andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
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Pinned
Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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By the way, where is Maduro? At this point shouldn’t the Trump Administration provide “proof of life”?
Nicolás Maduro is still the legitimate leader of Venezuela, the country's acting president said in an exclusive interview with NBC News.
Nicolás Maduro is still the 'legitimate president' of Venezuela, acting leader Delcy Rodriguez says
“Cooperation is off to a tremendous start,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC News as the two countries hammered out details of how Venezuela’s vast oil reserves are to be distributed.
nbcnews.to
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 AM
By the way, where is Maduro? At this point shouldn’t the Trump Administration provide “proof of life”?
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Had my colonoscopy today.
When they asked if I wanted to remove my Green Lantern cap I said:
“It will protect me by activating my power ring if someone tries to harvest my organs.”
They nodded understanding and/or fear and/or confusion.
Soon after I was safely in cryogenic colo-sleep.
When they asked if I wanted to remove my Green Lantern cap I said:
“It will protect me by activating my power ring if someone tries to harvest my organs.”
They nodded understanding and/or fear and/or confusion.
Soon after I was safely in cryogenic colo-sleep.
February 13, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Had my colonoscopy today.
When they asked if I wanted to remove my Green Lantern cap I said:
“It will protect me by activating my power ring if someone tries to harvest my organs.”
They nodded understanding and/or fear and/or confusion.
Soon after I was safely in cryogenic colo-sleep.
When they asked if I wanted to remove my Green Lantern cap I said:
“It will protect me by activating my power ring if someone tries to harvest my organs.”
They nodded understanding and/or fear and/or confusion.
Soon after I was safely in cryogenic colo-sleep.
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It's willfully obtuse
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 AM
It's willfully obtuse
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Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.
It also strikes me that so many sets where Star Trek stuff happens appear to be accessible to wheelchairs. That's just good design.
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 AM
It also strikes me that so many sets where Star Trek stuff happens appear to be accessible to wheelchairs. That's just good design.
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This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
This is just unconscionable man
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No one is stopping other foundations from funding the humanities
February 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
No one is stopping other foundations from funding the humanities
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I love examples of other animals successfully communicating with us
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I love examples of other animals successfully communicating with us
A "monopoly on humanities funding" well there's nothing stopping everybody else from funding the humanities!
February 13, 2026 at 3:09 AM
A "monopoly on humanities funding" well there's nothing stopping everybody else from funding the humanities!
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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is convicted of child molestation against 2 children
He attempted to keep one victim quiet by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for former Jan. 6 defendants and would share the money with the victim in his will 😑🖕
He attempted to keep one victim quiet by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for former Jan. 6 defendants and would share the money with the victim in his will 😑🖕
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is convicted of child molestation
Andrew Johnson tried to bribe a child victim with the promise of a Jan. 6-related payout, prosecutors say. Trump has discussed the possibility of compensating rioters, but no one has received any paym...
www.nbcnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is convicted of child molestation against 2 children
He attempted to keep one victim quiet by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for former Jan. 6 defendants and would share the money with the victim in his will 😑🖕
He attempted to keep one victim quiet by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for former Jan. 6 defendants and would share the money with the victim in his will 😑🖕
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Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
It’s going to be another banner year (in the words of lying African governments, a “bumper harvest”) for books from authors on the Continent and in its Diaspora! Here’s your list, sorted by month, with all kinds of genres included (including children’s books, at the end of the post). There’s no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notable—as always, a work in progress, subject to updates.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store
February 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM
There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store
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I cannot stress enough how much these kinds of notes mean to teachers.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
Sometimes a former student emails and reminds you that you don't suck at your job.
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I cannot stress enough how much these kinds of notes mean to teachers.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
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Destroy the ability of public equity firms to destroy companies and communities. This seems like a good start: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Warren, Lawmakers Renew Legislative Push to Stop Private Equity Looting | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
www.warren.senate.gov
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Destroy the ability of public equity firms to destroy companies and communities. This seems like a good start: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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I've been uploading many of the memes I've created. Feel free to take them and use them if you so choose.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I've been uploading many of the memes I've created. Feel free to take them and use them if you so choose.
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Black men:
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Black men:
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
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I think we can settle the Cardi B - Nicki Minaj beef once and for all
February 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I think we can settle the Cardi B - Nicki Minaj beef once and for all
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12: European Parliament priorities for gender equity pass overwhelmingly including resolutions containing language on "intersectionality" and "diversity" interpreted as referring to trans women as women.
See how your MEPs voted
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February 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12: European Parliament priorities for gender equity pass overwhelmingly including resolutions containing language on "intersectionality" and "diversity" interpreted as referring to trans women as women.
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This is such a great read and left me eager to follow the rest of Karen’s story. It has history, colonialism, family ties, personal choices, being torn between two places and more.
NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me.
I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.
If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.
If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
The "Return" of the Golden Sword
My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
This is such a great read and left me eager to follow the rest of Karen’s story. It has history, colonialism, family ties, personal choices, being torn between two places and more.
I haven't been a co-editor of Lateral for over a year (maybe two). They are the hardest-working editors and readers out here, and I am grateful to everyone who has read for this journal. Peer review takes a long time. Academics perform work. All work produces knowledge. Fuck AI.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I haven't been a co-editor of Lateral for over a year (maybe two). They are the hardest-working editors and readers out here, and I am grateful to everyone who has read for this journal. Peer review takes a long time. Academics perform work. All work produces knowledge. Fuck AI.
Another excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on surveillance & discipline in the rodeo created & run by people incarcerated at Angola prison csalateral.org/issue/14-2/s...
Daniella Mascarenhas, "Spectacle, Surveillance, and Discipline: Synopticism at the Angola Prison Rodeo" - Lateral
The Angola Prison Rodeo is a distinctive penal spectacle that challenges conventional understandings of incarceration, visibility, and institutional legitimacy. While modern punishment typically conce...
csalateral.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Another excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on surveillance & discipline in the rodeo created & run by people incarcerated at Angola prison csalateral.org/issue/14-2/s...
An excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on South Asian men in comedy, media, and masculinity
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
Reddi & Foster, "Generationality, Desirability, and Redemption: How Aziz Ansari and Hasan Minhaj Articulate New Desi Masculinities in Stand-Up Comedy" - Lateral
Desi creators in US culture continue to work within—and against—the white gaze, which divides them into sexless sidekicks or threatening terrorists. Two comedians who have defied these stereotypes and...
csalateral.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
An excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on South Asian men in comedy, media, and masculinity
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...