Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.
When you build warehouses and camps to imprison 10s of 1000s of ordinary folks you not only create fear, you create epidemics. This is a perfect storm--an admin that doesn't believe that measles vax are a good thing, and shoves people together under terrible conditions--this is how epidemics launch.
He is not well.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
My 12-year-old, following 2 feet behind me through the house, coughing: “I hope I don’t get you sick.”
It’s a trap.
Have kids so you can explain infinity at 5:46 AM.
There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one.
If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving.
Either we all get saved or none of us do.
I need it. I don’t know if you do.
My grandpa John M. Perkins (94) is a civil rights icon; I routinely meet people from all over, who’ve heard or read one of his many lectures or books. Whenever he mentions the eldest son of his eldest son, he brags about my intellect—he knows I get it from him.
He’s where I get my confidence from 🖤
Two things that shouldn’t be for profit: prisons and healthcare, because the incentive for harm is too great.
Keep ’em sick.
Keep ’em locked up.
keep the checks coming.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
Least surprising news item: Trump cheats at golf. No way! He cheats? Shut your whore mouth. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Caption: “Don't feel like posting today so” Picture: the large tv on wheels they used to roll out to show us educational videos at school in lieu of teaching
National Parks are more than scenic views, they’re a promise to future generations to protect truth, history, & nature. Now, the Administration is pressuring the Park Service to scrub references to slavery & the Black experience.
www.npca.org/articles/994...
We are doing a relatively short drive (5 hrs without kids) and our minivan is pathetically packed. What am I missing?!? Is there a secret?
Talk to me, those of you who are disabled or have disabled loved ones. How do you make travel less difficult?
“Would you appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein investigation?”
“I have nothing to do with it.”
Yeah, that’s a *pretty* weird answer to the question that was asked.
John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice.
Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how:
By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
People who put a lot of weight into test scores are probably quite disappointed in the reality of day to day life.
The IOC and FIFA should pull the games from the US. We actually need to be sanctioned and consequenced for our horrendous war crime behavior here at home and around the world.
We live in a country where the top 1% just purchased the Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House. People will die, and those 1% are fine with it.
Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.
