Cass
@casslynch.bsky.social
Critical Race Theorist, Anti-Racist Educator & Mama. NGE Two-Spirit Mixed Mvskoke. AuDHD. cPTSD. Service Dog Handler & Trainer. I used to be a poet.
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All views are mine & do not reflect my employer.
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Cass
@casslynch.bsky.social
· Jun 20
AI is digital colonialism
Hollywood produces adaptations of the Greek epics when the US is going to war.
Just FYI.
The films are used to encourage military enlistment and feelings of national exceptionalism.
youtu.be/Mzw2ttJD2qQ
Just FYI.
The films are used to encourage military enlistment and feelings of national exceptionalism.
youtu.be/Mzw2ttJD2qQ
The Odyssey | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hollywood produces adaptations of the Greek epics when the US is going to war.
Just FYI.
The films are used to encourage military enlistment and feelings of national exceptionalism.
youtu.be/Mzw2ttJD2qQ
Just FYI.
The films are used to encourage military enlistment and feelings of national exceptionalism.
youtu.be/Mzw2ttJD2qQ
"who no nations know"
Y'all don't treat Seminole this way, but they aren't "real" according to this arbitrary criteria. Seminole are a combo of half a dozen tribes & formerly-enslaved Africans.
I need Natives who aren't from the SE to stop acting like we're all the same. That's colonizer thinking.
Y'all don't treat Seminole this way, but they aren't "real" according to this arbitrary criteria. Seminole are a combo of half a dozen tribes & formerly-enslaved Africans.
I need Natives who aren't from the SE to stop acting like we're all the same. That's colonizer thinking.
Doesn't matter, it's social media, and the fact that you see no problem with allowing frauds who no nations know at all to be federally recognized is very troubling to say the least
I don't know you nor did I ask for your opinion.
December 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
"who no nations know"
Y'all don't treat Seminole this way, but they aren't "real" according to this arbitrary criteria. Seminole are a combo of half a dozen tribes & formerly-enslaved Africans.
I need Natives who aren't from the SE to stop acting like we're all the same. That's colonizer thinking.
Y'all don't treat Seminole this way, but they aren't "real" according to this arbitrary criteria. Seminole are a combo of half a dozen tribes & formerly-enslaved Africans.
I need Natives who aren't from the SE to stop acting like we're all the same. That's colonizer thinking.
The Natives calling Lumbee race grifters are the same who claim, "it wasn't really slavery. They were treated like family," when anyone brings up the 5 Civs.
December 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Natives calling Lumbee race grifters are the same who claim, "it wasn't really slavery. They were treated like family," when anyone brings up the 5 Civs.
So we have 2 weeks left in the year & people in the US still think the Epstein Files will be released. They still think Project 2025/6 is real. And they still keep asking, "isn't that illegal" every single time Trump breaks a law.
How long can y'all repeat these points before reality sinks in?
How long can y'all repeat these points before reality sinks in?
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
So we have 2 weeks left in the year & people in the US still think the Epstein Files will be released. They still think Project 2025/6 is real. And they still keep asking, "isn't that illegal" every single time Trump breaks a law.
How long can y'all repeat these points before reality sinks in?
How long can y'all repeat these points before reality sinks in?
Everyone was supposed to abandon Substack because they refused to de-platform white nationalists and allow the accounts to monetize.
I feel like it's impossible as a writer to compete against folks posting there.
I feel like it's impossible as a writer to compete against folks posting there.
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Everyone was supposed to abandon Substack because they refused to de-platform white nationalists and allow the accounts to monetize.
I feel like it's impossible as a writer to compete against folks posting there.
I feel like it's impossible as a writer to compete against folks posting there.
Sitting here waiting for Trump's announcement and I am loving how uncomfortable his staffers look. He's made them wait over 20 minutes so far and people keep trying to inconspicuously stretch their legs.
