Darion, PhD(ish)
@blackenthoughts
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✊🏾🌍. @Stanford PhD Candidate. Black Study. Abolition. History. 1906.
Joined July 2009
With a few PhD acceptances in hand, I’m excited to share a piece of good news. I’ve decided to return to Stanford this Fall (🤞🏾) to earn my PhD in Education as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and EDGE Fellow. Momma, this last degree is for you! All glory be to God 🙏🏾 #PhDLoading👨🏾🏫📚
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For the record the Doctor in PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) comes from the Latin docere, meaning to teach. Originating in 13th century, it was used exclusively for academics who had reached the highest level of education. Only later, expanded to include medical professionals.
Sorry, literally every person who goes by “Dr.” and isn’t a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception. Not one.
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The latest episode of @ItsInTheMiddle “In The Middle: Democrats” is now available on YouTube and Patreon 🧵👇🏽 This week @DaShaunLH @TheKingofReads and I share our thoughts on the 2025 election, the Zohran campaign and our Left skepticism
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The way he walks off when the meat falls off the bone…🤣🤣🤣🤌🏾🤌🏾. I must try this...🫡🫡
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Erica R. Edwards you’ll always be famous!
MSNBC’s @AymanM asks former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if she regrets defending Biden’s Gaza policy through 15 months of mass civilian killings and war crimes. @K_JeanPierre : “I was vey proud of everything that I did. I don’t take anything back.”
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Black Studies would like a word
In a new quantum experiment, scientists saw something that challenges everything we think we know about time. Instead of flowing forward like a river, time seemed to loop and fold back on itself. Particles behaved as if their future could affect their past, blurring the line
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Announcing pub of AMERICAN GRAMMAR! 📕 AG is a new origin story of US schooling that examines deep ties between native land dispossession, slavery, and the development of education. Eager to share with all interested in reckoning with history & the pursuit of educational justice.
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Obama prosecuted more journalists using the Espionage Act than all presidents before him combined. He arrested, jailed & tortured Chelsea Manning for revealing war crimes committed in our name. He repealed the Smith-Mundt act which now allows the CIA/FBI to directly
OBAMA: “I've become increasingly concerned about the rising wave of authoritarianism … We're seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system, and no one is being spared.”
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Mainstream media is doing its best to make sure you don’t see these images. Share!
Amsterdam: At least 250,000 people attended massive pro-Palestine protest today.
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4/4: "In terms of finance, we force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. In France, the number of medical bankruptcies is zero. Britain: zero. Japan: zero. Germany: zero." Exhibit 500,000 that we're a third-world country in a Gucci belt. ,
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She ruled against the Trump administration and the DOJ not long ago.
BREAKING: Liberal South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion. SLED is investigation as arson and refer attack as Judge Goodstein had been receiving multiple threats. Her husband, a former state senator is in the hospital.
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A single performance can really change the way I feel towards a project because I just gave her album another chance because of this and ended up saving the entire album except for three songs 😭😭
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Check out my friend doing very smart things 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Yeah, this is blasphemy. Missiles launching [your kingdom come], soldiers marching [your will be done], weapons of war heading towards enemy combatants [on earth], war crimes being committed [as it is in heaven].
A prayer for Charlie, our warriors, and for our nation.
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1) don’t wish that upon him, 2) we’ve been waiting on you
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Goldie Williams, Arrested For Vagrancy & Refused to Unfold Her Arms and Stop Making This Face For Her 1898 Mugshot. (Omaha, Nebraska)
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Was I the only one waiting for Kelis lmaoooo
KATSEYE serves in denim for their GAP campaign collab with fully released choreo #KATSEYE @katseyeworld
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The Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Global Black Geographies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2026. https://t.co/sZ13N1hlet
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“He’s your husband, you should know” 😭😭 kids are too funny
She barely made it through this Q and A from her children . Cos what sort of questions are those ?? Bruhhhh 😭😭😭😭
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some of you are walking love letters, and you don't even realise it. you light up rooms, shift atmospheres, and inspire people just by being you. it's such a precious gift
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“Can blackness be loved?” - Fred Moten, Dreams Are Colder Than Death (2014)
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