Prof Uncool

Prof Uncool

@profuncool.bsky.social

Here for liberation, in all possible forms. Author of Queering Freedom and Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics WGSS prof at Ohio state u.

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...At the first juvenile detention facility for Black children in the U.S. South, created to get Black youth out of adult prisons,...boys were forced to work without food, disciplined by white guards with a "brass-studded belt," and leased to neighboring farms, with the facility taking their pay.

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GU's Center for Youth Justice has worked since February to identify children who died at 40 reform schools and youth detention centers across the U.S., as well as any surviving family members, as part of its Forgotten Children Initiative. | Jenny Abamu www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n... #BlackskyNews

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The circumstances surrounding Nolan Wells’ death have striking parallels to historical cases. We are seeing a resurgence in suspicious deaths of Black American youth in the South and rapid closing of their cases. Why does this keep happening? liberationnews.org/how-the-deat... #BlackskyNews

liberationnews.orgHow the death of Nolan Wells exposes the ongoing war on Black AmericaYoung Black Americans should not be robbed of their futures. The struggle for Black liberation is the engine of progress in the U.S. To ensure our children's future and end the war on Black America, w...

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UNANIMOUS 🏆 Olivia Miles stepped onto the WNBA stage and delivered one of the most prolific rookie seasons in league history. Her record-breaking rookie season ends with 2026 WNBA Kia Rookie of the Year honors! #KiaROY | #WNBASeason30

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American buffalo once moved across vast stretches of the continent. Their near extinction wasn’t simply the result of commercial hunting. @johnniejae.bsky.social on the significance of "Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi," herd restoration, land rematriation and youth education. #BlackskyNews

Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social

For two days, giant buffalo moved through the streets of New York City. RETURN OF THE BUFFALO: TATANKA OWE AKUPI brought Indigenous history, ceremony, music and the story of buffalo restoration into Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. redpopnews.com/return-of-th...

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Minnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles just broke Caitlin Clark’s record for points scored in a WNBA rookie season. They entered today tied with 769 points — which Miles scored in 39 games, Clark in 40 games. www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

wsj.comIf You Haven’t Seen ‘The Spectacle,’ You’re Missing the WNBA’s Top RookieMinnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles is in the mix to join Candace Parker as the league’s second dual Rookie of the Year-MVP.

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NO ROOKIE HAS SCORED MORE 👏 With her first point today, Olivia Miles passes Caitlin Clark (769) for the most points scored by a rookie in WNBA history. #WNBASeason30 | 2026 Postseason Push | DraftKings

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🇨🇺 ⚡⚡⚡⚡ 🔌 Cuba’s power grid completely collapses, causing a nationwide blackout across the island of roughly 9 million people. Via @theAxisofTruth (Telegram)

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On Friday, several students with @climatestrikeoh organized a protest on campus challenging Ohio State’s contract with the defense contractor Anduril, and calling for an end to the university’s association with militarism and genocide.

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Happy Birthday to the Brazilian Marxist educator and philosopher Paulo Freire! He is known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), which theorized how oppressed people could be empowered by revolutionary education.

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Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you.

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Yes. They are actually angry at him for ruining their fun by injecting real world consequences. that matches my experience of targeted harassment, a lesson you can see in how I engage on here.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

You can’t understand it unless you recognise: the people doing it *loved it*, they had an absolute blast, just as they always do kicking fuck out of some despised unperson, until suddenly all their fun was ruined and they were left babbling excuses.

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yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery

Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social

Breaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.

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If you care about protecting Big Bend, it may be time to rethink where you spend your money. YETI co-founder Ryan Seiders is part-owner of a West Texas ranch that has been facilitating construction tied to Trump’s border wall project in the Big Bend region.

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BREAKING: Judge Sullivan says he needs PROOF the handwritten FBI notes in the Epstein files are actually duplicative of the typed reports and can be withheld. The court is asking for the handwritten notes.

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Phang: I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2nd, he either has to put up or shut up. He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.

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The Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects. ​The minute they landed for the World Cup and security is ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere. Mad paranoid US fascism in what’s meant to be a celebration.