“Feds bust $1 billion Medicare fraud” and other tweeted links…

Feds bust $1 billion Medicare fraud in 'Operation Brace Yourself' using foreign telemarketing firms, deceptive trade practices https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-take-down-1-billion-fraud-scheme-operation-brace-yourself-n992481 via @nbcnews

In January, dozens of Inglewood families received notices like the one below, saying their rent would double. Here, a 2-bedroom apt that was $1,200 would rent for $2,725. No renovation would be made. My story on the gentrification of Inglewood https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-inglewood-gentrification-rent-crenshaw-rams-stadium-20190410-htmlstory.html https://twitter.com/AngelJennings/status/1115983174125801473/photo/1

I ran on a promise to end the President’s hateful Muslim ban.

And tomorrow we will introduce a bill do just that. No one should be denied basic rights because of their religion, race or national origin. #NoBanAct ✊🏽

Rep. Ilhan Omar Faces Death Threats & “Dangerous Hate Campaign” as Right-Wing Attacks Continue http://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/16/rep_ilhan_omar_faces_death_threats

While some are “shocked” by the level of female led protests and engagement in the current #SudanUprising a reminder that #Sudan has had a rich & vibrant woman’s movement since the early 1900s pre-dating Sudan’s 56 independence. It’s in our history...in our blood. https://twitter.com/bbcafrica/status/1114539731243753477

Russian parliament voted to isolate its networks (and deploy filtering) from the internet. Motivation: protection against "foreign cyberattacks". https://www.dw.com/cda/en/russias-parliament-votes-to-unplug-internet-from-world/a-48334411 https://twitter.com/lukOlejnik/status/1113087602603720704

Recent reports have came out that Howard University Students feel disrespected by residents using the yard as a dog park 🐕 but this resident thinks the campus should be moved 😮😡 https://twitter.com/AngieAngeAM/status/1119209400856608768/video/1

Black Star News invited me to write about the fire at Notre Dame and the need for France to return its thousands of stolen African artifacts from French museums to Africa. This is after I made a comment on FB and it went viral. #african #artifacts #france http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/europe/with-notre-dame-fire-maybe-france-should-now-understand-how

Serena Williams reveals her investment in Andela http://bit.ly/2v9AP4b https://twitter.com/Mx_Tobor/status/1119270691529023488/photo/1

‘despite the fact that African Americans were amongst the first scholars in the US to study the peoples & cultures of the African continent, African Studies became a field controlled by white, mostly male scholars who branded themselves as “Africanists”’ https://www.aaihs.org/race-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-production-in-african-studies/

@barnor_hesse Importantly, I think Dr. Gerald Horne left me with the impression that it was Black historiographic scholarship that caused the white establishment to stop writing histories in an indulgent fiction-prose style and start using footnotes in a professional manner.

More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products

http://bit.ly/2WT3Ht9

Long before #BlackLivesMatter, Paul Robeson used his celebrity and art to raise funds for the defense of the Trenton Six, a group of African American men wrongfully convicted of murder. #TrentonMakesMusic Learn more: http://www.trentonmakesmusic.org/article/paul-robeson/

Thomas Mann Explains the Nazis’ Ulterior Motive for Spreading Anti-Semitism in Rare 1940 Audio http://www.openculture.com/?p=1063121 https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1117805024803844096/photo/1

In the 10 years after abolition of slavery, slave owners in America had lost almost 80% of their wealth,

But in the next 10 years, their sons had recovered it all and even exceeded their families' former wealth in the subsequent 10 https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/04/04/the-sons-of-slaveholders-quickly-recovered-their-fathers-wealth

The Dutch East India Company was richer than Apple, Google and Facebook combined – DutchReview https://dutchreview.com/culture/history/how-rich-was-the-dutch-east-india-company/

@timnitGebru @rajiinio @amazon White historians used to write history in flowery, fiction-like prose until the Black scholars showed up with objectivity and copious amounts of footnotes —then everyone started being this disciplined, floating all boats... some bigger than others😇

37,000 LADWP customers remain without power amid high winds, toppled trees across Southland https://abc7.com/weather/37000-ladwp-customers-remain-without-power-amid-high-winds/5241540/

Read More About This Article: http://bit.ly/2KlTmVh

NYC declares emergency over measles outbreak, mandates vaccinations - Officials say anti-vaxxers are fueling the outbreak by spreading “fake science.”#health https://twitter.com/bjhealthtips/status/1115774383988060161/photo/1

New York City Has a Y2K-Like Problem, and It Doesn't Want You To Know About It https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/16/1723218/new-york-city-has-a-y2k-like-problem-and-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Ground Breaking Work conducted by @MicroPlastic101. This study needs to be brought to Africa @wiomsa @UNAbjConvention @NCSecretariat #microplastics #research #BeatPlasticPollution https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastics-are-blowing-in-the-wind/

Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest hearts in the world http://bit.ly/2IvkdfS

The artificial intelligence field is too white and too male, researchers say https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18410501/artificial-intelligence-ai-diversity-report-facial-recognition?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter via @Verge

"these technologies are being deployed widely without oversight, oftentimes covertly, so that by the time we wake up, it’s almost too late." MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon's Wrath #algorithms #privacy #regulation https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/04/08/523153.htm/ https://twitter.com/RobVeloso/status/1117833168407625734

How Diet May Have Changed the Way Humans Speak https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/03/20/0012225/how-diet-may-have-changed-the-way-humans-speak?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

"Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it." 😱 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html

Aphex Twin Interviews Ex Korg Engineer about Synths, Microtuning, Math, & Dreams http://bit.ly/2X6Se9B https://twitter.com/winsontang/status/1117101406547132416/photo/1

So my sis is the first black woman to receive a PhD in the Physics department of University of Glasgow 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Malcom X Gallery presents Ben Kellogg and Paul Gondry at Art Cologne 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0aZ83Ou0X8&feature=youtu.be via @YouTube #artcologne

I've been very impressed with Anthony Caleshu's Periplum imprint! This is the title poem of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's pamphlet, 'Hofstetter's Serenade'. You know it's been a good day when this gem from Ní Chuilleanáin appears in the mail alongside Mark Ford's 'Nairobi, 1963'... https://twitter.com/anaffissahely/status/1115862784460374016/photo/1

John Lee Hooker "Boom Boom," October 1964, British TV show 'The Beat Room.' The backing band is the Groundhogs. https://twitter.com/NikkiKreuzer/status/1115838193360875522/video/1

And this interview about "The Palace" is also poetry. Kaveh Akbar on bells, English as a brutal medium, barbarism, and thinking beyond America as a metaphor. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/throwing-weight-into-sound-kaveh-akbar-on-poetry-and-power?verso=true

South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95% | World Economic Forum #zerowaste https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/south-korea-recycling-food-waste/

RT @mymoneyblog: The Lifestyle Secrets of Okinawan Centenarians https://www.mymoneyblog.com/the-lifestyle-secrets-of-okinawan-centenarians.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Imagine who you would be if you didn't have to bear the financial weight of systemic disenfranchisement that effects the pple you love, your family, your close friends-that chips away at & destabilizes the most successful, well intentioned of us...

Imagine what you could build.

Isn’t it curious that all these great places to live (like Charlottesville) are really terrible for black people? This is not because the system is broken; it’s because the system is working. https://twitter.com/drlisabthompson/status/1116101490983297024

Dear fellowships/ residencies,

Please stop making higher education a requirement.

Many talented writers and cultural critics could not and can not afford the cost of college/ university.

Let’s stop with the academic elitism.

Signed, A writer with no degree in anything

@Ajairah1 Ah, then we are both being proactively rhetorical for the sake of the young people, held captive by this corporate-sponsored social media😇

@Ajairah1 the very concept of a “wish”—and “hope” by the way—are not indigenous, foundational and transliteral into any African language—this assertion leaves the colonized one with the punk-ass question, “What do we do without wishes and hopes?”🌍

@Ajairah1 A family tradition that I have failed to start is visiting the Nile Valley region at the end of every solar year—this would the eldest and the most O.G. “Christmas” tradition🌍🐝🌅

@Ajairah1 here are two English-captive terms that our Black academic tradition would encourage you to investigate:

• liberation theology
• syncretism

Also, the life of Nat Turner and Bob Marley are famous examples of how enslaving religio can be used like judo😇

@Ajairah1 “God” is not a word that transliterates into the pre-Greco-Roman forms of any indigenous African language. We must have the sensitive soul to be interested in this assertion and the discipline to see the difference between translation and transliteration.

@Ajairah1 “God” is not even Latin word as it is more Teutonic which means no where near the traditional, European Holy lands. Most of the words that matter in any history of abstraction involving Europe are Greek.

Here is a Greek word:

• Miletus

😇🌍

@Ajairah1 Let George Orwell rant about this: modern English is an imperial language; modern English is by design egocentric and materialistic. Never trust a Black “leader” that never tries to systematically and scientifically escape from imperial languages again and again⛄

@Ajairah1 When your patience for your ancestors is still there, then dig this:

• Serapis Jesus

Every imperial system requires sacred ligare —religio —which is why deep Black people don’t flirt with empire😇

@Ajairah1 the colonized one will never ask of anything beyond that question and never expects a sane answer to this question; there is no “argument” or “debate”: she is cooked—she’s done💸👯👽🙈🙉🙊💩🍗

@Ajairah1 When it is revealed as true, who me think you are, then your decision for who you choose will be like choosing who lives

and who dies☔😇

@Ajairah1 😇😍😇