Angela Sutton (she/her)
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
Old man yells at clouds.
My views are my own.
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
Old man yells at clouds.
My views are my own.
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✨ Book Deal Announcement ✨
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
"Approximately one day after receiving the list of open NEH grants, Defendants began implementing the Mass Termination. ...
DOGE and NEH did not conduct an individualized review of grantees. Instead, they summarily terminated awards en masse."
DOGE and NEH did not conduct an individualized review of grantees. Instead, they summarily terminated awards en masse."
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
DOGE's Fox created categories, e.g.
“Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants.”... [like] “experiences of LGBTQ military service,” “oral histories of LatinX in the mid-west,” “social and cultural context of tribal linguistics,” and a “book on the ‘first gay black science fiction writer in history.’”
“Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants.”... [like] “experiences of LGBTQ military service,” “oral histories of LatinX in the mid-west,” “social and cultural context of tribal linguistics,” and a “book on the ‘first gay black science fiction writer in history.’”
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Plaintiffs say:
Defendant Fox [of DOGE] slated grants for termination because their description contained words such as “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant.
That's from the Second Amended Complaint.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Defendant Fox [of DOGE] slated grants for termination because their description contained words such as “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant.
That's from the Second Amended Complaint.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
These documents are wild. They explain that members of DOGE (who will be named and shamed) asked ChatGPT to cull all grants that "sounded like DEI."
👀 A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of a roster of DOGE employees and affiliates, as well as a text message revealing a top NEH official’s views on “woke” and “progressive” grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
These documents are wild. They explain that members of DOGE (who will be named and shamed) asked ChatGPT to cull all grants that "sounded like DEI."
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
I can’t find the extended video so I wanna talk about the kid who got punched.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I can’t find the extended video so I wanna talk about the kid who got punched.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Sometimes when life gets scary I check the Nashville Reddit and it never fails to make me laugh.
Hard hitting citizen journalism in action.
Hard hitting citizen journalism in action.
![Screenshot from r/Nashville.
Confirmed: Andy Ogles does not like big booty Latinas.
A redditor called the office of Ogles to press him on his statement that Bad Bunny's halftime show was "gay porn" [spoiler: it was not]. The redditor also asked the staffer if Andy Ogles doesn't like big booty Latinas. "The staffer said he does not."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jidtweuyjw6l7caux5tlsdgp/bafkreickqtpo6zlnftrcvguwaz6q6v5nojgyy4spuzcr2wcuhrvqke5kty@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Sometimes when life gets scary I check the Nashville Reddit and it never fails to make me laugh.
Hard hitting citizen journalism in action.
Hard hitting citizen journalism in action.
Someone should have told this person to NOT squirt lighter fluid on an already burning fire. There is a risk of the fire traveling back up into the bottle with the air when you stop squeezing. It can explode the bottle in your hand.
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Someone should have told this person to NOT squirt lighter fluid on an already burning fire. There is a risk of the fire traveling back up into the bottle with the air when you stop squeezing. It can explode the bottle in your hand.
Drowzee 🫤
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Drowzee 🫤
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Massachusetts, the Justice Department said Harvard has “thwarted” efforts to investigate potential discrimination.
Justice Department sues Harvard over access to admissions records
In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Massachusetts, the Justice Department said Harvard has “thwarted” efforts to investigate potential discrimination.
www.wbur.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Massachusetts, the Justice Department said Harvard has “thwarted” efforts to investigate potential discrimination.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson joins the American Campus Podcast to discuss his forthcoming title, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You."
With a focus on higher education, he dives into how colleges harvest and monetize data.
Listen on your favorite podcasting app or directly here:
With a focus on higher education, he dives into how colleges harvest and monetize data.
Listen on your favorite podcasting app or directly here:
Your Data Will Be Used Against You with Andrew Guthrie Ferguson - American Campus Podcast
How colleges collect our data.References and suggested readings:Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2026. Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance. New York University…
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson joins the American Campus Podcast to discuss his forthcoming title, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You."
With a focus on higher education, he dives into how colleges harvest and monetize data.
Listen on your favorite podcasting app or directly here:
With a focus on higher education, he dives into how colleges harvest and monetize data.
Listen on your favorite podcasting app or directly here:
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
"I'm not scared of a germ... I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
Robert F Kennedy Jr admits he used to 'snort cocaine off toilet seats'
The US health secretary made the confession to podcaster Theo Von during an episode of his show, This Past Weekend, as he opened up about his past drug use.
news.sky.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:56 PM
"I'm not scared of a germ... I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
Some might use their white privilige to intervene in corrupt systems and create a more just world. Others...
If a Black man said he'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would call him a thug and demand he spend the rest of his life in prison.
If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Some might use their white privilige to intervene in corrupt systems and create a more just world. Others...
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil.
February 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Dutch site IDs ICE agents via public data
“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of”
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of”
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
February 10, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Dutch site IDs ICE agents via public data
“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of”
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of”
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
That's painful coming from one of the formerly best AADS departments in the country.
This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...
UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs
More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.
www.texastribune.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
That's painful coming from one of the formerly best AADS departments in the country.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
A historical narrative on the connected history of piracy and slave trade:
Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by Angela C. Sutton @drangelasutton.bsky.social (Prometheus, 2023)
#maritimehistory #booksky
Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by Angela C. Sutton @drangelasutton.bsky.social (Prometheus, 2023)
#maritimehistory #booksky
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
A historical narrative on the connected history of piracy and slave trade:
Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by Angela C. Sutton @drangelasutton.bsky.social (Prometheus, 2023)
#maritimehistory #booksky
Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by Angela C. Sutton @drangelasutton.bsky.social (Prometheus, 2023)
#maritimehistory #booksky
So much work just to get some hope at a chance at line marriage.
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
So much work just to get some hope at a chance at line marriage.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Great thread.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Great thread.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
"after abolition, Africans liberated from slavers’ ships by Royal Navy patrols were coerced into apprenticeships or conscripted into British military service."
#slavery #colonialism
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
#slavery #colonialism
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals
Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"after abolition, Africans liberated from slavers’ ships by Royal Navy patrols were coerced into apprenticeships or conscripted into British military service."
#slavery #colonialism
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
#slavery #colonialism
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"Consequences"
"Epstein had pitched [art school dept chair] on a potential art exhibit titled 'Statutory' that would showcase underage models dressed to look older than they were."
He was really just upfront with it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
He was really just upfront with it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"Consequences"
Great thread.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Great thread.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Phenomenal students.
Get these colleagues out, and make room for new thinkers who don't engage with people like Epstein.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
I go all over the country talking about schools, democracy, and right-wing attacks on both.
It’s really, really important in the policy space to talk about what we’re for, not just what we’re against.
It’s really, really important in the policy space to talk about what we’re for, not just what we’re against.
In my latest newsletter I unpack the $625 million in strategic literacy investments in Gretchen Whitmer’s final budget request as Governor.
Defending public schools also means improving public schools.
open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...
Defending public schools also means improving public schools.
open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...
"Helping our children live better, more prosperous lives is the most basic, sacred obligation we have."
Too many Republicans ignore educational equity. Too many Democrats ignore educational excellence. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's new strategic literacy investments focus on both.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I go all over the country talking about schools, democracy, and right-wing attacks on both.
It’s really, really important in the policy space to talk about what we’re for, not just what we’re against.
It’s really, really important in the policy space to talk about what we’re for, not just what we’re against.