KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
I read, tell stories, block early/often, mind my business, and write--I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback.
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KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
· Nov 18
My girl made it to the Blacksonian, y'all! And she's in great company! ❤️🔥
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My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Even the cold calculation of empire requires more inclusiveness than whatever the fuck this is. It’s insanity.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Even the cold calculation of empire requires more inclusiveness than whatever the fuck this is. It’s insanity.
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For those of you following of the tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong yesterday/today. Firstly my condolences to all the victims. Secondly a lot of Western media is blaming the bamboo scaffolding for spreading the fire when it is actually the flammable substandard netting....
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
For those of you following of the tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong yesterday/today. Firstly my condolences to all the victims. Secondly a lot of Western media is blaming the bamboo scaffolding for spreading the fire when it is actually the flammable substandard netting....
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Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says
The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France's Institut Pa...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Bringing businesses and rich capitalists into coalitions with workers means the rich entities will have the most sway. Compromises will be largely made in their favor because their influence and capital is “needed”. This must be understood and prepared for if that’s the strategy
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Bringing businesses and rich capitalists into coalitions with workers means the rich entities will have the most sway. Compromises will be largely made in their favor because their influence and capital is “needed”. This must be understood and prepared for if that’s the strategy
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I wrote a history of Cook County Jail, and how jails became political institutions, and how jailed people and their allies fought to mitigate mass incarceration www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I wrote a history of Cook County Jail, and how jails became political institutions, and how jailed people and their allies fought to mitigate mass incarceration www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
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OpenAI is sending out emails this morning to confirm that a ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics tool called Mixpanel
OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more
Users are waking up to discover OpenAI leaked their data this morning via a faulty third-party plugin. Here's what you need to know.
www.windowscentral.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
OpenAI is sending out emails this morning to confirm that a ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics tool called Mixpanel
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On this day in 1995, an article published by a Princeton University professor entitled "The Coming of the Super-Predators" wrongly predicted that violence in the U.S. would rise dramatically due to growing "moral poverty" by poor and minority youth.
Nov. 27, 1995 | Report Advancing 'Super-Predator' Myth Leads to Harsh, Racially Biased Sentencing
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1995, an article published by a Princeton University professor entitled "The Coming of the Super-Predators" wrongly predicted that violence in the U.S. would rise dramatically due to growing "moral poverty" by poor and minority youth.
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YOU KNOW IT WAS NASTY!!!!!!
Every time I think about that man having to eat in the car at his racist in-laws house I pause and think… I bet the food wasn’t even good either on top of everything else.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
YOU KNOW IT WAS NASTY!!!!!!
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Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving?
Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving?
The Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always have games on Thanksgiving Day, but how did that start for each team?
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving?
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And then he said that his wife’s brother BEGGED their parents to let him come for Thanksgiving. And in a Thanksgiving Miracle, his wife’s parents relented & allowed to come to Thanksgiving Dinner…and eat on the porch. And from that day till our last day, we will tell this tale every November…
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
And then he said that his wife’s brother BEGGED their parents to let him come for Thanksgiving. And in a Thanksgiving Miracle, his wife’s parents relented & allowed to come to Thanksgiving Dinner…and eat on the porch. And from that day till our last day, we will tell this tale every November…
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I’ve known a few people over the years who started watching Fox News because they wanted to be “informed” and not trapped in a media bubble who ultimately started drinking the Kool Aid. Propaganda works.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’ve known a few people over the years who started watching Fox News because they wanted to be “informed” and not trapped in a media bubble who ultimately started drinking the Kool Aid. Propaganda works.
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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Part of the problem is people think what persuades them is logic and facts.
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Part of the problem is people think what persuades them is logic and facts.
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Yum tamales! This worker is hand weeding organic corn. Organic produce can be labor intensive because no pesticides are used to control weeds.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yum tamales! This worker is hand weeding organic corn. Organic produce can be labor intensive because no pesticides are used to control weeds.
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This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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I really loved reading this essay by @shreedaisy.bsky.social about artists and their obsessions, glistening food, illustrators, impassive televisions, and the funhouse version that rumbles beneath our fantasies of Thanksgiving.
www.vogue.com/article/norm...
www.vogue.com/article/norm...
The Fantasy of a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving
www.vogue.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I really loved reading this essay by @shreedaisy.bsky.social about artists and their obsessions, glistening food, illustrators, impassive televisions, and the funhouse version that rumbles beneath our fantasies of Thanksgiving.
www.vogue.com/article/norm...
www.vogue.com/article/norm...
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‘You treated our stories with seriousness and respect, and expected [us] to do the same‘
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
Trinidadian film producer Danielle Dieffenthaller, who helped Caribbean people see themselves, dies at 60
Dieffenthaller was “a fierce advocate for the creative arts [who] championed local talent and pushed for the recognition and respect that Caribbean creators deserve.”
globalvoices.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
‘You treated our stories with seriousness and respect, and expected [us] to do the same‘
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/t... @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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I'm thankful for all the technologists, FOIA officers, parks workers, public health researchers, criminal investigators, and countless other civil servants who have kept diligently doing their jobs under extreme duress. This year has been bad but it could have been so, so much worse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm thankful for all the technologists, FOIA officers, parks workers, public health researchers, criminal investigators, and countless other civil servants who have kept diligently doing their jobs under extreme duress. This year has been bad but it could have been so, so much worse.
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Men will take viagra when their junk isn’t working but they won’t go to therapy when they can’t get their junk figured out.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Men will take viagra when their junk isn’t working but they won’t go to therapy when they can’t get their junk figured out.