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Native Son is confrontational, not comfortable. Richard Wright shows how society cages a life before it begins—fear, poverty, and racism shape destiny before choice. Bigger Thomas isn't a monster alone; he's a product of a system valuing him beforehand.
February 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Native Son is confrontational, not comfortable. Richard Wright shows how society cages a life before it begins—fear, poverty, and racism shape destiny before choice. Bigger Thomas isn't a monster alone; he's a product of a system valuing him beforehand.
Day 14 of 28.
The Color Purple is a story of survival, sisterhood, and the slow return to self.
Celie teaches us that even in silence, a voice is forming. Even in darkness, something is growing.
Black women’s stories are not footnotes.
They are foundations.
#BlackHistoryMonth #TheColorPurple
The Color Purple is a story of survival, sisterhood, and the slow return to self.
Celie teaches us that even in silence, a voice is forming. Even in darkness, something is growing.
Black women’s stories are not footnotes.
They are foundations.
#BlackHistoryMonth #TheColorPurple
February 14, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Day 14 of 28.
The Color Purple is a story of survival, sisterhood, and the slow return to self.
Celie teaches us that even in silence, a voice is forming. Even in darkness, something is growing.
Black women’s stories are not footnotes.
They are foundations.
#BlackHistoryMonth #TheColorPurple
The Color Purple is a story of survival, sisterhood, and the slow return to self.
Celie teaches us that even in silence, a voice is forming. Even in darkness, something is growing.
Black women’s stories are not footnotes.
They are foundations.
#BlackHistoryMonth #TheColorPurple
She searched for love.
She found herself.
Zora Neale Hurston gave us Janie Crawford — a Black woman who refuses to disappear inside expectation.
Day 13 of 28.
We are still watching the horizon.
#BlackHistoryMonth #ZoraNealeHurston #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #BlackWomenWriters #LumosSpin
She found herself.
Zora Neale Hurston gave us Janie Crawford — a Black woman who refuses to disappear inside expectation.
Day 13 of 28.
We are still watching the horizon.
#BlackHistoryMonth #ZoraNealeHurston #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #BlackWomenWriters #LumosSpin
February 14, 2026 at 2:36 AM
She searched for love.
She found herself.
Zora Neale Hurston gave us Janie Crawford — a Black woman who refuses to disappear inside expectation.
Day 13 of 28.
We are still watching the horizon.
#BlackHistoryMonth #ZoraNealeHurston #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #BlackWomenWriters #LumosSpin
She found herself.
Zora Neale Hurston gave us Janie Crawford — a Black woman who refuses to disappear inside expectation.
Day 13 of 28.
We are still watching the horizon.
#BlackHistoryMonth #ZoraNealeHurston #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #BlackWomenWriters #LumosSpin
The Bluest Eye is a mirror. Toni Morrison explores what happens when society makes a child believe she’s unworthy of love and the cost of that belief. It’s about beauty, race, shame, innocence, and internalized hatred. Some books are hard but necessary. This one is both.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
The Bluest Eye is a mirror. Toni Morrison explores what happens when society makes a child believe she’s unworthy of love and the cost of that belief. It’s about beauty, race, shame, innocence, and internalized hatred. Some books are hard but necessary. This one is both.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
Some stories don’t stay in the past; they echo, haunt, and demand remembrance. Morrison urges us to confront America’s buried trauma, slavery’s aftermath, and the cost of forgetting. During Black History Month, it’s about reckoning, not nostalgia.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 11, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Some stories don’t stay in the past; they echo, haunt, and demand remembrance. Morrison urges us to confront America’s buried trauma, slavery’s aftermath, and the cost of forgetting. During Black History Month, it’s about reckoning, not nostalgia.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book preserves the voice of Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. By listening to his words as they were spoken, hx becomes personal, human, & impossible to distance ourselves from.
Remembering is not passive.
It is an act of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Remembering is not passive.
It is an act of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 AM
This book preserves the voice of Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. By listening to his words as they were spoken, hx becomes personal, human, & impossible to distance ourselves from.
Remembering is not passive.
It is an act of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Remembering is not passive.
It is an act of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book tells the story of the Great Migration—when millions of Black Americans moved not out of curiosity, but out of necessity. Their journeys reshaped families, cities, culture, and the nation itself.
