andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
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Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination will be available for pre-order in December.
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Audiofuturism - andré carrington
A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before ma...
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HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
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Immediately after this exchange, the Republican chairing the hearing banged his gavel and yelled at Rep. McIver about decorum. They will use "decorum" to shut down any inquiry that makes any of these lying murderers uncomfortable, but never to quell their own members acting unhinged.
HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
February 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Immediately after this exchange, the Republican chairing the hearing banged his gavel and yelled at Rep. McIver about decorum. They will use "decorum" to shut down any inquiry that makes any of these lying murderers uncomfortable, but never to quell their own members acting unhinged.
Ida B. Wells's writing to document lynchings is something rare, even though lynching was commonplace. One reason* for that is: it is hard to write about. It it hard to read about. The challenge of being a writer is harder to meet when the thing you are writing about is so, so painful
Shout-out to all my colleagues who are also teaching about lynching, Reconstruction, and the 14th amendment right now. Give yourself space, it's hard, essential work.
February 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Ida B. Wells's writing to document lynchings is something rare, even though lynching was commonplace. One reason* for that is: it is hard to write about. It it hard to read about. The challenge of being a writer is harder to meet when the thing you are writing about is so, so painful
Shout-out to all my colleagues who are also teaching about lynching, Reconstruction, and the 14th amendment right now. Give yourself space, it's hard, essential work.
February 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Shout-out to all my colleagues who are also teaching about lynching, Reconstruction, and the 14th amendment right now. Give yourself space, it's hard, essential work.
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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
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
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
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
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...
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
This seems significant
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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
5/5
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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
5/5
Yes, the Stonewall Inn, that historic site where... someone... did... something... with respect to law enforcement
They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument
The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News
gaycitynews.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Yes, the Stonewall Inn, that historic site where... someone... did... something... with respect to law enforcement
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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
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
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February 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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
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
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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
Got accepted for the Academic Track at LA Con V, the World Science Fiction Convention in August. See you in Anaheim! @laworldcon.bsky.social
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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
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
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
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
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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!
@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
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!
@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!
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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
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
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[I'll Be Glad When You're Dead] You Rascal You
YouTube video by Louis Armstrong - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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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...
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
My colleague points out the equally relevant Luis Figueroa's book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico uncpress.org/978080785610...
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The Taste of Empire, Collingham. Hits on this also
February 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The Taste of Empire, Collingham. Hits on this also
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now that's the power of a union
The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
now that's the power of a union
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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...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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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
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.
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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...
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
Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
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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.
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...
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
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.
And he was right.
One of the greats
February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
One of the greats