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Scholar, teacher, lover of shoes and dogs. At work on a book, "Soul Sounds: The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music"
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How will kids be able to text their parents goodbye during school shootings?

submitted 17 days ago • 318 comments

If, like me, you need some direction about how to fight the end of democracy in the US and the patriarchal white supremacists who seek that end, here is a guide for how to act now: lots of options here for all sorts of forms of resistance. Thank you to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and team for this.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Even folks with a minimal amount of knowledge of Constitutional law understand that this "guest essay" is utter bullshit, grounded in nothing but racism. If NYT has any shame or integrity, they will retract it

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 34 days ago • 307 comments

The 20-year-old hackers are not “little boys” or “kids.” To call them such is to minimize the gravity of their actions. When I recall the long history of criminalizing Black youth and designating them “adults,” this makes my blood boil. The racialized construction of “childhood” holds strong.

submitted 41 days ago • 26 comments

Please tell me the hill that you will die on, so that I can transport you there immediately

submitted 42 days ago • 66 comments

Well, it's your own damn fault you're not a billionaire. That's the platform, it seems

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Attacks on higher ed are also attacks on the economy. Pass it on.

submitted 49 days ago • 18 comments

No matter their race, creed, ethnicity, or immigration status, your neighbors are not - and never have been - your enemy. The villains in the American story have always been the wealthy and powerful interests seeking to turn you against your neighbor in order to maintain their place at the top.

submitted 50 days ago • 105 comments

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

This afternoon, I was hiking along the Mississippi River in north Minneapolis, MN. As always, I had my camera with long zoom lens for birds. I couldn't help but notice a helicopter following the river, turn back and forth a half dozen times. I finally zoomed way in and took a few pics. Jan 25, 2025.

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

Folks in Minneapolis, there has been a helicopter circling over South Minneapolis (we live near Lake and Minnehaha) for a while, but it is NOT showing up on my flight radar app. Anyone know what's up? I saw one local poster who said they saw a US Customs & Border Control chopper today!

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Target: where everything is on sale for 3/5ths off

submitted 53 days ago • 94 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 53 days ago • 1358 comments

www.teenvogue.com/story/billio...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

3/3 including all children here born of resident aliens.” The case signaled national acceptance of the concept of citizenship as birthright for all—with the significant exception of its exclusion of some indigenous peoples. There is just no way to make such a thing happen via EO (given 3 branches)

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

2/3 Justice Stephen J. Field wrote in the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment "affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory . . .

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

1/3 The EO ending Birthright citizenship is of course blatantly unconstitutional, given the 14th amendment of 1868. It also unconstitutionally attempts to overturn the landmark 1898 US v. Wong Kim Ark, a case centered on a California-born son of Chinese immigrants who left the US to visit China.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

submitted 68 days ago • 376 comments

I just donated, thanks to Ash Chudgar. Consider donating!

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna... This is the act that made me cancel my Post subscription. As a Maryland native, I have had this newspaper in my homes for my entire life. The Pentagon Papers and Watergate coverage, and this is now the depths to which the paper has sunk . .

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. Thank you for being one of the remarkable people who demonstrated that what's often thought of as time for retirement is when some among us reach their prime. Thank you for your feminism, your advocacy for Palestinians, your hands-on Habitat for Humanity work....

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments

We need a ban on stock trading by members of Congress. I am sure the vast majority of our constituents would agree.

submitted 90 days ago • 56 comments

“For nearly 40 years, the City of Philadelphia, the and the Penn Museum have refused to treat the MOVE Bombing victims or their families with the even most basic level of respect and decency[...]a long line of atrocities Black folks in America have had to live with” www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments