In this excerpt from his new book, @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social argues Black Marxists’ understandings of 1920s Soviet policy & Lenin’s writings on state capitalism influenced the socialist Ghanaian state's embrace of private capital & foreign investment in the 1960s.
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New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos.
www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Posting this again. TW. I have not yet read it. I take Nathan’s warning seriously.
Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).
You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.
Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.
As the Pentagon purges some minorities and women from high-ranking positions, the message being sent to lower-ranking officers is that “they will be assessed on the basis of their gender, race, or politics, rather than their abilities,” Adam Serwer writes:
The United States has just bombed Sharif University in Tehran, the most prestigious university in Iran and among the top one hundred in the world in civil engineering. Ironically, it has been a hotbed of student opposition to the Iranian regime.
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NABB) has declared April 7 to be #NationalBlackBookstoreDay — a day to recognize the "cultural, economic, and community impact of Black-owned bookstores across the United States.” pen.org/black-owned-...
Today is my birthday! All the best people you know are Aries! ♈️
If you’d like to get me something, you can preorder Book Boyfriends or share the link with someone else who may be interested. It’ll make a great gift 😉
lnk.to/bookboyfriends
Why Black People Can’t Earn Our Way Out of Racism in Maternal Care
In her new book, Bridges found that healthcare provided through private markets leaves more room for discrimination and unequal care to take root than in a public program like Medicaid.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.
For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
We're gonna need more lawsuits...
"We expected protective paternalism to play a central role in explaining why some men perceive the tradwife movement positively... We were taken aback to discover that it was instead men’s overt sexism that played the most important role in their attitudes about the tradwife movement.”
#Publication Sharing my new forum article in @ispjournal.bsky.social titled "What do Academics Bring to the Policy Table? Reflecting on the Africa–China Negotiators Workshop Series"where I reflect on my experience as a policy-facing academic with infrastructure negotiations between China and Africa
this was always going to be the hard part — actually getting these amazing new drugs to the people who need them. it’s something we haven’t had the political will to achieve for decades with the HIV drugs we DID have
A photo of Ali and Fatima in their press vests and hats, smiling at the camera with Lebanon in the background
Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni.
They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years.
Unprecedented.
(📸 Cradle Media)
“Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."
I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.
🙏
The Sudanese war isn't just killing Sudanese #KeepEyesOnSudan
Women Strike Back! New exhibition in Bristol explores histories of Black and South Asian feminist activists in Britain
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...
Beautiful indeed
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
