ProfKFH
@profkfh.bsky.social
Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
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· Nov 19
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
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The white backlash that is materially devastating democracy, marginalized people, and the planet is all b/c of symbolic gains. As Juliet Hooker writes, white grievance leads to real grief for the rest of us (but also for themselves in the end, because there is only one world).
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The white backlash that is materially devastating democracy, marginalized people, and the planet is all b/c of symbolic gains. As Juliet Hooker writes, white grievance leads to real grief for the rest of us (but also for themselves in the end, because there is only one world).
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These are gonna be the most badass doctors the world has ever seen.
the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.
December 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
These are gonna be the most badass doctors the world has ever seen.
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my mom just now: WHICH COSTCO IS HE* AT?! 😭
*Morris Chestnut
*Morris Chestnut
Imagine walking into Costco to get some paper towel and Harold Perrineau, Morris Chestnut, and Taye Diggs are doing a full on meet and greet by the folding tables
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
my mom just now: WHICH COSTCO IS HE* AT?! 😭
*Morris Chestnut
*Morris Chestnut
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It sounds like games during major holidays is going to be a major pushback in the future in the NBA and NFL. I don’t blame the players. They show the same teams every year, so some of there folks haven’t been home for Christmas for like a decade.
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It sounds like games during major holidays is going to be a major pushback in the future in the NBA and NFL. I don’t blame the players. They show the same teams every year, so some of there folks haven’t been home for Christmas for like a decade.
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"It noted that an ambassador is 'a personal representative of the president and it is the president’s right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the America First agenda.'"
No. Ambassadors represent a country not an individual.
No. Ambassadors represent a country not an individual.
Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully...
apnews.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"It noted that an ambassador is 'a personal representative of the president and it is the president’s right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the America First agenda.'"
No. Ambassadors represent a country not an individual.
No. Ambassadors represent a country not an individual.
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“A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.”
~Bobby Seale
~Bobby Seale
Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies. www.wired.com/story/expire...
‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’—Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Only Grow From Here
Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies.
www.wired.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.”
~Bobby Seale
~Bobby Seale
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I mean, possibly, but I have antibiotics and have been vaccinated against polio, so who’s really winning here, medieval peasants?
December 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I mean, possibly, but I have antibiotics and have been vaccinated against polio, so who’s really winning here, medieval peasants?
So the answer to “nobody wants to work anymore” is “they just want to live as well as a medieval peasant.”
I mean, possibly, but I have antibiotics and have been vaccinated against polio, so who’s really winning here, medieval peasants?
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
So the answer to “nobody wants to work anymore” is “they just want to live as well as a medieval peasant.”
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boxing day 2014 we were walking around london and finally found a sainsbury that was open and had one off brand pregnancy test left — found out we were going to have our first kid
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
boxing day 2014 we were walking around london and finally found a sainsbury that was open and had one off brand pregnancy test left — found out we were going to have our first kid
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Contrary to popular belief on this 59th anniversary of Kwanzaa, is that it is a distinctly Black American holiday, and it is not an "alternative" to Xmas.
Its goal is to spend the last 7 days of the year incorporating the 7 principles of Kwanzaa in preparation of the New Year coming up
Its goal is to spend the last 7 days of the year incorporating the 7 principles of Kwanzaa in preparation of the New Year coming up
December 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Contrary to popular belief on this 59th anniversary of Kwanzaa, is that it is a distinctly Black American holiday, and it is not an "alternative" to Xmas.
Its goal is to spend the last 7 days of the year incorporating the 7 principles of Kwanzaa in preparation of the New Year coming up
Its goal is to spend the last 7 days of the year incorporating the 7 principles of Kwanzaa in preparation of the New Year coming up
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Notice Zohran doesn’t say SHIT. He lets this hero tell her story and knows that all he needs to say is “thanks” and even though doesn’t waste the breath to say it, he clearly means “on behalf of all New York, thanks”.
December 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Notice Zohran doesn’t say SHIT. He lets this hero tell her story and knows that all he needs to say is “thanks” and even though doesn’t waste the breath to say it, he clearly means “on behalf of all New York, thanks”.
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Her food is SO good!
A big thank you to Shaw-nae for warmly welcoming us, sharing her history and her home. As she often says, Staten Island truly is the borough of many memories.
December 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Her food is SO good!
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The NWS is predicting 5–9 inches of snow from this storm; Apple Weather says 0.7 inches of “wintry mix”. Place your bets
It’s official, folks: The NYC metro area is once again at THREAT LEVEL LINDSAY
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The NWS is predicting 5–9 inches of snow from this storm; Apple Weather says 0.7 inches of “wintry mix”. Place your bets
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"This breaking of production quotas...was achieved at the cost of substandard quality, lack of work safety regulations and lack of concern for personal health. Most importantly, úderníci usually did not perform any minor tasks mandated by the job standards they were supposed to follow."
