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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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It’s vital that we shift the conversation from “if they come for X group then they could come for the rest of us next” to “an attack on any group IS an attack on all of us.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

The number of people who are boycotting Target, Walmart, and Amazon isn’t being talked about enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Station break: time to pay the bills. If you would like a science fiction narrative set in a hopeful far-future aftermath to tech bros and religious nuts taking off for space and leaving a blasted Earth behind to pick up the pieces, may I recommend my Jacob's Ladder and White Space books?

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

basically no important or influential historians use "IQ" as an important metric for analysis for the straightforward reason that IQ is bullshit.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 6 hours ago • 309 comments

If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

Here's the thing. I KNOW I don't know how to save us all. But I KNOW there's people who have to devote all their time to survival who, if they had some resources, DO KNOW. Therefore, I devote my not knowing self to resourcing people, because that's all I know how to do. On a more base level, 1/🧵

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 7 hours ago • 162 comments

Anti-DEI is an attack on civil rights by segregationists. Most white "allies" are completely silent while segregationists attack Black people and our civil rights. These silent "allies" without a shred of shame or self-awareness, fully expect Black voters to make sacrifices to save them at midterms

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

Be clear that any General who would accept appointment to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after Twitler's treatment of General Brown lacks the honor to hold the office, or even wear the uniform.

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Luigi Mangione going free following a mistrial because Eric Adams will not stop chatting is not necessarily plausible, but it is the timeline we deserve.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

They are obsessed with finding the "best candidates."

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 22 hours ago • 70 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 23 hours ago • 169 comments

Reminder for my mutuals: misgendering is violence and never okay. No, not even if it is done to "people who deserve it". If your willingness to use the correct pronouns or name for someone depends on if you like them then you're not a safe person to be around. Same if you tolerate when others do it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

I think mentions of Elon musk in general should include a description of his desire to have as many kids as possible & keep most (all?) the mothers on a compound. Does a lot of the expert genius dismantling for you

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To be clear: the brutal, prolonged torture and murder of Sam Nordquist for his trans identity was ruled "not a hate crime" by upstate NY law enforcement because it happened to a trans man. The #1 rule of hate crimes is they never happen to trans people. No matter how much hate is behind the crime.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

To get a sense of some of the specific types of grant research being affected at universities by the anti-DEI McCarythism here is excellent student reporting with details…

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists. My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬

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Look, you gormless fucks, we will remember who you threw under the bus and you will account for it. If you choked, the move is to immediately admit your error, undo it, and recommit to the community. Go ahead and give up the federal funds for now. But be part of the community or be out.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

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Resistance takes many forms.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

It hit my like a bolt that one of the reason cultural studies was the first target.. was because most decent cultural studies programs require you to learn the history of how those groups got civic rights And they could depend on universities not to defend them

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These federal jobs weren’t wasteful when FDR implemented the New Deal, but years later when Black veterans were receiving a few of them, now the federal government is too large. White racists NEVER let it go. Their commitment to destroying this country is almost commendable.

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This is the fight every university is fighting. Admin love to sound reasonable and say things like “if we are not here we can’t fight” etc. Don’t let them pretend throwing anyone under the bus is ever acceptable

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I was informed today that my college got a notification from the federal government that they must cancel the education they do about biases and bigotries for all incoming freshmen during orientation - with the exception of antisemitism education, which is apparently still allowed.

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It never ceases to amaze me, the moment I use my platform on places like Instagram to say something about how it's wrong for Hamas to kill children, how many people decide to tell me I don't stand with Palestinians, etc etc. Usually white people with no connection to the land.

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Interesting. Ah, nevertheless...

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THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, my next book, comes out on March 4! That's in 11 days! I'm going on a five-city US tour for it! All tour stops & ticket-booking deets here: us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...

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Don’t beg. This isn’t an innocuous thing where they don’t know they are misleading you It’s an act of abuse and aggression We have to engage with the places that do this like violence it is

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Let's hit the trifecta, bring in some experts from Morton Thiakol.

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