Master Sam

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did.

We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

Baltimore’s arabbers mourn a fellow fruit man Arabbing — or selling fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon — is a centuries-old profession that is hanging on by a thread in Baltimore.

Baltimore’s arabbers mourn a fellow fruit man – and their dying way of life

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

The testimony of formerly enslaved ppl shows the costs of family separation in abuse, trauma, & disability, as well as the resulting harms to targeted communities. A crime not only against the individual, but also against society.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

It is official! Harper Collins just acquired my next book, "Dirty, Sexy, Bible."

Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez collapsed into tears as she recalled the moment last week when U.S. immigration officials in Florida told her she would be deported and separated from her still-breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter.

I wrote a book about a slaveowner who separated three children from their mother during the Civil War and took them to Cuba. She later accused him of kidnapping. This case is the mirror image of that one in many ways.
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If you think Trump isnt about to start sending women to El Salvadoran prisons too, think again.

People always forget women. There is no narrative around the women living this nightmare.

Help us help women. ThurmanPerryfoundation.org

just finished reading through the final edit of my boarding schools book and wow its wild as hell that I get to explain to children how much the government fucked over Indigenous kids.

I just get to say it that plainly— this was genocide. this caused harm that still has an impact.

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

Sign this petition to demand protection for LGBT+ rights actoss europe.
a.allout.org/s/P95pp/

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

Girl, I will make homemade party favors before I go to Target and buy the same ones everyone already has too 😩

Also gift bags, wrapping paper, school supplies etc. can be purchased elsewhere. They run out of everything anyway!

If we cut police budgets across Marylands 22 counties, how much money could we save?

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.

Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.

We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

They’re now disappearing documented student activists.

ICE can deport green card holders for engaging in and/or inciting terrorism. Trump will likely use this to justify the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant

They've chosen him as their first victim because the Dems are unlikely to defend him

They're testing the water. They will do this again

Too soon

Auntie Paulette and Auntie Donna are the absolute truth!

New partnership aims to provide health insurance to formerly incarcerated people People leaving Maryland prisons and state-run Baltimore jails often do so with complex medical needs ranging from substance use disorder, to hypertension and diabetes.

Potential Medicaid cuts loom over partnership linking incarcerated people with health care

A cartoon by @wassermantoons.bsky.social.

'Cruel and callous': Mass. political leaders condemn Trump's move to end TPS for Haitians Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and her fellow chairs on the House Haiti Caucus urged the president to reverse what they called a "cruel and callous decision" to end a program that protects about a half...

This shameful decision will harm our neighbors and devastate communities. www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...

WSJ: “DOGE touts $55 billion in cuts - WSJ counts $2 billion if spending levels remain constant, and only 2% were DEI-related… majority of cuts were research, including Alzheimer’s & traumatic brain injury and education…”

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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally.

The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

but this is good.