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Recipients
EXIT INTERVIEWS has been announced by two festivals:
FilmOut San Diego @filmoutsd - August 22nd
Atlanta's Out on Film @outonfilm - Starting Sept 25th

Come Join Us

Here's the trailer

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

If you live near Fox Hills Mall and don’t want to run into ICE, don’t go there today!

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.

thegriffinlist.com

Early voting today in Wisconsin

Books

Annnnnd there it is.

““Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters,” said a Republican operative close to the White House.”

Goodbye, Kevin Drum "Take care of Donald Trump for me."

1/ Kevin Drum, who wrote and blogged for Mother Jones for more than a decade, passed on Friday. We knew it was coming, but it still hit hard. @monikab.bsky.social and I wrote something to honor him: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/0...

Eric Deggans Named Knight Chair in Journalism and Media Ethics at W&L Eric Deggans, television critic, media analyst and guest host with NPR, has been selected to serve as the next John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington and Lee…

I have, as is often said these days, some news: Later this year, I'll take over as the next John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, while remaining a critic-at-large at NPR. DETAILS: loom.ly/vY60yFI

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

Heads up, Florida.

Posing in front of The Reformatory on a bookshelf

That moment when it’s your FIRST TIME seeing your own book at the airport!!!

I’m so grateful to readers for their support 😘😘😘

#TheReformatory

The Wall Street Journal congratulated Bezos as its ideological "wingman in the fight." If that is what you are looking for, by all means, support WaPo.

Instead, if you are looking for fearlessly pro-democracy news, analysis and opinion, support Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

A photo of Roberta Flack, wearing Black

NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' and other intimate hits, dies at 88.

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) is *so* gifted at distilling key political themes.

Trump 1.0 was "The Cruelty Is The Point"; this piece explains how the admin is now pursuing "The Great Resegregation." It captures *so much* of what's happening. READ IT!

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Image Awards and Spirit Awards the same night. SMH

the criterion cover of charles burnett’s “killer of sheep”

KILLER OF SHEEP ON CRITERION. OUT MAY 27.

It was an honor to be a consulting producer on this release. I am grateful to be of service to Charles Burnett. I am thankful for my former colleagues at @criterion.bsky.social + @milestonefilms.bsky.social.

more info: www.criterion.com/films/34233-...

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

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This Black Family Won’t Back Down After Court Allows Railroad to Take Their Land After a judge ruled that a railroad could take their land, landowners in Sparta, Georgia, are appealing the decision to the state’s Supreme Court.

The Smith family owns 600 acres of land, which has been passed down since the 1920s. A superior court judge recently ruled that a railroad company could seize their property.

They are now appealing the decision to the Georgia Supreme Court.

capitalbnews.org/georgia-fami...

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.

Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.

Say equity, which a just society should pursue.

Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

WOWWWWW - welp, The Between was my first book (recently reissued), The Good House is one of my scariest, and My Soul to Keep (followed by The Living Blood, Blood Colony and My Soul to Take) was my most popular for years.

Hope that helps! 😘

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is.

They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring.

So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

Opinion | Don’t Fall for Trump’s D.E.I. Dodge The president doesn’t care about merit.

"What does D.E.I. mean to the president and his administration? It’s the presence — in a skilled or high-status role — of anyone who isn’t white, male and able-bodied, regardless of qualifications or abilities," writes @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

If aliens pull up…

Zeal "As a story about community, healing, and family—both human and animal—this is one of the best."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review. In this heartfelt animal friendship story, a troubled young boy befrien...

Happy Black History Month 🌺

I have a book coming out in less than 3 mos. It's been endorsed by Kiese Laymon, Bridgett Davis, and Jason Reynolds. Anticipated by WaPo, People, TIME, and others.

Pre-orders are important so if you have the funds, consider a copy?

www.harpercollins.com/products/zea...

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