Jeff Nguyen

a close up of a woman wearing hoop earrings and a red shirt Alt: Nichelle Nichols as Lt Nyota Uhura, a Black woman wearing hoop earrings and a red shirt, turns and smiles.

Today I Learned, in 1967, Nichelle Nichols AKA Lt Nyota Uhura, was asked by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. himself to not quit Star Trek, to stay on the show, and keep inspiring young Black girls.

He stated she was showing the world "we are seen, we are intelligent, and we belong among the stars.”

There are some things in life that are morally absolute in their wrongness, slavery and nazism speak for themself.

Calling it the (neo)confederacy might resonate more in the US than (neo)fascism.

She and her father deserved better than what this country did to her.

Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...

As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise.

I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.

Opinion | Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

There's a few likely consequences of having free buses...and they will probably surprise you! Really happy to be able to share this perspective today in the New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

She kept his home in upstate, NY, cared for guests Frederick would bring home sometimes for months at a time (including white women abolitionists) she participated in assisting with the Underground Railroad, and raised their children. Because however heroic….men.

I love Freddy D 'cause he's brilliant, flawed, messy, and fly. So totally human, which means he's also immensely frustrating at times.

My goodness the man could stare down a camera like nobody's business.

Courageous, clear-eyed, and hopeful about our "glorious liberty document." 🖤

Thank you for the hard work you and so many others are doing. Self care is critical through these traumatic times but there are so many in crisis and duress.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

We remember:
Alyssa Alhadeff
Scott Beigel
Martin Duque Anguiano
Nicholas Dworet
Aaron Feis
Jamie Guttenberg
Chris Hixon
Luke Hoyer
Cara Loughran
Gina Montalto
Joaquin Oliver
Alaina Petty
Meadow Pollack
Helena Ramsay
Alex Schachter
Carmen Schentrup
Peter Wang

2/14/18
🙏🏻🦅❤️ #MSD

‘Soul Food Sundays’ at BLK Swan honor Black History Month During Black History Month, BLK Swan is hosting special Soul Food Sunday dinners to recreate the kind of meal that once anchored the week in Black households.

At BLK Swan, ‘Soul Food Sundays’ re-create the feeling of home

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.

In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

KABAS: So many comparisons have made between the current state of US immigration terror and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and I've seen some say that kind of seeks to absolve this country of its own history of racial terror and genocide. In the hearings this week with ICE and CBP and USCIS, you said you have “no respect for inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol.” How did it feel to publicly and explicitly draw that connection? REP. RAMIREZ: I knew that I was going to make them very uncomfortable. I'm not talking about just the DHS directors there—I meant my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And I say this often, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the willingness to act despite the fear.’ I'm a little scared [in that moment], because if I'm being blunt with you, every time I speak there's a death threat. And yet I thought it was so important, as a daughter of immigrants, as a proud representative of Illinois-3, as someone who has been calling out what they do, to be able to look evil in the eye and call them what they are.

Delia Ramirez is a real one

www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-delia-...

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

These muhfuckas were so nasty to her, man.

"Bye house." 😢

Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.

Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women www.essence.com/news/money-c...

Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Opera singer Denyce Graves takes her final bow on stage

Acclaimed mezzo soprano Denyce Graves took a final bow last month and is pivoting to teaching the next generation. She performed on the world’s top opera stages for more than 40 years.

Such a brilliant, beautiful person. And now she's speaking about the racism she faced.

#Opera #Classical #BHM

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”

(Published Oct. 2025)

Finally.

Savings and Trust Winner of the 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize<br />A <em>Publishers Weekly</em> Best Nonfiction Book of 2024<br /><br />A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman&#...

here is the book. highly recommend it. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Nearly a year ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump “border czar” Tom Homan after ICE took Mahmoud Khalil.

Republicans targeted pro-Palestine students. Then, with no firm pushback, expanded their operations to what we see today.

Mamdani was among the few Democrats who immediately stood against it.

For folks unfamiliar, this was a bog standard position for Nazi and incel 8chan/board culture back in the day.

He's not inventing, he's regurgitating and repackaging

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states