Charlene A. Carruthers
charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
Charlene A. Carruthers
@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer.
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
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I just wrote my first set of #morningpages. My hand is beyond sore. I hope to gain more stamina with regular practice. I started not because I feel completely blocked. I wanna level up. I'm writing a dissertation, a feature length screenplay, in post on a short, and pre- on another short.
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Chicago reshuffling how $8M in HIV funding will be directed after grant process mismatch

Chicago health officials are revising how roughly $8 million in federal HIV funding will be allocated after the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) released grant applications before a required spending…
Chicago reshuffling how $8M in HIV funding will be directed after grant process mismatch
Chicago health officials are revising how roughly $8 million in federal HIV funding will be allocated after the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) released grant applications before a required spending plan was finalized. As a result, HIV service providers last year applied for grants without knowing how much funding would be available for different services, leaving some organizations requesting less money than was ultimately allocated for those programs—a mismatch that advocates warned could translate into smaller grants and cuts to certain services at some organizations.
windycitytimes.com
March 18, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Racist BS!
Wow. A CAF appeals board have stripped Senegal of its Africa Cup of Nations final victory over Morocco and awarded Morocco a 3-0 win. This is incredible. Comes after Morocco, hugely influential in African football circles, appealed an original decision.

www.cafonline.com/news/caf-app...
CAF Appeal Board Media Statement
The CAF Appeal Board decided that in application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the Senegal National Team is declared to have forfeited the Final Match of t...
www.cafonline.com
March 18, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Israeli war on Lebanon killing or wounding 30 children each day
<article data-history-node-id="436108" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-war-lebanon-killing-or-wounding-30-children-each-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-war-lebanon-killing-or-wounding-30-children-each-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli war on Lebanon killing or wounding 30 children each day</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli war on Lebanon is killing or wounding the equivalent of an entire classroom of children every day, a senior Unicef official said.</p> <p>Lebanon’s health ministry has reported that Israeli strikes have killed at least 111 children and wounded 334 since 2 March, when Israel expanded its attacks on Lebanon. The toll averages nearly 30 children killed or injured each day.</p> <p>"That's a classroom of children every day since the beginning of the war that's either killed or injured in Lebanon," Unicef Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban said in an interview&nbsp; with Reuters on Tuesday.</p> <p>Israeli attacks have killed more than 900 people in Lebanon since 2 March, Lebanese data shows, while sweeping evacuation orders have forced over one million people from their homes. Among them are roughly 350,000 children.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
March 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Patios has been one of my favorite festival experiences to date.
March 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
www.404media.co
March 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
March 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

Context:
The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts
North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.
boltsmag.org
March 4, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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Did you know Latino men have the US’s highest risk of new HIV infections? They are 72% more likely to be diagnosed than the general population—and in Minneapolis, they are skipping clinic visits for fear of ICE, report @cameronoakes.bsky.social & @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care
Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.
rewirenewsgroup.com
March 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.

With @oregonian.com
Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia
After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...
www.propublica.org
March 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I've been going a bit ham for this project because it's an amazing chance to bring much-needed mental health support to children formerly in occupation detention—and we only have a few weeks to make it happen.

Therapy workshops and more. Anything helps: chuffed.org/project/hmg
Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention
Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…
chuffed.org
February 27, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Transgender residents of Kansas have received letters informing them that a new state law requires them to forfeit their driver’s licenses if they include a gender marking that doesn’t match the sex identity they were assigned at birth.
Kansas Invalidates Transgender People’s IDs After GOP Legislature Passes New Law
The law, which goes into effect on Thursday, provides no grace period for the people it affects.
buff.ly
February 26, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
"Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"
Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...
www.thecrimson.com
February 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Knowing that White supremacists are living out their ancestors dreams is not a comforting thing.
February 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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But before there was MARTA, before the high-rises, before Black folks were paid for the culture that created the pulse of this city, we were on the auction block.

atlanta.capitalbnews.org/underground-...
Atlanta’s Five Points Was Once a Slave Market - Capital B News - Atlanta
This Juneteenth, we're remembering the ancestors sold at slave markets in Atlanta.
atlanta.capitalbnews.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Amazon's latest data center project in Canton, Mississippi, has left residents unprepared for how its development would change their daily lives.

“We had no idea all of this was coming,” said René Johnson. “They didn't tell us anything, even when it was in the making.”
Amazon’s Canton AI Data Center Brings Dust, Noise and Pollution Fears for Neighbors
Canton residents say that a new Amazon data center is bringing unwanted dust and noise, raising concerns about pollution and falling property values.
buff.ly
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.
Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform.

Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!
Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This
Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.
www.thenation.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Is it me or is the Black History Month pandering low this year?
February 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…
February 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
HOW do the OG abolitionists do it? I'm a baby in comparison to many of the folks who've been doing this for decades.
January 30, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Pero, this whole place thrives on the force of violence. What would be possible if many many more of us who wanted any aspect of it to end, organized ourselves with *that* in mind?
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 PM
I be so stressed reading this stuff as someone who believes in and works towards PIC abolition.

What is PIC? What is PIC abolition: from our comrades at Critical Resistance: criticalresistance.org/mission-visi...
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 PM