RIP TO THIS COMMERCIAL, which played on tv waaaaaaaaay longer than you’d think

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Pastor: I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. I said, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The next thing I knew, they put handcuffs on me and put me in the back of an SUV. I asked if I was under arrest. They said to me, 'Well, you're white, you won't be any fun anyway.'

After Renee Good, hemorrhaging blood, crashed her car, a man from the neighborhood approached and said, "Let me take vitals and help. I'm a physician."

According to a witness, ICE responded, "We don't care. Stay back." And they blocked him.

These people are stone-cold monsters.

Please

They can try to erase it. Ban it. Rewrite it. But Black queer history is American history. From Bayard Rustin to Marsha P. Johnson, Audre Lorde to today’s change makers, Black queer excellence is the blueprint. It’s now. It’s forever.

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#BlackQueerExcellence

In honor of black history month, I will be doing a daily thread of James Baldwin quotes. If you have never heard of the late great Mr Baldwin, he was a trailblazer in so many ways. If the weather is crappy where you are might I suggest “I Am Not Your Negro” a 2016 documentary.

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This isn’t a “seems like” or “appears to be” event…

It was intentional, deliberate, and unequivocal.

I’ll be posting this today

Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever!
#literacy

Google is free.
Library got plenty of books.
And still yall dumb.
That’s crazy.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local independent bookstore.

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

Finally.