After a day of feeling incredibly angry and sad at my situation, I wanted to share this slice of optimism, and remind myself and anyone else struggling during this festive period to hold on 🌻❤️
Thank you for these beautiful words that help so much @charliemackesy ❤️

Please buy and read this book!

"We are intent on believing that academia is a benevolent institution that we...forget [it was] physically built by enslaved people on stolen land so that white man would be able to train the next generation of those who belong: white men."

The university "mimics the colonizing structures of racial capitalism in which Black, brown, Indigenous, and Asian workers perform most of what we now call essential labor"

Every single expression of this book can be highlighted & quoted! "The biggest challenge in fighting against the colonizing structures of the university is precisely it accomplices....Complicity with the colonizing project of the university is a requirement for tenure."

"Admitting that the process of tenure and promotion is marred with biases, racism, discrimination, & ignorance & sustained through...unfair labor systems based on racial capitalism & colonializing structures...means admitting that you benefited from this as others suffered."

@CherylHirschi @Lesdoggg

Barry County, MI Sheriff Dar Leaf attributes a police officer in Memphis getting shot to "temper tantrums" over what he calls the "situation" in Memphis.

The sheriff whines that it makes it harder for him to hire employees.

Good.

He doesn't even say Tyre Nichols' name.

I think he's calling cops stupid in this one? Or at least the ones that are willing to work for him?

It's a pretty egregious self-own.

The University of South Florida has adopted radical DEI programming that segregates students by race and promotes the idea that white students should think "I feel bad for being white" and "it's not my fault I’m white" as part of their "racial identity development."

Thread.🧵

I have obtained a trove of public documents exposing USF's radical DEI programming, much of which, according to the Wayback Machine, the university tried to delete from its website following Florida governor Ron DeSantis's recent request for information about university DEI.

The first step in this programming is the condemnation of American society. Following the death of George Floyd, nearly every appendage of USF condemned the United States for its supposed "systemic racism," "white supremacy," and "interlocking systems of oppression."

The university's DEI administrators offered the solution: racial reeducation. USF offered racially segregated counseling sessions and promoted "white identity development" materials for white students to confront their "white privilege," "white guilt," and "white fragility."

According to these materials, whites must first enter the process of "disintegration," experiencing "white guilt" and thinking, "I feel bad for being white." Next, after their identity is broken down, they enter a phase of "reintegration," thinking, "it's not my fault I’m white."

George Santos’ campaign reports are such a mess that he can’t find anyone to help him untangle them.

Chaos followed a blitz of amended Federal Election Commission filings on Tuesday, which among other things included a change in the source of Santos’ loans, which the campaign previously attributed to his “personal funds.”

Of course, these revelations could carry profound implications for Santos’ “self-funded” political run writes @SollenbergerRC.

Santos added that he was “not aware” of why his filings were revised, and promised “an answer for the press regarding the amendments.”

Later that day, however, the campaign appeared to change the “fiduciaries” that it had hired. And yet, that change was in turn contradicted by the new treasurer, who apparently never agreed to the new job.