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Feb 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Ed Harris John Brown biopic with Giancarlo Esposito as Frederick Douglass.
Also this:
Also the lost original ending to Double Indemnity. imsdb.com/scripts/Double…
And season two of My So-Called Life.
Okay, now I'm just depressing myself for no reason.

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Feb 16
Today was the day that I realized that the ridiculous "The World" artificial archipelago in Dubai is based on the Mercator projection, with as many islands representing Greenland as all of South America. Image
As I've mentioned before, I spend a day in each of my classes each semester talking about map projections—how they're constructed, why they look the way they do, and so on. Why is north up? Why is Europe in the middle? That sort of thing.
Today, near the end of class, someone asked about the "The World" project, and what version of best practices in cartography it reflects. I'd never looked at it from that perspective, so I went to check. And wow.
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Feb 14
Black History Month is February because Negro History Week was in February. Negro History Week was in February because of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays. But we don't actually know Frederick Douglass's birthday.
Frederick Douglass was kept apart from his mother by the man who enslaved them both, and only saw her a few times in his life. Like many enslaved people, he did not know his birthday.
In one version of the telling, his mother once referred to him as "my valentine." In another, she made him a heart-shaped cake the last time they met. Either way, he said he took it as a clue, and as an adult he chose Valentine's Day as his birthday.
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Feb 11
Yes. And let's call it what it is: This is white supremacy, in the purest, clearest, most specific sense of the term.
The thread linked above is very good and very clear, and well worth reading.
I've been arguing for years for the importance of the specificity of the term "white supremacy"—referring, as it originally did, to the political project of implementing white rule. It really is an essential framing for understanding the modern GOP.
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Feb 10
Once a year I emerge from my lair, see my shadow, and remind you that Al Franken is never going to be a US Senator again. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Last time this came up, I noted that Minnesota's two senators are both women, and both much younger than Franken. Neither is retiring soon, and his not going to challenge either of them in a primary.
Since then, Franken has apparently moved to New York City. He recently conceded the obvious fact that there's no way in hell he's going to primary Gillibrand, and that leaves Chuck Schumer.
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Feb 9
More than half of the 38 Harvard professors who signed an open letter backing an accused sexual harasser on the college's faculty now say they no longer stand by the statement. bostonglobe.com/2022/02/08/met…
Twenty of the 38 signers have withdrawn their names. This after two of the twenty released a statement saying that the letter wasn't intended to say what it very clearly said. thecrimson.com/article/2022/2…
Four more Harvard profs removed their names from the Comaroff support letter overnight, bringing the total to 24 withdrawals out of 38 signatories. bostonglobe.com/2022/02/08/met…
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Feb 6
Weird how you don't use the word in this tweet.
"We need to use the n word while quoting racists so people will know how anti-racist we are, and I don't care if you think that's racist" is a seriously strange take.
Like, yes, I understand that there are arguments to be made that articulating that word is sometimes an antiracist practice. I find them far less compelling than I used to, but I understand them. But this ... isn't that.
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