Woke Zero (Original Recipe)
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Don’t mind me just tracing the gyres. Talk about politics a lot but mostly want to talk about Stevie Wonder and August Wilson. She stay in the hills, he stay in Atlanta, I pay for them both.
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Questions for Bluesky Holiday Edition!!
1) What was the last art work that changed your life (can be music, movie, tv, painting, anything)?
2) What was the last thing you changed your mind on, big or small, and why?
3) Give me a song to listen to! And I will write a 1-3 skeet review of it.
1) What was the last art work that changed your life (can be music, movie, tv, painting, anything)?
2) What was the last thing you changed your mind on, big or small, and why?
3) Give me a song to listen to! And I will write a 1-3 skeet review of it.
brb gonna go burn the reproducible image of body to satiate the god.
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
brb gonna go burn the reproducible image of body to satiate the god.
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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
“Scoops of ideas” is incredible. A self-refuting phrase bc the act of calling it that proves that no new idea has ever or will ever enter your head.
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 PM
“Scoops of ideas” is incredible. A self-refuting phrase bc the act of calling it that proves that no new idea has ever or will ever enter your head.
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Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
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After 20+ years of saying Democrats were coming for your guns it’s going to be Trump who is coming for your guns and to get rid of the second amendment. This is what a wannabe dictator does. He can’t have the people he controls have guns. They could fight back if they do. Wake up MAGA.
January 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
After 20+ years of saying Democrats were coming for your guns it’s going to be Trump who is coming for your guns and to get rid of the second amendment. This is what a wannabe dictator does. He can’t have the people he controls have guns. They could fight back if they do. Wake up MAGA.
Still, I wonder if “guys we told you all this shit would happen and it did, while everything they say will happen when we’re in power is a lie” could somehow be leveraged to improve trust for Dems among voters. Probably not. But I wonder.
The last year has done a great job naturally adjudicating the debate between “you can change public opinion on an issue by highlighting the negative parts of public policy and administrative action on said issue” vs “nuh uh”
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Still, I wonder if “guys we told you all this shit would happen and it did, while everything they say will happen when we’re in power is a lie” could somehow be leveraged to improve trust for Dems among voters. Probably not. But I wonder.
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If I were the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones I’d spend months discussing how Trumps immediate statement after the attack on Ilan Omar was to discuss how someone might fake an assassination attempt to elicit sympathy.
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 PM
If I were the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones I’d spend months discussing how Trumps immediate statement after the attack on Ilan Omar was to discuss how someone might fake an assassination attempt to elicit sympathy.
Translation: my billionaires just yanked my leash so somebody tell his billionaires to do the same so I don’t realize I am on the leash of a series of billionaires!
Trump: "Surprisingly, Mayor Frey just stated that, “Mpls does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws" ... Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!"
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Translation: my billionaires just yanked my leash so somebody tell his billionaires to do the same so I don’t realize I am on the leash of a series of billionaires!
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My @washingtonmonthly.com column today chronicles Trump's 5-decade history of advocating for an "unshackled" police and violence against protesters & immigrants washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/b...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
Don’t Make Bovino the Fall Guy for the Violence Trump Long Craved
The White House is scapegoating Greg Bovino for killings in Minnesota. But Trump has spent years urging police brutality and mob violence.
washingtonmonthly.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 PM
My @washingtonmonthly.com column today chronicles Trump's 5-decade history of advocating for an "unshackled" police and violence against protesters & immigrants washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/b...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
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Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
You think Zeus is the mightiest of the gods bc the prefrontal cortex is the mightiest part of the brain?
January 28, 2026 at 6:45 AM
You think Zeus is the mightiest of the gods bc the prefrontal cortex is the mightiest part of the brain?
The Love of Whiteness: Notes Toward A Practical Guide To Birthing America
January 28, 2026 at 6:23 AM
The Love of Whiteness: Notes Toward A Practical Guide To Birthing America
Just today I sacrificed the word introjection, which I was violently attached to in a poem that didn’t need it, out of the poem at last. And I was rewarded by finally learning what I meant by that word in that poem. Wow.
January 28, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Just today I sacrificed the word introjection, which I was violently attached to in a poem that didn’t need it, out of the poem at last. And I was rewarded by finally learning what I meant by that word in that poem. Wow.
The act of “understanding” is necessarily the act of translating (the product of) another’s subjectivity in to our own terms *so as to avoid* something I am inclined to call primary or essential introjection.
January 28, 2026 at 5:56 AM
The act of “understanding” is necessarily the act of translating (the product of) another’s subjectivity in to our own terms *so as to avoid* something I am inclined to call primary or essential introjection.
Brb, reinterpreting the first second and third reconstruction framework as a first second and third impact of Black on white subjectivity a la Neon Genesis Evangelion. What a rich vocabulary of nonsense that show is. Like astrology.
Woke 1 is in (large) part the attempt to integrate Woke 0 into non-Black American subjectivities; Woke 2 is the attempt to chasten or purge or cleanse the taint of Woke 0 from the structure that results from the Third Impact of Woke 1, like filtering the water from a lake formed by a crater.
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Brb, reinterpreting the first second and third reconstruction framework as a first second and third impact of Black on white subjectivity a la Neon Genesis Evangelion. What a rich vocabulary of nonsense that show is. Like astrology.
