Sakinah Irizarry
@sakinahirizarry.bsky.social
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls
Political pundits:
Political pundits:
August 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls
Political pundits:
Political pundits:
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Remember this:
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass
July 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Remember this:
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass
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The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
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That Tr*mp took time to go to do a PR hit at the new concentration camp in Florida but didn’t pay respects to Melissa Hortman and her family after she and her husband were shot and murdered by one of his supporters is shameful. And not remotely surprising.
July 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
That Tr*mp took time to go to do a PR hit at the new concentration camp in Florida but didn’t pay respects to Melissa Hortman and her family after she and her husband were shot and murdered by one of his supporters is shameful. And not remotely surprising.
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They keep massacring people in line for aid and I see less outrage about that from legacy media than I do for the words Mamdani didn’t say
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
They keep massacring people in line for aid and I see less outrage about that from legacy media than I do for the words Mamdani didn’t say
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People all over the place appear to have lost their entire minds about school closures during the pandemic rather than losing their entire minds about MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING DURING THE PANDEMIC
What is wrong with everyone
What is wrong with everyone
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
People all over the place appear to have lost their entire minds about school closures during the pandemic rather than losing their entire minds about MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING DURING THE PANDEMIC
What is wrong with everyone
What is wrong with everyone
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The media initially portraying this as a spat between two neighbors instead of a married couple enduring terrifying ongoing harassment over their love and inherent traits should shame multiple outlets.
Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor.
He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.
The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.
This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.
The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.
This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
June 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The media initially portraying this as a spat between two neighbors instead of a married couple enduring terrifying ongoing harassment over their love and inherent traits should shame multiple outlets.
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“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.”
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.
May 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.”
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.
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Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
May 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
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There’s an obvious but rarely stated parallel between the insistence that boys are being told “you’re bad” when they’re educated to respect others and the insistence that Americans are being told “you’re bad” when they’re educated about slavery, racism, empire, etc. Both misreadings serve reaction.
May 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There’s an obvious but rarely stated parallel between the insistence that boys are being told “you’re bad” when they’re educated to respect others and the insistence that Americans are being told “you’re bad” when they’re educated about slavery, racism, empire, etc. Both misreadings serve reaction.
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Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Real Horror of 'Sinners' Isn’t Supernatural
The constraints of the Jim Crow economy drive every event in the film.
www.theatlantic.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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Well, my main thought is that it is too mid to be destroying labor and the earth for.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Well, my main thought is that it is too mid to be destroying labor and the earth for.
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This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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Prince Live Performance - 36th NAACP Image Awards
YouTube video by NAACP Image Awards
youtu.be
February 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough
February 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough
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Mhhhhh
East Hampton officials reassure wealthy residents that officers won’t deport illegal migrant maids, landscapers and nannies
Village leaders held a special community meeting to assure residents of East Hampton — where the median property value is $2 million — that their hired help will not be deported by loca…
nypost.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Mhhhhh
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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reminder: whenever republicans say they are opposed to dei initiatives, they are just saying "n**ger." it's just the "polite" way to say it these days.
January 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
reminder: whenever republicans say they are opposed to dei initiatives, they are just saying "n**ger." it's just the "polite" way to say it these days.
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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This is just fucking embarrassing. Performative useless nonsense.
Ah, so this is pure bullshit: "A senior Biden administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the White House’s plans, said Biden was not directing the archivist to certify the amendment, sidestepping what could have become a legal battle over the separation of powers."
Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ratified
President Joe Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution.
apnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is just fucking embarrassing. Performative useless nonsense.
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There was a huge progressive campaign door knocking for Josh Riley and these votes are how he is repaying his volunteers. I hope the people who knocked on thousands of doors for him are preparing to hold him accountable and withhold that support next time.
The 45 Democrats who joined Republicans in voting to sanction International Criminal Court officials as the court pursues justice against Israeli government leaders accused of war crimes:
January 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
There was a huge progressive campaign door knocking for Josh Riley and these votes are how he is repaying his volunteers. I hope the people who knocked on thousands of doors for him are preparing to hold him accountable and withhold that support next time.
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Another woman has died because of a heinous abortion ban
A third woman has died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments
Porsha Ngumezi bled to death as she was miscarrying after her doctor opted against an emergency procedure used to end pregnancies.
www.texastribune.org
November 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Another woman has died because of a heinous abortion ban