Anthony Reed
Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production dukeupress.edu/soundworks
- Reposted by Anthony ReedWe should all read this recent essay from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social as it illuminates the path we've been following re privacy regulation for the past 30 years or more, driven by tech industry lobbying that warns of anything that might "stifle innovation." /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThis is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedTrusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThis is the standard pattern. State actors provoke, people respond peacefully, state actors escalate violently. Media reports say “protests turned violent” or “protestors clash with law enforcement“ which normalizes further escalation. State terror facilitates its own escalation by design.
- Reposted by Anthony Reedmy Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
- Reposted by Anthony ReedI did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]
- I'm not saying we should look “upon all previous history as a crude heap of irrationality and violence” [Engels] but that perspective's not a bad starting point to counter the many fascist teleologies currently motivating the worst people right now to conjure a false destiny to recover.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedGlad to see people noticing that the work of violence workers is, in fact, political violence.
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- Reposted by Anthony ReedOnce you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedI wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.
- Reposted by Anthony Reedif you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
- Reposted by Anthony ReedBlows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedIt was such an honor for me to be in conversation with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social someone I deeply admire and respect, about empire, capital, sudan and the uae in the Fumnambulist. thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedWhat in the US imperial hell are we witnessing?
- Reposted by Anthony Reedguys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThis is important. #keepeyesonsudan
- Reposted by Anthony ReedNew: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement unicornriot.ninja/2025/cop-cit...
- Reposted by Anthony Reedone unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
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- Reposted by Anthony ReedIt is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
- "We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedGreat assembling of info and reactions to the strikes in Sokoto state on the @aljazeera.com homepage feed: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThe full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
- Reposted by Anthony ReedA better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
- I don't know who needs to hear this,* but you don't have to suffer through tedious arguments for the sake of some illusory, idk, completeness. You should read and think about what nourishes you. If you would disengage the convo IRL don't engage it in print. *It's me. I need to hear it.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedHeed, heed, heed:
- "This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
- Reposted by Anthony ReedPlease sign the open letter: No layoffs at the Poetry Foundation! forms.gle/oUe2YV73pNxK...
- The "quiet part" is that employers will look to replace skilled human workers with machines. "AI" does not have the ability to "take" a job anymore than immigrants "take" jobs. "AI" is not plotting its next move. Bosses are.
- Reposted by Anthony Reed“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThere isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
- Reposted by Anthony ReedI wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget
- I'm reading up on OPEC and while it's not entirely correct to say the rules-based international order is a handful of hydrocarbon corporations in a trenchcoat, it's not entirely wrong, either. Jayne Cortez told us: they want the oil, but they don't want the people.
- Reposted by Anthony Reed"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
- Reposted by Anthony ReedWhat folks who say "normal" families don't need public health interventions mean is that sickness is the appropriate punishment for poverty, and that the government helping those people out is not just financially wasteful but morally illegitimate
- Please give if you can. gofund.me/187160950
- This may be a naive question, but does the official gov't anti-vaccine stance mean that Medicaid will stop covering them? It's clearly eugenicist policy. Does it work by making it so that people who can afford vaccines (and who don't have brain worms) will get them and poor people will be at risk?
- Reposted by Anthony Reedstill waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThis book is so good and important. Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥 @anniemcc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anthony ReedLost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel. Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James. news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedRobyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
- I don't know, the fact that many big-budget movies seem to be actively discrediting counter-movements by depicting revolutionary movements as indistinguishable from reactionary ones, and showing both beset by misogyny, opportunism, and/or incoherence seems like it might be a sign of something.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedPeople need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
- Has Google announced Google Classic (like Coca-Cola Classic), so people can pay to have less polluted information yet? I'm sure paying a premium to dis-enshittify is coming next.
- Re: last repost, I grew up in the 80s hearing about the ways income thresholds and even having two parents at home could get people kicked off already inadequate aid. The war on poverty became a war on poor, working folks long ago.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedHard not to notice that this is describing a landscape where public aid is pretty brutally means tested, and thus it's very, very difficult to climb out of the trap of housing/childcare/healthcare if you aren't supremely lucky
- Please give and share if you can. gofund.me/62ae982b6?tp...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedYou all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedJamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
- Reposted by Anthony ReedLocal Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedI know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:
- Reposted by Anthony ReedSocial media and many of the places where we get perspectives are a mess with manipulation, conspiracy, and misinformation. Radicals hoping to fight oppression have to be mindful of where we listen and why. I wrote about this and more for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/11/20/a...
- Reposted by Anthony Reedcomrade JCO gets it completely CHOP FROM THE TOP (solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
- Reposted by Anthony ReedDisaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters. Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
- Reposted by Anthony ReedI wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
- Reposted by Anthony ReedThis Unruly Witness is a collection of bold, tender, and illuminating writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy
- Wendy Brown: "[T]he three schools of neoliberalism [Friedman, Hayek, Ordoliberals] share a rejection of robust democracy and of the expansive notion of the political on which democracy rests." Hope this helps.
- Brown's account of neoliberal theory is very helpful. (Remember a few years ago people were pretending there was no such thing as neoliberalism 😂) But the idea thst "big capital" only recently "instrumentalized" the state is ahistorical, especially from the p.o.v. of, e.g., slave societies.
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- Reposted by Anthony ReedEvidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.