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In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 AM
In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
There’s Woke 2, which I trust the fine people of this website will bring into being;
There’s Woke 1, which is when white people got “woke” by consuming reproducible images of Black death;
But then there’s Woke 0, which is Black people telling each other not to be bamboozled by whiteness.
There’s Woke 1, which is when white people got “woke” by consuming reproducible images of Black death;
But then there’s Woke 0, which is Black people telling each other not to be bamboozled by whiteness.
January 28, 2026 at 5:39 AM
There’s Woke 2, which I trust the fine people of this website will bring into being;
There’s Woke 1, which is when white people got “woke” by consuming reproducible images of Black death;
But then there’s Woke 0, which is Black people telling each other not to be bamboozled by whiteness.
There’s Woke 1, which is when white people got “woke” by consuming reproducible images of Black death;
But then there’s Woke 0, which is Black people telling each other not to be bamboozled by whiteness.
Absolutely unhinged theoryposting this Tuesday night.
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Absolutely unhinged theoryposting this Tuesday night.
Ofc, if you are grounded in the body, you will understand that no crash of another’s subjectivity into your own can be complete insofar as the homeostatic needs of any two bodies will be rivalrous. IF! you are grounded in the body.
I’m not saying anything new; the basic question of “how do I enjoy existing in a society with other people while avoiding the deleterious crash of their subjectivity into mine—which if fully successful does in fact mean I qua I cease to exist” is the porcupine problem aka Neon Genesis Evangelion.
January 28, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Ofc, if you are grounded in the body, you will understand that no crash of another’s subjectivity into your own can be complete insofar as the homeostatic needs of any two bodies will be rivalrous. IF! you are grounded in the body.
It follows then that the first task of governing a white hegemony nation-state is minimize the collapse of white hegemony into white supremacy to only that which is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of white psychological stability. In other words, Omelas.
To sum things up then, in my idiosyncratic terms, what Afropessimism tells us is that due to the psychological structure of [whiteness | the human | Homo sapiens], the fact of white hegemony may at any time, and must at certain times, collapse into the structure of white supremacy.
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 AM
It follows then that the first task of governing a white hegemony nation-state is minimize the collapse of white hegemony into white supremacy to only that which is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of white psychological stability. In other words, Omelas.
To sum things up then, in my idiosyncratic terms, what Afropessimism tells us is that due to the psychological structure of [whiteness | the human | Homo sapiens], the fact of white hegemony may at any time, and must at certain times, collapse into the structure of white supremacy.
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
To sum things up then, in my idiosyncratic terms, what Afropessimism tells us is that due to the psychological structure of [whiteness | the human | Homo sapiens], the fact of white hegemony may at any time, and must at certain times, collapse into the structure of white supremacy.
I’m not saying anything new; the basic question of “how do I enjoy existing in a society with other people while avoiding the deleterious crash of their subjectivity into mine—which if fully successful does in fact mean I qua I cease to exist” is the porcupine problem aka Neon Genesis Evangelion.
January 28, 2026 at 5:04 AM
I’m not saying anything new; the basic question of “how do I enjoy existing in a society with other people while avoiding the deleterious crash of their subjectivity into mine—which if fully successful does in fact mean I qua I cease to exist” is the porcupine problem aka Neon Genesis Evangelion.
QTing for dialogue not dunk:
I think none of us can escape white hegemony in democratic-or-worse white majority nations. It’s just a fact. The work is to build an imagination in which the fact of white hegemony is not a cornerstone of how you see the world.
I think none of us can escape white hegemony in democratic-or-worse white majority nations. It’s just a fact. The work is to build an imagination in which the fact of white hegemony is not a cornerstone of how you see the world.
As a neither black nor white, I struggle a ton with escaping white hegemony it’s fuckin tough
Remember the myth of white superiority undergirds the structure of white supremacy which actualizes the fact of white hegemony and one can participate in the project of white hegemony mending itself from the psychic, moral and spiritual wound of Actual Woke without supporting white supremacy.
January 28, 2026 at 5:01 AM
QTing for dialogue not dunk:
I think none of us can escape white hegemony in democratic-or-worse white majority nations. It’s just a fact. The work is to build an imagination in which the fact of white hegemony is not a cornerstone of how you see the world.
I think none of us can escape white hegemony in democratic-or-worse white majority nations. It’s just a fact. The work is to build an imagination in which the fact of white hegemony is not a cornerstone of how you see the world.
I am not a hard Afropessimist bc I think the theory loses validity the further away you get from the specific context of a hegemonic 20th century United States…
January 28, 2026 at 4:52 AM
I am not a hard Afropessimist bc I think the theory loses validity the further away you get from the specific context of a hegemonic 20th century United States…
(I can’t write it for several reasons but a banger would be On The Spiritual Bulemia of Whiteness which would attempt to diagnose a binge and purge cycle in white relations to Blackness that understands both anti-Black violence and the love (consumption) of Blackness to operate in this cycle.)
January 28, 2026 at 4:47 AM
(I can’t write it for several reasons but a banger would be On The Spiritual Bulemia of Whiteness which would attempt to diagnose a binge and purge cycle in white relations to Blackness that understands both anti-Black violence and the love (consumption) of Blackness to operate in this cycle.)