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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Jonathan W. Gray

i don't buy from uline for my shop because of this! if anyone has questions about where i get shipping materials and shop stuff without them im happy to point you toward the best stuff i've found

For anyone curious about Uline, we reported in 2022 on how the boom in online shopping had enriched the company's owners, who have used their wealth to fund far-right causes: www.propublica.org/article/ulin...

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denialwww.propublica.org A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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Jonathan W. Gray

Plies Makes Fun of Trump for Appearing to Fall Asleep at RNC After Kodak Black Warning Regarding Slander

Plies Makes Fun of Trump for Appearing to Fall Asleep at RNC After Kodak Black Warning Regarding Slanderwww.complex.com Plies slammed Trump following his assassination attempt, which offended Kodak.

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Jonathan W. Gray

Sir people are becoming more and more afraid to fly, what do we do? Some coked up CEO: Fully automated flights!!!! *Employee sits down, defeated in the soul*

No it won't! Next!

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Marisa Kabas

Look at prisonculture’s feed. She’s really great at this. Also Craig Newmark is here and he might have micro-grants available for worthy projects like this.

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Jonathan W. Gray

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is now.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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chelsea g. summers

DO IT!!

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Jonathan W. Gray

which was part of the point all along (the other point is school segregation)

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Allie, Demon of Djent, Fiend of the Pit

Of course I guess if someone is posting exclusively about racism to quote dunk about transphobia would come across as a little bit “all lives matter” similar to if someone was posting about transphobia I would never quote dunk by making it about racism. But the site wide issue at the moment is both

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Jonathan W. Gray

Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?

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Jonathan W. Gray

Peter Thiel, Planatir, Cambridge Analytica, JD Vance, Project 2025, and more - it’s an ecosystem of theft, profiteering, misogyny, racism, transphobia, capture of government, undermining rule of law, genocidal glee, and more. Look these up, learn about them, this is what’s now center stage

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Alicia Andrzejewski

Amazing how they have all read Edelman but haven’t read Jose Muñoz’s incredible response. I wonder why that is???

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Alicia Andrzejewski

That’s horrible and I’m so sorry that happened to you. There’s a generation of older second wave feminists in academia whose views went from cutting edge to retrograde.

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Jonathan W. Gray

If the majority of Black people are telling you you are being racist, maybe you’re being racist

Careful! This is a concept more difficult than quantum physics for people to understand.

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Jonathan W. Gray

That's Trump's base laid out in a beautifully elegant parable. Her husband dies at their leader's feet. She refuses a word from Biden even in consolation. She professes no ill will. She insists she's not political *as she loses her husband at Trump's rally* She votes for a man who didn't even call.

The best kind of twist is one that hits you hard in the moment but in retrospect was inevitable. The final sentence here is a great example of the form.

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Jonathan W. Gray

The best kind of twist is one that hits you hard in the moment but in retrospect was inevitable. The final sentence here is a great example of the form.

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Jonathan W. Gray

He shouldn't be allowed to forget this (should be a gift link) wapo.st/3Lp7zNO

Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion lawswapo.st The author and venture capitalist running for the GOP Senate nomination said in a local interview that unborn babies should be allowed to live even if the circumstances are “somehow inconvenient.”

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Jonathan W. Gray

A man who fakes his wealth paired with a man who fakes his poverty. Sounds about white.

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TerynceRecherche

There are so many curious statements in this piece. I feel like you or I could grab dudes from the barbershop and get a better showing.

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Jonathan W. Gray

Reminder to not use Sticker Mule 💅

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Jonathan W. Gray

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Iboji (૭ ఠ༬ఠ)૭

Bro.

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Jonathan W. Gray

amazing to see the National Catholic Reporter writing what the mainstream/legacy press can't find it in them to print, which is that the GOP's abortion platform is rank bullshit that doesn't leave anything up to the states and is only meant as a cynical play for votes

Party platforms and abortion: Why Trump's backtracking won't matterwww.ncronline.org Although the GOP's platform will not include support for a nationwide limit on abortion, "No one should expect the pro-life movement to abandon the GOP," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.

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nemo

They had me looking at myself like Principal Skinner. Like, “am EYE the crazy one here?”

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Jonathan W. Gray

bouie singlehandedly forcing this site to implement features that make it usable for anyone with more than a few hundred followers

Right?!?!

I guess. That microbiologist had my head spinning.

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Queen of Land

I mean, I’ve heard BM say things like this, but never to the exclusion of other points of view.

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Jonathan W. Gray

The latest cover of the New Yorker:

This is a gift link, by the way. Give it a read and report back.

This article is terrifying but also confusing. This doesn’t represent my community at all but seems to reflect the movement of Black men towards 45. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | 11 Black Men on What Democrats and Republicans Get Wrong About Their Liveswww.nytimes.com The group discusses the former president, the 2024 election, race and more.