Udarnik - Wikipedia
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February 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"This breaking of production quotas...was achieved at the cost of substandard quality, lack of work safety regulations and lack of concern for personal health. Most importantly, úderníci usually did not perform any minor tasks mandated by the job standards they were supposed to follow."
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This, but also: people in tech know that every 10x developer has 10 people behind them cleaning up the mess they make.
People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.
Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
February 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This, but also: people in tech know that every 10x developer has 10 people behind them cleaning up the mess they make.
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Student response rates for end-of-term evaluations at our school have cratered over the last year or so. I wonder if that's true across higher ed.
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Student response rates for end-of-term evaluations at our school have cratered over the last year or so. I wonder if that's true across higher ed.
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omg
my sister sent me maybe the best ornament i've ever seen in my life
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
omg
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The summer before my last year in library school, I volunteered at ARC—then at 54 White St in TriBeCa—to digitize music books using a scanner on loan from the Internet Archive. But on my first day, I was put to work as a cashier at their very popular Summer Sale, also a fundraiser for the archive.
Yesterday we visited the ARChive of Contemporary Music in Staatsburg. Since 1985 (when they launched in Tribeca) they’ve amassed 3M+ 🔊 recordings! What a wonderland for folks studying + doing creative work in contemporary / world music, sound history, music’s material + visual cultures…
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The summer before my last year in library school, I volunteered at ARC—then at 54 White St in TriBeCa—to digitize music books using a scanner on loan from the Internet Archive. But on my first day, I was put to work as a cashier at their very popular Summer Sale, also a fundraiser for the archive.
“an increased burden on remaining staff tasked with supervising AI outputs.”
I’m betting these were not the only staff with an increased burden.
I’m betting these were not the only staff with an increased burden.
Oh no so the thing many people have been saying all along has turned out to be true
Honestly im shocked
Well
Not that shocked
Well
Not that shocked
December 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“an increased burden on remaining staff tasked with supervising AI outputs.”
I’m betting these were not the only staff with an increased burden.
I’m betting these were not the only staff with an increased burden.
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Oh no so the thing many people have been saying all along has turned out to be true
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Oh no so the thing many people have been saying all along has turned out to be true
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This is the same dynamic which happened to me, a year ago to the day: a faculty appeals panel cleared
me entirely, after a six month investigation. NU effectively ignored it.
This is why adhering to rules (in Congress, the UN, unis) rarely works: the rules benefit the rulers, who can ignore them.
me entirely, after a six month investigation. NU effectively ignored it.
This is why adhering to rules (in Congress, the UN, unis) rarely works: the rules benefit the rulers, who can ignore them.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is the same dynamic which happened to me, a year ago to the day: a faculty appeals panel cleared
me entirely, after a six month investigation. NU effectively ignored it.
This is why adhering to rules (in Congress, the UN, unis) rarely works: the rules benefit the rulers, who can ignore them.
me entirely, after a six month investigation. NU effectively ignored it.
This is why adhering to rules (in Congress, the UN, unis) rarely works: the rules benefit the rulers, who can ignore them.
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Say her name, Heba Al‑Abadla. I remember when she was killed, her whole family slaughtered, to stop her work as a journalist: she was a host of the local Al-Azhar radio station, owned by Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and the co-founder of the Social Media Club-Palestine. It took 2 years to bury her.
December 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Say her name, Heba Al‑Abadla. I remember when she was killed, her whole family slaughtered, to stop her work as a journalist: she was a host of the local Al-Azhar radio station, owned by Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and the co-founder of the Social Media Club-Palestine. It took 2 years to bury her.
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It’s the first day of Kwanzaa!
Umoji—Unity
Umoji—Unity
a cartoon of a person lighting a candle with the words " keep your flame burning bright "
Alt: a cartoon of a person lighting a candle on a kinara with the words " keep your flame burning bright "
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It’s the first day of Kwanzaa!
Umoji—Unity
Umoji—Unity
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There is a special place in hell for a person who thinks it’s a joke to attack a sovereign nation, in the name of religion, on a day where Christians are supposed to be celebrating a miracle that saved all of humanity. There is no humanity in that man or any of his enablers.
Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
There is a special place in hell for a person who thinks it’s a joke to attack a sovereign nation, in the name of religion, on a day where Christians are supposed to be celebrating a miracle that saved all of humanity. There is no humanity in that man or any of his enablers.
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Might this factor into it, too? bsky.app/profile/jsar...
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Might this factor into it, too? bsky.app/profile/jsar...