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Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions! www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...

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Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

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On this day 13 years ago 17 year old Trayvon Benjamin Martin was murdered in Miami Gardens, Florida. This incident, more than any other, started the modern police abolitionist movement. Remember Trayvon.

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So I canceled my WaPo subscription today. And signed up for Wired. The world is a funny place these days. 🙃

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Took 5 min today and whipped up simple designs in Canva. Sized to fix 2 x 4" and 1 x 1 5/8" mailing labels. Print them by the sheet and stick them up: lampposts, parking meters, sidewalks. (Just don't be a jerk.) Remind people this isn't normal & they're not alone, and encourage them to act.

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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

submitted 16 hours ago • 104 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 23 hours ago • 387 comments

my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do

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I, a person who has taken and taught general relativity and passed a qualifying exam based on Wald (!), pointed out the earth is round in response to the suggestion that flight paths should be straight and a man who is a genomicist came into my mentions and told me I didn’t understand curvature

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

submitted 22 hours ago • 567 comments

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't live your dreams

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im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell

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If you have ever wondered why our safety net is so inadequate and so full of cruelties and indignities, it is because of anti-Black racism.

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Defending male mice and women mice from mouse gender ideology

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If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

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"The Black mentor class is being fired, not just on television but throughout America." And that's why it will never be enough to "express sympathies" and send "thoughts and prayers". If you want to make a difference, hire, platform, support, and put on Black folks. Anything less is cheap talk.

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This is the way.

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Look the same to me...

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One can love and cherish a homeland and/or language without believing that your culture and language is better than others. Love doesn’t have to be supremacist. The romance of ethnonationalism is for bot-hearts, not humans. No human is purely anything. We are all fictions and layers of fable.

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as a form of rage against the homogenized, corporate, AI slop, type writing i see everywhere now i am going to write the most convoluted, maximalist, Joycean type prose in all my essays now. >Be CoNsIsE, EsSaYs ArE fOr CoMmUnIcAtInG InFoRmAtIoN bugsbunnyno.jpg

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The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2208 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 5 days ago • 154 comments

This 🥰

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eBay’s been writing poetry again

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

how many controversial salutes are there. i can only think of the one but admittedly i'm not a salute scholar

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

Since Nate Silver is out there showing his whole ass again, important to note that discussions about people's IQs are eugenicist

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

submitted 6 days ago • 149 comments

Proud of my home state: TITS OUT, AGAINST ALL KINGS

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.

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Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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“The price tag is also equivalent to a year’s rent for a one-bedroom apartment for 1,177 people, which would constitute roughly 80% of New Orleans’ unhoused population.”

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If anticipatory obedience is bad, so are anticipatory nihilism, anticipatory surrender, anticipatory cynicism. It is not destined that your local elected officials, your church, your mosque, your school board, your union, your synagogue will not fight. Do not accept this as pre-ordained. It is not!

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