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andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic

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R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
"Warren stated that job outcomes were a 'key factor' in the decision-making process—within the previous decade, only a 'tiny percentage' of PhD students who graduated from the LCS program went on to receive tenure track at an R1 institution." An absurd metric & sign of the conservatism of higher ed.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This seems significant
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.

www.propublica.org/article/habe...
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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If it can't do that - and the evidence is that it can't - then the Government should not be allowed to force an ID scheme on us. It's not competent to do so.
5/5
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Yes, the Stonewall Inn, that historic site where... someone... did... something... with respect to law enforcement
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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My team @propublica.org is hiring.

We're looking for a data reporter itching to do ambitious, impactful investigations that uncover abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Maybe that's you? grnh.se/iunysgl96us
Data Reporter
Remote, United States
grnh.se
February 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Got accepted for the Academic Track at LA Con V, the World Science Fiction Convention in August. See you in Anaheim! @laworldcon.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Santa was WHITE
Football is OURS
Skittles are CURRENCY
Nermal was CUTER than GARFIELD
Plants are NOT ALIVE
Vests should be worn BACKWARDS
Lakes are IMAGINARY
Jumping is BAD
Shoes are for HANDS
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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youtu.be/o2vdCm4tZDA?...

It's just so happy
[I'll Be Glad When You're Dead] You Rascal You
YouTube video by Louis Armstrong - Topic
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
My colleague points out the equally relevant Luis Figueroa's book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico uncpress.org/978080785610...
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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The Taste of Empire, Collingham. Hits on this also
February 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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now that's the power of a union
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Highly recommend the Big Sugar podcast which explores how Cuban sugar barons came to Florida after the revolution and set up more sugar plantations where they illegally underpaid migrant Jamaican workers while we line their pockets with artificially high prices
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Sweetness and Power mentioned! Sidney Mintz was a deeply important cultural anthropologist whose work on food history has greatly inspired me in what I want to do. Please please read this book and some of his others. He’s written some of the best histories of the Caribbean and colonization.
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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I kid you not, when I TA'd for a U.S. History, post-1865 course taught by a Latino Studies prof, everything, and I mean everything, always came back around to sugar.

And he was right.
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
One of the greats
February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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There are some great threads going about how awful sugar plantations were.

I just want to add something as a historical romance author: every time you see someone adding a sugar cube to tea in a historical romance, think of those threads and the blood-soaked cost of the sugar.
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.

#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM