Kate Van Cantfort

The Short Stories and Too-Short Life of Diane Oliver — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER In the 1960s, a young writer named Diane Oliver published six short stories about the horrors of racism.

Neighbors and Other Stories has been cited as one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2024. Below is the essay that brought attention to her amazing southern fiction. bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022... @nytimes.com @bittersouth.bsky.social @levarburton.bsky.social @neglectedbooks.com

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Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.

“In 2021, Patrick carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 acres where his great-grandfather Byron had been enslaved.” @bittersouth.bsky.social
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024... #justice

Seth Meyers discusses the surreal and horrifying scenes of an armed insurrection incited, directed and encouraged by Donald Trump.Late Night with Seth Meyers... Seth Meyers Calls For Trump's Removal After Violent Insurrection at Capitol

Three years ago we scrapped our planned afternoon taping as the mob stormed the capitol and decided to go live. we didn’t know what to say except to be honest and plainspoken about what we saw so I wrote this and am so proud to work for a show that aired it https://youtu.be/UOIFBKB4mIE

How Many of Your State’s Lawmakers Are Women? If You Live in the Southeast, It Could Be Just 1 in ... A record number of women were elected to statehouses last year. But in the Southeast, where some legislatures are more than 80% male, representation is lagging as lawmakers pass bills that most impact...

A record number of women were elected to statehouses last year. But in the Southeast, where some legislatures are more than 80% male, representation is lagging as lawmakers pass bills that most impact women, like near-total abortion bans.
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Trump allies threaten Deloitte contracts after employee shares Vance chats Republicans are targeting $3 billion in federal contracts because a consultant disclosed exchanges unconnected to his work to a reporter.

Donald Jr. posted the name and photo a guy who shared personal texts from JD Vance in which Vance criticized Trump.

The threatened retaliation to revoke his employer's federal contracts is bad enough. But this shit is also eventually going to get someone killed.

The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World Former president Donald J. Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, the conservative policy initiative. But well over half of its contributors have worked for him, and many of its po...

How could any democracy survive this? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My life’s work…

This is what I do. Not just a sustainable garden designer, I teach my clients and work with them to learn about healthier landscapes and their role in them. I help them grow an occasional tomato too! I see our yards as the one place we connect across political lines. #SouthernSustainable

Opinion | We Can’t Keep Waiting for Our Leaders to Save Us We have hardly begun to understand how inextricably our own health and safety are intertwined with those of our wild neighbors.

“We have hardly begun to understand how inextricably our health and safety are intertwined with those of our wild neighbors.”

Read Margaret Renkl’s call to action to safeguard our wildlife and support the organization’s working so hard to protect them: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o...

Support expansion of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge I just took action along with @selc_org to support expanding the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to allow potential acquisition of the site of a proposed mine that threatens the swamp’s globally s...

TWO WEEKS LEFT: Support expansion of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to include the site of a proposed mine: act.southernenvironment.org/w8okzcm?p2as...

We need a sustained national effort to run a Dem in every single race, always. That is a big lift and it is going to require taking $$ from urban liberals to fund rural
Liberal work.

Most of us rural liberals, especially in South states don’t feel safe & haven’t. When local elections never have a Dem running for local offices, it is tough.

The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper | Substack My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

If you’d like to learn about rural organizing and read stories from rural voters and Dems organizing across the country, you can subscribe to my newsletter. I don’t put anything behind a paywall. jesspiper.substack.com

Me too in rural GA!!! We need real grassroots development of candidates, donors, campaign workers. We also need training in civil disobedience. The real work of the civil rights movement and places like the Highlander school. And we should have been doing this work for the last 2 decades…

How are we gonna fix the Supremes??

So no real source on this bar graph? I want things to be true, but where did this come from?

Is there a source on this infographic?

I'm Nobody Special But I might be able to change the world

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
December 2, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
TODAY AT 10:46 AM

Podcast episode

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