Dacia Mitchell

So I don’t know what you did @hankgreen.bsky.social but my daughter’s cat wants to get you 🤣

all of these people making up wild allegations about Mamdani are ignoring his very real accomplishments, like killing Dick Cheney.

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of an elevator that says truly you need to stop ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of an elevator that says truly you need to stop

Apparently I’ve said something controversial by arguing that the future model for the Democratic Party are charismatic candidates who advocate for populist positions while never backing down to right wing intimidation campaigns. How is this even up for debate?

Definitely his middle name: Aubrey Drake Sore Loser Graham

It occurs to me that if Toronto makes it, they WILL lose against the Dodgers, and that will somehow be yet another L for Drake

This is elite-level marriage

Omar comin’

🙏🏾💜

@thewayoftheid.bsky.social I just heard about Coqui! Do you have any information about a service or where to send anything for her family?

The mainstream media is going to regurgitate the administration’s propaganda that money is pouring in via tariffs, it is on all of us to loudly tell the truth and constantly repeat it: This is a tax on working families that is destroying the growing economy he inherited.

Well damn

Inchoate thoughts from some reading:

Rich white dudes are ferocious about attacking on Black women’s material base — public sector employment — and cultural capital — online etc — right now because they think we radicalized white women

people on the left and opposed to trump almost always sound like theyre trying to impress someone. meanwhile the right is directly speaking to people in normal language and it is very effective.

Elon Musk, after the America Party’s first election results: look, obviously we’re going to have a few candidates explode violently before we get one into office

He simply must be stopped.

The speed with which companies are abandoning DEI is a clue about how shallow their commitment to it ever was.

First they came for that guy and I did not speak up because fuck that guy

Black lab wearing a rainbow striped satin bonnet

When your black dog is a Black dog

I have a bunch of thoughts about how Beyoncé is reckoning with Black American identity, the erasure of Black life in popular Americana imagery, and what it means that one of the most iconic images of Ruby Bridges was created by Norman Rockwell in the face of declining empire and no cultural safety

At Christmas with my fam and it got quiet as a church prayer when Bey took to the screen.

a group of figurines posed like a nativity scene on a table. The baby Jesus is a mummy cat in a sarcophagus, surrounded by a white cat in jacket and scarf sitting on a camping chair holding a mug, a black cat raising a paw on his hind legs and meowing, and two Scandinavian Dala horses.

Merry Christmas you delightful nerds! I hope you find even the tiniest joys in this ridiculous place

TV with still image from Die Hard of Theo when the vault opens, he says “Merry Christmas” and it is awesome!

It’s the most wonderful time,
Of the year… #AVeryDieHardXmas

Signed page from book Spin a Soft Black Song: For Dacia Nikki Giovanni 5-20-98

I have read so much of Dr. Giovanni’s work, but this book is LOVED. I am so grateful to have had the chance to thank her in person ♥️♥️♥️

Poem Yvonne, black and white ink drawing of a young Black girl with glasses, wearing a dress and black and white pedal pushers. She is carrying a grocery bag with collard greens peaking out. The poem is called Yvonne and reads: yvonne stood there unsmiling. with collard greens and sensible shoes on her way to becoming a good Black woman

Yvonne looked just like me!

One of my favorite poems was “Yvonne”:

yvonne
stood there unsmiling. with collard greens and sensible shoes on her way to becoming a good
Black woman

Intro page of Spin a Soft Black Song: Introduction That's Charles and me-when we were little. We don't look as happy now. You could say we've lost our innocence. That's a little worse than losing the nickel to put in Sunday School, though not quite as bad as losing the dime for ice cream afterward. Even though we know it was supposed to be the other way around. Charles and I decided to write a book with poems and pictures for and about children 'cause when we were growing up there were precious few of them. Especially for us. And we wanted to say things the way we said things when we were little; which in adult language is the profundity of the noble savage. You'll get to that when you're no longer a part of it. So we tried We talked with children and mostly we tried to remember what we were like and what we did. Like I used to be home alone in the evening after school and watch the scarey movie then be too scared to go to the back of the house and cut the lights on. So I'd Sit in the living room till Mommy and Daddy came home. My big sister was supposed to keep me company but she was always on the phone or practicing cheer-leading, so it was really me against them. So far I'm breaking even. I read my books, watched Loretta Young reruns and sometimes listened to the news. But I quit listening to the radio when my father got run over by a car . . .

Continued intro page: … and nobody thought to call me since they thought | was too little and WCIN was the first to tell me. He got OK, but I still hate the radio. And we hope you like it. It's about us from five weeks old to ten years. If you can't read, get your mommy or daddy or cousin (since older brothers and sisters rarely have time) to read it to you. And maybe one day you'll write a book about us yourself. And Charles and I can read it to our grandchildren. NIKKI GIOVANNI

I adored this book, she made it for me and said as much in the preface:

Title page of the book Spin a Soft Black Song with two dancing black adult figures, and a dancing baby who’s diaper is falling down

When I was a kid, my parents gave me Spin a Soft Black Song — a children’s book of poetry by Nikki Giovanni.

Ah, I get it and yeah, I feel that. Maybe some one out there has an answer? :: stares hard at Apple Calendar team ::

Wait, I think you can? Try Settings > View options > Set custom View (dropdown has options of 2 days all the way up to 4 weeks)

A raccoon walks along the top of a black wooden fence in a backyard, with a house and trees in the background. A large canna lily in the foreground

Good morning to everyone! Including this little trash panda on my fence 🦝