Dr. Stacey Patton

While You Weren’t Looking, Trump Made White Nationalist Power Official Policy A late-night policy document abandons global alliances, embraces empire, and treats diversity as a national threat

They released this on a Friday for a reason. Trump’s new National Security Strategy walks away from alliances, embraces domination, and reframes “security” as protection from diversity. Trump has made white nationalist power official U.S. policy. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

The Dells’ $250 “Investment” Accounts for Kids Is Scammy Billionaire Philanthropy Theater Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.

The Dells pledged $6.25 billion to “invest” in America’s kids. Sounds huge, but do the math. $250 won’t won’t stabilize a family. But it will generate applause and tax breaks for billionaires while the machinery that keeps kids poor stays fully intact. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

EXCLUSIVE: New Details Emerge About Why That Raccoon Robbed the Virginia Liquor Store What pushed this furry bandit to break the law.

This raccoon broke into a liquor store, got drunk & passed out in the bathroom. This tracks with a recent report from scientists who’ve found evidence that raccoons are becoming domestic. I also learned this raccoon’s government name & a little about his struggles. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

When a President Calls a Black Congresswoman “Garbage,” That’s Genocidal Language This Substack is reader-supported.

When the president of the United States calls a Black congresswoman “garbage,” that’s state-level dehumanization. And history tells us exactly where that language leads.

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Donald Trump’s MRI Came Back “Perfectly Normal.” Here’s Why It Still Doesn’t Matter. This Substack is reader-supported.

What is Trump’s MRI actually supposed to settle? The power brokers don’t care if he’s healthy or has good cognition. They care that he’s useful.

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Thou Shalt Not Eat That Cursed Pastry: A Black Liberation Rebuke of Pumpkin Pie and Other Unclean Abominations This Substack is reader-supported.

Today’s Sunday morning sermon. Get saved. Get delivered. Get sweet potato salvation!

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BREAKING NEWS!!! I got my hands on a leaked copy of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation letter. This Substack is reader-supported.

If you need a good laugh today, click this.

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Thank you, love.

Thanks so much, love.

The Media’s Fetish With Epstein’s Deformed Genitals Is Deeply Disrespectful to His Victims Because it’s easier to mock a dead predator’s anatomy than confront the people who enabled him and the institutions that protected him.

Media outlets are treating a predator’s deformed anatomy like a juicy tabloid mystery. Meanwhile, his victims are being retraumatized watching the world turn the instrument of their terror into a punchline.

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“WHO YOU CALLIN’ PIGGY?” The Clapback That Would’ve Gotten Me Fired From Journalism Til Jesus Comes This Substack is reader-supported.

Lissen, as a mouthy Black woman journalist, I would have lost my job and ended up in Taliban jail if the POTUS called me “piggy.”

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Jesus Loved the Children. Which Is Exactly Why It’s Blasphemy to Compare Them to Donald Trump and Republicans This Substack is reader-supported.

If Jesus said harming a child is worse than drowning with a millstone tied to your neck, what do you think he’d say about slandering children by comparing them to people who are intentionally destroying the country?

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So glad it made you chuckle.

Nice to meet you, love.

Trump Ain’t the First U.S. President to Be Accused of Pedophilia. The long history of sexual exploitation of children shows why this country has never genuinely cared about protecting kids over powerful white men.

If folks really knew the actual history of this country, they’d know America has been protecting powerful white men who sexually exploit children since before it had a name.
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The $40 Coochie Economy and the Psychosexual Politics of Male Fragility. How SNAP cuts, misogyny, and America’s broken masculinity have turned women’s hunger into foreplay.

So, we’ve got broke incels out here celebrating women’s hunger and desperation and posting memes about getting them some “$40 coochie.” They’ve their own insecurity into viral entertainment degrading women.

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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.

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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Girl, please. Nobody’s packing up to live in a cousin-humping meth lab cul-de-sac where the biggest attraction is a Confederate statue and a Waffle House brawl. Y'all can keep your "great red states" with illiterate MAGATs dying from mouth chlamydia and racism while fighting possums for porch space.

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.

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 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.

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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Hitting a Child ‘Works.’ But Only for the Parent’s Body, and Neuroscience Explains Why. This Substack is reader-supported.

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 City Chose a Brown Muslim Socialist. The Right Is Having a 'Red Scare' Meltdown — and It's Glorious. This Substack is reader-supported.

New York just elected a Brown Muslim Socialist as mayor, and the right wing is absolutely losing its collective mind. 😂

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YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Today is only the beginning.

Today is only the beginning.

Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

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.

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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Lord, Deliver Us from These 'Crackheads' in Congress This Substack is reader-supported.

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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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.

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.

Evacuate to Where, Exactly? The Cruel Absurdity of Asking if Jamaicans Evacuated Hurricane Melissa This Substack is reader-supported.

“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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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.

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.