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Dr. Stacey Patton
@drstaceypatton.bsky.social
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Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, historian, child advocate, and college professor.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 6h
Do y’all really believe a “peace deal” between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is about peace? It’s gentrification with bombs and two crooked developers, Trump and Netanyahu, flipping Gaza like real estate and selling empire as progress.

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Why I Don’t Trust a Trump–Netanyahu ‘Peace Deal’ — and Why War Will Return
What’s being sold as peace is the latest product of empire brokered by two racist developers who treat faith like branding and war like business.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 1d
They brought helicopters, flashbangs, and body armor. They called it “Operation Midway Blitz.” They say 37 people were arrested. But almost two weeks later, not one name has been released.

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Did the Government Really Arrest 37 People During that South Shore ICE Raid? If So, Where Are They?
It’s been almost two weeks since federal agents turned a high-rise on Chicago’s South Shore into a war zone.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 2d
The New York Times published a piece on the rise in Black unemployment as if it were just another economic trend. But this isn’t a “shift” or a “slowdown.” The Times calls it a “surge.” I call it what it is: a racial purge and white power reclaiming its economy.
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The New York Times Can’t Admit That Rising Black Unemployment Is a Racial Purge Disguised As 'Economics'
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 3d
Here is my Sunday sermon. Trump dropped his Columbus Day proclamation, and it’s less a tribute than a sermon for empire. Come get this word.

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Tomorrow America Will Bow to a Thief and Mass Murderer
Donald Trump’s Columbus Day Proclamation Is the Gospel of Empire and a Prayer Circle for Genocide.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 5d
Barack Obama’s got online and wrote an obituary for accountability. But take his words apart, every line, euphemism, and little moral magic trick, and you’ll see just how empire sounds when it’s pretending to have a conscience. And you’ll never be able to unsee it. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
The Elegance of Empire: How Barack Obama's Statement Turned Gaza’s Blood into Poetry
Uggghh.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 6d
Hi Everyone,

Clarification about tonight's FREE event. The time is 6:30-7:30 pm PST and 9:30-10:30 pm PST.

You can register for FREE using the link below:

mountainview.libcal.com/event/15212564

Hope to see you there.
Your Brain Has Been Hacked: Rethinking Attention, Tech, and the Crisis of Digital Overload
Registration is required. Sign up below to receive the Zoom information on the morning of the event. Digital addiction is quietly reshaping student behavior, attention, and...
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 6d
Good morning. Sometimes you write yourself into clarity. When you grow up having to earn love, you start calling crumbs a meal. And at some point in your life, you've got to push the plate away.

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The Twisted Emotional Economy of Being Loved for What You Can Give, Not Who You Are.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 6d
"I will not hit my child. I will love my child like a REVOLT."

These words ought to be a terrible promise to white supremacy, which requires the degradation of children to sustain itself. A system that trains children to obey, fear and internalize hierarchy before they can even speak its language.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 7d
While we’re celebrating homecoming, a MAGA-branded tour is plotting to show up at HBCUs claiming it’s about dialogue.

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Coons for Content: Black MAGA Plan to Invade HBCU Homecomings
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 7d
Soooo, did y’all see the news story about the white tourists who went on a safari in Botswana and almost got stomped to death by a Black Mama Elephant?

What followed was mud, mayhem, and one tourist almost getting stomped to death into the Okavango.

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Some White Folks Got Jumped By An Elephant in Africa
Somewhere deeeep in Botswana, at the intersection of colonial fantasy and common sense, a group of white tourists decided to paddle their little canoes straight through the living room of a six-ton Bl...
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 8d
Let me ask y’all somethin’… what kind of country takes polls about genocide?

They’re turning slaughter into a metric. Suffering into data. Atrocity into analysis.

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What Does It Mean to Poll a Genocide?
How American media outlets turn mass murder into metric while Gazans die.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 9d
This lecture exposes capitalism’s true origin story, not as an engine of progress, but as a system born from Europe’s trauma and perfected through American brutality.

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Lecture 13 is LIVE: From Sweatshops to Slave Ships: Capitalism’s First Draft Was Blood-Soaked
This lecture explores the roots of American capitalism and shows you what’s underneath.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 10d
Here is my Sunday sermon. What we’re witnessing isn’t just a shutdown of government offices, it’s a shutdown of conscience.

This sermon is a call to the living, to those who refuse to die quietly in a nation addicted to death.

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When the Government Chooses Death
A Sunday Sermon on White Supremacy, Greed, and the Sin of the Shutdown
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 11d
Two predators. Two verdicts. Same day.

Diddy gets 4 years. Trump’s former spiritual advisor, Robert Morris, gets 6 months for sexually abusing a 12-year-old for years.

Both are monsters. But only one gets mercy, prayers, and a redemption arc.

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The White Christian Megapastor Who Got Six Months for Child Sexual Abuse the Same Day Diddy Got Four Years
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 11d
Troops stormed Chicago’s South Shore apartments. DHS says they arrested “37 gang members.” But there’s no list of names, charges, proof. This raid wasn’t about gangs or an immigration sweep. It was about turning fear into profit. Militarize. Dispossess. Gentrify.

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Trump’s Chicago ICE Raid: A Real Estate Blueprint To Militarize, Dispossess, Gentrify?
What if the early morning raid on Chicago’s South Shore apartments wasn’t really about crime or an immigration sweep at all?
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 12d
What happened at Quantico earlier this week wasn’t military strategy. It was a racial war game.

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Trump And Hegseth’s Quantico Meeting Was A Loyalty Test For A White Man’s Army
I’ll say what the press won’t: what happened at Quantico wasn’t military strategy.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 13d
“Say it to my face!” 👀

We all know what that means in Black communities. It’s a dare and a line in the sand. That’s why folks cheered when Hakeem Jeffries threw it at Trump after that racist AI video.

But what happens if Trump actually does?

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“Say It to My Face!” Why Democrats Keep Losing While Fascists Keep Winning
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you for your kind support, love.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 14d
The headlines are stuck on the “fat generals” insult. Don’t be fooled. What happened yesterday was the rehearsal of the Fourth Reich.

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The Fourth Reich Has Arrived
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 17d
Today’s sermon is about Assata Olugbala Shakur.

White America calls her a fugitive. We call her free. White America calls her terrorist. We call her a prophet.

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Pharaoh Couldn’t Hold Her: Assata Shakur and the Gospel of Liberation
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 18d
What does it mean to teach Gen Z how to see?
In a world drowning in selfies and distraction, I challenged my journalism students to turn the camera outward, to frame, to compose, to witness.
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On Teaching Gen Z Journalism Students How to "See" In a World That Rewards Selfies But Punishes Witnessing
Teaching Gen Z How to See
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 18d
Here is my latest podcast episode for NewsOne. newsone.com/videos/covfe...
Covfefe Chronicles | Ep. 10 - Why Trump’s Tylenol Panic Is About Whiteness, Not Health
Donald Trump recently said Tylenol causes autism when taken by pregnant women, a declaration that has been debunked by medical experts.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 19d
She died FREE. She belongs to the ancestors now. She is ETERNAL.
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RIP, Assata Shakur. She passed away yesterday in Havana, Cuba. She died free! The U.S. government, after decades of pursuit, never got the satisfaction of putting her in a cage. They wanted her bound...
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you for sharing, love, and for your support. Really appreciate you.
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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 19d
First they cried. Then they canonized him. Then came the tattoos. Now MAGA wants to put Charlie Kirk on a U.S. coin.
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Republicans Want to Add Charlie Kirk to America’s Racist Pocket Change
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