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Septima P. Snark

@drsubini.blacksky.app
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DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 16h
I am sure it’s been said but bowing to white supremacy is participating in white supremacy. There is no compromising with segregationists. They’d have been lucky to learn from @ruha9.bsky.social! But instead they tried to censor her work and words. Embarrassing and predictable.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 16h
Sis! This is wild. So frustrating. Let me know how I can help. Maybe a co-hosted session with our labs?
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So the issue is “allow people to…“ which supposes an authority without naming one. Name it and then explain why Anthropic or any of the rest of them should have that authority.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Early October marks the anniversary of the massacre of over 20,000 ethnic Haitians and Black Dominicans from the borderlands who were brutally murdered by the Dominican state following an order from dictator Trujillo in 1937. To date no plaque or monument commemorates this immense loss.
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☀️ @tscrant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Every billionaire "started in a garage" story conveniently leaves out the parental loans, elite university connections, & safety nets. Bezos got $300k frm his parents. Gates' mom was on IBM's board. Musk's family owned an emerald mine. The garage is aesthetics. The capital is inherited.---"
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
It's wild how the billionaire class and tech bros are doing everything they can to insulate themselves and their machines from criticism. White supremacist technological sycophants get their feelings hurt so easily.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026
it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.
The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/10/2026
Bay comrades PLEASE vote for this. If it fails the consequences will be dire for transit and it will hollow out the entire Bay Area.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is like when Google gives you the A.I. overview you didn't ask for and know will be garbage and then brags about how many people are using Gemini
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hundreds of Jackson State University students came together in a powerful show of support for Nolan Wells
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Same, and you should too. Abortion funds are doing the work to help people get abortion care, especially if they have to travel out of state.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Planned Parenthood in California is against the ONE TIME billionaire's tax. It's so gross and disappointing. I've known for a while thanks for the work of reproductive justice folks, how bad PP is, but this just seemed next level bad.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 08/10/2026
Brad Chapin, who first accused Manny Yekutiel of sexual assault, says he's gotten his life back after Yekutiel dropped out of the D8 supervisor race. Now, he's advocating for other sexual assault survivors and is endorsing Darshini Patel. via @io-y-g.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/10/san-...
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Brad Chapin, Manny Yekutiel accuser, got his 'life back.' Now, he's announcing an endorsement.
Brad Chapin says he can finally rest now that Manny Yekutiel is out of the race. He endorsed Darshini Patel for District 8 supervisor.
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Dr. Sparklefairy @drsparklefairy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When I say medical racism is baked into the system as a feature, I mean it with everything I have. I have J Marion Simms #1 hater in my bio for a reason
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
it's the triad of white supremacy that has been instituted in policy. it makes the three points of the metaphorical white hoods they don't need to wear anymore because they've taken over the government.
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Christie Nold @christienold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Anti-ICE protesters blocked entrances to two Department of Homeland Security buildings in Williston [Vermont] on Tuesday, turning them into temporary community gardens as part of a weeklong series of demonstrations.” 🥰🌱 www.wcax.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Week-long protests aim to put Vermont ICE presence in focus
Anti-ICE protesters blocked entrances to two DHS buildings in Williston on Tuesday, turning them into temporary community gardens.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I keep saying that all they have is xenophobia (“foreign workers”), racism (“DEI/Anti-White Discrimination”), and transphobia (“women’s sports”). That’s it. All roads return to those three things. All of them.
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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New OOO message just dropped...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ALSO...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The retaliation against professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is disgusting. Please support her during these draconian sanctions imposed by the UCI Chancellor. chuffed.org/project/1562...
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Mutual Aid for Tiffany
Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...
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G Cordova @gncordova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This professor, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, along with some of her colleagues and students, are still facing charges for protesting Israel's genocide of Palestinians at UC Irvine.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was the bullshit that came from organizing this march that led Black Women to coin the term "reproductive justice" at a meeting in 1994.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I agree with Chris. No AI for kids. Period. Argue with your mama.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the real problems in AI discourse right now is that one major use case seems to be a worse version of what Google used to do, but doesn't anymore. (Note: I AM NOT TRYING TO PUT OP ON BLAST! PLS BE COOL!)
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump wants the Supreme Court to rule that DHS can imprison-indefinitely-immigrants who enter the US illegally He wants ICE to arrest millions of migrants and keep them incarcerated-maybe for years-until they can be deported Even if they have legal status In violation of their due process rights
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
This is the kind of thing I want Democrats to have a plan for & start telling us about NOW. How are they fighting back now? How are they going to reverse these harmful changes should they take place? How are they protecting Black folks specifically? Please have a plan & tell us about the damn plan!
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few excellent books I've had the opportunity to read & blurb: THE POISON PALACE by @thresholdrose.bsky.social, OUR CUT OF SALT by @deenahelm.bsky.social, A TYRANT IN THE CRACKS by @hachepueyo.bsky.social, A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND...&c by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social +🧵
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
When I talk about abolition & someone says a version of "what about the rapists?" I share info this piece from @interruptcrim.bsky.social. Police don't keep us safe from rape. Police don't solve rape cases-even when we identify our rapists. static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
When I talk about abolition & someone says a version of "what about the rapists?" I share info this piece from @interruptcrim.bsky.social. Police don't keep us safe from rape. Police don't solve rape cases-even when we identify our rapists. static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026
No need to take sides… i hope everyone is having an awful time www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Sinema's ex-boyfriend explains why he trashed her house | Exclusive
"I was pissed at the system and I took it out on her art," Matthew Ammel told The Arizona Republic in an exclusive interview. Hear his side of story.
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