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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings. "Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend."

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Icarus, he advised, heed the warning: don’t fly

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Laundromats are one of those few places where you can connect in real time with other human beings who may or may not have vastly different lives than your own. Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Wherever you are at least it’s not inside this uber of undefinable funk. At least it’s not here.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We can throw this whole month in the trash for all I care.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It would be very nice if politicians cared about upholding democracy as much as they care about tweeting. But…here we are. Afraid to break. Content to be broken.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

You’re feeling dread for a reason. Search for the reason and activate.

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Jhansi Ki Rani @keepmelearning.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Democratic strategist Keith Edwards wrote this guide for federal employees—it has suggestions for how they can slow walk and even stop the Trump administration agenda from being implemented. Please share it! keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...

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Delay, Leak, Disobey: How to Counter Trump 2.0 from Within

Bureaucrats will guard the frontlines in the fight against American authoritarianism.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The value of these platforms is in the algorithm. When buyers purchase, they purchase the speculative valuation of the algorithm—which is to say they buy your desires, thoughts, patterns & try to shape culture around what you think you wanted. Lull you to sleep sated. Rock you awake wanting.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I can’t pass up the opportunity to be a Virgo and say “I told yall.”

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

They can’t have your mind if you don’t let them. And if you don’t let them, they won’t have your thoughts to tarnish.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It’s all spectacle. It’s all Bread and Circus.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Unbearable beauty (without filter or editing). Sunset in Toubab Dialaw.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Watching America from Senegal. Superbly shitty episode today with the 4th beastie boy in a gold chain talking about freedom.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My message to Zuck

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

New York at night. Dakar at sunrise.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Just a reminder that meetings that could have been an email have life or death consequences.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Imagine starting a battle rap and losing so completely, you call the police.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

May I suggest the Kendrick Lamar model for the next four years? -Anticipate foolishness -Find an inside source -Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel -Stage local spite concerts -Get media coverage -Go 🤫 -Book gigs -Release a global collab, double down phenom

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A very wise student! I think of this Zadie Smith quote, "It’s an unfortunate thing, but it turns out that the perfect state of mind to edit your own novel is two years after it’s published, ten minutes before you go onstage at a literary festival."

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My student reminded me today that “time is the best editor.”

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Daniella Toosie-Watson @toosiewatson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Someone said it was unprofessional to dance on socials but @aireadee.bsky.social said to keep doing it so I’m going to! I never posted my salsa videos on *other place* & I feel like the world deserves salsa content so here we are. Hope you dance today, too!

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I get it. He’s fun to pair with Beckett to see how their notions of the absurd collide.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Peace is not boredom. Peace is not boring. Peace is generative and full of quiet possibility. Day 7

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Moon Bear Matthews aka my shadow aka juicy jowls

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Agreed. It’s very pleasing especially because they are unexpected.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Poems remind us of our humanity because, sometimes, the lines break. Just like humans do. And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Day #4 Derrida Negotiations Spillers Black White and in Color

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi Marjorie—it feels like it’s 6 & 1/2 dozen of another. The thing I like about this one is that it’s open source and feels slightly less toxic than the oligarch stew that is X and Meta. They have little starter packs that help people find their people. It’s fine for now or until all disappears

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Matthew Olzmann reminding us we’re going to be ok:

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’m going to add a couple of books a day for one week. At the end, folks will have 14 or so books to add to their 6-12 month reading list. I’ll take pics and post them for those interested.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

With all due respect, that is a thing. There is a long history of revolutionary movements that didn’t organize using the tools that seek to anesthetize them. Doing the right thing doesn’t necessarily require an internet connection. Tech is one tool, not the only one.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ll suggest a book or two a day—across genres—for a week. Make a list, form a group, add your own, who knows…

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hard same. Happy to be off X but also loathe to participate in the circus.

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