Jo and Joy Banner are turning the plantation home into a museum and community hub—bridging revolt history with modern environmental activism and resilience. https://capitalbnews.org/largest-slave-revolt-louisiana-black-sisters/

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This thread asking for advice on learning a second language as an adult has a TON of recommendations, including strategies and alternative apps to use instead of — or together with — Duolingo. #LanguageLearning #LangSky #Linguistics

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

The Rev. Darryl Johnson and his brother Hermon Johnson Jr. opened the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and Heritage to tell the history of the Mississippi town. https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/

This from @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social @newyorker.com is brilliant and necessary. I'm grateful for it. What Kind of New World Is Being Born? www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

Thank goodness that's over.

wow

Black Santa is back. Here's why he matters so much, says @CallieCrossley: https://www.wgbh.org/commentary/2019/12/02/black-santa-is-back-heres-why-he-matters-so-much

Merry Capitalism

@rygraham.bsky.social is right. GOP leaders are pointing fingers at each other over *some* racism/bigotry but conveniently overlooking others. Until they denounce it all they’re just a bunch of hypocrites not fooling anyone. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/23/o...

Just ... no words anymore...

Another reminder that FBI tasked 934 agents and other personnel to review & redact Epstein files between March & May & prepare the docs for public release. FBI paid $851K in OT/premium pay for a week's worth of work. Via my #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.

"The risk in framing racism as mental illness is that it locates problem of racism in individual psychopathology rather than in deeply entrenched systems and structures... We can address individual psychopathology and systemic injustice at once.. they are co-constitutive and symbiotic." - L. Bruce

About the same, I'd say.

"On this project, almost 100% of what appears on screen was sculpted, animated, and painted by hand ... shows that you can create films that truly stand out and resonate with audiences, while keeping people – real human craft – at the centre of the process." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GthF...

Baldwin called this willful innocence. It's a symptom of the disease of whiteness (which can infect anyone), where it began and then hopped to other things. It was always going to help destroy America as so many Black thinkers predicted. I see folks on here manifest it every day still. 1/2

Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.

If you haven't been opening up the little windows on our CHRISTMAS MOVIE DRESS ADVENT CALENDAR all month, now's the time to get caught up before we reveal the ultimate Christmas movie dress tomorrow! tomandlorenzo.com/tag/movie-ad...

Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed? This is what they led to. www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)

If you watch without sound, it's pretty obvious. Also, less irritating.

Some of us have been working with the Southern Poverty law center on all of this so this NYT piece is just awful. Truly. Anyway, Happy Holidays, despite the dreck that passes for knowledge. www.splcenter.org/resources/re...

It was just a matter of time before companies figured out how to fully profit off of everything they know about us. #SurveillancePricing www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Men.

This, Mike Pence raiding the Heritage, this is all part of the next GOP long game. They see the end of Trumpism coming. They will lay low then reappear as "reasonable" Republicans. Democrats will trip over each other racing across the aisle, will pardon & "look forward." And the cycle begins again.

Through the disasters of this year, our writers delivered fearless analysis and creative resilience—refusing to compromise on fundamental values of justice and humanity in the face of brazen cruelty and democratic decline. Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:

The French certainly know about theater of the absurd.

Two weeks ago, federal officials pulled Somali-Americans out of line at Faneuil Hall where they waited to be sworn in as naturalized citizens. We will not be quiet. Boston is the cradle of liberty and we stand with our Somali neighbors.

Utterly lawless: "Agents lined up Latino workers and released people they said were U.S. citizens. They questioned and detained 57 people, including people who said only that they wanted a lawyer." www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is arresting people in front of their kids during school drop-offs, on the way to church, and at routine check-ins at immigration offices. Communities are pushing back, leading to clashes with police and protests. These raids are remaking the country.

Ravishingly offensive.

This is a great bit of reporting from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social who has been diligently following Greg Bovino all over the country: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Goddamn is this brilliant www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/21/t...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Angela Davis told me women were the backbone of Black radical movements and “the government recognized more than our own people the power of Black women.” In relentlessly targeting Shakur, it’s my opinion that the government was attempting to deter Black women from joining the liberation struggle.”

This is the story Bari Weiss apparently doesn't want you to hear. Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Breathtakingly, horrifyingly racist, even for this administration.

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He’s ethnically cleansing the US

Recalling how @rygraham.bsky.social left the Globe Editorial Board shortly after the EB’s shameful publication of its now-infamous “We need more Charlie Kirks” editorial. Graham *always* elevates the dialog. We need more Rob and Michele Singer Reiners 🔥 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/18/o...

New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about UBI and mental health

"Every day we delay implementing universal basic income, people suffer unnecessarily. They experience anxiety & depression that could be prevented. Their trust in society erodes, eroding faith in democracy itself. Children grow up with chronic stress that shapes their brains in lasting ways.

The science is in, and it’s unambiguous: universal basic income would be one of the most powerful mental health interventions humanity has ever devised."

I ❤️ Rick Steves.

To report 2.7% inflation for November, the Trump Admin excluded data on food, housing, electricity, clothing, medical care, and most other categories. In fact, only 3 of more than 20 price categories were included in the calculations, making the report meaningless. Actual inflation is much higher.

As Russ Vought attempts to dismantle one of the nation's most prestigious scientific research institutions, watch @propublica.org's YouTube doc about who Vought is, how he got so much power — and what, in the end, he wants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...