📈Top lookups today: father, dad, daddy, honor, concentration camp

Being refugee is not crime . Do you know about the pain of some refugees ? x.com/realdonaldtrum…

“If the goal isn’t equity it’s not community engagement.” Great conversation this morning with Nexus Community Partners

daydreaming of a world where all businesses are run by teams of badass women thanks to @alwitchsteinman and Bethany Iverson! PS: the businesses are not only wildly successful, but they do good and put community over profit. PPS: this daydream moonlights as the future.

(also they're funnier) fastcompany.com/90228384/here-…

Some days, roxane gay’s tweets are my only reminder that there’s still intelligent life on earth.

i didn't realize how much i needed this until the universe delivered.

whoa.

The 14th amendment gave us a route to citizenship that could not be denied by virtue of race, descent, religion, political party, health, or wealth. Trump clearly wants to take this away. nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/…

yassssss.

went to board my flight and there was a guy sitting in my window seat and when i told him it was mine he said “but i want it” and if that’s not this whole fuckin country i don’t know what is

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. -Maya Angelou

Congresswoman Omar just arrived back in the Twin Cities.

Here's an abridged excerpt of an essay from my book! It's about my attraction & repulsion to optimization, & how easy it is, under conditions of artificial but constantly escalating obligation, to organize your life around practices you find indefensible theguardian.com/news/2019/aug/…

I imagine there's some comfort in imagining a future without racism and projecting that onto the present. Thinking if we just deny the truth, it doesn't exist. If history is erased, we don't have to deal with its consequences. However...

Far too many people don't have the luxury of closing their eyes and ears. They feel it in their lives and can't act like what they see and know doesn't exist.

The defining trait of Trump's campaign and political profile was his embrace of white supremacy. He made it clear every time he spoke. Some serious cognitive dissonance to ignore that for the other x% you might find appealing. I guess I agree with >1% of anyone's thoughts though

Anyway, y'all need to come to Montgomery and see this memorial

I hope someone is already co-opting "Death by a Thousand Paper Clips" as a book/thesis title. nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/…