Karen Bryant Lucas

Charlie Kirk’s Afterlife Is Now Just a Sad Little Google Trends Graph The man who built a brand on outrage is now memorialized by a spike-and-crash chart and dozens of people are still paying the price.

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NO KINGS Wake Forest, NC · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Come join us in Wake Forest for 15 minutes of motivating rally speakers, followed by a march along the sidewalks of downtown. Bring a sign! Dissen...

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Who knew that ant bites—black ants, not red—could make your foot swell and walking a pain in the foot.

I, for one, did not know. But now I do.

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."

Isaac Asimov

BREAKING: VETERAN'S
BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN

You and me BOTH.

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

History isn’t a warm banket designed to make you feel safe and comfortable. It’s a cold rainstorm that should drive you to learn how to avoid getting wet the next time.

In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per DHS & ICE sources, this afternoon, DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday. Notifications below 👇🏻

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

A White man of a certain age “Why don’t you name him John Wesley? Maybe he’ll be a preacher.”

All of Dad’s attempts to discredit or limit Dr. King’s message came to a dead end. “And I was on campus,” he said, “when I remember one night saying, ‘You know what? What is making me angry here is that Martin Luther King is just a betterChristian than I am.’”

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PRICELESS!

Read Detained Activist Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter to His Son | ACLU

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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Urge Congress: Save Public Media Save your local stations. Email your Members of Congress now!

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Making something “Chaos at the Core”(Original by Justin Metz; collage by K Bryant Lucas) What do you do when the world is burning. When you surface from uneasy dreams to find yourself in a house engulfe…

What do you do when the world is burning.

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Jake Tapper can go suck eggs.

PETITION: Don't Ban Books in the United States Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

Join the fight against government regulations on the books that you and your family are allowed to read in the United States by signing the petition today.

action.everylibrary.org/bannedbooks via @everylibrary.bsky.social‬

Small white wildflowers known as Star of Bethlehem and picked from our yard

Star of Bethlehem flowers growing wild in our yard.

I'm having a day. Taking a moment to absorb the beauty around me while the world is on fire. Feeling powerless, & taking action anyway.

FUN FACT: "He was the first pope who worked as a bouncer at a pub before entering the seminary."

Pope Francis's remarkable peacemaking life As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.

As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.

Apr. 3, 1911 | President Taft Expels Black Soldiers from San Antonio for Protesting Jim Crow Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1911, President William Howard Taft expelled Black soldiers from San Antonio, Texas, because local officials claimed they threatened “law and order” by protesting Jim Crow laws.

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Araminta Ross, better known as Harriet Tubman, risked her life as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. As an abolitionist, her courage was key in the fight to end slavery. 170 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

This resolution is a history lesson all by itself. Bravo, good sir!

Bravo to you, Rep. Green. All the Democrats should have walked out with you or stood up with you and yelled “Liar!” The Democrats won’t receive another penny from me. They don’t get it: this is not business as usual!

Yes, I remember those days.

Tiffany S. on Substack 'You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.' Baldwin in Harlem, in 1963. Photograph by Steve Schapiro

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