NOT GIVING UP Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky

ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy. youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g

THE AUTOCRACY CON GAME This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants, intimidating nonwhite citizens, to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy —with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH

THE AUTOCRACY CON GAME This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants, intimidating nonwhite citizens, to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy —with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH

ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy. youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g

First this administration, disrespects & desecrates the memory of Black World War II vets like Medgar Evers at Arlington National Cemetery. THEN they export hate abroad by disrespecting Black vets at a cemetery in the Netherlands. As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”

VET GRAVES DESECRATED AT HOME & ABROAD. During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.

VET GRAVES DESECRATED AT HOME & ABROAD. During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.

The philosophies, strategies, tactics, policies,and plans hidden in plain sight were now discussed in the open—and even more in secret. This coalition wrote a future that yet beckons us and betters us as citizens, immigrants, and human beings. We the people are this coalition. (NOT) THE END

Then and only then did millions of Americans begin to reclaim their dignity as human beings unfettered by hate—and only then did they craft a nonviolent rebellion plan for reclaiming their country and their humanity.

People who never saw themselves in these stories began to see THEIR humanity in this history. Members of the coalition began to finally accept the fact, the threatened “they” are all of “us.”

Ever more adults challenged themselves to seriously study the under-read and banned stories of the slave rebellions, incomplete reconstructions, and unfinished movements.

Other adults said the children were naïve and uninformed. And yet the majority eventually accepted the facts and the history that enslaved Native and African people in America have ALREADY survived a viciously violent autocracy of racial supremacy.

Some adult members of the coalition of hope were embarrassed in front of the children and ashamed that they hadn’t come to this moral conclusion before.

—what do you call human beings whose rights, homes, bodies, and dignity are violated at will? The youngest members of this fledgling coalition, the children, innocently and wisely answered this question with only three words: an enslaved people.

Leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a multiracial, multicultural, multigenerational, multi-faith, and an undeclared coalition of citizens and immigrants began to ask themselves a single question…

The KKK Grand Dragon in the White House claimed to fight antisemitism WHILE watching hate for Jews seethe and spread. The borders to America were closed to immigrants and refugees—EXCEPT for those with a history of white supremacy.

High tech slave patrols brutally enforced mass deportation for nonwhite immigrants, mass incarceration for nonwhite citizens, and mass home confinement for the white people without rights. Nonwhite people thought to be or who thought of themselves as “white adjacent” were at risk of ALL the above.

AN APOCALYPTIC FABLE OF HOPE A🧵/1 ONCE UPON A TERRIFYING TIME, the #KKK studied the Nazis and then won the White House. With lethal speed racist, xenophobic, and newly deputized masked klansman racially profiled our cities.

You know it is serious when the government WARNS you BEWARE of the government. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

You know it is serious when the government WARNS you BEWARE of the government. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

AN APOCALYPTIC FABLE OF HOPE A🧵/1 ONCE UPON A TERRIFYING TIME, the #KKK studied the Nazis and then won the White House. With lethal speed racist, xenophobic, and newly deputized masked klansman racially profiled our cities.

TACKY, TASTELESS, & RACIST If a 1825 slave patrol went to a 2025 costume party, you get a congresswoman dressing up as a Mexican woman & with her boyfriend as an #ICE agent. The humor here is salt on the blade of insult. Seriously, SMDH . @ap abcnews.go.com/Politics/lau...

Keeping immigrants from taking communion won’t make them less human or God less God. A Christian sacrament recognizing the arrest & execution of an innocent Jewish man WON’T make immigrants dangerous. Communion DOES remind us of the dangers of cruelty as punishment. www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Setti D. Warren, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and former mayor of Newton, Mass., died suddenly at his home on Sunday. He was 55. Elise A. Spenner and Tanya J. Vidhun report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Keeping immigrants from taking communion won’t make them less human or God less God. A Christian sacrament recognizing the arrest & execution of an innocent Jewish man WON’T make immigrants dangerous. Communion DOES remind us of the dangers of cruelty as punishment. www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Setti Warren was a vet, mayor, FEMA & White House official, Harvard Kennedy School mentor, teacher, & leader. Seeing Setti on campus in his military jacket sent a message: you can serve America on a battlefield & on a campus with an equal love of country. Setti will be missed.

