In 1952, 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans of NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (w/ lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won. Now Army removed her story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...

Justice Jackson is my Lady Liberty this Independence Day. As our Democracy clings to her for dear life, I celebrate and salute her courage, honesty, integrity, erudition, and talent as a communicator. God bless America and God bless Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

The Architecture of Forgetting: Part 2 Inheriting the American split-screen reality "...It required learning to recognize a person while simultaneously refusing to recognize their personhood." #AmericanReflections open.substack.com/pub/tpartrid...

July 4th: Two Narratives, One Story substack.com/profile/2871... #AmericanReflections #DemVoice1

#America250 🇺🇸

Wednesday Musings: Knowing myself, I can open a space. I decenter myself to hear everyone else. In the space I leave Witnessing becomes a part of me. I become more whole. #AmericanReflections

Been reading On Courage. It should be required reading for Dems: “This basic arithmetic problem means sometimes living with contradictions, even embracing them.” Politics isn’t about finding people who agree w/you on everything. It’s finding enough people to push the jeep out of the mud together.

Giving Trump the power to fire heads of independent agencies lets him influence what should be technical decisions at the agencies that make modern life possible. Now he has power to run this country into the ground the way other dictators have done theirs. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity and shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza. The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge”. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to learn to think in radical terms.” —Ella Baker

Happy Friday! Enjoy this powerful reminder of what American leadership looked like when dignity, stability, and strength through unity (in spite of differences) still mattered. We can’t go back, but we can choose which parts of the past are worth taking with us as we move forward.

D.C. An algae covered reflection. substack.com/profile/2871... #AmericanReflections #DemVoice1

The more you know... the more you should be angry as fu@k about this situation. IJS.

Remember to use this again for Nov midterms! Billionaires don't stand at the gas pump watching their money drain away. They don't care about your grocery costs, your mortgages, your jobs, healthcare for you and your family, your freedoms. Vote the GOP OUT! Tax the billionaires! TY Lincoln Project!

Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.

Just a reminder that the US Woman’s team has won the World Cup four times already.

My latest essay in our Substack! We’d love it if you would read and give #KitchenBitches a follow at #bakingitsbetterthanmurder substack.com/@bakingitsbe...

This three-part series traces a lifelong confrontation with America’s competing narratives of itself. It follows the emergence of a deeper question: how does a society sustain two incompatible versions of its own history? substack.com/@typartridge...

BREAKING - No ICE Facility in Romulus! We've been fighting this for months and USCIS is now planning to sell the facility. This is a huge win and I will keep fighting against ICE terrorizing our neighborhoods until we abolish ICE! www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

In preparation for Juneteenth I am recirculating this piece about America’s founding mis-mythology. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s essay: Juneteenth and the Architecture of Violence and Forgetting: An American Tragedy. #AmericanReflections substack.com/profile/2871...

A novel but accurate description

Happy #ObamaDay #DemVoice1

The HELL with the World Cup. THIS is my TV viewing all this afternoon!

Big first-contract win for Mississauga Walmart workers, but to truly transform conditions longterm, unions will have to scale up, organize across multiple sites, and build real sectoral leverage. www.mississauga.com/news/mississ... #canlab

Coming Soon from American Reflections #AmericanReflections #DemVoice1

"The work shifts from an exhausting moral disbelief to an enriching moral alignment. ... I am going to resist by using my space to hold up voices that have been silenced, muted, discarded." #AmericanReflections #DemVoice1 substack.com/@typartridge...

While we are being warned of a possible night attack, I want to turn to Ukrainian poetry. Poems by Ukrainian poet and servicewoman Yaryna Chornohuz will be published in the US by Arrowsmith Press this autumn.

Sounds like a plan. #BookSky

‘No Kings’ movement planning nationwide protests on King Trump's 80th birthday.

If you have been racialized as white and are not doing everything you can to dismantle the system of white supremacy within which we live --- you suck. I said what I said.

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The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Gas is currently $5.09 in my area. Minimum wage in PA is $7.25 You gotta work 45 mins for a gallon of gas to drive to your minimum wage job. How much longer before people just stop showing up because it's unaffordable to do so?

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” Emma Goldman, who died on this day in 1940

This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Ousting this administration is necessary to stop the harms. Ousting the culture that created it is an existential necessity. #DemVoice1

Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt

These two posts showed up right next to each other in my feed this morning. I have nothing else to add. #DemVoice1

Everybody loves space chickens #Svengoolie #metv

#FistInTheAirFriday What is your act of #resistance today? #DemVoice1 #AmericanReflections

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! #art #drawing

my review is up 😭 i still can't believe this book is real, that I got to write it.

"The grief of bearing witness has its own flavor. It asks, why should I care, and answers, because I find I must." open.substack.com/pub/tpartrid...

'We shower money on generals & on nobles, we keep high-born paupers living on the national charity, we squander wealth with both hands on...palaces; but we grudge every halfpenny that increases the education rate & howl down every proposal to build decent houses for the poor' (Annie Besant, 1893).

The Weight of Seeing "I am learning what it means to see too much - and to remain accountable to what I see." New from American Reflections open.substack.com/pub/tpartrid... #AmericanReflections #DemVoice1

#FistInTheAirFriday #NoLabor #NoBuying #NoFeedingTheMachine #NoKings #MayDay2026