rhetoric hashira
@tumblesweed.bsky.social
ex-professor of rhetoric. current indie contract grant manager for rural and small Black-led and Native-led nonprofits. Sovereigntist. Abolitionist. White-privileged Yo'eme diaspora. masked. novavaxxed. land back. water back. they/them
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rhetoric hashira
@tumblesweed.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Okay. This is going to be my baking thread. Follow along with me on my journey if you want.
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Jelani Cobb has a piece in The New Yorker that talks about how the Fugitive Slave Act radicalized people in the North against slavery. They didn't like seeing slave catchers kidnapping and terrorizing people in their cities.
February 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Jelani Cobb has a piece in The New Yorker that talks about how the Fugitive Slave Act radicalized people in the North against slavery. They didn't like seeing slave catchers kidnapping and terrorizing people in their cities.
do you ever think about how we could be the size of quarks within whatever the universe is or is it just me?
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
do you ever think about how we could be the size of quarks within whatever the universe is or is it just me?
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Mahmoud needs a lot of help for his sick child if you can.
My son is fighting for his life 😭💔
Today we gave him a unit of blood after he lost a lot, but he is still very weak.
We don’t have the money for his treatment or healthy food, and we urgently need $300 to save him
Every passing moment could be his last… please help us 🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
Today we gave him a unit of blood after he lost a lot, but he is still very weak.
We don’t have the money for his treatment or healthy food, and we urgently need $300 to save him
Every passing moment could be his last… please help us 🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
February 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Mahmoud needs a lot of help for his sick child if you can.
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Happy death of Captain Cook day to the Hawaiian people and all others who celebrate it! The Hawaiian people 💀'd him today in 1779.
Dr. Haunani Kay Trask talking about how these white people knew wtf they were doing. A great reminder to not let these people revise history and play in your face.
Dr. Haunani Kay Trask talking about how these white people knew wtf they were doing. A great reminder to not let these people revise history and play in your face.
February 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Happy death of Captain Cook day to the Hawaiian people and all others who celebrate it! The Hawaiian people 💀'd him today in 1779.
Dr. Haunani Kay Trask talking about how these white people knew wtf they were doing. A great reminder to not let these people revise history and play in your face.
Dr. Haunani Kay Trask talking about how these white people knew wtf they were doing. A great reminder to not let these people revise history and play in your face.
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The key thing here is that the local rapid response was able to figure out who had been taken, and make sure there was a lawyer working to free her. That makes a world of difference.
Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.
Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.
February 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The key thing here is that the local rapid response was able to figure out who had been taken, and make sure there was a lawyer working to free her. That makes a world of difference.
Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.
Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.
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Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
Do you know which house you have Aries in your astrological chart? That aspect of your life is getting a new boost of energy and requiring both action and consideration.
February 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Do you know which house you have Aries in your astrological chart? That aspect of your life is getting a new boost of energy and requiring both action and consideration.
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Supporting Gavin Newsom in the primary is announcing that you'll step over the dead bodies of trans people and unhoused people to get what you personally want. It's a character defect. We can't be friends.
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Supporting Gavin Newsom in the primary is announcing that you'll step over the dead bodies of trans people and unhoused people to get what you personally want. It's a character defect. We can't be friends.
And the Dems will approve him just like the others.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
And the Dems will approve him just like the others.
So it looks like they're moving forward on the data center being built in downtown Lansing despite overwhelming public rejection.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
So it looks like they're moving forward on the data center being built in downtown Lansing despite overwhelming public rejection.
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It is very relevant to note that blood quantum, specifically and explicitly, is an instrument of genocide. It serves no other purpose.
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
It is very relevant to note that blood quantum, specifically and explicitly, is an instrument of genocide. It serves no other purpose.
If any legitimate nonprofit receiving federal funds tried to add this expense, they'd lose their contract immediately.
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
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@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
If any legitimate nonprofit receiving federal funds tried to add this expense, they'd lose their contract immediately.
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Been wondering when this would happen....
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Been wondering when this would happen....
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So, friends of Ruaa, we're all friends of Ruaa, but very dear friends were trying to help Ruaa get established again on here and despite following every absurd rule they suspended her account again.
So, I'll speak up, I refuse to be silent.
linktr.ee/safety4ruaa
chuffed.org/project/help...
So, I'll speak up, I refuse to be silent.
linktr.ee/safety4ruaa
chuffed.org/project/help...
Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety
I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from Gaza, raise funds to help her family survive.
chuffed.org
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
So, friends of Ruaa, we're all friends of Ruaa, but very dear friends were trying to help Ruaa get established again on here and despite following every absurd rule they suspended her account again.
So, I'll speak up, I refuse to be silent.
linktr.ee/safety4ruaa
chuffed.org/project/help...
So, I'll speak up, I refuse to be silent.
linktr.ee/safety4ruaa
chuffed.org/project/help...
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
My one remaining client just gave me a .5 increase in contractual hours because I've begun doing some minor but intense accounting on a federal grant. This is a much needed boost to my near-dire financial situation.
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
My one remaining client just gave me a .5 increase in contractual hours because I've begun doing some minor but intense accounting on a federal grant. This is a much needed boost to my near-dire financial situation.
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If we are required to show a passport in order to vote, doesn’t that make passport fees an illegal poll tax?
February 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
If we are required to show a passport in order to vote, doesn’t that make passport fees an illegal poll tax?
i'm feeling pretty terrible in this hypertensive episode. holding out another two weeks until i see my cardiologist.
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 AM
i'm feeling pretty terrible in this hypertensive episode. holding out another two weeks until i see my cardiologist.
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If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.
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or you know literally anyone who was given that job should be salaried like a manager. that is goddamn superhero above and beyond work quite frankly. janitors should have the highest pay and I ain't even joking. society is run on the services they provide, which is beyond bathrooms too
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
or you know literally anyone who was given that job should be salaried like a manager. that is goddamn superhero above and beyond work quite frankly. janitors should have the highest pay and I ain't even joking. society is run on the services they provide, which is beyond bathrooms too
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you're doing amazing everybody ❤️
Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts
Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push t...
www.kcur.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
you're doing amazing everybody ❤️
PDF of the Walter Benjamin essential text web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
PDF of the Walter Benjamin essential text web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...
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I want to stress that everything Fuentes says sober and openly is what a large contingent of people handwringing about "male loneliness" and "fertility crisis" say behind closed doors and drunk. This is nowhere near as fringe a position as it should be.
Note the repeated references to fertility and how all women are to blame for declining fertility “because they are getting educated.” He recommends the be sent to “the breeding gulags.”
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I want to stress that everything Fuentes says sober and openly is what a large contingent of people handwringing about "male loneliness" and "fertility crisis" say behind closed doors and drunk. This is nowhere near as fringe a position as it should be.