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I'm never bored because there's always something to overthink about.
Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."
I am so confused by how often I get caught in "reply all" hell.
Why can't y'all just send an email directly to the person you want to correspond with?!?
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:
It's actually such an incomprehensible sentiment.
This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.
I'm excited to see which book wins!
Thanks, Christen. 💚 That's exactly how I've been thinking about him this past week. We were lucky to have had him, and now the loss is so very palpable
A picture of the late Marxist Nigerian literary academic, Dr. Biodun Jeyifo, addressing someone off-camera. He is sitting in a leather chair against a dark brown background. His hand is open in a gesture in front of his chest.
A screenshot of two citations in a bibliography. One of an article written by Augusta Irele and the second entry by Prof Biodun Jeyifo
Rest well, Uncle BJ. Thank you 💚
Despite the caricature his critics created, Jesse Jackson’s “political vision was always inclusive, always multiracial, and always opposed to bigotry and prejudice of all kinds,” Adam Serwer argues.
I know the reunion between him, my dad, and my uncle was loud and sweet. I miss them all acutely in a way that compounds. I am also so, so grateful to Uncle BJ for the way he poured into us all. He was so important to us Ireles. A model I aim to emulate in many ways.
For the past week, my grief has also been intertwined with deep gratitude for the cornerstone position Uncle BJ held in the village that raised us. I recently stumbled upon a dissertation that cited the two of us. There was Uncle BJ, in the bibliography next to me. He had my back, as always.
When I was young, he gifted me a set of The Lord of the Rings books that I still count as one of my most treasured possessions. I aunty the way I do because of how Uncle BJ uncled me. He listened to us, he saw us, he loved us. He was always there. And now he's gone.
When he eventually moved next door, it made so much sense. He was a classmate of my dad's younger brother. He'd been the witness at my parents' wedding. When we said goodbye to my dad in the hospital, Uncle BJ was there with us. He made logistical decisions alongside us. He called my dad "ẹgbọn"
Though for a long time he lived quite far, Uncle BJ was ever present. From the late 80s until the early-aughts, the friendship was long-distance, though you'd never tell. We saw him so often, it was hard for me to understand that we weren't actually related.
To me and my sisters, though, for our entire lives, he was "Uncle BJ," our parents' pipe-smoking (he quit, eventually), corduroy-and-khaki-loving, harmonica-playing, most consistent, dear, dear friend. We loved Uncle BJ. Whenever he was around, you were guaranteed to laugh loudly, often in shock
If my father was the doyen (godfather) of African literature, Prof Jeyifo was its moral compass and backbone. His sharp intellect and astute perspective led to his impressive career. He's often mentioned for his expertise in Wole Soyinka's work, but that is only the tip of his intellectual iceberg.
Last Wednesday, news broke that Prof Biodun Jeyifo, one of Nigeria's "brightest literary minds" (Vanguard NG) passed away in Ibadan at 80 years old. Just over a month before, he'd attended a symposium in his honor, at which he was able to hear and reflect on his impact in African Studies.
A "professor of civics education" at OSU's much ballyhooed intellectual diversity center (funded by McCarthyites, of course) punches documentarian who deigns to ask Gordon Gee a single question.
The ironist who coded this simulation has no sense of subtlety.
I am devastated.
I may have more words later, but for those of us who knew him personally, this loss hurts so much.
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Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
“Multiple people familiar with the matter said The Post is planning to shutter a majority of the paper’s international bureaus, dramatically reducing the number of reporters stationed abroad.”
Devastating if this comes to pass.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
Anyone else get got by the Book Outlet winter sale? No? Just @heyitsaugusta.bsky.social? Cool cool cool.
Welp. It's snowing heavily outside. So, it's time for a #BookHaul. Come see what was in this month's book mail!
#BookSky #BlackBookSky #SpecsNTexts
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