Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 18hAdam has been consistent in warning & educating the public on topics like this. But as with all mainstream outlets, the Atlantic like to “both-sides” everything. 030
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20hAfter years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 6029511029
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 17261241497
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Like, how do you determine who is “elite” 290
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Because she knows a camera is always on her. 000
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This book had me sleeping with the lights on when i was six bsky.app/profile/slee... 85135888
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’ve been saying this. And this crisis of meaning and emptiness is not entirely their fault. 000
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern. 485241835054
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 04/10/2026More #cat costume ideas for Halloween. #cats #caturday 701546346
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There is this too: bsky.app/profile/noth... 120
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’d like to know as well. I’m not quite sure how some people are confused about your original post. I didn’t take you as blaming Black voters for 2024. 001
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s some missing context in the original post, but I think his post can be read as showing how important Black voters are to Dems chances of having a great night rather than blaming Black voters for Harris losing in 2024. 110
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...theguardian.comNearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable onlineExclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad 113563
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Both the State SC and SCOTUS ruled against the map. 020
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was never good at math or statistics, so my question is genuine here: How can we judge the general mood and sentiment of a country of 300+ million from a single poll of 1,000 people? 110
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Almost thought this was satire. 2132175
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I get your point, but I actually think it’s fear and desperation on his part. 031
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I believe 7-1 GOP. The 2022 maps was 6-2 100
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Basically SCOTUS/Kavanaugh rejected a request to overturn the Missouri SC decision stating the 2022 maps must be used. A district court, a few minutes later, said the new 2025 gerrymandered maps can be used and this current ruling leaves in place the 2025 maps (for now at least). 230
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157251153
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think that’s what the supporters of the far-right misunderstand. The world they want to build is an unsustainable one that will crumble again. But leaders who still believe in liberalism really need to work on improving people’s lives. Otherwise, we’ll continue to see more of this. 031
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026Anarchism is not pipe dreams of an impossible utopia. It's simple. Without the state, society organizes collective agreements for wellbeing governed by no law or ruler but organic out of human nature, & human evil will still exist, but there's way more now. @impswrld.xyz @161bklyn.myatproto.social 1287
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kevin Kia 13935100
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It will ultimately depend on how people vote, but 3-R’s on the ballot will most certainly split the vote for the GOP candidates 010
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this. 10854341
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom. 1443911093
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 24/08/2026On this day in 1956, the governor of Virginia pledged to withhold funding from any local government that integrated its schools, saying, "If we accept admission of one Negro child into a white school, it's all over.”calendar.eji.orgAug. 24, 1956 | Virginia Governor Vows to Close Public Schools Rather Than IntegrateLearn more about our history of racial injustice. 14641
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Exactly. And I can only assume that many of these same people have no problem with Trump’s crackdown on higher ed in the U.S. either. 110
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Watercolor Painting by Serbian Artist Dusan Djukaric 282179232
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 24/08/20263. I think framing his suspension and potential firing around ideology/academic freedom only reinforces the bad-faith that we see from his supporters and signers of that letter. Even the Trump administration is defending him on those grounds. 172
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 24/08/20261. Apparently he was hired by one professor sympathetic to his work. 2. While I understand the point of not firing someone over ideological reasons, the letter started that the school had received complaints about him and that he wasn’t doing the work he was hired to do - amongst other reasons. 130
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Respectfully, you’re incorrect on this point. 000
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I do think the NBA, as an organization, can do more however. But I assume some of the owners are bigots themselves. 100
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I’ve only seen on NBA player speak about what happened last night (I’m not implying that more haven’t). But, generally speaking, yes they have, at least when it comes promoting the WNBA, and some of them attend games - at least the superstars do. Kobe was a huge supporter before his death. 100
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE 343148163447
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/08/2026In the future, historians will marvel at how a U.S. political party documented their project to destroy America (aka Project 2025), won the elections and set about to dismantle everything that made America great without any mainstream discourse or accountability. Fuck the Heritage Foundation. 26624174
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)NBA Stat @nbastat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Scouting assessment on a 17-year-old Kobe Bryant in December 1995: “If Kobe Bryant enters the NBA now, he'll be a late first-round pick at best, and might never be heard from again.” (via WiltStats) #NBA 3534341
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you are signing a letter supporting a disgraced eugenicist famous for hounding a Black scholar to death your main concern is not academic freedom. This goes double if you don’t have the same smoke for the Trump administration’s attacks on academia. 14650166
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I also found this thread helpful: bsky.app/profile/sund... 142
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’s a little more complicated than that. Apparently he was only hired by one person in that department who was sympathetic to his work. The university “technically” didn’t hire him. 030
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage. 7040651253
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146083123
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Skepticism is fine, but it’s not unreasonable to assume that Trump could be hurting Rodger’s as well. 010
Reposted by Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgSlavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans todayNew study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities 12892439
Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D) @blacknihilist21.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Also, being a poll watcher is boring, so not quite sure what this really accomplishes. 6434