Jonathan W. Gray

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Professor at CUNY, writer for myself and others, incessant reader who dreams of better worlds, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, and popular culture writ large, leftist and left handed.

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This was always true. This has always been true for every marginalized community in every single only these “advanced democracies.” Welcome to the world your privilege has shielded you from. This is life outside the cave.

How do we adjust to a world where major democracies have long-term viable fascist parties? It feels like we'll just be having existential election after existential election, and we have to win every time whereas they only have to win once.

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And don’t like notice at all how soon after Cory Doctorow publishes that shitty thread about needing AI to study Black vernacular They push it in Black schools But let’s all pretend it’s just “Big Tech” and “Rich”

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More specifically: my dad imparted Intergenerational knowledge about Blackness, Black identity and what it means to be a Black men. He was a polisci professor who taught them how the govt has traditionally screwed our ppl over. AI can't do that, and that's why it's being pushed in that space now.

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Republicans also just killed a program that provided a $30 discount on broadband bills for poor people because they're good faith populists who care about rural Americans or whatever

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?

Mayor Adams May Nix Sidewalk Expansions on Bustling Eighth Ave. - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org Mayor Eric Adams cast doubt on years of city efforts to give pedestrians more space to walk on overcrowded Eighth Avenue.

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Yeah Morehouse choosing to do this is disappointing but it isn't surprising. But it's also not a conversation for those who didn't even know Morehouse existed less than 24 hours ago, smh.

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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One of the first things I’d change which is probably part of why I’m not employed With the added dash of our “allies” don’t even want to talk to us But find white peoples who say we need AI to study Black culture

To your point: Ford and Mellon won’t even fund projects that don’t originate at elite colleges.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Yeah given the racial labor dynamics of this occuring at at Historically Black College and University (HBCU) it's real weird to simplify this to just some raceless rich people, my guy.

lol it’s going to be so stupid in ten years when exclusive schools for rich people brag that they use real human teachers

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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Like maybe just once we could notice FROM THE JUMP that white colleges and people are endowed to program things , while Black ones are endowed to be programmed or programming While being excluded from the other institutions

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so-and-so did such-and-such which caused a lot of people in comics to show their true colors. And then one month later, Kendrick Lamar released “euphoria” and “Not Like Us” to thunderous praise. Don’t be intimidated—people do not like men trying to sleep with teenagers. You are right!

Whelp, I can skip therapy this week because I’ll be unpacking this one for the next several days. 😩

It’s true but its just as hard to kill the AP kid in your head as the cop lol

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Veterans have been organizers and movers of every modern anti-war movement and the official discourse about “the troops” almost always erases them completely, it irks to no end

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As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

Typos are the bane of my existence. 😠

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Well this is grim

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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This is useful! Post it on your parents Facebook feed! I'm serious. This is the kind of shit they'll share!

For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

On the one hand, giving this $$ to an abuser is awful. On the other, we have Harvard Law School professors attempting to redefine the word felon to enable a fascist insurrectionist sexual abuser to end US democracy. The rot starts at the top.

FROM WOJ: Free agent F Miles Bridges has agreed on a three-year, $75 million deal to return to the Charlotte Hornets, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/8uQ2fLaDDC

Tweettwitter.com FROM WOJ: Free agent F Miles Bridges has agreed on a three-year, $75 million deal to return to the Charlotte Hornets, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/8uQ2fLaDDC

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This is Stephen Miller's law firm. They're also currently repping a TV reporter suing CBS-LA for being anti-white, which as a former CBS-LA reporter I think is absolutely laughable. But they're trying to create still more legal precedent for a racist takeover, it's clear

The Northwestern lawsuit is an example of the White gaze in action: “White gaze is the operational norm of White space wherein Black people are scrutinized through the lens of Whiteness, resulting in their exclusion, subordination, and objectification.” www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Northwestern law school sued for discrimination against white men in faculty hiringwww.reuters.com A conservative group on Tuesday sued Northwestern University, claiming its law school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring and in the selection of articles that appear in its flagship law review.

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.

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when I said that I wanted more news coverage to focus on Donald Trump being a convicted felon, a legally-adjudicated rapist, and so forth, this is not actually what I meant

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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They had to creat a whole layer of separation and renegotiate prices to prevent him from blacking out their comms at whim, it’s not a deal, he’s selling what should be a publicly owned service to only customer who can afford it.

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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If this resonates with you as an expert in your field, please feel free to hit me up on how to pitch an op-ed to MSNBC dot com

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.