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Tressie McMillan Cottom

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did.

We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6m

My thoughts, such as they are. Much aided by thinking with your piece from last week.

The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.

If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.

open.substack.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7m

TIL that photographers charge you more if you request that your photos aren’t used on their social media. Maybe I knew that? Or maybe it’s generally been included? Either way the price of 1980s privacy has definitely gone up

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Several firms have sought to fill a void in the absence of federal data, and most estimates indicate a loosening labor market.

Here’s How Bad Jobs Data Appears As Federal Data Blackout Continues

Several firms have sought to fill a void in the absence of federal data, and most estimates indicate a loosening labor market.

www.forbes.com

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 4h

It's an ouroboros of fascism.

The influencers who create the content distributed by the platforms and put on national TV to be heard by Trump to make decisions that inform the influencers who create the content distributed by the platforms and put on national TB to be heard by Trump to make decisi

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

www.wired.com

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Marc @runoldman.bsky.social · 5h

HGTV has taught me you can do anything if you have the right tools. I’ve also learned that any handyman you hire will have those tools.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12m

Hopkins being in TMZ has got to have them seething 😂

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13m

New AI School should totally be fun and safe for academics. Totally.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2h

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bryan @btzero.bsky.social · 1h

our local coffee shop puts a latke in one of their egg sandwiches. Many literal cases in which you want to let the people cook.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16h

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

I ordered a Reuben sandwich from our local bagel heroes. Checked my customizations: scooped out, extra Russian dressing, pastrami. And then added a hasbroen. Didn’t realize it meant they would put the hash brown IN the sandwich.

Three bites in before I realize it and you know what?

Yes.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

I've decided to dedicate my life to confidently popping into people's replies and saying "why are people surprised by this" despite nobody, anywhere, expressing any surprise

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Marly Marie @marlymarieport.bsky.social · 14h

I still am appalled by the pure capitulation by so many powerful institutions.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

There is a whole different kind of delusion going on when one thinks they can get THE peace prize for brokering a paper agreement for Middle East peace while turning the "Dept of War" on your own citizens, threatening Venezuela and ranting endlessly about "war-like" chaos in the country you run!

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 15h

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 17h

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...
Dominion Voting Systems -- the voting machine company at the center of false 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories -- has been sold to Republican,
John Poulos

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 19h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 16h

In an intellectually honest world, all the people and pundits lauding Kirk would apologize for being wrong. They would say, “I’m sorry for falling for bad faith arguments. I believed them without listening to others. I was a rube.”

But we don’t live in an intellectually honest world.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you! 💪🏿

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

Prince formed a VERY specific idea of desirable masculinity for me at a very impressionable age 😂

Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 17h

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

When I talk about the discursive repertoire of “everyday eugenics”, nobody gets angrier than a white liberal who voted for Obama twice. It’s the cornerstone of whiteness (along with property) and it’s verboten to name it

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

ALWAYS

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 20h

And in cases of IVF, where they can select for sex or look for certain genetic abnormalities & reject those embryos, they can’t do that for autism so attempts at perfect eugenic babies can be for naught and how dare they not be able to control what kind of children they have

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 20h

Remember how as soon as the stat came out that POC were most affected by covid, 👱🏻‍♀️👨🏼‍💼
stopped caring about precautions bc it became a “those people/ low class” issue? They can’t do that with autism & it fucks with them. bsky.app/profile/tres...

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.

(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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