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Crystal Fleming クリスタル

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Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology at Smith College. Posts represent the views of my cats. One of my books has a 2 second cameo in an Oscar winning film.日本語を勉強します. I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams and/or worst nightmare. I have a lot of ancestors.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · Aug 5

Still basking in the unexpected summer bliss of discovering fields of sunflowers in the countryside of upstate New York!! 🌻🌻🌻

Selfie of me smiling under a blue sky with hundreds (thousands?) of sunflowers behind me. I've got on a black t-shirt and clear Ray-Bans

Closeup of the sunflowers! They're gorgeous!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7h

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 5h

In other news, I had a lot of fun this week having students in my Intro to Black Women's Studies course apply black feminist thought to Taylor Swift's oeuvre, including her new album. They were brilliant! One of the groups called themselves "ASS: The Anti-Swift Society". I do like my job..

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 5h

Next up: taking some aspect of at least one of these courses on the road.. literally. Currently planning a Black-studies focused global field trip along with other study abroad initiatives..

Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 5h

I've developed three new courses at Smith within the last year which is a personal/professional record.. Black Europe, Black Magic and Black Joy.

Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 5h

Well, it's official. My new course on Black Joy was approved and will be taught in the spring. Excited!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 6h

I don't even care about baseball, technically, but I cried over the brutality of that loss..

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ren they/them @renzaro.com · 6h

Please check on your Phillies friends.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 6h

My heart goes out to the Phillies. Damn.

Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 7h

This is brilliant!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 9h

🫣🤭😬

Kendrick Lamar meme from the Super Bowl..

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 16h

"Got any more questions?!"

SoloChills @solochills.blacksky.app · 17h

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

www.bbc.com

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 14h

Love Dolly.. 💕💕

Legend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · 1d

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 1d

Am officially doing way too much..

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 1d

Ah..

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...