Only you are here to be you. May you be safe & free enough to discover & become whomever you’re here to be. May we learn to live lives that help to bless this whole world free.

all my apes gone

New Mavis Staples album today. Opening track is “Chicago.” ✊🏽

I am deceased

Hello new followers. I don’t post much. The thing I’ve done on the internet that I’m proudest of is interviewing a former USAID official about his work on PEPFAR.

may grace reclaim us just as we are— may Spirit whisper love into the hearts of our hearts— may the word of life set all of all of us free —& bless a world through us. amen.

Updating my LEGO White House

The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"

MTV going out of business this year. I was just telling my son how there was an entire SEGA Genesis game based entirely on Michael Jackson's video for Smooth Criminal. Poignant shit.

let me know when ai can make maple syrup until then ai ain’t shit

We’ve got goldenrod and aster feeding the bees in October

Different Trains

I'm surprised how many people are quick to make a defense of violence in my replies. For them it's necessary, foreclosing on its use is a privilege. For me, non-violence is a powerful tool. It is the lesson of one of my heroes, Bayard Rustin. 1/ wagingnonviolence.org/2022/08/reme...

Heads up, you can open youtube any time you want and listen to Yusef Lateef play oboe

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

how often can we do we dare we pause to behold with awe & gratitude this indescribable gift/opportunity— simply to be here, alive, for our (precious!) while… may we grow to serve such blessing.

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

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RIP -- 1st Deputy Director of the U.S. Peace Corps

Father’s Day peruse at the record store. Sadly they were fresh out of Clan of Xymox

Wishing West Africa a blessed Tabaski

The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).

What is an ethnic food few people in America know that you feel they should know? I am fortunate to live in Washington, DC and even as much as I enjoy meat, I don't miss it when I eat Ethiopian food.

St Steven Albini

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Flipped through this and found Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love as No. 1. Tough to argue against it.

Today saw mass firings at the Food & Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, but rest assured our nation's Returned Peace Corps Volunteers are ready for America's coming Age of Diarrhea.

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

Science, folks. Science. This is wonderful news.

Today, we're announcing more actions to help Marylanders impacted by federal workforce layoffs, firings, and changes to federal funding. youtube.com/live/kpymjA5...

For me, everything Angry says here is caught up in Langston Hughes’ Let America Be America Again

It's been a month since Elon Musk decided the U.S. should stop funding for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the U.S. foreign service officers who helped implement that program. does-helping-help.ghost.io/peter-clouti...

There is no winning a war with China. The US and China are both have nuclear weapons. If we go to war these weapons will be used and everyone will die.

The US and China are both nuclear powers. If we go to war everybody dies. The logic of MAD works because a child can understand it.

can compassion be contagious? can loving-kindness be spread? can care be so given that its ripples make waves & take on momentum kindling hearts, clearing minds generating generosity, sanctifying? sow prayer, tend justice, reap peace. +flowHolySpirit #billionprayersforpeace

foreign aid to fight infectious diseases is a kind of enlightened self interest, since infectious diseases that go around come around. Aid for fighting AIDS, now suspended by Executive Order, is no exception. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/cons...

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

History you need to know: The Montgomery Bus Boycott went on for almost a year.

Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose. This is insanity.

Frederick Douglass got through the 1850s, you people can put on your big boy pants and make it through the weekend

I can't believe how good this is, and what he had to choose from. What a flex. Questlove is a literal musical genius

God, tonight & every night, bless all who hunger & hurt & hope & worry & wait & weep… Amen.

remember that today we honor dr martin luther king jr., a person who i personally consider the greatest american leader who ever lived.

Thank you @lauralilulu.bsky.social for getting me this book for Christmas. Can’t wait to read it.

let us pray, witness, strive for peace, healing, restoration with conscience, courage, integrity even here even now #BillionPrayersForPeace

This country has a deep distrust of the very idea of providing help. Reagan articulated this distrust, but it predates him. We think helping actually does harm! We do OTOH believe in punishment. When we see problems in society, that's our only remedy.

I cracked the code. Told my boomer dad that having motion smoothing on his TV 'makes it work twice as hard' and will 'wear it out faster' and now hes obsessed with making sure its off.

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