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NYC🗽 Raised by a Librarian + govt cheese. Fuck fascism 🇺🇲
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The anti-CRT/DEI/WHITE movement predates the American education system. But don't take my word for it... Read the primary sources Hurry up. It might be illegal soon.

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NEW — “No immigrant is safe, not even those that serve in the United States Armed Forces. Whether you’re a member of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, Coast Guard or Space Force, if you were not born in the U.S., you are a target.” thetriibe.com/2025/02/blac...

A sweeping exhibition of works by the acclaimed American painter Amy Sherald, best known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is coming to the Whitney Museum this spring.

A fun Black History Month footnote to this is that the motif of the anthropomorphic legislative bill—known to most of us from Schoolhouse Rock—has roots in the Black press of the 1930s, as in these two editorial cartoons by Bill Chase & Romare Bearden, both highlighting anti-lynching legislation

🇺🇸🇺🇦 VoteVets stands with Ukraine. Putin’s war isn’t just about Ukraine—it’s about global security. If we abandon Ukraine, US Troops could be the ones fighting next. Supporting Ukraine means defending democracy and keeping Americans safe. We know what’s at stake. We won’t back down.

The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting for equity in farming.

You know this is 100% going to happen…

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

With all the talk of “constitutional crisis”focused on separation of powers,there’s been too little focus on Trump’s dedication to dismantling what historian Eric Foner calls “the most impt addition to the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.” The 14th Amendment. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

We told y'all. They not like us.

"Where is the King of America?' Thomas Paine had an answer in 1776 in "Common Sense." And it IS common sense. In America, the LAW is King. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bjj...

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

#tdih 1783 Belinda Sutton petitioned the Mass. legislature for a pension as #reparations for the wealth she produced & was stolen from her while she was enslaved. Read her petition and poem by Rita Dove. We offer two free lessons on reparations. ⬇️ 🧵#BHM2025 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/be...

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...