Angela Sutton (she/her)
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
My views are my own.
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
My views are my own.
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✨ Book Deal Announcement ✨
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
"Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. A university that censors Plato—as well as other significant texts—abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, and the public trust."
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
AAUP President Todd Wolfson: An Institution That Censors Plato is Not a Serious Institution of Higher Learning
Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who is a cornerstone of Western thought because his work touches on race or ge...
www.aaup.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. A university that censors Plato—as well as other significant texts—abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, and the public trust."
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Guaranteed editorial independence is journalists being asked to identify Trump executive orders that they'd advance and explain how.
War is peace and freedom is slavery.
War is peace and freedom is slavery.
Good scoop by @liamjscott.bsky.social:
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Guaranteed editorial independence is journalists being asked to identify Trump executive orders that they'd advance and explain how.
War is peace and freedom is slavery.
War is peace and freedom is slavery.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota.
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 2:32 AM
"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota.
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
BREAKING: The EEOC wants UPenn to hand over lists of Jewish students & faculty
@DDFund_ is stepping in to stop this chilling violation of the First Amendment
Religious freedom & privacy are non-negotiable 👇 - TN
@DDFund_ is stepping in to stop this chilling violation of the First Amendment
Religious freedom & privacy are non-negotiable 👇 - TN
Press Release | January 13, 2026
Today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Democracy Defenders Fund, and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller filed a motion to intervene in EEOC v. The University of Pennsylvania on behalf of five organ...
www.democracydefendersfund.org
January 13, 2026 at 8:49 PM
BREAKING: The EEOC wants UPenn to hand over lists of Jewish students & faculty
@DDFund_ is stepping in to stop this chilling violation of the First Amendment
Religious freedom & privacy are non-negotiable 👇 - TN
@DDFund_ is stepping in to stop this chilling violation of the First Amendment
Religious freedom & privacy are non-negotiable 👇 - TN
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane.bsky.social) talks with fellow authors Karen Russell, Mia Tsai, Seth Haddon, and Yiming Ma about the wave of recent books asking incisive questions about the ways memories can be politicized, policed, stolen, and shared...
The Most Surprising Book Trend Right Now: Memory-Sharing - Reactor
New works exploring crucial questions of identity, and the way memory can be politicized and repressed...
reactormag.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane.bsky.social) talks with fellow authors Karen Russell, Mia Tsai, Seth Haddon, and Yiming Ma about the wave of recent books asking incisive questions about the ways memories can be politicized, policed, stolen, and shared...
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Can I stay silent? What kind of warrant do they need? What documents should I carry?
We asked an attorney what to do if you get stopped by ICE.
We asked an attorney what to do if you get stopped by ICE.
What to do if ICE stops you: An attorney answers some questions
With immigration enforcement activity increasing across Minnesota, many people are asking a simple but urgent question: What are my rights if ICE or other federal agents approach me?
www.mprnews.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Can I stay silent? What kind of warrant do they need? What documents should I carry?
We asked an attorney what to do if you get stopped by ICE.
We asked an attorney what to do if you get stopped by ICE.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Don't let this headline be about your university.
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…
lithub.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Don't let this headline be about your university.
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
Do you remember back when the police used to murder people and they would get caught and they would pretend to be sorry and pretend to investigate the officer?
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Do you remember back when the police used to murder people and they would get caught and they would pretend to be sorry and pretend to investigate the officer?
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
January 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
'The Los Angeles Police Department has released little information about the killing of Keith Porter, 43, and the ICE agent who shot him has not been identified.'
Why No Charges? Friends, Family of Man Killed by Off-Duty ICE Officer Ask After New Year’s Eve Shooting.
Keith Porter, 43, had been firing a gun into the air to celebrate before he was killed, family members say. If the shooter weren’t an ICE agent, ‘We would expect that there would be an arrest,’ a comm...
capitalandmain.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
'The Los Angeles Police Department has released little information about the killing of Keith Porter, 43, and the ICE agent who shot him has not been identified.'
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
augustafreepress.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
The Beth Israel congregation was founded in 1860, and its temple was previously firebombed by the KKK for supporting civil rights. From website: “Rabbi Perry Nussbaum surveys damage at Beth Israel Congregation following the bombing on Sept 18, 1967. Photo by Jim Lucas.” www.bethisraelms.org/history
January 11, 2026 at 3:42 AM
The Beth Israel congregation was founded in 1860, and its temple was previously firebombed by the KKK for supporting civil rights. From website: “Rabbi Perry Nussbaum surveys damage at Beth Israel Congregation following the bombing on Sept 18, 1967. Photo by Jim Lucas.” www.bethisraelms.org/history
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins
That's quite the dystopia
January 11, 2026 at 3:14 AM
That's quite the dystopia
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Cashing in on cruelty.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deporta
theintercept.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Cashing in on cruelty.
👏👏👏
It's rare to see college presidents muster enough courage or moral leadership to comment on current events these days. But here is Old Dominion President Brian Hemphill addressing the recent murder of Renee Good (an ODU alum) by ICE.
www.odu.edu/article/a-st...
www.odu.edu/article/a-st...
A Statement from President Brian O. Hemphill, Ph.D.
“It is with great sadness that Old Dominion University mourns the loss of one of our own, Renee (Macklin) Good, a proud Monarch who graduated in December of 2020 from the College of Arts and Letters w...
www.odu.edu
January 10, 2026 at 3:09 AM
👏👏👏
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Black Americans were the ones who changed our nation's trajectory by fighting for rights and for public benefits. They changed our legal system so that these rights would apply to everyone. Before they began educating their kids, most whites didn't. Public health? Thank Black people.
Only reason literally *anyone* who is not a white male was *ever* able to walk around America & the greater white world without looking over their shoulders is because of Black Americans
Since then it's largely been betrayal by everyone else & now civil rights are being eroded
Y'all do something
Since then it's largely been betrayal by everyone else & now civil rights are being eroded
Y'all do something
Really tired of condescending people from other countries specifically talking down at black Americans to “do something” and put ourselves in lines of fire like we’re the ones who caused this.
Sometimes the vibes on this app surpass rancid
Sometimes the vibes on this app surpass rancid
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Black Americans were the ones who changed our nation's trajectory by fighting for rights and for public benefits. They changed our legal system so that these rights would apply to everyone. Before they began educating their kids, most whites didn't. Public health? Thank Black people.
Renee Good was murdered 4 blocks away from where George Floyd was murdered five years ago. It only took 5 years for the violence Black people have always faced to land on white people's doorsteps.
Just like Black thinkers said it would if we didn't stop it.
Just like Black thinkers said it would if we didn't stop it.
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Renee Good was murdered 4 blocks away from where George Floyd was murdered five years ago. It only took 5 years for the violence Black people have always faced to land on white people's doorsteps.
Just like Black thinkers said it would if we didn't stop it.
Just like Black thinkers said it would if we didn't stop it.