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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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American Pastor has traveled all over the Europe and has a warning, "The enemy of the world is Islam, 1000%"
"There are places in Texas, there are places in Dearborn, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota that are nearly fully Islamic. They are trying to institute all of their Sharia Show more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4h

Thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hadeel. Before the war Hadeel’s husband was a fisherman and they tried for 11 years before they had their first child Hani who is 10 now they also have a daughter Dana, 6 and little Adam who is just 2. They’re displaced and struggling.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 5h

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

““I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide,” Ms. Wilcox said. “But I had to fight this. Not just for me, but for working people, including those who have cases before the N.L.R.B., and to fight for the agency.””

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5h

A loud reminder that this administration wants to bring back SEGREGATION as @victorerikray.bsky.social has pointed out and they're starting within the administration.

A literal page out of Woodrow Wilson's playbook. #blacksky #news

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 14h

Nice piece on the brilliant Igor Simões and the making of "Dos Brasis — Arte e Pensamento Negro," surely one of the best and most important exhibitions anywhere in recent years

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Celebrating the Breadth of Black Art in Brazil

How one art historian is expanding the narrative of art history

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Racial Dolezal @sircoach.blacksky.app · 16h

Japan's fears of China feels similar to white folks' fears of Black folk. The former knows what it did to the latter and can't imagine the latter wouldn't be hell bent on revenge. Feels like paranoia fueled by a guilty collective conscience.

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 17h

Japanese liberals and conservatives are so weird. They're "worried" about China "taking over" their country, while the United States of America is actively occupying it. The US dropped two atomic bombs on your country, wrote your damn constitution, and occupy your country, but China "worries" you?

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17h

To me it's a declaration that "We're not like the rest of them!" But when you ask them to think critically about their stances they often refuse and either block or disengage.

They're performative and not serious

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17h

Someone reskeets my Blackademics starter pack with a "Welcome to the resistance!" gif. When I replied below, the same person blocked me. I guess "the resistance" isn't prepared for gentle pushback or constructive criticism. Anyway...

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 20h

Please don't do that. Reposting is most appreciated, but many of the scholars in the starter pack have extensive critiques of what you describe as "the resistance." We are all in agreement that 45/47 is terrible, but don't reduce our thinking to a slogan that obscures as much as it clarifies.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 19h

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 18h

Jim Lee promises that DC will never use AI, saying "AI doesn't dream, feel, or make art."

Iconic Artist Jim Lee Takes Firm Anti-AI Stance at DC Comics

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 19h

The odds are good that Zoran will be at NYCC.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19h

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20h

For no reason, just remembered this explicitly antifascist version of Chicken Little that Disney made in 1943. It's about the danger of following leaders who tell big lies. youtu.be/p_GaYdae4j0?...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 21h

Always count on the absolute dumbest man among us to just say the thing out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 20h

Please don't do that. Reposting is most appreciated, but many of the scholars in the starter pack have extensive critiques of what you describe as "the resistance." We are all in agreement that 45/47 is terrible, but don't reduce our thinking to a slogan that obscures as much as it clarifies.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 20h

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h

Wow this rundown is wild:
"A billionaire asking her fans to buy several editions of the same exact mediocre album is a little hard to stomach."
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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