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Will be reading at the Eaton Hotel in DC tomorrow at 6pm. Looking forward to it. Come through!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 237 comments

IS THAT MIKEL MERINO OR R9?!?!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“The administration’s war on D.E.I. is of a piece with a broader effort to turn the nation’s civil rights laws upside down, taking weapons forged to fight racial subordination and wielding them, instead, against any effort…to ameliorate racial inequality and end invidious racial discrimination.”

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

We ran Kai into the ground and this is what we get for it. Could have season this coming a million miles away. www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Released today. "In Original Sins, @eveewing.bsky.social makes clear how our country’s schools have intentionally configured the contemporary landscape of inequality. Exhaustively researched . . . , Original Sins is breathtaking." - @clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/materials/or...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

J. Cole is the smartest man in the universe

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

been thinking about this poem by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social constantly lately

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

A video on Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social youtu.be/zHn-vSTMOWE?...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

WHATEVER CEREAL THEY ARE FEEDING THE KIDS AT THE ARSENAL ACADEMY THEY NEED TO KEEP DOING IT

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

I need this poster in my office

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Gabriel scoring a bicycle kick there would have sent me into space.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

KAI WITH REDEMPTION

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

MILES LEWIS SKELLY WITH THE HAALND CELEBRATION INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

They felt like Black folks were ungrateful. In their eyes, they gave us a Black President so why were we complaining. Bc we had a Black figurehead, they wanted us to shut up about the pain we were still experiencing. Our demands to simply be treated humanely made them uncomfortable

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Agreed. And I would add “Me Too” to the list

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.

submitted 23 days ago • 90 comments

These people are blatantly attempting to resegregate the federal government, and using any opportunity, including a tragedy like this one, to legitimate their efforts. It’s abhorrent.

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

I would take Jonathan David at Arsenal

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Champions League games today are a FEAST

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The union representing thousands of janitors said ICE went to multiple downtown San Francisco offices but that building security kept them from entering, KTVU reports. “Union president Olga Miranda said the janitors were relieved that someone spoke up for them.” www.ktvu.com/news/ice-age...

submitted 26 days ago • 63 comments

Spurs yikes

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

“Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates.”

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO: “Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

submitted 30 days ago • 73 comments

This, from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, has been on my mind today.

submitted 31 days ago • 77 comments

Trump's attempt to nullify the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision is an attempt to reverse one of the most important outcomes of the Civil War, the idea that American citizenship is not based on race www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 32 days ago • 92 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 32 days ago • 318 comments

As we see these images of people crying at the border after the asylum system shut down, it is again worth considering how indescribably desperate a person must feel to travel with their children through the desert, across the water, or through the Darien Gap simply for the possibility of safety.

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

My Canadian educational upbringing barely mentioned MLK (he was compressed into a brief mention of mid-century US history), so I found this essay highly illuminating. It highlights parts of MLK's thought that are often downplayed, places him in broader historical context, and critiques his flaws.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

There isn’t a more poetic day for said reminder.