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Orlando Hawkins (Ph.D)

@blacknihilist21.bsky.social

Philosophy Nerd (Phil of Race, Black Existentialism, Black Pessimism/Nihilism, Black Marxism, Black Feminism). “If the slave cannot be taken from Africa, slavery can be taken to Africa”- W.E.B. Du Bois

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Rohan Patel@gunnerohan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me after calling up PSG and Atlético Madrid for target prices and hearing '£120m' and '£150m' respectively.

Rohan Patel@gunnerohan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q: If you were handed the Arsenal transfer purse strings tonight, what are you doing with the forward line (be realistic)? ​Me: I’m passing on £100m+ for Barcola or Alvarez. Unless it’s Vini, Mbappe, Kvara, or E.Haal, no winger/forward is worth £100m+. I’d sign Rashford and drop £80m max on Kroupi.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Instead of changing the language in their legacy scholarship, the Upperman family has decided to pull their $1M endowment from a North Carolina university They plan to move the scholarship to a school where it is likely a Black student will receive it

UNCW Upperman family pulling future scholarship funds over UNC System’s equality policy

For the first time in 30 years, the Upperman family isn’t awarding any new scholarships at UNCW. Linda Upperman Smith said the way the university wanted to rewrite the language around the application ...

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Euthyphro@euthyphro.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a legal standard meant to protect citizens against the disparity of power when prosecuted by the state. Using it as a rhetorical device to hand wave away credible accusations of abuse denies victims the very presumption of innocence it demands for abusers.

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · last mo.

White supremacy in America came to a dead end. All of its history is what has produced this white supremacist dictator we now have, he’s the culmination of what America’s alway been. There’s no way forward for America if it clings to antiblackness. It will collapse & that’s what it’s doing.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map. Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack

The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...

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Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

At this preliminary stage, the State has shown that it is entitled to interim relief from the District Court's injunc-tion. See Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citi-zens, 607 U. S. 一 (2025) (slip op., at 1-2). The State is likely to succeed on the merits as to both claims. As to intentional vote dilution, the District Court did not heed the presumption of legislative good faith, see Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024), because it interpreted the State's legal disagreement with the court's earlier remedial order as proof of discriminatory animus. Cf. Abbott v. Perez, 585 U. S. 579, 608-609 (2018). And, as to both claims, the District Court's analysis departed from Callais. Under Callais, the District Court was required to deny relief unless the plaintiffs' alternative map performed "just as well" with respect to all of the State's constitutionally permissible districting crite-ria. 608 U. S., at— (slip op., at 29). Yet, the District Court found a violation even though the plaintiffs' alternative map would not perform just as well as to the State's constitutionally permissible criteria of keeping together the Gulf Coast community of interest and avoiding the pairing of in-cumbents. The District Court also failed to follow our instruction in Callais that the mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns. See id., at _ (slip op., at 30).
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2mo ago

feel like i'm repeating myself a bunch here but the unitary executive is grounded more in some rousseauian idea of the "general will" than it is anything in the american political tradition