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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 18h

And this was after the administration there at Bowie State received tens of millions of dollars from Mackenzie Scott. It’s appalling, and there is not nearly enough accountability in the USM system for how money is spent. Writing as a member of the USM faculty advisory council (CUSF). @aaup.org

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is expressing one of the core beliefs of white supremacy: that people of color don't feel pain to the same extent as white people. Hispanic falls off roof? nbd Notoriously gruesome example: gynecological surgery conducted on enslaved Black women, sans anesthesia. www.aaihs.org/black-subjec...

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Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology - AAIHS

In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes the experimental work of early American gynecologists, in...

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 17h

Turns out, political science deciding that all our intro to gov will gloss over the fact that the bill of rights were ignored for 100 years and the rights guaranteed by the actual constitution were ignored (habeas, right to travel) to ensure property rights over slaves. We should be teaching Prigg.

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Ben @coxsportsohio.bsky.social · 17h

that they're intentionally killing our university system is just an incredible own goal

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 17h

Really striking that the ruling class has gone all in on gambling & AI to squeeze a just little more profit & power from this collapsing system. They might have taken steps to make it appear more stable & just, but doing so cuts against their claim to power. So instead they ensure its collapse.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This passage from Black Power by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) & Charles V. Hamilton is one that I always find striking. Divestment is more than a financial tool. It is also abt what we expect from systems.

Photo of text from Black Power:

Black and colored peoples are saying in a clear voice that they intend to determine for themselves the kinds of political, social and economic systems they will live under.
Of necessity, this means that the existing systems of the dominant, oppressive group—the entire spectrum of values, beliefs, traditions and institutions—will have to be challenged and changed. It is not to be expected that this fundamental scrutiny will be led by those who benefit or even have expectations of benefit from the status quo.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The anti-DEI crusade is getting results 5050wob.org/wp-content/u...

Women’s share of Russell 3000 board seats rose
from 22.6% in 2020 to 30.1% in 2025. In Q2 2026, it
moved to 29.2%—the first annual decline in more
than a decade. The gains of the past five years
remain substantial, but the change in direction
shows they are not self-sustaining.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OTOH, public subsidies of oligarchs' sports stadiums is such a long-running scandal, something like this was bound to happen at some point, tbh.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Real question: How do people afford things rn? Or is that not a thing that we're doing anymore?

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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what I keep saying! Defining gender by chromosomes is *the* most radical redefining of gender *ever*. Literally no society in all of human history has ever done that! None! Ever!

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reconstruction and de-nazification are examples to learn from, and not in a good way!

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really something that the U.S. not only permitted LeRoy Walker to go free after ordering the attack on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War, but allowed him to rewrite the Alabama State Constitution in 1875 to limit the influence of Black & working-class white voters. That something is racism.

Black and white photo of Leroy Pope Walker in a suit and vest with a gold watch chain, slicked back hair, and a chin beard. Looks like something out of a literal horror movie.

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Your Mom, PhD @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😑 Just....impunity everywhere.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

incredible

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That man really uses our tax dollars to sit around all day thinking of ways to torture & murder Americans & we inexplicably allow him to tell us this ad nauseam without consequence.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am writing a biography of an imp Black Reconstruction-era thinker, & keep returning to the way he explained the impact of his cross-racial labor organizing: "It was the work of the colored leaders in Alabama that carried that State for the Republicans in 1872. WHITEMEN COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Malcolm's parents were Garveyites., Queen Mother Moore too, almost all of the early Black Communists in Harlem were Garveyites first. I mean go down the lineage... I have tons of critiques of Garvey AND I am in awe of the incredible organizing feat they pulled off...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 19/09/2026

US foreign policy discourse is such that if you say what the actual US ambassador/envoy to four Mideastern states himself admits on television then you're considered fringe

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Titled the Make ICE Pay Act, the bill would block the roughly $140 billion allocated to immigration enforcement […] and redirect it to recovery efforts in communities reeling from ICE sieges. […] “In Minneapolis, Operation Metro Surge cost our community nearly $700 million,” she said, […]”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Walking with doublemint, we are.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I keep vacillating between being gobsmacked how many people can't see the obvious about what's going on around us, and desperately trying to set that information aside so I can function for even a minute.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite things abt my job is looking through the incredible images enslaved people used to stake their claims to legal equality in their petitions to Congress. Going to put these together in my next tattoo.

A black bird carrying a banner that says “equal rights.”

A white bird carrying a banner that reads “equal suffrage.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Man, it's a good thing Ed Sheeran decided to steer clear of politics, that worked out well for him

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No one hates Republicans more than Republicans.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Students are always surprised to learn that Black nationalist Marcus Garvey met & coordinated w the white nationalist Edward Young Clarke of the KKK, but the truth is that nationalists often see one another as allies in the project of a global reordering around racial essentialism.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Exactly

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wouldn't have had the next generation condoms if the previous ones worked properly tho

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Probably someone already pointed this out, but I keep thinking abt how the Gates Foundation funded research into condoms in 2013 at precisely the time that Epstein claimed that he had contracted an STI from sex workers. Guess he had skin in the game, at least, but maybe there’s a better way?

cbsnews.com

Gates Foundation funds 11 next-generation condoms

Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative offered $100,000 for a better male condom, with up to $1 million for further research

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every single one of these schools that embraces the fascist tactics & curriculum should permanently lose its football program. Just fucking launch it into the sun.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For the umpteenth time, it’s a fascist political party, y’all.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So the Trump administration keeps attacking universities bc it hates college football, tailgating, & beer is what I’m hearing.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The WH and DHS seem to have decided that it's best not only to crater higher ed, but also to assess fees that'll directly deprive the federal and state gov'ts of tax revenues. It's not even killing the goose that laid the golden eggs; it's making sure the geese land elsewhere.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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The Vampire LesMak @lesleynope.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some fucking asshole came up to me after the game and asked me to take my hat off during the anthem for the next game and i said no thanks and then he told me to go back to where I came from. I reported him to security then left. I’m really upset.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Honestly I’m increasingly reminded of the Jim Crow press, which loved getting people killed before finger wagging the victims & survivors of the violence they themselves had created.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I really feel like I’m in my dream job, but I would give just about anything to make this a reality. We need to invest in an antifascist infrastructure to create an antifascist future.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People ask me what my dream job is … and I want to pay about 45 peopel 200k plus to just brain storm how to roll back fascism. I’m taking hippie socialist think tank with quantitative backing Just a brick by brick disassembling of fascism with CITATIONS

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Honestly I’m increasingly reminded of the Jim Crow press, which loved getting people killed before finger wagging the victims & survivors of the violence they themselves had created.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok so I’ve seen this dynamic—turning the home or business of Reconstruction-era Black politicians into a parking lot—so frequently that I wonder if there’s enough data to substantiate a larger study. A residential “Redemption.”

Screenshot of text from Howard Rabinowitz’s “Holland Thompson and Black Political Participation in Montgomery, Alabama”

“No will or inventory of Thompson's estate was filed with local au-thorities. Although his burial location in the Negro section of the city graveyard is mentioned in the records, it is no longer possible to identify his final resting place. And where the house and grocery once stood on Jefferson Street, there is now a vacant lot, the only one on a block of late nineteenth-century houses. It is as if he had never existed.”

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