KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
I read, tell stories, block early/often, mind my business, and write--I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback.
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KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
· Nov 18
My girl made it to the Blacksonian, y'all! And she's in great company! ❤️🔥
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The nation that refuses to stop celebrating Christopher Columbus does not include Italians as "migrants."
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The nation that refuses to stop celebrating Christopher Columbus does not include Italians as "migrants."
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This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...
I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.
Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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You don't think it works on you. But it could. With enough time, enough money behind it, it might.
This is your brain on propaganda.
Andrea Pitzer on transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
This is your brain on propaganda.
Andrea Pitzer on transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
This is your brain on propaganda
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
You don't think it works on you. But it could. With enough time, enough money behind it, it might.
This is your brain on propaganda.
Andrea Pitzer on transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
This is your brain on propaganda.
Andrea Pitzer on transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
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University of North Carolina at Asheville’s Philosophy Club carries on philosophy despite department closure
thebluebanner.net/19397/arts-f...
thebluebanner.net/19397/arts-f...
UNCA’s Philosophy Club carries on philosophy despite department closure
As the University of North Carolina at Asheville phases out majors such as philosophy, students find a way to keep the ideas and conversations alive via the Philosophy Club on campus. Currently led…
thebluebanner.net
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
University of North Carolina at Asheville’s Philosophy Club carries on philosophy despite department closure
thebluebanner.net/19397/arts-f...
thebluebanner.net/19397/arts-f...
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Historians - Apply now for the Peggy Renner Award for Teaching and Curricular Innovation which recognizes an historian who has developed a college or university course that engages students in exploring the links between contemporary issues and the past. 🗃️
wawh.org/renner-teach...
wawh.org/renner-teach...
Western Association of Women Historians
Promoting the interests of women
historians since 1969
wawh.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Historians - Apply now for the Peggy Renner Award for Teaching and Curricular Innovation which recognizes an historian who has developed a college or university course that engages students in exploring the links between contemporary issues and the past. 🗃️
wawh.org/renner-teach...
wawh.org/renner-teach...
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Cabinet card of a newspaper carrier https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.155.65
December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Cabinet card of a newspaper carrier https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.155.65
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'R&B icon Raphael Saadiq, who co-wrote Best Original Song contender "I Lied to You" from "Sinners," discusses how collaborating with director Ryan Coogler was similar to his work with Beyoncé and D'Angelo.'
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
Raphael Saadiq Counts ‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Among the ‘Visionaries’ Inspiring His Best Work
Musician Raphael Saadiq talks to IndieWire about writing Best Original Song contenders 'I Lied to You' for 'Sinners,' and this history with the Blues.
www.indiewire.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
'R&B icon Raphael Saadiq, who co-wrote Best Original Song contender "I Lied to You" from "Sinners," discusses how collaborating with director Ryan Coogler was similar to his work with Beyoncé and D'Angelo.'
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
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Important reporting. All of these impossible registry requirements do nothing to help victims and only make us less safe.
NEW: beginning january 1, chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit.
it’s the latest in a concerted effort by mayor johnson’s admin to criminalize homelessness on cta trains + buses and in public parks during the coldest months of the year.
it’s the latest in a concerted effort by mayor johnson’s admin to criminalize homelessness on cta trains + buses and in public parks during the coldest months of the year.
‘An impossible situation’ - Chicago Reader
Beginning January 1, the City of Chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit.
chicagoreader.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Important reporting. All of these impossible registry requirements do nothing to help victims and only make us less safe.
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now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
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“People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan Clinic in 2007.
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4: The Last Safety Net
As a community hospital, Phoebe’s mission is to care for people no matter their ability to pay. But in a town where the uninsured rate is twice the national average, even some Phoebe employees are una...
projects.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan Clinic in 2007.
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
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It’s not “dunking” to point out that racial hierarchies are fluid and that present racists conveniently ignore the racial judgments of prior generations of racists as they attempt to appeal to now-white members of the former underclass
I see a lot of people dunking on Miller, and rightly so. But the point of racism isn't the internal coherence, but the power structure: Getting to determine who is in and who is out. In other words, a small group of people get to decide -- not abstract rules.
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s not “dunking” to point out that racial hierarchies are fluid and that present racists conveniently ignore the racial judgments of prior generations of racists as they attempt to appeal to now-white members of the former underclass
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Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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Please dont let any high horse fitness person shame you from starting your fitness journey on the 1st. Do what works for you.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Please dont let any high horse fitness person shame you from starting your fitness journey on the 1st. Do what works for you.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
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For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
www.rollingstone.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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I once had a student tell me that it was inappropriate of me to give her a zero on a brazenly plagiarized paper because i denied her a “learning opportunity” (the opportunity not to get a zero)
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
December 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I once had a student tell me that it was inappropriate of me to give her a zero on a brazenly plagiarized paper because i denied her a “learning opportunity” (the opportunity not to get a zero)
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
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“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
‘He satisfies a lot of my needs:’ Meet the women in love with ChatGPT | Fortune
AI chatbots are becoming partners and confidants for thousands of users, but the same design features that make them so appealing may also leave users vulnerable.
fortune.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
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The older I get the more I understand it’s okay to live a life others don’t understand
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The older I get the more I understand it’s okay to live a life others don’t understand
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A 23-year-old CVS employee was fatally stabbed on Long Island on Christmas, the Suffolk County Police said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.
CVS Worker Fatally Stabbed on Christmas Day on Long Island
A 23-year-old CVS employee was killed on Thursday in Lindenhurst, the authorities said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A 23-year-old CVS employee was fatally stabbed on Long Island on Christmas, the Suffolk County Police said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.
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Wanna see something absolutely WILD? Look up some of the video spots the National Cryptocurrency Association — yes, the decentralized technology sector has a centralized lobbying group — are placing on social media. It’s fascinating.
National Cryptocurrency Association Launches to Boost Crypto Literacy Across the U.S.
The National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) launches with a $50 million grant from Ripple to improve cryptocurrency literacy and education in the United States.
genfinity.io
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wanna see something absolutely WILD? Look up some of the video spots the National Cryptocurrency Association — yes, the decentralized technology sector has a centralized lobbying group — are placing on social media. It’s fascinating.
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Fake memories is abusive
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fake memories is abusive
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The Rev. Darryl Johnson and his brother Hermon Johnson Jr. opened the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and Heritage to tell the history of the Mississippi town.
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
Founded by Freedmen, Forgotten by Textbooks: The Men Reviving Mound Bayou
From “Women of the Movement” to “Sinners,” this Mississippi town is ready to take center stage.
capitalbnews.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Rev. Darryl Johnson and his brother Hermon Johnson Jr. opened the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and Heritage to tell the history of the Mississippi town.
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
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An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
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Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd