrat Senator Padilla's Skull Hitting Floor

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Oh everybody is Black now.

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The TransLatina Coalition like many organizations recently lost much of their funding. One of my amazing friends started a fundraiser here. Share and donate if you can! give.translatinacoalition.org/fundraiser/6...

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Again, the overwhelming amount of violence in L.A. county is being done by law enforcement, be it federal or local.

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The charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

It's sobering to see the delusion of white liberals. To think the military will not harm Americans. What an existence it must be to be so ignorant of the world. "The Marines don't have any combat experience." "They're not going to harm people from their own neighborhood" stares in MOVE bombing

submitted 10 days ago • 148 comments

I wonder if I will live to see a day when they let Dr. King rest instead of misrepresenting him every time a kid throws a rock

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Big thanks to @mollyak.bsky.social and @jessicaletaw.bsky.social for having me on @annarboraf.bsky.social to talk about why it's time for a new Downtown Library, all that it will bring to our patrons, and @aadl.org's plan to build an awesome new Downtown Library with housing above! Give it a listen:

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We’re back to tell you about proposals A&B, which would authorize the sale of the Library Lot to the AADL to build a new downtown library across both sites w/ mixed-income housing above. Here’s our fun & informative interview w/ AADL director @eli.aadl.org! #a2council annarboraf.com/episode-79-n...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

it’s gonna be a long, hot summer isn’t it

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

Feels like a uniquely American brand of stupidity to try and mobilize troops for the battle of Home Depot

submitted 12 days ago • 232 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 12 days ago • 310 comments

I think the easiest historical way to view this is that these are a bunch of white men of a certain age who fantasize about going back in time and murdering every person of color who dared protest over the Rodney King trial verdict. And here they are, salivating at sending the army to LA.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

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