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LFG!!! 😍

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Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today. Check out our interview with her. thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...

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Arrested for selling books … Owners of East Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop arrested and their store ransacked … “Police said they had seized eight books and needed time to investigate further, including reading the books.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Come join us 👇🏾 registration link: bit.ly/3PJkjkx

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Everyone posts this speech on MLK day … as they should (pt 1/3)

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"G.M. monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. “With this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.”

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Starred review for Eve L. Ewing’s new book 😍 www.publishersweekly.com/9780593243701

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Does anyone know what the best source is for US presidential voting results by race and gender?

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People are demanding that Israel release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Kamal Adwan Hospital director who's become the voice for Gaza's health sector.

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Update RE ASSA/AEA Anna conference: The hotel workers and owners have reached agreements. aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker... h/t: @aaronsojourner.org

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This line: Alice’s agent … asked Alice, “Have we arrived at the basement yet?” Alice said no and joked that there was, in fact, a “sub-basement.” (content warning: child abuse/SA) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Hold the phone … Rudolph is Donner’s kid? I somehow missed that …

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Not gonna hold you … Rah Digga: still got it, Treach: still got it …

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

“Someday at Christmas men won't be boys Playing with bombs like kids play with toys One warm December our hearts will see A world where men are free” - Stevie Wonder

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Nikki Giovanni wrote a poem for all of y’all called “When I Die” …

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COINTELPRO was nonpartisan? … 🤔 … maybe bipartisan …

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The technical term for this move is “some BS” … the only tax program that scored higher in reviews from users was the pre-populated tax return pilot in California … also targeted by massive for-profit tax preparer lobbying …

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

If you haven’t seen it, Rada Studio made a nice documentary with Nikki Giovanni, it can be streamed on HBOMAX: radastudio.org/going-to-mars/ RIP

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"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

submitted 79 days ago • 327 comments

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

submitted 80 days ago • 338 comments

51 lectures over 9 weeks 😩

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Legal commentary on today’s Supreme Court hearing 👇🏾

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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

submitted 85 days ago • 13 comments

Guys, this website is still down …

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For once, my procrastination in booking my conference travel has served a valuable purpose … this blog post has info for those who wish to avoid crossing picket lines at the AEA/ASSA conference

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Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF? Want to figure out what it means & what your options are? See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes #EconSky aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

submitted 86 days ago • 214 comments

Overleaf being down is kind of a national security threat …

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

If I’m POTUS, I’m Magic Johnson with the pardons …

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The interesting question, to me, RE presidential pardons is that it kinda calls into question the legitimacy of incarceration … how could incarceration be just & it be ok for the president to pardon? And if you are ok with some pardons, why not others? Can the president pardon all federal inmates?

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Letter of rec prompts: “Please rank this applicant relative to all sentient beings to ever roam this planet …” 🔘 Top 0.0 percent (potentially omniscient) 🔘 Top 0.001 percent (better than Einstein) 🔘 Top 5 percent (outstanding)

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Wait, just learned from Bomani’s show that Woody Johnson’s (Jets owner) full name is … Robert Wood Johnson IV 😮

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