Wisdom Wednesday: Storytelling isn’t an add-on to human experience — it’s part of how we make sense of the world.
Margaret Atwood reminds us that stories aren’t optional. They’re how people understand events, assign meaning, and imagine change.
Narratives endure because people do.
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But it can’t replicate the process that makes those things meaningful.
It can amplify results.
It can’t tell the story of how you got there.
#FieldNotes
The visible parts — the events, the interviews, the finished work — are real. But they sit on top of a lot that never gets seen.
Right now, AI can replicate the visible parts surprisingly well. It can generate polished language, professional images, even entire communication strategies.
Friday Field Notes: Most meaningful work isn't glamorous.
It happens in conversations that go nowhere before they go somewhere.
In reporting that takes longer than expected.
In offices built piece by piece.
In ideas that need time before they’re clear enough to share.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: Reform Meets Reality: Inside the Limits of Progressive Prosecution. Have a listen:
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: GMG LIVE: Whistleblowers, Abolition, and the Gray Space Between. Have a listen:
Social media is 🔥 garbage this morning.
Trump's post is trope, and the comparison of Black people to apes is one of the oldest and most harmful racist tropes in modern history.
Tropes stay alive thru circulation. So pls don't reshare the trope. Name it and replace it with humanity.
STOP posting Trump's video about the Obamas. This is racist trope and it becomes normalized when you spread it like wild fire. Post about Obamas and their HUMANITY
Red vs blue — without the shouting.
A liberal and a conservative sit down to ask whether justice comes from fixing systems… or replacing them.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: The Elephant in the Studio. Have a listen:
We’re surrounded by outrage, headlines, and certainty — but almost no real dialogue.
This piece is about what happens when politics becomes performance, and why the loss of honest conversation makes accountability impossible.
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What actually reduces violence — and why do our answers keep failing? On Episode 2 of Get Me to the Gray, I talk with criminologist David Kennedy about the space between punishment and prevention.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: The Gray Between Punishment and Prevention. Have a listen:
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: And You Thought You Lived in a Capitalist Country. Have a listen:
DENVER On Feb 11, I’m hosting a live Get Me to the Gray conversation at Tattered Cover w/special guest Edwin Raymond.
If you’re local and tired of performative conversations, this is designed to be a room worth sitting in.
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This is part of the training to become a member of the military. Now… can we refocus on WHAT UNLAWFUL ORDERS ARE BEING GIVEN?!
Ok I understand the gravity and dangers of appointing unqualified people to powerful positions, but y’all… as someone who has had to read a lot of court opinions, I cannot stop laughing at this #jamescomey #yikes #getoutmycourtroomfool
Literally the only MTG clip I’ve watched in its entirety
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New #prisonart drop!
“The Death of Freedom” is a haunting new piece from incarcerated artist Scotty Scott—where power, punishment, and hypocrisy collide.
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#ArtAsResistance #PrisonArt #ScottysVision
As we mourn Assata’s passing, her words remain a call to action: freedom is won through struggle, not granted by oppressors. Her legacy challenges us to keep pushing for liberation on our own terms.
#WisdomWednesday #AssataShakur #Liberation
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Scotty's work as an incarcerated artist shines with resilience, creativity, and defiance against erasure. 100% of proceeds go to the artist for supplies.
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This is more than art. It’s resistance. It’s survival. It’s vision.
The world has lost a revolutionary voice. Assata Shakur’s 78 years were marked by struggle, exile, and defiance. Her legacy continues to inspire movements for justice and freedom. Rest in power. 👑
📅 #OTD – Sept 23, 1957
Two weeks after being turned away by the Arkansas National Guard, the Little Rock Nine returned to Central High School under federal protection.
They faced spitting mobs, death threats, and daily harassment just to walk through a school door.
#LittleRockNine #BlackHistory
📅 #OTD – Sept 18, 1895
Booker T. Washington delivered his famous Atlanta Exposition speech—calling for Black economic uplift and racial cooperation.
The line “cast down your bucket where you are” would be celebrated by some, criticized by others, and debated for generations.
#Atlanta #BlackHistory
Cabral was a revolutionary leader who organized anti-colonial liberation movements in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. His legacy is a blueprint for principled struggle—one rooted in truth, strategy, and collective power. #WisdomWednesday #AmilcarCabral #LiberationIsHonestWork
Thousands of kids—disproportionately Black, Brown, and poor—are locked up for things that could be handled in schools or communities.
#YouthJustice #EndYouthPrisons #AbolitionNow #DidYouKnow
