Read Vachel Lindsay, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Ibram X. Kendi, Angela Davis, Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt. Read Audre Lord, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Heather McGhee, Elaine Brown. Read Maya Angelou. Read Lecia Michelle and Amanda Gorman. And don't stop there. Get recommendations.

And the key to that is twofold: education and attention. Education: teach yourself about racism by reading the works of Black and Brown authors who've lived, studied, written, and taught about it. Read Frederick Douglass, Paul Jennings, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

I hear you cry, "how can we tell so we can stop? We don't *want* to be racist!" Good question. The bad news is that we may never succeed in completely eradicating the racism in ourselves until we end the culture of white supremacy once and for all. The good news is that we can still work on it.

And this is what we white people don't seem to understand. We've been steeped since birth in a white-supremacist culture. No matter how "anti-racist" we want to think our parents were, they were steeped in the same culture and passed it on to us. "But if we don't know we're being racist,"

Teddy as the cutest existential angst.

But a whole lot of white people get VERY upset if we talk about it. VERY upset.

I once again HIGHLY recommend “Black AF History” by Michael Harriot (whose other transgressions we shall leave to the side). I promise, you will be damned glad to discover that we are very much our ancestors. ✊🏾

Because Trump won't deal with the underlying problem, a good chance the pool will be covered in algae again soon. And Trump's PR motorcade across the pool might have caused damage.

The Reflecting Pool is the Trump admin in microcosm: *The pool has real problems, like leaky pipes, that are not being fixed *Superficial paint job that will actually make it look worse *No bid contract! No oversight! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

So everyone who said he couldn’t do this will learn not to say that any more, right? Because he’s absolutely going to do this.

*taps the fucking sign* bsky.app/profile/this...

Is the defection from MAGA in the room with us right now?

background: this email is a response to my newsletter this weekend on the virginia supreme court decision, where i said it was wrong and democrats should ignore it.

“'I would think that maybe a woman might like a larger package down there,' one 55-year-old manager in Southern California, who is into scrotal expansion." Some men will do anything except actually listen to what a woman wants.

😂 Liquid Smurf.

It looks like Blue Man Group took a collective soak 😑

Former Justice Minister Ziobro, wanted in Poland for misusing public funds and spying on his opponents, had been living in Hungary. After Orbán's defeat Ziobro received asylum in the United States from Trump. Our country has become a sanctuary for the world's criminals. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

SOLIDARITY IS ELECTRIFYING, ADDICTIVE, EUPHORIC AND TRANSCENDENTAL according to those who have begun their journey towards working for all of our collective liberation (so I hear)

FELLAS what if you took a look at your relationship to patriarchy, white supremacy & power & saw that you, too, benefited from all of our collective liberation instead of *checks notes* injecting surgilube and saline into your scrotum ? Just a thought? I have a reading list if you want?

Worth watching: i) the overall strategy is actually fine, however, this is a total disaster because ii) he has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about, and iii) we can have no confidence the strategy was or will be followed (e.g., pre-board screening or CDC-coordinated daily symptom screening.

/2 he is also a sadist who said how much he loves killing people and laughed about desecrating corpses. He opposes any form of regulating assault weapons. I don’t see a single redeeming value. He is a mirror of the absolute worst of the GQP.

UPDATE: OK, I still have to fill in more candidates & the preview graphic but here you go. "They're taking Black jobs now!" --Donald Trump, 6/27/24 I don't know what a "Black job" is, but these Dem seem to, so let's help them keep or achieve theirs. Donate now! secure.actblue.com/donate/black...

In the meantime, I do have this page set up already: secure.actblue.com/donate/vrast...

100% As bad as it's been since 10/7, it's been the reaction to Iran that has opened my eyes the most. Not just leftists. All the well-meaning white women who don't even realize how much they center themselves in everything.

It is insane that anyone could support an administration like this but then again, people are stupid

I need white peoples to divorce themselves from the belief that racism requires intent and malice

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

No Kings: They’re shooting White people in the face! Let’s have a nationwide protest!! Text 50501 to register! Also No Kings: if individual chapters want to protest the VRA being stripped, we support them but that’s on them!

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

If your way of meeting the moment is to insist, “Let’s all get behind Majorie Taylor Greene,” this is your moment to fuck right off.

Then there's the part where grain dust can blow up.

THANK YOU, @marcelias.bsky.social! THIS!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Signs have been there for awhile but watching them pretend like they didn't hound anyone with money before Steyer and decried things like ableism/racism/misogyny before Platner and then throw their principles into the toilet is something. x.com/trouble_man9...

And @tomsteyer.bsky.social is going hard against @xavierbecerra.bsky.social when XB is the only candidate with a record of holding environmental bad actor accountable. insideclimatenews.org/news/2612202...

because the person running Iran's propaganda has a somewhat average sense of humour and the person running the US' has had his brain cooked in a Discord chat for so long he thinks his weird ingroup jokes are even comprehensible to normal people

Tom Steyer invested nearly $90 million in a private prison company, CoreCivic, which operates detention centers for ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement. --Fresno Bee

Just know that if I see you eating Chick-Fil-A, I'm silently judging you as nobody I would feel safe around, and someone who is not an ally no matter what they might say. There are a dozen other options for a chicken sandwich that don't fund anti-LGBTQ+ persecution and oppression worldwide.

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Ben & Jerry's Sold for $326 Million w/One Condition: The new owner broke it & now the co-founder wants it back. Reporting by Emma Caplan-Fisher ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ben-jer...

B4 I go outside... for you nasally FDR fanatics. I have nothing against FDR, it's the way it was. But you can't speak of ANYTHING AMERICAN without including Black Americans literally. Y'alls wet dreams of FDR we had in Joe, but USA will always be behind,🌏🌎🌍bc most demographics think voting against🖤

We now have one of the co-founders of @marchforourlives.bsky.social endorsing a guy who loves assault rifles and the DSA endorsing a literal billionaire capitalist.

None of this makes sense. It is a flashing red warning sign letting us know that Americans lack critical thinking skills. @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social is literally trying to buy the election. He’s spent $160 million so far. Meanwhile, he makes $ millions off fossil fuels & private prisons used by ICE.

Uncritical mass slop digital new agism

“What if we crammed all the world’s religions together as undifferentiated training material for a statistical text model and called it the perfection of human morality”—my brother in cyber you are reinventing esoteric fascism from first principles

What really disgusts me is that the DNC decided to say “we must reject AIPAC” (many Jewish Americans Then, in the next breath say “we must embrace someone who didn’t just choose a swastika, but the symbol for the guards tortured and murdered civilians”

And, despite their being a rapist in the white house, the DNC is ok with a rape apologist being in the party.