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Minkah Makalani

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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
BREAKING: In a nearly 50-page opinion, a federal district court just granted our motion to enjoin the USPS Final Rule restricting mail-in ballots. The opinion states USPS “may not implement in any way and may not take any further preparatory steps to implement” the rule.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Moral arc needs to pick better targets before I’m convinced it bends towards justice
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Spirals doesn't fit in your boxes @tealed-copper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"No way you wrote a 5 page essay without Al."

Buddy, we wrote them by hand, in cursive, the day before it was due, without even reading the book.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kind of captures the mood of things.
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: We just won an emergency request to block the US Postal Service from implementing a new rule that would give it an unprecedented and illegal gatekeeping role in determining who gets a mail-in ballot. A federal court said nope. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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Federal Court Grants Emergency Relief Blocking USPS From Implementing Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule For November Election
The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction BOSTON — This evening, a federal court granted voting rights or...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)
Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Never need to debate these fool!
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here 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.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get connected back to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. See this "paper" by the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent University. Reminder "dysgenic" is the opposite of "eugenic," they mean Black people and other undesirables reproducing too much.
The dysgenics objection to longtermism
Bouke de Vries a,b,1
a Department of Philosophy, Ghent University, Belgium
b Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Strong longtermism maintains that how we should act morally is determined almost entirely by
the expected effects on the welfare of our descendants existing thousands if not millions of years
into the future, who might include both other humans and any artificial agents with a comparable
or higher moral status that we end up creating. It is based on three key assumptions: (i) that our
descendants will have a moral status that is at least as high as ours and therefore should not have
their welfare discounted by us; (ii) that there is a good chance that these individuals will vastly
outnumber us; and (iii) that we can do things here and now that can be expected to positively
shape the long-term trajectory of humanity. The aim of this contribution is to suggest that authors
such as Will MacAskill and Hilary Greaves have been too optimistic about all these assumptions as
a result of having ignored evidence that the populations of post-industrial countries are becoming
less intelligent due mostly to the negative relationship that has emerged within these societies
between intelligence and fertility and to the proclivity of intelligent people to delay parenthood.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As a black academic, I noticed basic problems with TAH’s argument ands flaws in his logic. Great to see someone who was there call out his BS and make clear what many of us know.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's extremely revealing that one of Harper's main takeaways from the tenure track as a Black professor was to become singularly suspicious of his Black colleagues' qualifications (and his own) rather than, say, at all interested in the existence of racism and white/male mediocrity within academia.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i'll believe the right's claims about intellectual diversity when they start approving dissertations on the machinations of the evil scientist Yakub and not a moment sooner
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What do universities owe to democracy, really? Apparently gutting academia and acting as foot soldiers of intellectual mediocrity and the destruction of what semblance of democracy we have.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Welllllllll
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Recipe for building political power: Continuous, relationship based,& fun infused organizing not episodic high stakes transactional mobilization. It’s actually just good for democracy regardless of ideology but DSA is the only non right wing, party-like apparatus doing it. Kudos to DSA, honestly.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Two books revisit the Bernie Goetz shooting. Vigilante Injustice thebaffler.com/latest/vigil...
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Vigilante Injustice | Charlotte Rosen
Two recent books take on the Bernie Goetz shooting—with differing results.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The thing I will add to this discourse while agreeing with everyone pointing out that many of the worst people majored in humanities, is that philosophy is, notoriously, one of the most male and most white of the humanities and has historically had a culture to match
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Name Five Women In Philosophy. Bet You Can't.
Academic philosophy is an outlier within the humanities, with fewer than 20 percent of full-time faculty positions occupied by women. Commentator Tania Lombrozo discusses some recent findings that mig...
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
That was amazing! Amad Diallo!!!!!
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AI cannot think, is neither creative nor imaginative, and as such can’t write a dissertation or journal article, which requires thinking, new work. More importantly, you’ve learned nothing. It’s like buying a robot to shoot all your 3s and believing you’re just as good as Brunson
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Baltimore, MD ✨ Saturday, May 30 Dr. Ashley D. Farmer in conversation with Dr. Minkah Makalani talking about Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore ⏰ 7 pm @ Red Emma’s Bookstore RSVP: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Wow!
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The Empire of Liberty. Murderous, authoritarian, revanchist, the U.S. will never advance freedom, only “progress” and “liberty” under our rule and exploitation
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Wild. Serwer makes it clear the reality doesn’t support this white supremacist dream.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
At risk of loosing my job or, worse, cancellation, this hilarious evisceration of Chatterton at the level of the sentence is just brutal. @jamellebouie.net has been using kid gloves by comparison. I mean, can a writer really write this poorly? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Thomas Chatterton Williams'
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 09/11/2025 · 1h 32m
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of? The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”
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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Defense Secretary is proud of people who committed treason against the United States so as to maintain a race based slave system.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Brutal: “The reader will find here no argument she could not have inferred from the titles of a dozen identical books on wokeness; nothing has been added but sentences.” www.vulture.com/article/post...
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Zero Tolerance
Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Brilliant. Anti DEI is not abt merit but monopoly: “We are a university.. committed to truth and to truth-seeking.. Sure; it may sound inspiring to say, “It doesn’t matter where you start in this country.”. It may [be what] one says to .. CEOs or from the stage of a TED talk. But it is not fact”
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Small Axe new issue has great section discussing Otto and Hermina Huiswoud w some amazing scholars. @mkimba.bsky.social has one of my favorites, but all are bangers. Happy to be in the convo
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Blunt critique at its briefest and best.
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Iron Mike Tyson may not win this, but Paul is exposed as a hack!
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
The Book of Clarence is severely underrated!!! #TheBookOfClarence
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
*looks around* WELP. I better hurry up and finish this book while it’s still legal for black people in the US to read.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2024
they are letting trump monologue and finish his statements and cutting off biden
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Minkah Makalani @minkmak.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
God Biden is still sharp but need not admin. Stay on point man. Stop going off script!
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/06/2024
“The Harvard decision has so transformed the legal landscape that some companies are abandoning diversity programs as a defensive measure even before any litigation is filed.” “defensive measure” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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DEI programs toppled amid a surge of conservative lawsuits
A year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions, a campaign by conservative legal groups is forcing public and private institutions to abandon diversity programs.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
new from me: I wrote about Juneteenth and the sense of “…okay but is this it?” that a lot of people (including me) seem to be having four years after the George Floyd protests
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Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for?
A holiday meant to commemorate the end of slavery has become a symbol of how little has really changed since 2020's police brutality protests.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
Oh my God, I didn't realize this is literally the exact story I told in ONE NATION UNDER GOD. The Fraternal Order of Eagles was instrumental in spreading these Ten Commandments monuments across America in the 1950s ... as part of a promotional tour with the Cecil B. DeMille epic.
Charlton Heston with his hand on a Ten Commandments monument erected by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
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