Dr. Stacey Patton
@drstaceypatton.bsky.social
Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, historian, child advocate, and college professor.
Sunday sermon: Jesus fed the hungry, practiced redistribution of wealth, universal healthcare, economic justice, inclusion, disaster relief, servant leadership, criminal justice reform, childcare & education for all. He was a Socialist before it had a name.
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Jesus Was the First Socialist
While MAGA cries apocalypse over Zohran Mamdani, the real rapture already hit their souls. They traded Christ for capitalism and called it Christianity.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sunday sermon: Jesus fed the hungry, practiced redistribution of wealth, universal healthcare, economic justice, inclusion, disaster relief, servant leadership, criminal justice reform, childcare & education for all. He was a Socialist before it had a name.
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Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public.
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The Body of Empire Is Breaking Down
McConnell freezing and falling in the Capitol building. Findlay fainting in the Oval Office. Trump asleep at the Resolute Desk. This is a collective portrait of decline.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public.
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The media, from left to right, keeps panicking or pontificating about what a Democratic Socialist is and acting like Zohran Mamdani’s platform is an impending apocalypse rather than a mandate for basic human decency.
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The Panicked Media Thinks “Democratic Socialist” Means Feeding New Yorkers with Five Loaves of Halal and Two Rent Vouchers
Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election, and the press lost its mind trying to define what that means.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The media, from left to right, keeps panicking or pontificating about what a Democratic Socialist is and acting like Zohran Mamdani’s platform is an impending apocalypse rather than a mandate for basic human decency.
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So many parents ask me how to stop hitting their children. First, you have to understand what’s really happening in your body. Hitting doesn’t “work” because it teaches a child anything. It “works” because it temporarily calms YOU.
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Hitting a Child ‘Works.’ But Only for the Parent’s Body, and Neuroscience Explains Why.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
So many parents ask me how to stop hitting their children. First, you have to understand what’s really happening in your body. Hitting doesn’t “work” because it teaches a child anything. It “works” because it temporarily calms YOU.
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New York just elected a Brown Muslim Socialist as mayor, and the right wing is absolutely losing its collective mind. 😂
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New York City Chose a Brown Muslim Socialist. The Right Is Having a 'Red Scare' Meltdown — and It's Glorious.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New York just elected a Brown Muslim Socialist as mayor, and the right wing is absolutely losing its collective mind. 😂
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Reposted by Dr. Stacey Patton
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Trump called African nations “shithole countries” and now he suddenly wants to “save” African Christians. He doesn’t give a damn about Christians in Africa, or Black Christians anywhere in the world.
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Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Christians in Africa
Behind his sanctimonious talk of “saving Christians” lies a recycled lie, oil interests, and ZERO genuine concern for Nigerians.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trump called African nations “shithole countries” and now he suddenly wants to “save” African Christians. He doesn’t give a damn about Christians in Africa, or Black Christians anywhere in the world.
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A sitting congressman told SNAP recipients to “stop smoking crack.” So today’s Sunday sermon is a rebuke of his cruelty.
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Lord, Deliver Us from These 'Crackheads' in Congress
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November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A sitting congressman told SNAP recipients to “stop smoking crack.” So today’s Sunday sermon is a rebuke of his cruelty.
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My student, Dru Strand, just wrote this powerful piece for NewsOne about what it feels like to be a college student who’s afraid she’ll lose her SNAP benefits. While politicians in D.C. play games with people’s livelihoods, she’s wondering how she’ll eat.
I’m A Student On Food Stamps. My Future Depends On Congress
There are thousands of students like me who are juggling jobs, classes, food insecurity, and now a shutdown that threatens to pull the rug out from under us.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My student, Dru Strand, just wrote this powerful piece for NewsOne about what it feels like to be a college student who’s afraid she’ll lose her SNAP benefits. While politicians in D.C. play games with people’s livelihoods, she’s wondering how she’ll eat.
“Did Jamaicans evacuate?”
Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Evacuate to Where, Exactly? The Cruel Absurdity of Asking if Jamaicans Evacuated Hurricane Melissa
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October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Did Jamaicans evacuate?”
Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Trump says he can “save 7,000 people a week” and that might help him get into heaven. He told reporters he “doesn’t think he’s heaven-bound” and joked there’s “some kind of report card up there someplace.” He’s thinking about eternity as a deal to be brokered. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
The Man Who Made Everywhere Feel Like Hell Is Suddenly Worried About Heaven
In a recent interview, Donald Trump checked his poll numbers with God . . . and even he had to admit, it ain’t looking good.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Trump says he can “save 7,000 people a week” and that might help him get into heaven. He told reporters he “doesn’t think he’s heaven-bound” and joked there’s “some kind of report card up there someplace.” He’s thinking about eternity as a deal to be brokered. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
DMV Friends, come through this Saturday. I will be keynoting the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 8th Annual Conference. My talk, "The Smallest Nooses," will focus on the history of Black child lynchings in Maryland and beyond. Registration information below.
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
DMV Friends, come through this Saturday. I will be keynoting the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 8th Annual Conference. My talk, "The Smallest Nooses," will focus on the history of Black child lynchings in Maryland and beyond. Registration information below.
This essay breaks down why so many white allies demand emotional reimbursement the moment a Black writer critiques whiteness.
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White People Hate Being Called 'White People'
The good-white identity isn’t an escape from whiteness, it’s just a the most sophisticated evolution of whiteness.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This essay breaks down why so many white allies demand emotional reimbursement the moment a Black writer critiques whiteness.
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Trump pardoned more than 1,000 white-nationalist foot soldiers from Jan. 6, and now one of them has been charged with threatening to assassinate House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. This is the aftershock of a presidency that has turned white rage into mission. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
“I Will Kill Him For The Future:" Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries
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October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trump pardoned more than 1,000 white-nationalist foot soldiers from Jan. 6, and now one of them has been charged with threatening to assassinate House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. This is the aftershock of a presidency that has turned white rage into mission. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
When a sitting president releases a video of himself defecating on the American people, that’s not “satire.” It’s a public humiliation fantasy and an erotic performance of dominance.
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Donald Trump’s AI Video Is a Psychosexual Confession
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October 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
When a sitting president releases a video of himself defecating on the American people, that’s not “satire.” It’s a public humiliation fantasy and an erotic performance of dominance.
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A Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts
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A Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts
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October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts
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Yesterday was the second No Kings protest, which means the first one didn’t move the mountain. 👀
We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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Jesus Flipped Tables, Y’all Took Selfies: A Sermon for the 'No Kings' Generation
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October 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yesterday was the second No Kings protest, which means the first one didn’t move the mountain. 👀
We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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“How can I be a good white ally?” “What do I do?” “How do I show POC that I’m one of the good ones.”
Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally
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October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“How can I be a good white ally?” “What do I do?” “How do I show POC that I’m one of the good ones.”
Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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The truth is, they’ve told us exactly who they are. They’ve told us exactly what they want to do to us. Our job now is to believe them — and act like we intend to live.
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When White Folks Say They Want to Burn You, Believe Them
Calling the released Young Republican chat logs a “group chat scandal” with a weekend shelf life is a narrative choice, not an observation.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The truth is, they’ve told us exactly who they are. They’ve told us exactly what they want to do to us. Our job now is to believe them — and act like we intend to live.
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The leaked GOP chat didn’t expose anything new. It confirmed what we’ve known all along. The 'jokes' are the dry run for the racial violence.
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Why We Don’t Feel Safe Around White People We Don’t Know
The leaked Republican group chat confirms what history already taught us — they really do want to kill us. The only question now is which ones.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The leaked GOP chat didn’t expose anything new. It confirmed what we’ve known all along. The 'jokes' are the dry run for the racial violence.
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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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October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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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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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October 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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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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October 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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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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October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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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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October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...