December 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sitting here waiting for Trump's announcement and I am loving how uncomfortable his staffers look. He's made them wait over 20 minutes so far and people keep trying to inconspicuously stretch their legs.
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the greatest lie is saying that there isn’t a continued genocide still happening on Native and Indigenous people in America daily
It’s the most massive ongoing genocide in the history of the world and yet… you refuse to see it
It’s the most massive ongoing genocide in the history of the world and yet… you refuse to see it
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the greatest lie is saying that there isn’t a continued genocide still happening on Native and Indigenous people in America daily
It’s the most massive ongoing genocide in the history of the world and yet… you refuse to see it
It’s the most massive ongoing genocide in the history of the world and yet… you refuse to see it
Read this before you buy a DNA kit for someone this holiday season.
They're glorified party games that exist for one purpose: to collect all of our data. Even if you don't submit samples; if a family member does then you're in the system.
No ads. Always free.
classwcass.com/2025/12/4-co...
They're glorified party games that exist for one purpose: to collect all of our data. Even if you don't submit samples; if a family member does then you're in the system.
No ads. Always free.
classwcass.com/2025/12/4-co...
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Read this before you buy a DNA kit for someone this holiday season.
They're glorified party games that exist for one purpose: to collect all of our data. Even if you don't submit samples; if a family member does then you're in the system.
No ads. Always free.
classwcass.com/2025/12/4-co...
They're glorified party games that exist for one purpose: to collect all of our data. Even if you don't submit samples; if a family member does then you're in the system.
No ads. Always free.
classwcass.com/2025/12/4-co...
The conclusion of last week's lynch mob scene from Welcome to Derry showcases the reality of white supremacist violence.
Proceed with caution.
Proceed with caution.
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The conclusion of last week's lynch mob scene from Welcome to Derry showcases the reality of white supremacist violence.
Proceed with caution.
Proceed with caution.
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The anti-intellectualism modern art haters who criticized abstract paintings like Rothko as “anyone can do that” are now malignant AI ‘Artists’ who praise AI because “anyone can do it”
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The anti-intellectualism modern art haters who criticized abstract paintings like Rothko as “anyone can do that” are now malignant AI ‘Artists’ who praise AI because “anyone can do it”
This is what he promised the Bundy family and their militia.
For more than 100 years, Utah ranchers grazed without paying and other states let the cattle barons literally roam free. When their leases weren't renewed, Trump promised he'd take care of them in exchange for support.
For more than 100 years, Utah ranchers grazed without paying and other states let the cattle barons literally roam free. When their leases weren't renewed, Trump promised he'd take care of them in exchange for support.
The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is what he promised the Bundy family and their militia.
For more than 100 years, Utah ranchers grazed without paying and other states let the cattle barons literally roam free. When their leases weren't renewed, Trump promised he'd take care of them in exchange for support.
For more than 100 years, Utah ranchers grazed without paying and other states let the cattle barons literally roam free. When their leases weren't renewed, Trump promised he'd take care of them in exchange for support.
I need people to understand that Blood Quantum is a eugenics classification system designed to work in tandem with the African One-Drop Rule.
BQ only exterminates. It's paper genocide.
Please stop giving your DNA to data companies that sell your information and share it with cops.
BQ only exterminates. It's paper genocide.
Please stop giving your DNA to data companies that sell your information and share it with cops.
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I need people to understand that Blood Quantum is a eugenics classification system designed to work in tandem with the African One-Drop Rule.
BQ only exterminates. It's paper genocide.
Please stop giving your DNA to data companies that sell your information and share it with cops.
BQ only exterminates. It's paper genocide.
Please stop giving your DNA to data companies that sell your information and share it with cops.
