Aisha B.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

U.S. Mint In Philadelphia Presses Final Pennies As The 1-Cent Coin Gets Canceled The Treasury Department expects to save $56 million per year on materials by ceasing to make them.

After 232 years, the U.S. Mint has produced its last-ever penny

Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong The MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power.

“…the construction of class and race, and racial prejudice, have created a system that keeps members of the lower classes precisely where they are.” www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

Happy birthday!

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

I'm excited to be back in the world talking to readers about my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US with the Dayton Metro Library on Nov 6 at 6pm ET.

This event aligns with Shirley Chisholm becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress in Nov 1968.

dayton.bibliocommons.com/events/67f81...

#booksky

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world.

And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Chains Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2010. 336 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of an enslaved teenager during the Revolutionary War.

Join #BannedBooksWeek and prepare for the #AmericanRevolution250 by participating in the @ncacensorship.bsky.social read-ins of historical fiction "Chains" by @halseanderson.bsky.social

Host an event or find one near you. Read: www.righttoreadnight.com

www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...

Sept. 18, 1850: Fugitive Slave Act Passed The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.

Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."

Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...

RIP writer Alice Dunbar Nelson, died today 1935, part of the Harlem Renaissance.

"I sit and sew—my heart aches with desire—
That pageant terrible, that fiercely pouring fire
On wasted fields, and writhing grotesque things
Once men. My soul in pity flings...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Reading Liberation Psychology — What A Shrink Thinks

Reading Liberation Psychology will start a new book on November 15th. New members welcome

We meet 1x monthly, 3rd Saturdays

We'll be reading "We've Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse" by James Hillman

Sympathy: feeling emotion based on your perception of someone else's situation. Empathy understands the other person's *own* perception of their situation.
Sympathy without empathy = you can be the sole judge of who deserves compassion; you can dismiss certain people, groups or situations at will.

Gun Violence Archive Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is a not for profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States. GVA will collect...

For no reason at all, here is the website listing every Mass Shooting in the US in just 2025. About 240 people dead since January. www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass...

Remembering Hurricane Katrina With Clint Smith, 20 Years After the Storm | KQED We talk to Clint Smith about his new piece for the Atlantic called "Twenty Years After the Storm." And we'll hear from you: what was returning home from a natural disaster like for you?

🎙️ON AIR:

It's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina struck. We're speaking to New Orleans-born poet and Atlantic staff writer @clintsmithiii.bsky.social about the destruction of his hometown and its recovery.

❓ What was returning home from a natural disaster like for you?

📻 Listen:

Making A Plan "It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a brid...

Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment:

1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

One thing that being in the USA is teaching us, perhaps more than anything else, is how easy it is to break down a society when people don't think about collectivity. Selfishness and hubris are contributing to this country's descent into deeper destruction every day.

Ohio to honor Toni Morrison with yearlong celebration From Columbus to Lorain, the state will mark the Nobel laureate's legacy with readings, performances and community events.

Honoring one of my favorite authors of all time:

"Graphic with 'Anthropic' logo on left, circuit-like design. Right text reads: 'Authors: You May Be Part of This Class Action Lawsuit. Anthropic AI Lawsuit Explained.' Modern, tech-themed design."

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.

All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.

For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Feed Your Head Even now, especially now, your curiosity is powerful.

NEW WRITING:

"What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?" 🧪

Lesson: Public Schools Are a Winning Issue, Everywhere Recent Decision To Unfreeze Education Funds Part of a Clear, Consistent Pattern

And if we don’t learn from that lesson (and I mean at all levels, especially the highest ones), we are making a big mistake.

Link here for all the details, and an example of who’s doing it right: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

It’s impossible to watch this without getting emotional

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.

Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.

You can sign up at the link below!

www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Riding the Roller Coaster -Emotional Wisdom Workshop; — What A Shrink Thinks Psychoeducation and wisdom teachings for grown-ups who have feelings

I like this workshop, it allows me to engage in dialogue not only with those who attend, but with teachers, theorists and thinkers that I find interesting.

I try to sit in the spot where wisdom teachings, bodies, biology and emotion meet

For grown ups who have feelings.

With so many Americans bent on destruction, we're gonna need every tool in our ancestors' toolbox. Dr. Kellie Carter-Jackson's WE REFUSE reminds us of Revolution, Protection, Force, Flight, and Joy.

I've been dwelling with her JOY chapter. Sharing just a few snippets:

As DEI disappears from major retailers, Shop Red Bag gives Black-owned brands a new home As major retailers back away from DEI commitments, media, and tech executive Candi Carter has launched a new e-commerce platform

Anywho, here's an article about a Black woman who created a resource for those of us who are not shopping at places that eliminated DEI programs:

www.yahoo.com/news/dei-dis...

If members of the WH Press Corp don’t ask this question RELENTLESSLY they should turn in their badges.

Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

If you are stocking up, please make sure you buy beans. Add beans to your list and spend about $8 on beans during each shopping trip.