Many blacks in my peer group are making good money but because they’re the first person in their family to “make it”, they are still living paycheck-to-paycheck because their money isn’t just their money. Their money is mom’s light bill money, little bro’s football money, etc.

The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. People who hid Jews in their homes were criminalized. People who freed slaves were criminalized. People who stood up for equality and justice were criminalized. Legality is not a guide for morality!

If you support a party that is anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman and xenophobic and white supremacist because you think your taxes are too high, you are not "socially liberal".

To be visibly Queer is to choose your happiness over your safety.

Design in Tech Report 2019 (beta) for Desktop is now up at DesignInTech.Report — I'm presenting it in 30 minutes from now at @SXSW. Next weekend I'll edit some videos that can walk NIRL visitors through the information more clearly … but first I need to present it IRL.

A whole mood

I’m waiting on kitty ultrasound results and trying to distract myself a little bit so I’d like to tell you a story about something that happened last night, in the hopes that I can process my feelings around it. I met a girl on the train last night.

Drag me

We call this the “justice” system

I live in Seattle, I have all symptoms of COVID-19 and have a history of chronic bronchitis. Since I work in a physical therapy clinic with many 65+ patients and those with chronic illnesses, I decided to be responsible and go to get tested. This is how that went.

John Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington—where MLK gave the "I have a dream" speech—and the speech Lewis wrote that day was so incendiary that the march organizers wouldn't let him deliver it as written.

I think the pain in my chest is less about the election and more about the reality of how many people really do love white supremacy

It's not healthy the entire nation is hijacked by the electoral college, a vestige of slavery. It's not normal that the popular vote, which consistently goes for Democrats, is forfeited by this archaic system.

does anyone else notice that when these people talk about “free speech”, it’s almost never about the freedom to challenge power and systemic abuse, and almost always about the freedom to denigrate marginalized people without being criticized for it?

Haiti is the only country in the world where descendants of enslaved people were forced to pay reparations to descendants of their masters for generations. Nobody knew exactly how much Haiti paid France — and at what cost to its future — until now. nyti.ms/3MA2C3V