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Jonathan W. Gray

@elmcitytree.blacksky.app
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Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ One of many Jonathan Grays I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kq… Personal account

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 9h
Let’s go Liberty!!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 22h
Here's the thing; they had toddlers signing away their rights to see their parents through the Bush & Obama years. These atrocities have been happening the whole time.
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Artisanal Misspokes @1uglyman.bsky.social · 22h
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Some folks get really incensed when people use the phrase "rape culture." But I'm not really sure how else you could possibly describe this convergence of events. newrepublic.com/post/215920/...
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am *shocked* that the same bigoted, mouth-breathing cretins that constantly bleat about "protecting women's sports" have either stayed silent about Aminata Seck being abducted by ICE agents, or are wildly cheering it. Fuck Kentucky State and the NCAA for allowing this to happen. And fuck ICE too.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Meet the Historic All-Black Surgery Team at Johns Hopkins" www.theroot.com/meet-the-his...
Picture showing first all Black Surgical team at Johns Hopkins
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Explicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I bristle at the idea that men are more abusive because they're broke or the women they abuse make more money than them. I want Marxists to stop filtering everything through their 'material conditions' sieve.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/09/2026
Becky Sullivan of NPR has written this terrible article about the cynical "protect college sports" bill, that frames as bipartisan the intentional attempt to undo what I and many other people accomplished: reducing the financial exploitation of some of the poorest, Blackest kids in the nation.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These sound like non-trivial problems.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I have got to start playing the lottery so that I can quit academia and open my Detroit stationery, journal, and fancy pen shop... These people are going to swallow academia whole, aren't they? Talk about capture!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
New York City is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and has long been a refuge for those seeking community, dignity, and a place to call home.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
You can drop a single F-bomb into Shakespeare. Where are you putting it? "The Tempest" Caliban: You taught me language; and my profit on'tIs, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your fucking language!
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I suspect that Nathan Cofnas is going to win one of these awards, along with some TERF and a 20 year old who wrote their thesis on effective altruism
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sing it, choir
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
fascism is not a response to the opposition becoming less antagonistic to the status quo. it is a response to the opposition becoming more antiracist and challenging a white supremacist status quo.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
And this is why I won’t be updating to iOS27 on my devices or CPU.
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 25/09/2026
Turning off Apple Intelligence isn’t a single button in iOS 27 or macOS 27 like in 26. iPhone: www.cnet.com/tech/service... | www.threads.com/share/_iFQxA... Mac: discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250...
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Disabling Apple Intelligence Just Got Harder With iOS 27. Here's How to Opt Out - CNET
Since Apple Intelligence is all about Siri AI now, here's what you need to know to de-AI your iPhone.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a terrible ruling, but it is limited in scope. States will need to voluntarily participate in Trump’s voter purge scheme. So Republican run States will do it, most Democratic States will not. Now is the right time to yell at your State’s Secretary of State to not rig the election for MAGA.
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Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system
The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but critics contend could disenfranchise ...
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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“As long as you don’t have the control of your own narrative, you are at the mercy of somebody else.” Cassava Republic Press founder @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app on the importance of black and African media ownership – alongside representation. Watch the full report ▶️ youtu.be/HmhpjZEhw3I
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu was booed as he began his United Nations General Assembly speech. Many delegations walked out of the hall. Netanyahu: “Before I begin, just a quick announcement: if there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now.”
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
People don’t truly grasp how deeply drug addiction impacted the Black community
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
This is an important conversation to be having in an age of increasing media consolidation. @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app is a rarity: a BW that owns and operates a fully functioning and viable commercial press.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026
On this week's Hell Gate Podcast, Nick discusses his new reporting on how NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch keeps transferring cops with misconduct on their records to the NYPD's most problematic and secretive unit. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXc...
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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stavvy has always been the obvious “liberal Rogan” since he’s just shooting the shit with people and it isn’t an inherently political podcast, but nobody wanted to admit that.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 24/09/2026
A retrospective traces the language of bookmaking in Alison Knowles's expansive work and its radical influence on American art.
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The Book of Alison Knowles
A retrospective traces the language of bookmaking in her expansive work and its radical influence on American art.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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ODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Georgia’s second-largest school district has abruptly banned Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” from school library shelves
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Georgia school system abruptly bans Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’
Georgia’s second-largest school district is once again at the center of a political controversy over the appropriateness of school materials.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Howdy! 🤠 We’re hiring two research technicians to study sensory physiology, feeding behavior, and body-weight regulation using slice electrophysiology and viral-mediated circuit manipulations. No prior ephys experience needed, we’ll train you! Please reach out if interested 😊
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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Bisexual Day of Visibility? ❌ Bisexual Day of Vengeance? ✅
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.
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Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Wow @malcolmferguson.bsky.social drops a gem on Jonathan Major's attempt at a comeback. I'm so glad he wrote this because I couldn't have stomached watching the film.
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Jonathan Majors Is Back. Yikes.
Three years after a domestic violence conviction, the once lauded actor is starring in a Ben Shapiro–produced film in which terrorists infiltrate a campus Israel protest. It’s somehow even worse than ...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not even a week later. Couldn't find a real Black woman I guess. stanforddaily.com/2026/09/23/u...
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University confirms use of AI-edited photo amid controversy
The incident has caused national controversy, stemming from a now-viral Fizz post.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2. The price reached $6 a gallon two Fridays ago for the first time. Since then, every new day has smashed the previous day's record. I checked this morning. AAA says the national average was $5.57 this time last month. Last week, it was $6.23. Today, it's $6.52. gasprices.aaa.com?ref=editoria...
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AAA Fuel Prices
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Wow @malcolmferguson.bsky.social drops a gem on Jonathan Major's attempt at a comeback. I'm so glad he wrote this because I couldn't have stomached watching the film.
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Jonathan Majors Is Back. Yikes.
Three years after a domestic violence conviction, the once lauded actor is starring in a Ben Shapiro–produced film in which terrorists infiltrate a campus Israel protest. It’s somehow even worse than ...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two headlines. Guardian (also trash) and BBC. You wouldn't even know these headlines referred to the same violence carried out by Thomas.
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to disrupt arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to DoverMigrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
1 hour ago
Joshua Askew, James McCarthy, South East and Stuart Rust, South of England
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