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Jonathan W. Gray

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Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7 Personal account

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · Apr 24

Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others.

Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4m

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I mean, he created a $160,000 a year job just for her according to the article. So there’s that. And we know Eric fun because he stays at the club.

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine being with Eric Adams on purpose. Girl wrap this shit up!

Bougie Man La Flare @ad-renaissance.blacksky.app · 2h

Oh shit

shttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/nyregion/jasmine-ray-memoir-eric-adams.html

She Loved Eric Adams. She Kept It a Secret. Now She’s Talking.

www.nytimes.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1h

This seems important given who is about to become mayor.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 3h

Chief of Department John Chell, a polarizing figure heralded for his dedication but often criticized for aggressive tactics, is closing out a 31-year career as the Adams administration winds down.

NYPD’s Controversial Top Chief to Retire

Chief of Department John Chell, a polarizing figure heralded for his dedication but often criticized for aggressive tactics, is closing out a 31-year career as the Adams administration winds down.

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 3h

Chief of Department John Chell, a polarizing figure heralded for his dedication but often criticized for aggressive tactics, is closing out a 31-year career as the Adams administration winds down.

NYPD’s Controversial Top Chief to Retire

Chief of Department John Chell, a polarizing figure heralded for his dedication but often criticized for aggressive tactics, is closing out a 31-year career as the Adams administration winds down.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 1h

Huh. I thought labor shortages were supposed to drive wages up but it looks like sharecropping is also an alternative. Waddaya know?

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1h

Reading that quote gave me a headache

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1h

Like this post is surrounded by silly ads. But pay those bills I guess.

WIRED @wired.com · 23h

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

Right. Farage will win next, and then Femi will win after him with Labour once again consigned to the wilderness. I’m aware of Keir’s dreadful performance & Nigel’s rise but did not realize Femi is now the leader of the Tories. Trying to catch up.

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

Just so I understand: she’s on track to be the next Tory Prime Minister, yes? (After Nigel F, of course) And she holds these dangerous and risible opinions.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

Is there a link to the original article? I’m from foreign and thus need more context.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 4h

She is a disgrace.

alt-text for quoted post -

a screenshot from who knows where, from who knows when says:

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English.

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

I love how half of Wired posts are about the dangers of digital surveillance or exposés of tech oligarchs and the other half is stuff like this. Capitalism makes us crazy.

WIRED @wired.com · 3h

The Gooloo A3 jumpstarter has been a lifesaver for me—and it's nearly half off for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. www.wired.com/story/gooloo...

This Jumpstarter Is Just $70—and Revived my Dead Land Cruiser

The Gooloo A3 jumpstarter has been a lifesaver for me—and it's nearly half off for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days.

www.wired.com

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Mo No Salad @monosalad.bsky.social · 4h

🫵🏾 Put that work in.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

All resistance is threatening

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 3h

This reminds me of the fragments in the archives I have encountered of slaveowners, overseers, and colonial officials working themselves into paranoia and panic about colonized and/or enslaved people playing music or dancing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 3h

White people literally have ALL of Bluesky to do what they want. They can literally create their own server and make it is United Colors of Benetton as they want.

And yet.

a group of people are standing in a dark room with a lantern .

Alt: a group of vampires are approaching in the dark with a lantern.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe this is naive of me but I had figured that if the fed gov straight up blew some people up it would *have to* provide an explanation to Congress, statutorily. Is “yeah we did that shit and we won’t answers questions about it” really an option under the law?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 19h

"The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize their lives."

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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