“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham in an interview with @jessehagopian.bsky.social in @truthout.org on Thanksgiving propaganda. "A national origin story that hides the real foundations of the US." truthout.org/articles/the...

Instead of scrolling

"Authentic humans have edges. They have opinions. They have boundaries. These aren’t character flaws." www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...

#booksky super proud of my book baby, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation share.google/6QP3uhKpaSpj... Winner of the 2023 Lila Heston award for outstanding scholarship in Interpretation & Performance Studies

Thru the wreckage

We have updated detentionreports.com. 229 separate reports for 229 ICE detention facilities.

Why are people interested in 19th century British romances? Everyone is so boring just walking, dressing, eating, gossip & swooning. Yawn.

Never have I ever knowingly sought advice from a child molesting rapist disgraced financier.

Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free

I overeat

Hello tomorrow

Time for a reset

He must resign

Google Search is an advertising company, not a reliable information resource.

The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Trump must resign

It's time to hold ppl accountable for their racism

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

My Saturday read this week is DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESSS: AFRICAN AMERICAN CYBERCULTURES by Andre Brock Jr. #Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies

I'm in bed by 930!@!

When an audio book narrator is trying to do a Spanish accent but sounds like Dracula

Random: How have the purity culture pundits addressed the "falling" white American birthrate? Have they taken any responsibility?

Join and support DC residents in resisting occupation. Here are a few ways: ✅ Call/write your members of Congress using this toolkit and/or the action alert below from @freedcproject.bsky.social: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Thought cutting of sugar was dramatically impacting my weight. Turns out the 5lbs(!) i thought i was down last week was due to a broken scale

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

The people that always complain I don’t talk enough never seem to actually listen when I do speak

Look back, retrospect, & process. If you don't like what you see, be gentle on yourself & work to understand the context & why you responded the way you did #StudySlavery

Replaced wine with hot chocolate to sleep better This is bs

I just quit like 20 meetings!!!!

Time to walk the dog

🔥 MUST-WATCH: “And that’s why it’s important to teach ALL history, Jillian — not just cherry-pick certain % when they work for your argument.” @debunktionjunction.bsky.social fires Jillian Michaels’ claim “only 2% of whites owned slaves” into the sun Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNdRlSB...

Every $ spent hunting & detaining people is a $ stolen from safe water, comprehensive education, affordable health care, housibg, parks & other infrastructure projects, artists & arts institutions, and everything else that enriches life & community

Impeach & convict him

Rain

Public pool follies-- the old adage to wait an hour before swimming & to put a waterproof diaper on the baby hold up! We lost 90 mins of precious swim time today to poop (2 incidents) & vomit 🤢 💩 💩

Obama was coming to get their guns SMH

I love a public pool

I continue to reclaim & redefine my space. Today I conquered & removed an old dysfunctional dog crate. That's 2x3 feet back to live in!!!

2am fire alarm dealt with

Health care workers who are committed to providing quality, life-affirming care to all patients, and who want to connect with others and strategize around interrupting criminalization in health care settings, connect with our Beyond Do No Harm network. Check out the guide below to get started.

If we spent as much energy working to stop, meaning understand, prevent & heal, sex violence as campaigning for the release of the Epstein folder

Rest is so good. I got so much done today bc I dropped the dog at daycare. I really needed a break

Someone has decided their need to preach loudly over a sound system is more important than everyone else's need for anything else

People are starving in Darfur

Time why you punish me?

Some personal news: I have decided to take a vacation

Anybody else trying to get back to themselves?