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Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #Literacies, #EduSky, #AcademicSky, #BlackSky |she/her| Award-winning author (πŸ˜†) | website: www.ReadingBlackFutures.com πŸ’–πŸ’š

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Again. This matters.

07.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 648 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 4
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida
After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord

06.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 1650 πŸ” 224 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 18

America isn’t gonna come back from this… I also don’t think most of the non American G7-20

Understands its not just America

And the lack of consideration or nuance to that discussion isn’t about Americans not facing reality but the actual way we’ve lived post WWII

06.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Watermelon bomb pop… love those things!

06.03.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

Once again the greatest danger to America is college students putting pronouns in their bios

06.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 346 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 30

In 2020, trump said it was β€œstupid” that America spent trillions on Middle East conflicts while our healthcare, roads, and schools needed fixing.

Now look what he’s doing.
Same wars. Same costs.
Same neglect at home.

The only thing that changed was the excuse.

05.03.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 1111 πŸ” 520 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 22

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

04.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 735 πŸ” 381 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 21
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It’s really shit like this that’s been especially exhausting and hurtful.

04.03.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 491 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 88

bookmark this one

03.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 1254 πŸ” 212 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 6
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The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

imagine creating THE most hostile economic, social, and political environment in 60 years and expect people to procreate

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

02.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 736 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 25
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Institute for Colored Youth - Wikipedia

The emphasis on education in the Black community is very real.

The first HBCU was founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia (now Cheney University). Founded with a Quaker bequest, the faculty were all Black from the start. #HATM

02.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

My kid asked me how they can go to war w/o a vote from Congress & I said "Well, they just say 'we're not calling it a war' & somehow that's all the loophole they need."

02.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Now…here’s why an Ollie’s credit card should concern you

Babe… the kids can’t afford an Ollie’s run

02.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

On the one end, this is atrocious. On the other, it’s symbolic of the type of education America has been getting over the last decade or so.

Maybe it’s not the type of learning children deserve, but certainly the type America has offered too often.

01.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

01.03.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 4043 πŸ” 934 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0
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UNC-CH Will β€˜Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

01.03.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 542 πŸ” 211 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 13

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

28.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 3690 πŸ” 637 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 18

I know there are more important things, but it is unreal that the president is announcing this via his own personal account on his own personal social media network.

28.02.2026 08:11 πŸ‘ 771 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 8
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Farnaz Fassihi
The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

28.02.2026 07:06 πŸ‘ 1209 πŸ” 551 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 21

As flawed as Obama was from sn international policy standpoing, he at the very least fucking knew that a war with Iran was a horrible fucking idea.

28.02.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

28.02.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 3945 πŸ” 711 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 25

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

24.06.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 1503 πŸ” 425 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 16

Oh cool. The justice department is investigating itself. I’m sure this will be really thorough.

26.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 3512 πŸ” 917 πŸ’¬ 228 πŸ“Œ 50

I'm about to mute Squatty Potty, cause I really REALLY needed a TW for child abuse to skip that headline.

As you talk about things in the data dump and related crimes, PLEASE consider adding CWs and TWs.

26.02.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday

We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday

In We See Things They’ll Never See, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday explain how neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusionβ€”and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity.

Out now! Learn more about this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

26.02.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This is cruel and so dehumanizing. The evil in this country knows no bounds.

26.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The entire premise of all dystopian fiction in a single skeet.

26.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 176 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

I’ve come to realize people think slurs are just words that hurt our feelings. No. Slurs, particularly the N-word, F-word, antisemitic terms etc. aren’t taboo because of that. It’s because historically when these terms are said they precede or pair with pitchforks, torches, lynchings & gas chambers.

25.02.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 3708 πŸ” 1106 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 42

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

24.02.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 13141 πŸ” 6690 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 194
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Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

25.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 16123 πŸ” 4223 πŸ’¬ 260 πŸ“Œ 186