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One more thing: No one said TikTok was a melanated Mecca. No one claimed it was a leftist utopia. It was as flawed, and racist, and biased as every major social media app I’ve used over the last 15 years—including this one, an app so hostile to blackness that countless prominent users have left it.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

The utter disdain I’m seeing on this app toward people who used TikTok is chilling. There are a dozen valid criticisms of the app, but let’s not pretend it hasn’t been a lifeline for millions since the start of the pandemic (a problem in itself!). It’s dead now. Whatever returned is also dead.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Lot of Mister Gotchas discoursing today re: ordinary people using the communication tools at their disposal

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Watch Duty has been crushing it this week: Here's the behind the scenes.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Hi all: appreciate all the help as we're navigating and also reporting on the fires here in Los Angeles. I'm still reporting on Pasadena/Altadena. If you or people you know have information you want to share with @theguardian.com, here's a way to do it. Please stay safe. bsky.app/profile/us.t...

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

How have the last nine days been six years?

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

I’m in Miami this week trying to prepare my family for these next four(?) years, and it is not going over well.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

If there’s one thing I’m going to do in this life it’s recommend books, and today that book is Manjula Martin’s THE LAST FIRE SEASON.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

A quiet end to a devastating year. May whatever has kept you going keep you going through all to come.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Just one day after Newsom had a press conference to say that the Oakland Police Department should do more high-speed chases

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Oh hey. washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/12/23/a...

submitted 65 days ago • 6 comments

Black kids doing educational subsistence farming in 2024 is… a lot.

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It shouldn’t surprise me that HBO hasn’t promoted “Get Millie Black” more, but what I’ve watched of it so far has been excellent.

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

Some good news out of Oakland for your Friday: “Alameda County is now the first county in the nation to divest from a corporation because of its role in Israel’s military activities.”

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I don't know why the SF Chronicle avoids mentioning specifics at all. But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists. She was fired for supporting the UN.

submitted 70 days ago • 13 comments

!!!!!!!

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

I was off the grid near Big Sur last week and missed Nikki Giovanni’s passing. Having some quiet feelings about it and some too loud to post.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Behind Timnit's tweet, there are sentiments that bind Eritreans & some Ethiopians...with Syrians. So many infamous pro Assad tankies involved in denialism from 2011-2024, washed over so much bloodshed in our region as well from 2020-2022. Honestly, grateful to see Syrians holding them to account.

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

“I’m seizing the means of (galley) production and asking my publishing friends and writers/critics/influencers I admire what they really think. What are their takeaways from this unnecessarily opaque industry?” I am here for Ezra’s publishing newsletter in every way.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently the PEN link was fake. Boooo.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

It is my South Floridian duty to remind everyone that the KKK held a rally in Davie, FL (Broward County) in 1993, the same year the Florida state Supreme Court chastised the Broward County Sheriff’s Office for manufacturing and selling crack to people in order to arrest them.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Quietly tearing up in Eritrean imagining just that.

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[lowering my copy of Food & Wine] It’s all about the water the pee is made in.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Alexis Okeowo’s latest feature on how the Genocide in Tigray set the groundwork for a civil war with regional consequences is here. It’s also a reminder that the US State Department is capable of calling out “ethnic cleansing” when it wants to, as well as stopping its sale of arms to mass murderers.

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Lists are fairly arbitrary and not necessarily a true gauge of what is good HOWEVER I am VERY HAPPY that Tested is on the New York Times list of Best Podcasts of 2024. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/a...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

I remember posting this a week after October 7th when it was unclear how long Gazans would have access to TikTok, but also extremely clear how legacy media outlets would write about Gaza in the months to come. Thinking about it again + the state of US journalism for reasons too numerous to count.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment