Chris (he/him)
@durm-cdub.bsky.social
Just a fellow sojourner who is endlessly in search of awe and wonder. Psychotherapist in North Carolina.
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11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
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“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” — Minister Malcolm X
He was born 100 years ago today.
Rest in power.
He was born 100 years ago today.
Rest in power.
May 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” — Minister Malcolm X
He was born 100 years ago today.
Rest in power.
He was born 100 years ago today.
Rest in power.
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Humanity must be central to any movement for liberation.
May 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Humanity must be central to any movement for liberation.
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ICE would post up outside the manger to disappear Mary to a foreign torture prison after snatching the baby Jesus and holding him in a private, for-profit tender-age detention facility.
May 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE would post up outside the manger to disappear Mary to a foreign torture prison after snatching the baby Jesus and holding him in a private, for-profit tender-age detention facility.
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If this weekend is hard for you, I just want to say many of us understand, you have siblings in grief near and far.
May 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If this weekend is hard for you, I just want to say many of us understand, you have siblings in grief near and far.
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“I’ll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.” - Nina Simone
May 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“I’ll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.” - Nina Simone
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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
May 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
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Trump is now talking about shipping U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador.
Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons.
This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.
Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons.
This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.
Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That's likely illegal
President Donald Trump keeps talking about sending U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes to prison in El Salvador. But that's likely illegal.
apnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Trump is now talking about shipping U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador.
Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons.
This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.
Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons.
This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.
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Between the years 2018 and 2022, the suicide rate among Black youth rose by more than 50%, for the first time surpassing white youth.
Black mental health matters.
Black mental health matters.
April 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Between the years 2018 and 2022, the suicide rate among Black youth rose by more than 50%, for the first time surpassing white youth.
Black mental health matters.
Black mental health matters.
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This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
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Amid this neo-Nazi subjection of truth and knowledge, we must fund our liberation by supporting our knowledge spaces. Like our local independent bookstores.
Find your favorite local independent bookstore on Bookshop.org. Pre-order my new biography of Malcolm X, Malcolm Lives! Get 15% off. 1/3
Find your favorite local independent bookstore on Bookshop.org. Pre-order my new biography of Malcolm X, Malcolm Lives! Get 15% off. 1/3
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Amid this neo-Nazi subjection of truth and knowledge, we must fund our liberation by supporting our knowledge spaces. Like our local independent bookstores.
Find your favorite local independent bookstore on Bookshop.org. Pre-order my new biography of Malcolm X, Malcolm Lives! Get 15% off. 1/3
Find your favorite local independent bookstore on Bookshop.org. Pre-order my new biography of Malcolm X, Malcolm Lives! Get 15% off. 1/3
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Universal healthcare would make America great.
Universal pre-k would make America great.
Tuition-free college would make America great.
A guaranteed living wage would make America great.
A housing guarantee would make America great.
Universal pre-k would make America great.
Tuition-free college would make America great.
A guaranteed living wage would make America great.
A housing guarantee would make America great.
April 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Universal healthcare would make America great.
Universal pre-k would make America great.
Tuition-free college would make America great.
A guaranteed living wage would make America great.
A housing guarantee would make America great.
Universal pre-k would make America great.
Tuition-free college would make America great.
A guaranteed living wage would make America great.
A housing guarantee would make America great.
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Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
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All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”
March 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”
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The maintenance of racism requires the public’s ignorance of racism. As the Trump administration strives to unwind the Department of Education and defund libraries, I wanted to elevate these words. I went on to explain how enslavers legislated for ignorance. #departmentofeducation #forourlibraries
March 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The maintenance of racism requires the public’s ignorance of racism. As the Trump administration strives to unwind the Department of Education and defund libraries, I wanted to elevate these words. I went on to explain how enslavers legislated for ignorance. #departmentofeducation #forourlibraries
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When they attack DEI and “woke” and CRT and BLM—they mean BLACK.
March 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
When they attack DEI and “woke” and CRT and BLM—they mean BLACK.
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Trump Republicans hate the Department of Ed for the same reasons they hate education. They view education as a waste of funds since it exposes their fraud and prevents their abuse of American minds through their outlets of disinformation. Trump Republicans want a country of believers, not thinkers.
March 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Trump Republicans hate the Department of Ed for the same reasons they hate education. They view education as a waste of funds since it exposes their fraud and prevents their abuse of American minds through their outlets of disinformation. Trump Republicans want a country of believers, not thinkers.
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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
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“I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man. . .what she produces is an addition to the capital, while his labors disappear in mere consumption.”
—Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1820, while building UVA, conveying he valued forced “breeding” the most.
—Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1820, while building UVA, conveying he valued forced “breeding” the most.
Glenn Youngkin takes a victory lap on Fox for University of Virginia ending DEI and says it's a step toward restoring the values of Thomas Jefferson
March 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man. . .what she produces is an addition to the capital, while his labors disappear in mere consumption.”
—Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1820, while building UVA, conveying he valued forced “breeding” the most.
—Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1820, while building UVA, conveying he valued forced “breeding” the most.
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Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods.
Source: NYT
Source: NYT
March 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods.
Source: NYT
Source: NYT
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2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
March 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
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It should be noted that the strength of a liberal democracy is defined by how it protects the rights of its minorities, especially its most marginalized.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.
Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections
The move marks the first time a state has removed a protected class from a state law prohibiting discrimination.
www.nbcnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It should be noted that the strength of a liberal democracy is defined by how it protects the rights of its minorities, especially its most marginalized.
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My IOWA folks, meet an Oscar-nominated director & attend a FREE community screening of Nickel Boys March 13 at Crossroad’s theater in Waterloo. This film represents historical truths that those in power are trying to erase. Please come support and edify yourselves. Bring your family and friends.
1619 Freedom School Community Event
The 1619 Freedom School along with Orion and Amazon MGM studios are inviting you and your families to a community screening of Nickel Boys.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My IOWA folks, meet an Oscar-nominated director & attend a FREE community screening of Nickel Boys March 13 at Crossroad’s theater in Waterloo. This film represents historical truths that those in power are trying to erase. Please come support and edify yourselves. Bring your family and friends.
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Let's juxtapose that my Iowa hometown canceled an African American Read-In because administrators believed it ran afoul of Trump's anti-diversity e.o. and the state's "divisive concepts" law. A few days later white supremacists freely marched in the capitol. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
Leaders: Patriot Front's hate has 'no place' in Iowa after white supremacists' march
Leaders from across the political spectrum condemned Patriot Front, after the white supremacist group marched Saturday in Des Moines' East Village.
www.desmoinesregister.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Let's juxtapose that my Iowa hometown canceled an African American Read-In because administrators believed it ran afoul of Trump's anti-diversity e.o. and the state's "divisive concepts" law. A few days later white supremacists freely marched in the capitol. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
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Know Your Rights Virtual Town Hall
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM