Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

check out this lunchbox that Rose bought me holy guacamole 🥲

Solved the puzzle so I could wash my hands.

All right, the countdown has begun: Six months from today, my next book, "Moses and the Doctor," will be published. We'll be in page proofs and galleys in September. If you're interested in reviewing or covering the book, shoot me an email (address in my bio) or DM. It's becoming real.

Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105.

I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

By Omar Zahzah a poem joins the resistance a poem has nothing to lose a poem is the best shot a poem smokes too many cigarettes a poem looks directly at the sun a poem breathes return a poems births poet armies a poem sweats defiance a poem hijacks consciousness a poem takes no prisoners a poem frees the people a poem won't *take it easy* a poem frees the land a poem won't *just a minute* a poem eats apartheid walls and shits on genocide's finery a poem is done with *dialogue*

A poem for Sunday.

Grace Lee Boggs said, “The continuing Jobs crisis is an opportunity to go beyond protest organizing for more Jobs and begin imagining Work that frees us from being the appendages to machines that we have become because of our dependence on Jobs.”

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#NN25 If you’ve never met or spoken with a Trans person—please listen. Yesterday I heard a young man speak with raw courage. He broke my heart and opened my eyes to my own blind spots. I’m deeply grateful for his honesty, and for the way he opened my heart and mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oujk...

Ahhh Freequency is giving us the response to Zoe Leonard poem, what a gift! #nn25

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high five @tombofnull.bsky.social, the designer of the t-shirt, and @greenpeapress.bsky.social, which is selling it as a benefit for Huntsville's Free LGBTQ+ Closet! www.greenpeapress.com/shop/p/prote...

Thank god she’s no longer married to this guy!

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A woman in a baseball cap and red jacket, Amy Goodman stands speaking, at a podium with Netroots Nation on the front

"All too often, media is wielded as a weapon of war–which is why we have to take the media back."
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
@democracynow.org

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans

Amy! @democracynow.org #nn25

@netrootsnation.bsky.social No to king cake outside of carnival season. Just a fyi for your next visit

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LIVE
Organizing Lessons From Katrina
Featured Panel
August 9 | 11:15AM CT | #NN25 | New Orleans
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#NN25 August 9 Closing Keynote August 9 | 4:30PM CT featuring Melissa Ryan FreeQUENCY Colette Pichon Battle Rev. Gregory Manning David Breña Amy GoodmaN David Hogg Randi Weingarten

And so soon we arrive at THEE 👏 last👏 session.
Join the #NN25 Closing Keynote to end our time together in a big, ONLY in New Orleans way w/stories of resilience as we gather one last time to find the renewed inspiration to take on the critical organizing work ahead at home & across the country.

Crisis at Mona Lisa Averted / Restaurant Will Remain Open - Ambush Magazine Shockwaves rippled through the French Quarter last week when Farrow Stephenson, owner of the popular restaurant Mona Lisa, announced he was being evicted by the building’s new owner. The announcement ...

Don't make waves if you can't swim in the deep end.
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Oh no! I just got here at 3 pm. I did not witness this horror.

Cool! I’m definitely staying for the keynote with Amy Goodman. Hoping I can rally for ChaWa at Howlin Wolf.

Yes, this is how you fight, Governor!

Not sure. Probably won’t get there today until after 2 pm. Are you on the conference app?

So sorry I missed your panel. I didn’t get there until 10

She was 🔥

It was a great long day! See you tomorrow!

Join us at Netroots Nation TOMORROW for a powerful panel: Care Policies to Counter Fascism! Discover how care policies like paid leave, childcare, and fair pay for care workers are a political path to victory. Friday, August 8th, 10:00 AM CT, Panel Room 286/287. #NN25 #CareCantWait #MomSky

We think so too! Watch Rep Delia Ramirez in our #NN25 opening keynote!

SNCC: What We Did “Strong people don’t need strong leaders,” Ella Baker told us. We were strong people; we did strong things. These are some of the things we did.* It began for me as it did for many others in early 196...

My best @netrootsnation.bsky.social story is meeting SNCC leaders I’d known only in name in my youth. We all stand on the shoulders of those heroes who came before.

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