Movement was not just escape.
It was resistance. It was survival.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Movement was not just escape.
It was resistance. It was survival.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 8, 2026 at 11:26 PM
This book tells the story of the Great Migration—when millions of Black Americans moved not out of curiosity, but out of necessity. Their journeys reshaped families, cities, culture, and the nation itself.
Movement was not just escape.
It was resistance. It was survival.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Movement was not just escape.
It was resistance. It was survival.
#BlackHistoryMonth
📘 Black History Month — Day 7
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
This book asks feminism to confront reality—not theory.
Food, housing, safety, healthcare, and access are feminist issues.
When movements ignore survival, they fail the people who need them most.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
This book asks feminism to confront reality—not theory.
Food, housing, safety, healthcare, and access are feminist issues.
When movements ignore survival, they fail the people who need them most.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
📘 Black History Month — Day 7
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
This book asks feminism to confront reality—not theory.
Food, housing, safety, healthcare, and access are feminist issues.
When movements ignore survival, they fail the people who need them most.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
This book asks feminism to confront reality—not theory.
Food, housing, safety, healthcare, and access are feminist issues.
When movements ignore survival, they fail the people who need them most.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
This collection refuses the idea that liberation can be partial. Lorde challenges us to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism not as separate struggles—but as connected systems that demand collective truth and accountability.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This collection refuses the idea that liberation can be partial. Lorde challenges us to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism not as separate struggles—but as connected systems that demand collective truth and accountability.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
This collection refuses the idea that liberation can be partial. Lorde challenges us to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism not as separate struggles—but as connected systems that demand collective truth and accountability.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This collection refuses the idea that liberation can be partial. Lorde challenges us to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism not as separate struggles—but as connected systems that demand collective truth and accountability.
#BlackHistoryMonth
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
This book challenges the comfort of neutrality and asks for something more demanding: responsibility. Antiracism isn’t a belief or a label—it’s a practice, shaped by the choices we make and the systems we support.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book challenges the comfort of neutrality and asks for something more demanding: responsibility. Antiracism isn’t a belief or a label—it’s a practice, shaped by the choices we make and the systems we support.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
This book challenges the comfort of neutrality and asks for something more demanding: responsibility. Antiracism isn’t a belief or a label—it’s a practice, shaped by the choices we make and the systems we support.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book challenges the comfort of neutrality and asks for something more demanding: responsibility. Antiracism isn’t a belief or a label—it’s a practice, shaped by the choices we make and the systems we support.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Day 4
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Written decades ago, yet still speaking directly to the present, this book is both a warning and a challenge. Baldwin calls for honesty over comfort—and reminds us that refusing to face injustice does not free us from its consequences.
#BlackHistoryMonth
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Written decades ago, yet still speaking directly to the present, this book is both a warning and a challenge. Baldwin calls for honesty over comfort—and reminds us that refusing to face injustice does not free us from its consequences.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Day 4
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Written decades ago, yet still speaking directly to the present, this book is both a warning and a challenge. Baldwin calls for honesty over comfort—and reminds us that refusing to face injustice does not free us from its consequences.
#BlackHistoryMonth
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Written decades ago, yet still speaking directly to the present, this book is both a warning and a challenge. Baldwin calls for honesty over comfort—and reminds us that refusing to face injustice does not free us from its consequences.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Written as a letter to his son, this book asks what it means to live in a body shaped by history, fear, love, and survival. It moves the conversation from systems and policy to something deeply personal.
Come back tomorrow for Day 4.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Written as a letter to his son, this book asks what it means to live in a body shaped by history, fear, love, and survival. It moves the conversation from systems and policy to something deeply personal.
Come back tomorrow for Day 4.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 3, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Written as a letter to his son, this book asks what it means to live in a body shaped by history, fear, love, and survival. It moves the conversation from systems and policy to something deeply personal.
Come back tomorrow for Day 4.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Written as a letter to his son, this book asks what it means to live in a body shaped by history, fear, love, and survival. It moves the conversation from systems and policy to something deeply personal.
