@kendraboz.bsky.social
scheming and storytelling for the common good
www.kendracomms.com
www.blackwomenbest.com
www.kendracomms.com
www.blackwomenbest.com
old news, but: here's my op-ed from August on the #doubletax Black Philadelphians pay for public programs. framework by @firstblacknerd.bsky.social (Maven Collab) thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-cuts-d...
Septa Cuts as a Double Tax on Black Philadelphians
An economic justice advocate on the "double tax" consequences of cutting off SEPTA — a lifeline for Black Philadelphians who use it most
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
old news, but: here's my op-ed from August on the #doubletax Black Philadelphians pay for public programs. framework by @firstblacknerd.bsky.social (Maven Collab) thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-cuts-d...
Reposted
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Reposted
Israel has forced the Madleen dark
Communications lost with Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen after Israeli navy tells it to change course – live
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Israel has forced the Madleen dark
Reposted
No seriously, what the fuck does this mean.
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
No seriously, what the fuck does this mean.
Reposted
Brain making rrr-rrr-rrr sounds like an old Cadillac trying to start
May 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Brain making rrr-rrr-rrr sounds like an old Cadillac trying to start
Reposted
this, like the trans panic, show billionaires can sway public opinion significantly by hiring fake experts and inundating the population with their desired messaging. it’s a huge problem and one i’m not sure how to contend with as of yet
Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years.
www.kff.org/health-infor...
www.kff.org/health-infor...
May 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
this, like the trans panic, show billionaires can sway public opinion significantly by hiring fake experts and inundating the population with their desired messaging. it’s a huge problem and one i’m not sure how to contend with as of yet
Reposted
“I feel like my son was kidnapped."
Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report
19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his home in the Bronx and deported to El Salvador's notorious mega prison.
www.rollingstone.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“I feel like my son was kidnapped."
Reposted
Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
shit sucks. follow along on what this means for Black women through my weekly-ish newsletter. #3 is out now! blackwomenknowbest.substack.com/p/wading-thr...
wading through the weekly bullshit #3: on the escalation of reproductive injustice
navigating the chaos with Black women at the forefront of resistance, survival, and transformation
blackwomenknowbest.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
shit sucks. follow along on what this means for Black women through my weekly-ish newsletter. #3 is out now! blackwomenknowbest.substack.com/p/wading-thr...
Reposted
Gonna repeat: Democrats love to ask how Trump voters can be so stupid. And yet, 50% of New Yorkers are supporting Cuomo who is a serial sexual harasser, got thousand killed during COVID, and orchestrated GOP control of the NY legislature.
Andrew Cuomo literally architected GOP control of the state legislature. He is the definition of a DINO.
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot.
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot.
Eric Adams got his corruption charges dropped. All it took was selling out New Yorkers to Donald Trump.
We’re all tired of this spineless, failed mayor, but remember: Andrew Cuomo is running for Adams' 2nd term.
Same donors. Same chaos. Just a new Trump ally in Gracie Mansion.
We’re all tired of this spineless, failed mayor, but remember: Andrew Cuomo is running for Adams' 2nd term.
Same donors. Same chaos. Just a new Trump ally in Gracie Mansion.
April 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Gonna repeat: Democrats love to ask how Trump voters can be so stupid. And yet, 50% of New Yorkers are supporting Cuomo who is a serial sexual harasser, got thousand killed during COVID, and orchestrated GOP control of the NY legislature.
Reposted
Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag
To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.
www.theatlantic.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Reposted
The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society.
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society.
Reposted
I've been thinking about this post a lot. Those of us used to mainly acting through speech/speech acts of various kinds are going to need to get comfortable, --quickly-- with rapid *embodied* action of the kinds described below. And to do it collectively whenever possible.
The guy filming does a good job of questioning the masked abductors. We need more.
I promise you, if something like this ever happens in my presence, I will make a scene. Filming, yelling for help, questioning the kidnappers, calling the cops, whatever. We cannot let these events happen quietly.
I promise you, if something like this ever happens in my presence, I will make a scene. Filming, yelling for help, questioning the kidnappers, calling the cops, whatever. We cannot let these events happen quietly.
A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
March 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I've been thinking about this post a lot. Those of us used to mainly acting through speech/speech acts of various kinds are going to need to get comfortable, --quickly-- with rapid *embodied* action of the kinds described below. And to do it collectively whenever possible.
HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY.
“LOVING TRANS PEOPLE IS NOT RADICAL. THAT’S BASIC.”
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
“LOVING TRANS PEOPLE IS NOT RADICAL. THAT’S BASIC.”
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY.
“LOVING TRANS PEOPLE IS NOT RADICAL. THAT’S BASIC.”
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
“LOVING TRANS PEOPLE IS NOT RADICAL. THAT’S BASIC.”
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Reposted
A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
Reposted
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
Reposted
"We decry state censorship while ignoring a comparable threat to free expression on campuses: the crushing pressure inside many colleges and universities to conform with dominant political views."
Published today! Today!
Published today! Today!
Now is exactly THE WRONG TIME, NYT, to run the "Well, actually, maybe colleges were too woke" op-ed. What the hell is wrong with you?🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves
To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"We decry state censorship while ignoring a comparable threat to free expression on campuses: the crushing pressure inside many colleges and universities to conform with dominant political views."
Published today! Today!
Published today! Today!
Reposted
When this presidency ends—and it will end—we need a Rooseveltian plan to not only undo the damage he did, but build bigger than we’ve ever built before.
Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.
Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.
Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
March 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
When this presidency ends—and it will end—we need a Rooseveltian plan to not only undo the damage he did, but build bigger than we’ve ever built before.
Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.
Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.
Reposted
Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes
i think these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
www.nbcchicago.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes
Reposted
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Reposted
Not "It could happen here." It IS happening here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
March 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Not "It could happen here." It IS happening here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
my weekly-ish newsletter is out! with mutual-aid requests for @theokraproject.bsky.social and the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA! #TeslaTakedown and a cool way to #saveUSPS! the latest convo b/t @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social! blackwomenknowbest.substack.com/p/wading-thr...
wading through the weekly bullshit #2: on fascism, anti-trans attacks, tyranny, and inequity
navigating the chaos with Black women at the forefront of resistance, survival, and transformation
blackwomenknowbest.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
my weekly-ish newsletter is out! with mutual-aid requests for @theokraproject.bsky.social and the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA! #TeslaTakedown and a cool way to #saveUSPS! the latest convo b/t @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social! blackwomenknowbest.substack.com/p/wading-thr...