Setti Warren was a vet, mayor, FEMA & White House official, Harvard Kennedy School mentor, teacher, & leader. Seeing Setti on campus in his military jacket sent a message: you can serve America on a battlefield & on a campus with an equal love of country. Setti will be missed.

The explosion at Harvard Medical School & 2 fleeing suspects are being investigated by local authorities—and the FBI. This is a violent reminder that we depend on law enforcement to not be political & vindictive, but professional & protective. #Harvard #FBI

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, caused major damage to public infrastructure and left most of the island without power. The full extent of the devastation is unclear with some areas inaccessible. Read more: https://cnn.it/47vo5GN

Consider…

GOVERNMENT STREET CRIME There was a shooting by a suspect on a bike near the Harvard campus; no one was hurt or hit. The shelter in place request has just been lifted. We have way more to fear from masked #ICE kidnappers in unmarked cars than street crime on an otherwise safe campus & community.

By featuring the late racist #CharlieKirk in this video, #DHS is sending a clear message: the “Dark Age” of a black, brown, immigrant, & diverse America is OVER. The “Golden Age” of an Aryan America is VIOLENTLY BEGINNING. “We the people” are neither safe nor regarded as people.

Consider…

The down-to-hell escalator to autocracy has no steps—because laws, constitutions, norms, and decency can only slow not stop falling democracies. ONLY people can stop the fall and begin the rise.

The down-to-hell escalator to autocracy has no steps—because laws, constitutions, norms, and decency can only slow not stop falling democracies. ONLY people can stop the fall and begin the rise.

Is the Supreme Court doing to gay people, what Trump did to the White House❓ DESTROYING what you THOUGHT was SAFE❓ #LGBTQIA #marriagequality

These #racist & #antisemitic comments may be offensive, but what makes them DANGEROUS is many still expect us to… 1. Forget & forgive what they say. 2. Pretend their policies & pronouncements don’t match like a rabid dog’s growl & bite. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

America is getting the “Black treatment,” which is no longer reserved for Black people. Having high income, living in White neighborhoods, being White or White adjacent, making the “right”campaign donations, & being naive won’t protect you. Your ONLY allies don’t look like you.

America is getting the “Black treatment,” which is no longer reserved for Black people. Having high income, living in White neighborhoods, being White or White adjacent, making the “right”campaign donations, & being naive won’t protect you. Your ONLY allies don’t look like you.

Nature’s largest & coldest vacuum is not outer space, but the space between the ears of any human whose brain justifies the moral emptiness of the heart. Children are being zip-tied like serial killers, political enemies are on gov. “hit lists,” & the Constitution is morally & legally optional.

The White House, House and Senate may soon have the political and racial diversity of Mar Largo—NONE. One race, one gender, and one party rule promotes an unrepresentative and uncompetitive civic mediocrity. @AP #votingrights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

The White House, House and Senate may soon have the political and racial diversity of Mar Largo—NONE. One race, one gender, and one party rule promotes an unrepresentative and uncompetitive civic mediocrity. @AP #votingrights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

The storm has arrived and the troopers are being deployed to cities that might resist.

ISRAEL & CHICAGO Joy & sadness is what you feel you when you realize #Trump will take deserved praise for being a peacekeeper in the Middle East & use it to excuse acting like an ICE armed autocrat in the Midwest. The olive branch strangled by an iron fist. May we have peace there—AND here.

ISRAEL & CHICAGO Joy & sadness is what you feel you when you realize #Trump will take deserved praise for being a peacekeeper in the Middle East & use it to excuse acting like an ICE armed autocrat in the Midwest. The olive branch strangled by an iron fist. May we have peace there—AND here.

This is a TRAIN WRECK of judicial Illegitimacy on the RAGGED EDGE of irreversible #autocracy —behind a DUMPSTER FIRE of a presidency👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Federal Judges Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...