#PettyPendergrass
here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassI wonder if Columbia & all the rest have regrets? 🎁
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassthey are so close to figuring out the normies hate them, so incredibly close
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassimagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
- Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThey don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.
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- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassI don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassPart of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThis is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassWhen people say genAI is "inevitable" they are literally repeating desperate marketing lies by the people who profit from that lie and that is all they are doing.
- the stylist’s
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassWhen you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassI'm re-listening to @thislynne.bsky.social's stunning podcast, *When We All Get to Heaven* to choose an episode for a spring course. A difficult choice! www.heavenpodcast.org
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrass800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school. Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassthe problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassat no point in this headline did i know what would happen next
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassMay we continue to be radicalized by such dehumanization. Another world is possible. May we reach together for its horizon. #FuckICE #FreePalestine #DogsForPalestine @dogs.bsky.social
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrasswhat this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
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- the way church folks are responding to the mcclurkin allegations with unrestrained support, prayers for him and “no weapon formed against you shall prosper” scripture quotes, and by calling the accuser the devil and satan—when an email that he (allegedly) sent exists publicly—
- only demonstrates how much church folks are willing to be lied to, and only underscores to victims of sexual violence that yall can’t be trusted in general. sorry. not sorry.
- donnie mcclurkin’s very carefully worded legalese public post never denies the existence of the emails apologizing for harm he (allegedly) perpetrated. he intimates it was consensual—
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View full threadthere is a lot more i want to say. and maybe will. but it makes my skin crawl seeing how quick victims are blamed and perpetrators of violence given religious cover by parishioners and fans that enjoy being lied to.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassMaybe local media will be better but we do not have the national mainstream media needed for the current moment we are in.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassIt’s disorienting for them to be speaking so plainly about things that used to be … somewhat covert. and the plainspeak is still bullshit and contradictory: ‘we choose your leadership and undermine your sovereignty for democracy‘s sake’
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThe Christian church really has to deal with the fact that its homophobia and anti-queerness results in all sorts of harm. The suppression of one’s identity leads to so much chaos. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassAnd @ashoncrawley.bsky.social says it way better than I can. bsky.app/profile/asho...
- i have so many (enraged, sad) thoughts about donnie mcclurkin. this is one of them.
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- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassRemember: we rest in shifts; we resist in cycles. No one can survive in fight mode all the time. When we have collective power we don’t have to carry any challenge alone; and that makes the burden lighter.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassWhatever we do. Naming it has to be apart of it. Naming the confusion. The exhaustion. The fear. The simple act of naming and owning can sometimes help us get clear. Help us see better what’s within & around us. Presence to our emotional realities is sometimes the best “medicine” we have available
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThere are no easy answers during this time. Sometimes we need to sit and be present with our sadness and our disappointment. Sometimes we need to channel that energy in to organizing and helping people near us however we can. And sometimes we just need to cry and scream.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassA lot of us are holding massive grief, rage and disappointment at world leaders and the state of politics globally. It is devastating to witness decision after decision be made to destroy the earth, and dehumanize every one who doesn’t bow to their power. The grief is heavy. The rage is real.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassI need people who think that social programs should only go to the “truly vulnerable” to come up with a clear and concise definition of what that is.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrass“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThere is a water main break every 2 minutes in the US. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassNO OTHER RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUP VOTED IN THE MAJORITY FOR THIS MAN. That is paragraph 1 through 1000 of the story.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassAre white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.
- a friend of a friend was writing a piece about silver consumption in 2023, people buying silver clothing for beyoncé’s tour and then dumping it in trash because they only wanted it for that one occasion. the silver was filling landfills that is unnecessary waste.
- they were also tracking her (and taylor's) travels for one year in private jets to understand how much carbon was being released into the atmosphere because of their travels. (the person canned the story because they didn't want to deal with the stans, which i absolutely understand.)
- when folks like me say "there are no ethical billionaires," people sometimes respond with individual hard work—she “earned” everything she has, they say but that simply underscores a complete misunderstanding of what a billionaire is, and what ethics are.
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View full threadthere is no way to be ethical as a billionaire because it *requires* the exploitation of various systems of inequity for profit. those systems of inequity are sometimes hidden because you seemingly can’t blame individuals for work conditions. but you absolutely can and should with billionaires.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassA Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassIn America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
- stomach bug. yay.
- when they say *without warning*, they are not lying. my god.
- no one seem to care if “a dialogic thinking space” is making shelby county’s air impossible to breathe. yay, education! </sarcasm>
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassI see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassYou don't need to take my word for it. You can simply ask yourself what you would expect to see from an opposition party that was serious about abolishing ICE right now. Are you seeing these things from the Democratic party or from its voters?
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThe question people ask me most in my current position is about AI. People passionately opposed to AI, people who believe it is the answer to all our problems, people who wonder what it will mean for the humanities. However most people change the subject when I mention the people bearing AI's costs.
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- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassNEW: From the Bronx to Accra, lives are being rebuilt — or dismantled — under a U.S.–Ghana deportation pact few know exists. In Ghana, I met the people caught in between: the deported, the waiting, the afraid. Read the story: capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-dep...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassA Capital B analysis of government data shows that deportations of people from African countries are on pace to nearly triple this year compared with the annual average during the Biden administration. Most have no criminal record. capitalbnews.org/deportations...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassI’m dealing with very severe income & work loss, which impacts housing & more and need urgent support. TY so much.🤍🤍 tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support
- as somebody on instagram-twitter said, his momma named him kennedy center, imma call him kennedy center. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- some words about the book that has been ruining, and saving, my life—FROM INFINITE WORLD: THE SOUND OF THE HAMMOND ORGAN AND THE TRAGEDY OF AIDS IN THE BLACK CHURCH. this is all imma say about it for now.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassDAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Posed As Humans Hiring Day Laborers As A Ruse to Kidnap Them Border Patrol raided five Home Depots, chased a man into a bus, and a flower vendor into a gas station, who were among at least 13 people kidnapped around the Southland. Full Report: lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassIn terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrass"The 6-year-old is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE" God have mercy
- A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassIf elite schools are finding the individualistic model of disability accommodation too arduous, then: A. Reduce the bureaucratic burden on students seeking support B. Train faculty on inclusive pedagogies and meet students’ needs on a group level Let’s not pretend this is an unsolvable problem.
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassThere is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassCan‘t believe I’m reposting Bill Kristol in order to say that Hakeem Jeffries should learn that silence is free Not saying anything is better than this
- Reposted by #PettyPendergrassA wise Woman once said:
