Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
- Things fall apart; the husk cannot hold; Coconuts are loosed upon the world, The orange tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
- love to see it
- quick question: why
- New @washingtonpost.com: Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House Officials are eying a spot by E St, north of the Ellipse with the terrific @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social
- crime, like cinnamon rolls, is socially constructed. become ungovernable
- the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding
- "Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
- not sure yet how the federal agents will respond to this but good news that will hopefully throw sand in the gears
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- dark times ahead. but we are going to win
- have we ever seen somebody get their ass beat so bad that they apologize for slavery? at least since 1791?
- goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"
- reposting both for underlying insight and for solid use of "zugzwang"