Come back tomorrow for Day 4.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
This book challenges the idea that racial inequality ended with the Civil Rights Movement. It argues that mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system—reshaped, renamed, and justified as “colorblind.”Save this series.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book challenges the idea that racial inequality ended with the Civil Rights Movement. It argues that mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system—reshaped, renamed, and justified as “colorblind.”Save this series.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
This book challenges the idea that racial inequality ended with the Civil Rights Movement. It argues that mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system—reshaped, renamed, and justified as “colorblind.”Save this series.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book challenges the idea that racial inequality ended with the Civil Rights Movement. It argues that mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system—reshaped, renamed, and justified as “colorblind.”Save this series.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
Reposted by Ari wags
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
Reposted by Ari wags
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Day 1 of a month-long reading series honoring Black voices, history, and truth.
Today’s book sets the foundation and we’re just getting started.
➡️ Come back tomorrow for Day 2’s book. This month is about learning, remembering, and staying curious — together. #BlackHistoryMonth #ReadBlackAuthors
Today’s book sets the foundation and we’re just getting started.
➡️ Come back tomorrow for Day 2’s book. This month is about learning, remembering, and staying curious — together. #BlackHistoryMonth #ReadBlackAuthors
February 1, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Day 1 of a month-long reading series honoring Black voices, history, and truth.
Today’s book sets the foundation and we’re just getting started.
➡️ Come back tomorrow for Day 2’s book. This month is about learning, remembering, and staying curious — together. #BlackHistoryMonth #ReadBlackAuthors
Today’s book sets the foundation and we’re just getting started.
➡️ Come back tomorrow for Day 2’s book. This month is about learning, remembering, and staying curious — together. #BlackHistoryMonth #ReadBlackAuthors
Reposted by Ari wags
Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.
January 29, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.
Reposted by Ari wags
Trump's FBI raided an election office in Georgia, a state central to his baseless 2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, he's continuing to let actual fraudsters and politically-connected crooks off the hook.
This is what weaponizing government looks like.
Meanwhile, he's continuing to let actual fraudsters and politically-connected crooks off the hook.
This is what weaponizing government looks like.
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Trump's FBI raided an election office in Georgia, a state central to his baseless 2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, he's continuing to let actual fraudsters and politically-connected crooks off the hook.
This is what weaponizing government looks like.
Meanwhile, he's continuing to let actual fraudsters and politically-connected crooks off the hook.
This is what weaponizing government looks like.
Reposted by Ari wags
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.
Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.
And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.
The system is rigged.
Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.
And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.
The system is rigged.
January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.
Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.
And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.
The system is rigged.
Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.
And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.
The system is rigged.
Straight talk from the front lines: care over cages, healing over punishment. Nurses see the harm—and we say abolish ICE.
#NursesSayAbolishICE #HealthcareNotHandcuffs #CareNotCages #HumanRights #Solidarity
#NursesSayAbolishICE #HealthcareNotHandcuffs #CareNotCages #HumanRights #Solidarity
January 30, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Straight talk from the front lines: care over cages, healing over punishment. Nurses see the harm—and we say abolish ICE.
#NursesSayAbolishICE #HealthcareNotHandcuffs #CareNotCages #HumanRights #Solidarity
#NursesSayAbolishICE #HealthcareNotHandcuffs #CareNotCages #HumanRights #Solidarity
Your representatives don’t read vibes.
They read calls, letters, and votes.
Resistbot makes it stupid-easy—use it.
Silence helps no one.
If you’re mad, prove it. Put it on record.
#CivicEngagement
#CallYourSenator
#DemocracyInAction
#UseYourVoice
#Resistbot
They read calls, letters, and votes.
Resistbot makes it stupid-easy—use it.
Silence helps no one.
If you’re mad, prove it. Put it on record.
#CivicEngagement
#CallYourSenator
#DemocracyInAction
#UseYourVoice
#Resistbot
January 26, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Your representatives don’t read vibes.
They read calls, letters, and votes.
Resistbot makes it stupid-easy—use it.
Silence helps no one.
If you’re mad, prove it. Put it on record.
#CivicEngagement
#CallYourSenator
#DemocracyInAction
#UseYourVoice
#Resistbot
They read calls, letters, and votes.
Resistbot makes it stupid-easy—use it.
Silence helps no one.
If you’re mad, prove it. Put it on record.
#CivicEngagement
#CallYourSenator
#DemocracyInAction
#UseYourVoice
#Resistbot
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Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.