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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OK. "Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan" should not be invested in the company that flies people to/through torture prison.
Sigh.
Sigh.
It probably is. I have a list here, and I recall some California university pensions are there. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/more-on-omni...
More on Omni’s ICE Flights
How to help the deported people in my Mother Jones story, and which blue states have public funds and public-employee funds invested in ICE flights.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io
February 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
OK. "Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan" should not be invested in the company that flies people to/through torture prison.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
February 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
Futurism was literally invented by fascists, then communists and Black people *specifically* took it to task -- why do these people not read?!
First line of the introduction: “‘Conservative futurism’ might seem to be a comical oxymoron.”
SIGH.
James, let me stop you right there. Alvin Toffler was conservative. Herman Kahn was conservative. I have trouble thinking of a single brand-name futurist who WASN’T conservative.
SIGH.
James, let me stop you right there. Alvin Toffler was conservative. Herman Kahn was conservative. I have trouble thinking of a single brand-name futurist who WASN’T conservative.
February 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Futurism was literally invented by fascists, then communists and Black people *specifically* took it to task -- why do these people not read?!
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When there’s a feud going on and you have no idea what’s going on.
a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
ALT: a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
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February 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
When there’s a feud going on and you have no idea what’s going on.
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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a fair amount would ride on whether you classify people as high/middle/low income relative to national income distributions or something more local but it would come with the perk of more honestly talking about what we're talking about
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
a fair amount would ride on whether you classify people as high/middle/low income relative to national income distributions or something more local but it would come with the perk of more honestly talking about what we're talking about
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a good question that I wanna give my two cents on here: look I don't expect either regular folks or pollsters to use a Marxist definition but I'd be immensely more sympathetic grouping people are working class based on their income or self ID
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A reasonable meta-question, what is an actually useful definition of the American working class these days? Definitely feel like the 20th century categories have broken down and 19th century are irreparably antiquated. And what does cross class solidarity imply?
flagging that the definition of "working class" Marquette used here is "non college graduate" here, but in any case the analysis here seems plausible to me
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
a good question that I wanna give my two cents on here: look I don't expect either regular folks or pollsters to use a Marxist definition but I'd be immensely more sympathetic grouping people are working class based on their income or self ID
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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AND STAY DOWN
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
AND STAY DOWN
My esteemed colleague Malik Gaines posted this from Black Reconstruction recently & it still hits.
"I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience."
We been knew.
archive.org/details/blac...
"I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience."
We been knew.
archive.org/details/blac...
Black reconstruction; an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 : Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1...
First edition.
archive.org
February 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM
My esteemed colleague Malik Gaines posted this from Black Reconstruction recently & it still hits.
"I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience."
We been knew.
archive.org/details/blac...
"I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience."
We been knew.
archive.org/details/blac...
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This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
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My suspicion is that when billionaires say "A.i." will eliminate 10 percent of jobs, they're just telegraphing their pre-existing desire and plans to cut their payroll by 10 percent and pocket the difference.
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 AM
My suspicion is that when billionaires say "A.i." will eliminate 10 percent of jobs, they're just telegraphing their pre-existing desire and plans to cut their payroll by 10 percent and pocket the difference.
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It seems as though the Trump administration's primary goal is to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion. Nothing positive in their place.
February 14, 2026 at 4:35 AM
It seems as though the Trump administration's primary goal is to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion. Nothing positive in their place.
They're called warehouses because they are for housing wares
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 AM
They're called warehouses because they are for housing wares
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Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
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The Atlantic: I blame the Mellon foundation
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The Atlantic: I blame the Mellon foundation
Riddle me this: how come they hide their faces but they're allowed to use facial recognition on us?
New fascist spytool just dropped! Masked engagement = USBP may use identities or credentials that conceal a government affiliation to engage with other users on a limited basis.
February 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Riddle me this: how come they hide their faces but they're allowed to use facial recognition on us?
Reviewed a book manuscript, and I elected to take the free books from the press, which I will give to grad students who need to read them. It's cool because I get to do a little shopping and I won't increase the number of books in my office!
February 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Reviewed a book manuscript, and I elected to take the free books from the press, which I will give to grad students who need to read them. It's cool because I get to do a little shopping and I won't increase the number of books in my office!
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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.