Tina M. Ellsworth

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing. Toni Morrison

KBJ referenced this Toni Morrison quote in reference to a @drtinaellsworth.bsky.social question about a Harvard classmate prominently displaying a Confederate flag near her apartment. #ncss2025 #sschat

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

Wait…what?!?!

Our annual Summer Leadership Institute is next week in my home town of Kansas City! I’m excited to welcome you to the nation’s best kept secret. 🙂

✅ Inspiring Speakers
✅ Powerful Networking
✅ Incredible Historic Sites

We hope to see you there!

You can tell that the One Big Beautiful Bill* is truly beautiful because they’re holding the hearing after midnight

* Yes, that’s actually the name

I say this almost every day of my life.

CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades | CNN Politics Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...

"CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades"

www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

I feel this in my soul.

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"To educate is to take a risk and to hold out to the present a hope that can shatter the determinism and fatalism that the selfishness of the strong, the conformism of the weak and the ideology of the utopians would convince us is the only way forward."--Pope Francis (2020)

Addams Family was a delightful show. These middle schoolers are wildly talented. :)

How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have.

How are the DOGERs using Your Data??
How DOGE used Social Security data to push dubious fraud claims

www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.

Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?

Correct.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

Reckless cruelty isn’t strength.

Capitulation isn’t courage.

Cultish allegiance isn’t patriotism.

We used to know the difference.

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

senate floor right now...

senator cory booker

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Time to speak up

I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.

Senator Booker is holding the senate floor until he cannot. Go to his TT or IG for live coverage.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by

So much wrong with this latest executive order, but especially promotes white supremacy by including the racist belief that race is biological and obsesses about "western civilization," "classical architecture," and a concealed restoration of Confederate monuments. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Good morning, beloved.

There is strength in joy.

Sometimes we need to build that strength by practicing joy.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year