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PhD in Black diaspora literature
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· May 15
Saving the NEH | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dr. Norrell Edwards considers the Trump administration’s termination of National Endowment for the Humanities grants.
lareviewofbooks.org
"The values of this administration are clear: the United States is for the wealthy. The rest of us have to make our own way upstream. There is no interest in using taxpayer dollars to support upward mobility or the public good." Support @modernlanguage.bsky.social lawsuit to reinstore the NEH
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Welcome to the Plutocracy
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Welcome to the Plutocracy
Yikes on the connection between Jeffrey Epstein and the Bard College president but also he has been their president for a FULL 50 years?? Is that some kind of record? What???
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Yikes on the connection between Jeffrey Epstein and the Bard College president but also he has been their president for a FULL 50 years?? Is that some kind of record? What???
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
I feel the same way. Get it out of my sights immediately; I'm exhausted
There is nothing I hate more than reviewing something one final time before submitting it. Papers, proposals for grants or fellowships, doesn't matter what it is, hate it.
January 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I feel the same way. Get it out of my sights immediately; I'm exhausted
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For those of us who come from legacies of dictatorships—-US-supported dictators trained in school of Americas— this is eerily familiar and also so scary as we know worse yet to come.
From this legacy we also know resistance always wins but requires all of us. #resist
From this legacy we also know resistance always wins but requires all of us. #resist
January 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
For those of us who come from legacies of dictatorships—-US-supported dictators trained in school of Americas— this is eerily familiar and also so scary as we know worse yet to come.
From this legacy we also know resistance always wins but requires all of us. #resist
From this legacy we also know resistance always wins but requires all of us. #resist
Just watched the film We Strangers....super strange. Not sure what I just experienced.
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Just watched the film We Strangers....super strange. Not sure what I just experienced.
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
I, perhaps like many, scillate from wanting to be chronically online & in the know and then also absolutely not tf at all lol like it's too much; leave me out the loop 😭😭😭
January 10, 2026 at 8:41 AM
I, perhaps like many, scillate from wanting to be chronically online & in the know and then also absolutely not tf at all lol like it's too much; leave me out the loop 😭😭😭
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I hate to break it to you but today is kind of the last day you get to love Mamdani unconditionally.
Tomorrow you gotta start holding him accountable.
Tomorrow you gotta start holding him accountable.
January 1, 2026 at 5:18 AM
I hate to break it to you but today is kind of the last day you get to love Mamdani unconditionally.
Tomorrow you gotta start holding him accountable.
Tomorrow you gotta start holding him accountable.
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BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 AM
😂😂
Watched the Diddy Reckoning documentary and now want to read biographies on Tupac.
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Watched the Diddy Reckoning documentary and now want to read biographies on Tupac.
I'm somewhat tickled that online deals the week following Black Friday are still called "Cyber Week" and "Cyber Monday." There's something antiquated and early aughts about the word Cyber to me 😂😂😂
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I'm somewhat tickled that online deals the week following Black Friday are still called "Cyber Week" and "Cyber Monday." There's something antiquated and early aughts about the word Cyber to me 😂😂😂
To read later
Very good piece on the quite fast rollout of "AI-powered" textbooks in South Korea. The government went from making the textbooks mandatory to supplementary because of complaints and now the textbook companies are suing because "the market suddenly disappear[ed]."
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
To read later
Finished watching The Beast in Me on Netflix. 👍🏾👍🏾
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Finished watching The Beast in Me on Netflix. 👍🏾👍🏾
Watched about half of this Ziwe interview with Eric Adams and I mean yikkesss all around.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Watched about half of this Ziwe interview with Eric Adams and I mean yikkesss all around.
So well said
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
So well said
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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He's been saying that smh. Look at Abrego Garcia, those deported by other countries, disappeared by ICE...the constitution and the law only counts to him when he wants it to
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
He's been saying that smh. Look at Abrego Garcia, those deported by other countries, disappeared by ICE...the constitution and the law only counts to him when he wants it to
He definitely isn't pressed at all & I don't blame him.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
He definitely isn't pressed at all & I don't blame him.
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US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka share.google/ns8Gv6uJgwkJ...
US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka share.google/ns8Gv6uJgwkJ...
US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka
The US consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka share.google/ns8Gv6uJgwkJ...
US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka share.google/ns8Gv6uJgwkJ...
To read later but I am absolutely unsurprised by this possibility
Period blood could be used to track hormones, screen for cancers, monitor diseases such as diabetes & boost stem cell research. It is an underexplored sample source whose clinical potential is only now, in the year 2025, being examined with scientific care. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?
Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
To read later but I am absolutely unsurprised by this possibility
POV: Finally turned in an overdue chapter on Black feminism and neoslave narratives. Just me & my sources chillin 😅😅WHEW.
#feelingood #Blackliterature #scholarship
#blackademic
#feelingood #Blackliterature #scholarship
#blackademic
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
POV: Finally turned in an overdue chapter on Black feminism and neoslave narratives. Just me & my sources chillin 😅😅WHEW.
#feelingood #Blackliterature #scholarship
#blackademic
#feelingood #Blackliterature #scholarship
#blackademic