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Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Rep. Jacob Rosecrants is in touch with State Rep. Jared Deck (Norman) and Rep. Tom Cole (Repub). The office of U.S. Sen. James Lankford (Repub) has been made aware.
They can't find Dr. Abedini's location. Important for several reasons including filing habeas corpus docs.
URL: x.com/jacobrosecra...
They can't find Dr. Abedini's location. Important for several reasons including filing habeas corpus docs.
URL: x.com/jacobrosecra...
![Rep. Jacob Rosecrants 🌩️
@jacobrosecrants
I’m aware of this awful situation, shared by my constituent Dr. Landis. Nobody seems to know where Dr. Abedini is being held, tho he has contacted family. Rep. Deck reached out to Rep. Cole & Sen. Lankford’s office is looped in. Here to be a squeaky wheel & help however I can.
[screenshot of Prof. Landis' tweet about Dr. Abedini being seized by ICE]
8:23 PM • Nov 24, 2025 • 1,351 Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreiad7pgvpg5ds7s3rjys6u2psnfdiwhouicddgt5qdr2f4qhxax63y@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Rep. Jacob Rosecrants is in touch with State Rep. Jared Deck (Norman) and Rep. Tom Cole (Repub). The office of U.S. Sen. James Lankford (Repub) has been made aware.
They can't find Dr. Abedini's location. Important for several reasons including filing habeas corpus docs.
URL: x.com/jacobrosecra...
They can't find Dr. Abedini's location. Important for several reasons including filing habeas corpus docs.
URL: x.com/jacobrosecra...
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
This day. What a day.
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This day. What a day.
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‼️DONATIONS NEEDED‼️
It’s almost the 1st when we send $150 to recently housed & unhoused people in DC!
Help us fill up our Cashap! Donate if able!
Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC
One time & recurring donations can be made on our Givebutter: givebutter.com/remorahouse
Thank you all!
It’s almost the 1st when we send $150 to recently housed & unhoused people in DC!
Help us fill up our Cashap! Donate if able!
Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC
One time & recurring donations can be made on our Givebutter: givebutter.com/remorahouse
Thank you all!
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
‼️DONATIONS NEEDED‼️
It’s almost the 1st when we send $150 to recently housed & unhoused people in DC!
Help us fill up our Cashap! Donate if able!
Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC
One time & recurring donations can be made on our Givebutter: givebutter.com/remorahouse
Thank you all!
It’s almost the 1st when we send $150 to recently housed & unhoused people in DC!
Help us fill up our Cashap! Donate if able!
Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC
One time & recurring donations can be made on our Givebutter: givebutter.com/remorahouse
Thank you all!
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If ATL airport is rough for travelers, it's even worse for many of the workers. One of the people in my book, Cass, works the graveyard shift mopping floors and cleaning bathrooms.
She's kept at 29 hours a week because at 30 she'd qualify for health insurance and sick leave.
She's kept at 29 hours a week because at 30 she'd qualify for health insurance and sick leave.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If ATL airport is rough for travelers, it's even worse for many of the workers. One of the people in my book, Cass, works the graveyard shift mopping floors and cleaning bathrooms.
She's kept at 29 hours a week because at 30 she'd qualify for health insurance and sick leave.
She's kept at 29 hours a week because at 30 she'd qualify for health insurance and sick leave.
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Back in July, I wrote about my comrade Brandon and his steady & consistent mutual aid work. I just saw that he posted this on FedBook a few minutes ago.
You can read what I wrote about him & his work here:
prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
People are in motion, everywhere.
You can read what I wrote about him & his work here:
prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
People are in motion, everywhere.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Back in July, I wrote about my comrade Brandon and his steady & consistent mutual aid work. I just saw that he posted this on FedBook a few minutes ago.
You can read what I wrote about him & his work here:
prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
People are in motion, everywhere.
You can read what I wrote about him & his work here:
prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
People are in motion, everywhere.
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It’s getting harder and harder for people to afford rent, no matter how hard they work.
One example: Rhea, a mother who often works 2AM-8PM to support her kids after fleeing domestic violence, still can’t secure housing.
When asked if she could work any harder, she says “if I could I would.”
One example: Rhea, a mother who often works 2AM-8PM to support her kids after fleeing domestic violence, still can’t secure housing.
When asked if she could work any harder, she says “if I could I would.”
ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It’s getting harder and harder for people to afford rent, no matter how hard they work.
One example: Rhea, a mother who often works 2AM-8PM to support her kids after fleeing domestic violence, still can’t secure housing.
When asked if she could work any harder, she says “if I could I would.”
One example: Rhea, a mother who often works 2AM-8PM to support her kids after fleeing domestic violence, still can’t secure housing.
When asked if she could work any harder, she says “if I could I would.”
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THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US made NPR's Books We Love list!
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US made NPR's Books We Love list!
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
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If you're at all interested in how culture & politics intertwine, check out this thread about the connections between South African music & the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Includes a 1970 broadcast from the ANC's Radio Freedom. And some very cool music. 👇🏽
i fact-checked this beautiful piece about South Africa's exiled jazz musicians: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lik...
Like Deepening Thunder into Our Hearts — Parapraxis
Sounding South African Exile Francis Gooding
www.parapraxismagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you're at all interested in how culture & politics intertwine, check out this thread about the connections between South African music & the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Includes a 1970 broadcast from the ANC's Radio Freedom. And some very cool music. 👇🏽
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Oh no, Jimmy Cliff crossed the final river, comforting myself with this epic live version.
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
Jimmy Cliff - Many rivers to cross - Live stéréo 1970
YouTube video by Lamalopépit de Bruno Carlier
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November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Oh no, Jimmy Cliff crossed the final river, comforting myself with this epic live version.
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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The thing is, if Americans weren’t so easily manipulated by anti-Blackness then we wouldn’t have fallen for the current psyop.
Lots of people pointed out that disinfo was being outsourced but got shouted down as conspiracy theorists.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The thing is, if Americans weren’t so easily manipulated by anti-Blackness then we wouldn’t have fallen for the current psyop.
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Every so often this man communicates that women ain’t shit. This man comes from a world with very few women at the top levels and therefore assumes we don’t need to be there
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says
Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Every so often this man communicates that women ain’t shit. This man comes from a world with very few women at the top levels and therefore assumes we don’t need to be there
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
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Friends,
You know that until this week I lived with one of my teeth taped to my microwave reminding me not to eat anything that would further damage my mouth. i got a temp fix this week.
Now it is someone else’s turn for help.
Please share & donate.
Our struggles are intertwined.
You know that until this week I lived with one of my teeth taped to my microwave reminding me not to eat anything that would further damage my mouth. i got a temp fix this week.
Now it is someone else’s turn for help.
Please share & donate.
Our struggles are intertwined.
@mommunism.bsky.social
Hello friends, I'm suffering from severe tooth pain and I can't bear it anymore. Please support me because I need another operation soon. My teeth are suddenly falling out due to a lack of calcium. Please understand my pain and suffering.
tinyurl.com/Ruba2
Hello friends, I'm suffering from severe tooth pain and I can't bear it anymore. Please support me because I need another operation soon. My teeth are suddenly falling out due to a lack of calcium. Please understand my pain and suffering.
tinyurl.com/Ruba2
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Friends,
You know that until this week I lived with one of my teeth taped to my microwave reminding me not to eat anything that would further damage my mouth. i got a temp fix this week.
Now it is someone else’s turn for help.
Please share & donate.
Our struggles are intertwined.
You know that until this week I lived with one of my teeth taped to my microwave reminding me not to eat anything that would further damage my mouth. i got a temp fix this week.
Now it is someone else’s turn for help.
Please share & donate.
Our struggles are intertwined.
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If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.
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This is not law enforcement it’s a slave catching militia
Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Border Agents Target Mississippi Communities in ‘Swamp Sweep’
Border agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep,” targeting immigrants in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is not law enforcement it’s a slave catching militia
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‘Demand is up, donations are down’: how food banks are helping families in Kent
‘Demand is up, donations are down’: how food banks are helping families in Kent
Since the pandemic, the charities have been forced to use cash gifts and grant money to cover their bills
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
‘Demand is up, donations are down’: how food banks are helping families in Kent
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we closed this application yesterday. we got an unbelievable 18,588 applications totaling $4,157,600 in $100 and $250 requests.
we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.
if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate
thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.
if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate
thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp.
If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate
We take care of each other ❤️
If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate
We take care of each other ❤️
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
we closed this application yesterday. we got an unbelievable 18,588 applications totaling $4,157,600 in $100 and $250 requests.
we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.
if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate
thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.
if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate
thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
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Our research on this has been in the file drawer for two years now, as we could not find takers at the journals who would concede this was a phenomenon worth publishing our findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving These New Yorkers Behind
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Our research on this has been in the file drawer for two years now, as we could not find takers at the journals who would concede this was a phenomenon worth publishing our findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
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No, a Karen didn't call police on her new Black neighbor who turned out to be the #Boston police chief; to start, we don't have a police chief
www.universalhub.com/2025/no-kare...
#AI #Feh
www.universalhub.com/2025/no-kare...
#AI #Feh
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
No, a Karen didn't call police on her new Black neighbor who turned out to be the #Boston police chief; to start, we don't have a police chief
www.universalhub.com/2025/no-kare...
#AI #Feh
www.universalhub.com/2025/no-kare...
#AI #Feh
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The little girl, Shahad, has been diagnosed with malnutrition and hepatitis caused by contaminated food and water. Please… help us provide her with safe nutrition and the treatment she urgently needs before it’s too late. Shahad deserves a chance to live.🙏😭
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The little girl, Shahad, has been diagnosed with malnutrition and hepatitis caused by contaminated food and water. Please… help us provide her with safe nutrition and the treatment she urgently needs before it’s too late. Shahad deserves a chance to live.🙏😭
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
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" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project
Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.
www.darknessrisingproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
I’ve sent via Venmo. Please join me.
A gofundme for Celeste is in the process of being set up, but she can receive funds via Cashapp or Venmo:
Cash App: $LynnHunter813
Venmo: @AltoLynn-Weaver-2
Cash App: $LynnHunter813
Venmo: @AltoLynn-Weaver-2
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve sent via Venmo. Please join me.