@teganandsara Hey at least she is singing actual songs. We are at the point where I find myself singing the songs my wife makes up and sings around the house
I just think white progressives should value people of color’s joy. DREAMers and activists are exhaling for the first time in years. Families from Muslim ban countries are elated to reunite, but the most privileged white progressives are yelling over that to say why it’s bad.
Stacey Abrams is a legend, but what about the Staceys in our own communities? How are we supporting them to run for office, and not just any office but the highest offices in the land?
Pledge to #ElectBlackWomen rather than just letting us do the hard behind- the-scenes work.
1/ I’m not one for ‘told ya so’s but in 1989 when David Duke won the state House seat in Louisiana, some of us said this was an inflection point in American politics. This wasn’t just the logical result of Reaganesque racial dog whistling. It was something different (a thread)...
One of the girls in my 9 year old’s class just said “My favorite author, other than myself, is Judy Blume,” and that’s the energy I want to see from all women writers going forward
“To put that into historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades”
MAGA want to talk about censorship?
-Let’s talk about the 30,000,000+ Californians that only have two senators
-Talk about the 3,000,000+ Puerto Ricans without basically any real representation
-Talk about the number of times Republicans lost the popular vote and won
In 1923, Adolf Hitler led a failed coup. He was treated leniently. Germany moved on.
A decade later, he was dictator, and the worst disaster in the history of the civilized world ensued.
In 2021, when the president of the United States leads a failed coup, we must not move on.
Sending prayers tonight for my friend and tireless community leader, Henrietta White-Holder, who is battling debilitating health issues in the hospital. She has asked our community to join her in powerful prayer as she overcomes this battle, so please join me! @HigherGroundInl
We must acknowledge the profound inequity of a broken system that allows peaceful protesters to get tear-gassed for a photo op, while domestic terrorists who storm the Capitol in a violent coup attempt get to roam the streets freely.