southwest airlines brought a SWAT team on board to forcibly remove a passenger over a perceived bomb threat but it turns out he’s just muslim and all he was doing was praying komonews.com/news/nation-...
It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...
historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?
This is actually common in journalism.
If I were to ever write a book about the industry, it would be able the people newspapers first put in charge of creating their web presences.
It was a bunch of misfits but also disliked assholes they didn’t know what to do with.
It actually did really well and a whole bunch of people got “research grants” off it www.wired.com/story/listen...
I wrote a whole article about this in regards to how tech covers racism. But academia and “internet culture” centers helped because they are okay with racism from white women and especially 2020- 2023
A lot of em got very wealthy very fast
open.spotify.com/track/6HZ9Ve...
Oh it’s not just that he’s a legend. She’s a racist who purposely worked with them to incite Sinophobia and to scrape from Black reporters
Meanwhile places like @knightfoundation.org were hosting and celebrating her
They have yet to do any real work on repair there
Indeed bsky.app/profile/rich...
When we talk about genocides in the U.S., there are the many genocides of tribal nations that have been ongoing for centuries. There is also the genocide of Black people, the conditions of which have never gone away. This can be useful historical context for things happening now.
Another resource for UK folks: bsky.app/profile/sheg...
Canadian folks: bsky.app/profile/smud...
UK-based folks: Switchboard is here for you. Your life is precious. 8000119100
switchboard.lgbt
US-based folks:
Trans Lifeline is here for you. Your life is precious. +1-877-565-8860
translifeline.org
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
By now there’s enough independent, third-party data analysis of AI’s impact (or apparent lack thereof) on the current job market that there’s no reason not to include some skepticism about the executive claim when you write it up.
in other news, i got a second degree burn on my left thumb the other day bc yay accident prone so 🥲 had to just get the most painful type of burn fml. hoping it heals quickly bc i hate all the dressing changes and the pain
rly glad that more ppl seem to FINALLY be catching on to the fraud l /literelly aka 3lly b3lle is. the DARVO tactics whenever someone tries to hold them accountable. the L I E S.
Cream book cover with green squiggly lines running across it. Mother Tongue, Sara Novic and A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity in large text, with the Blurb A book I want to press into everyone's hands from Esme Weijun Wang across the top.
Mother Tongue also has an extremely cool cover in the UK (which I feel ok bragging about since I have no hand in it at all 😆), featuring kind words from the great @esmewang.com.
It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue
I would also be bad at my job if I didn't say, hey, want to be a part of this amazing thing? go donate to a rent fund at standwithminnesota.com. maybe one of the smaller ones.
I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.
I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.
I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.
I said really loudly to this person in the galleria: “WOW YOU HAVE ON META GLASSES! WHAT DO YOU USE THEM FOR?”
Everyone turned around and they put them in their pocket. Yeah you fucking snitch, feel shame.
A face with a mosaic of colors.
Good night supporters of democracy.
I wish we had sense like Denmark
Mumford was a prolific author and wrote some of the most important books of my graduate years, including Not Straight, Not White www.amazon.com/Not-Straight...
Every single Black gay scholar I know who has died has died a cruelly early death. Can’t think of a one who’s passed who passed at a ripe ol’ age. A God damn shame
history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...
alexander skarsgård just keeps getting hotter and it is not fair
If I’m not laughing, I’m crying so here you go. 😂😂😂 #bondi is a predator protector.
this was important because sexual harassment and child predation was already a known problem and Excite tried to release something to give individuals control over who in the community based internet had access to them.
This existed in 1998
