every architect who has taken a look at these trump “renderings” of the ballroom etc has said the same thing: there is no architectural truth to these. interiors depict windows that interiors omit, there is no way the scale of these renderings is true to any design….

A photo of a Gwendolyn Brooks poem titled “Paul Robeson” it reads: Paul Robeson BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. The major Voice. The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River, forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond. Warning, in music-words devout and large, that we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks, 'Paul Robeson' (1970)

Thank you to @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social for sending this to me from the archives this week

charlotte’s web is an allegory for male mediocrity. whole crowd showed up to marvel at wilbur was as unremarkable a pig as they come and not one of them was like “UHHH THAT SPIDER IS FULLY LITERATE”

America’s contract to protect white woman has always been tenuous | Saida Grundy ICE’s killing of Renee Good has revealed how the state will only defend those who uphold a white racial order. A 1915 film points to the origins of this social pact

Even if you know this history, the writing and analysis is brilliant. Recommend.

America’s contract to protect white woman has always been tenuous | Saida Grundy www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

@saigrundy.bsky.social

this is a micro-history course everyone could benefit from - well framed by @saigrundy.bsky.social - bell hooks would love it

Jesse Jackson’s unapologetic progressivism was rebellion at its core Civil rights icon, who died Tuesday, shifted Black politics and leftist coalition-building from the sidecar of the Democratic party to the driver’s seat

"Jackson’s strategic legacy was that no vote is captive to a party that has not earned it," writes @saigrundy.bsky.social, "and that marginalized and overlooked voters are best heard when coalitions...challenge the party where their electoral margins for victory are the most vulnerable."

Black History Month was never ‘given’ to Black people, thus, it can never be taken from us The question of who owns and authorizes the month holds particular relevance amid attacks on Black history in the US

Black History Month was never ‘given’ to Black people, thus, it can never be taken from us by @saigrundy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sociologists for Palestine is on Bluesky!
You know this means business.

Follow & amplify! Let's go!

Happy to finally see this one in print! In this article with @jasonhackworth.bsky.social in #JournalofBlaclStudies, we focus on the role of rhetoric in promoting the propaganda of conservative economics (timely!). Check it out…

doi.org/10.1177/0021...

like i remember playing with 2 of them when we were little and then met them again like 10 yrs ago at a wedding. they did not match my excitement about being cousins.

question for the melanated peoples and spicy whites: do you know your cousins’ other side cousins? and what do you call them? i’m just learning today i’m the only black person who aint grow up with cousins squared.

LMAOOO that man knows me

i want to do a couch to 5k… but for swimming. like where are the swim clubs and swimathons? NO i don’t want a triathalon, and i still don’t understand why white people do those voluntarily. it just reminds me of andy dufresne escaping shawshank every time.

they already dead. that’s why discount stores like CVS and tj maxx and 5 Below have moved in to them

unseasoned white vocalists singing donny hathaway’s “this christmas” is a hate crime. yall stick to rockin around the christmas tree and holly jolly christmas and whatever tf 1 and the 3 yall clap on.

i think with a public (vs uni etc) library libby is restricted by copyright agreements and how much they can reproduce and distribute content for free, hence the limited “copies” and holds

i ride for libby but it’s not for the impatient. 3+ wk holds, then you get the book for 14 days. whereas spotify is just on demand streaming, no holds no limits.

spotify premium has one of the best catalogues of audiobooks i’ve seen since libby— included w/ subscription. i’m keeping a running list. clearly one of their interns just finished a black studies survey course www.facebook.com/share/p/hUsT...

FAUXTISTIC. GODDAMNIT IVE DONE IT!

we really need a clever portmanteau to capture the number of terrible people whose ableist ideologies scapegoat disabilities as their get out of jail free card to be shitty. i’m assigning myself this task, will workshop ideas here later

how is this real

if this shit ain’t got a desktop version you finna miss out on my finest work.