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
-"Drummer Hodge," Thomas Hardy (1899)
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
-"Drummer Hodge," Thomas Hardy (1899)
Calling on All Silent Minorities by June Jordan
HEY
C’MON
COME OUT
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING
AT THIS TREE
AIN’ EVEN BEEN
PLANTED
YET
🔥
HEY
C’MON
COME OUT
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING
AT THIS TREE
AIN’ EVEN BEEN
PLANTED
YET
🔥
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
-"Drummer Hodge," Thomas Hardy (1899)
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
-"Drummer Hodge," Thomas Hardy (1899)
I explain the histories and societal impact of 8 more ableist terms in my latest post.
This one required a bit of archival digging and I made a new historical nemesis, Dr. Franklin Hooper.
Check it out.
classwcass.com/2025/12/able...
This one required a bit of archival digging and I made a new historical nemesis, Dr. Franklin Hooper.
Check it out.
classwcass.com/2025/12/able...
Ableist Terms & Slurs: Part 2 – class w/ cass
classwcass.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I explain the histories and societal impact of 8 more ableist terms in my latest post.
This one required a bit of archival digging and I made a new historical nemesis, Dr. Franklin Hooper.
Check it out.
classwcass.com/2025/12/able...
This one required a bit of archival digging and I made a new historical nemesis, Dr. Franklin Hooper.
Check it out.
classwcass.com/2025/12/able...
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
I am really enjoying Welcome to Derry to the point I look forward to it each week.
But that last cliffhanger made my tummy hurt.
But that last cliffhanger made my tummy hurt.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I am really enjoying Welcome to Derry to the point I look forward to it each week.
But that last cliffhanger made my tummy hurt.
But that last cliffhanger made my tummy hurt.
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Please donate or share, as able! 🙏🏾
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Support LGBT Migrants
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December 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Please donate or share, as able! 🙏🏾
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Receipts for LakotaScam giving white people permission to call him r*dskin. He even owned one of their shirts.
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Receipts for LakotaScam giving white people permission to call him r*dskin. He even owned one of their shirts.
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What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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Can a gay, Native man get justice? When vanishingly few Native ppl were on TV (& none were gay) Jonathan Joss was an important cultural touch stone. (He played John Redcorn on King of the Hill.) Last week, the man who allegedly murdered him was indicted, but it's not...
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Can a gay, Native man get justice? When vanishingly few Native ppl were on TV (& none were gay) Jonathan Joss was an important cultural touch stone. (He played John Redcorn on King of the Hill.) Last week, the man who allegedly murdered him was indicted, but it's not...
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For Native american Heritage Month normalize not calling Natives resilient* and instead help us tear down the systems that require we continue to remain resilient and nothing else.
*Being called resilient is the land acknowledgement of compliments
*Being called resilient is the land acknowledgement of compliments
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
For Native american Heritage Month normalize not calling Natives resilient* and instead help us tear down the systems that require we continue to remain resilient and nothing else.
*Being called resilient is the land acknowledgement of compliments
*Being called resilient is the land acknowledgement of compliments
Many tribes have archives the admin can access to help research family. There is no excuse in 2025 to claim indigeneity based on blood myths, *especially* the 5 Civs.
Tom King was called out a year ago & got hostile. Why are we only now getting a statement & why didn't it include reparations plans?
Tom King was called out a year ago & got hostile. Why are we only now getting a statement & why didn't it include reparations plans?
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Many tribes have archives the admin can access to help research family. There is no excuse in 2025 to claim indigeneity based on blood myths, *especially* the 5 Civs.
Tom King was called out a year ago & got hostile. Why are we only now getting a statement & why didn't it include reparations plans?
Tom King was called out a year ago & got hostile. Why are we only now getting a statement & why didn't it include reparations plans?
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
This is how I have always been spoken to by cis men as a fat non-binary person who was socialized female.
It's not new. It's not shocking.
What do you plan to *do* about it?
It's not new. It's not shocking.
What do you plan to *do* about it?
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is how I have always been spoken to by cis men as a fat non-binary person who was socialized female.
It's not new. It's not shocking.
What do you plan to *do* about it?
It's not new. It's not shocking.
What do you plan to *do* about it?