Roxane Pickens
@xaneroxane.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.
September 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
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"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"
"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"
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“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com
“The deployment of a Marine infantry division…in Los Angeles, the sight of military vehicles and armed National Guard troops in Washington D.C., and Trump’s threats to give the same treatment to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities…Trump is gearing up to pursue a “forever war” on Americans.”
Called it last week: The true rationale for the change to Department of War is the war Trump is waging on America:
lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
Trump's War on America
To allow Trump's autocratic allies to prosper, our military and intelligence must take on new roles at home. We can sound the alarm with those who serve.
lucid.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“The deployment of a Marine infantry division…in Los Angeles, the sight of military vehicles and armed National Guard troops in Washington D.C., and Trump’s threats to give the same treatment to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities…Trump is gearing up to pursue a “forever war” on Americans.”
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I cannot tell you how spot on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is in this video and how this basically encapsulates the exact moment I and many Black women are navigating.
*sighs*
*sighs*
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "More ill-advised sharing on: Black women being pushed out, liberal allies, managing my own boundaries, the shittiest lotto ticket you can buy, and a lesson from ...
3,021 likes, 144 comments - tressiemcphd on August 25, 2025: "More ill-advised sharing on: Black women being pushed out, liberal allies, managing my own boundaries, the shittiest lotto ticket you can ...
www.instagram.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I cannot tell you how spot on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is in this video and how this basically encapsulates the exact moment I and many Black women are navigating.
*sighs*
*sighs*
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The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
The reason that J6 is STILL ONGING and the coup is STILL ONGOING and historically it will be noted as such
is because there was no will to actually end it. There was simply a desire by many on both sides, for a return to 'normalcy'.
The prosecutions that happened at all, were an uphill battle.
is because there was no will to actually end it. There was simply a desire by many on both sides, for a return to 'normalcy'.
The prosecutions that happened at all, were an uphill battle.
August 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bsky.app/profile/tran...
The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.
August 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.
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“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”
300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.
For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...
www.msnbc.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”
wise words from Mariame Kaba…
People are in motion, everywhere.
Some thoughts on discouragement and also on noticing…
prisonculture.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
wise words from Mariame Kaba…
These two: Politics of Collaboration for the win and Mamdani for Mayor!!!
June 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
These two: Politics of Collaboration for the win and Mamdani for Mayor!!!
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
Sobering from Tressie McMillan Cottom
Opinion | Political Violence Is Here, and It’s Working
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sobering from Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
June 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
lol!
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
lol!
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Immigrant advocates and lawyers say an increasing number of migrant children are making immigration court appearances without the assistance of attorneys, which they say will lead to more children getting deported.
4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
gothamist.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Immigrant advocates and lawyers say an increasing number of migrant children are making immigration court appearances without the assistance of attorneys, which they say will lead to more children getting deported.
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
April 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
