On Monday, February 16, I participated on a Black History Month panel w/ the Rev. Peter Johnson, a Dallas civil rights icon. The event took place at the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Allen. It was co-sponsored by the Shalom Community Fellowship Church. Sam Karma took the photo.

I co-wrote an op-ed on why Dallas should become a Human Rights City before the World Cup comes to town. I suggest that Dallas police should refuse to cooperate with ICE in serving administrative warrants as part of this process. @americanstudier.bsky.social www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

In 1988, I was a Jesse Jackson delegate to the Texas Senate District Convention in Tarrant County. His politics were the most closely aligned with mine of any Democrat in my lifetime along with the other person pictured here, Bernie Sanders.

Aminah Chowdhry, a religion & philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, delivered a talk about Islam & social justice at our church yesterday. I’m not naming the church because it has already been firebombed by rightwing terrorists incited by local Republicans.

Tomorrow. morning, I will talk to a history class at SMU about a book I wrote 20 years ago called “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.” In the evening, I will participate in this panel discussion with a Dallas civil rights icon, the Rev. Peter Johnson.

I already have osteoarthritis and psoriatic arthritis but ever since a car accident a couple of years ago in which my thumb was broken I ache even more when we have rain like today in the Dallas area. That’s a shame because I like listening to rain storms.

Dominic at his job with a steel company in South Korea.

Somebody called the alternative halftime with Kid Rock “Klanchella” and I already know I will enjoy that more than the game.

I'll speak this afternoon at the central branch of Dallas Public Library downtown about my first book, "White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001," published 20 years ago. The talk will be from 2-3:30 p.m. We hope we see you there.

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I are at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy Culture Fest in Austin. She’s making a presentation based on our book “The Purifying Knife: the Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas.”

I speak this Saturday from 2-3:30 p.m. at the downtown Dallas Central Library about the 20th anniversary of my 1st book, "White Metropolis." I'll about the book I co-authored last year with Betsy Friauf, "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas." Hope I see you there.

This is one of the journalists arrested by the Trump goons in the justice department for covering that protest in the Minneapolis church. She's doing brave work. Please support her. www.georgiafort.com/support

I was busy this morning. Betsy sketched me doing my rounds this morning.

It seems fitting that on the day some of the most disgusting descriptions of powerful sexual predators in the Epstein files becomes public, Texas A&M kills women’s & gender studies classes where students might learn the history of patriarchy & misogyny and how such oppression has been resisted.

I wrote about heroic and cowardly responses to ICE and the racist war on migrants in the United States in Minneapolis and Texas. open.substack.com/pub/drmphill...

This made my day. I posted a selfie on Instagram from a day Betsy & I were at a vigil outside of the Dallas ICE headquarters. The photo got a response: "Dr. Phillips, keep up the good work. I was a student of yours a decade ago. I am so proud you were MY professor. Keep 'Making Good Trouble.'"

"We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” --- Ta-Nehisi Coates

My friend & podcast colleague @stevanzetti.bsky.social wrote an investigative piece revealing the location of a warehouse in Hutchins near Dallas where up to 9,500 migrants from all over the country might be imprisoned in degrading conditions. www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

Samee Ahmad for Acacia Magazine wrote a thoughtful story here about the irony of a deeply socially conservative mosque I Plano in North Texas becoming a target of hate from right wing politicians aligned with Christian Nationalists. I'm quoted here. www.acaciamag.com/issue-04/dre...

I have at this point only three events marking the twentieth anniversary of my first book, "White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001." Here's one of them.

We stood w/ the Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response (CLEAR) at Kessler United Methodist Church in Dallas during a press conference about the brutality in Minneapolis and ICE's plan to imprison migrants in nearby Hutchins. Photo by Dallas journalist Steven Vanzetti Monacelli.

We’ve moved on to deliberately killing detainees rather quickly, haven’t we? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There has been a sinister shift although whitewashing King, what I called his second assassination, was destructive in its own right.

"Well, maybe if we gave the Gestapo more training and made them wear body cameras they wouldn't be so abusive," said no one in Nazi Germany.

A question I ask every day.

I'm waiting for Trump to announce we're going to invade McDonaldland.

As part of his internship, Dominic visited a steel factory his company owns.

Let me get this straight: we’re going to kill some Iranians because they’ve killed some protestors there while we killed a protestor here.

Their dimwittery gives me hope.

Dude’s out here making Ron Burgundy look like Edward R. Murrow

There are two sides to this issue. One one side, law-abiding US citizens who are getting murdered extrajudicially by the Federal Government. On the other side are the Federal Government agents who are murdering them. Who is right? Both are right. Everything is the same. Thanks for watching CBS news.

A new edition of “Charlotte’s Web” came out.

That whole “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” thing is now contingent on the mood of our immigration Gestapo.

I describe what I Isaw when bigots harassed members of a Plano, Texas mosque & how that hate had been stirred by the GOP. I compare the beauty of the Muslim community's dedication to service to the ugliness of the ICE headquarters in Dallas. drmphillips2001.substack.com/p/the-archit...

I'll soon post a new essay about Texas Islamophobia, xenophobia, and ICE. Before I do, I wanted to share again my last post from November 20 about "Fort Worth Way," a tradition of white supremacy that has damaged Black & Brown lives since antebellum times open.substack.com/pub/drmphill...

The @dallasnews.com ran my op-ed on how Dallas has changed and not changed in the 20 years since the publication of my first book, “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.” I don’t fully agree w/ the headline, BTW. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

My son Dominic has accepted a position in Overseas Sales at SeAH Changwon Integrated Special Steel. That company does extensive business in Texas. @betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I are very proud of him.

Betsy has started partying early.

The American “friendship” with Israel is a one-way affair. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I won’t have a double.

How I feel most of the time when I watch the news.

Betsy and I at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano where we enjoyed some traditional Christmas music.

Well, she was in to something regarding herself.

Had a fun time at a Christmas party last night w/ John Lundberg & Katie Kubacak Lundberg. We were supposed to go as characters from a favorite Christmas movie. My name tag identifies me as George Bailey from “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Betsy Friauf came as the “Ghost of Christmas Present” (get it?)

We had a great time at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reunion last night at Lot 12 in Fort Worth. That newspaper will always mean a lot to me because that's where I met my partner in all things, @betsyfriauf.bsky.social

Of course, Trump is likely a child rapist and his DOJ released the info on Bill Clinton as a distraction from his obvious coverup of his crimes. But It's disgusting that Democrats are again leaping at the chance to be a hypocrite about Clinton and his career as a sexual predator.

Seriously, fuck that guy. As far as I can discern Bill Clinton woke up every morning thinking to himself "how can I violate a woman's right to bodily autonomy today?"

The destruction of newspapers, partly the result of equity firm depredations and the federal government’s refusal to enforce anti-trust laws, is happening at the worst possible time.

The anti-vaxxers are very proud they are making Americans sicker and weaker with the added bonus that they are going to kill a lot of people.