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As we’re coming into the Christmas period, a time of year when we celebrate religious festivals across many faiths, I bring you this, created when I was commissioned as the visual theologian in a book...

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December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM

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BREAKING: Canada And The EU Exploring "Nuclear Option" To Stop Trump/Putin's Attempt To Pillage Ukraine

If Trump Sells Out Ukraine, Allies Are Ready To Hit America Where It Hurts

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December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM

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Angus Hervey (@fixthenews)

Colombia has declared its entire Amazon biome, 42% of its territory, as a reserve, and will block 43 pending oil blocks and 286 mining requests, halting all new large-scale extraction. Let that sink...

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November 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM

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Some Words from the Mess

How it hurts when your home is described as something to sweep away

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November 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM

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LaChelle Chrysanne (@lachellerising)

I keep seeing people talk about Goodreads on here and just wanna remind yall that it is owned by Amazon/Jeff Bezos. StoryGraph, a Black woman owned app, has far superior features and you can migrate y...

November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Treaty!! — Elizabeth Gray-King

It is very exciting to announce that last week, the Government of Victoria passed the law to formalise an agreement the state's First Peoples, with more treaties planned with distinct nations within t...

November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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When Betye Saar picked up discarded objects and symbols of oppression, she didn’t just make art, she made a statement that echoed across generations. As one of the most influential figures of the Blac...

The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)

November 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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This is so worth watching the whole video substack.com/@thedangerou...

This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥

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November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM

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Broadwaybabyto (@broadwaybabyto)

Kim Davis has been fighting to overturn gay marriage for years. She’s been fighting to be absolved of denying a marriage license to a gay couple (which cost her her federal job) Today she lost her...

November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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Presence — Elizabeth Gray-King

This image is called Presence. It’s a digitally altered section of my painting Witness. I often start my blogs by searching my artwork to see what speaks to me. Here we are today. Presence. A day afte...

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November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM

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Redirecting...

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November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM

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Someone stop Trump. Please.

October 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM

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This is a problem and I feel it. My family has felt it my entire career. Three jobs…housing insecure for years. Sis, I’m sorry they don’t value us — and I hate it!

October 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM

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💪🏾🥰

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October 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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Jamal X (@monty905410)

Raleigh, North Carolina. A baby girl was born into slavery. Her mother, Hannah Stanley Haywood, was enslaved. Her father was almost certainly her mother's enslaver—George Washington Haywood, a promin...

October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM

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A church makes tea. What Power! — Elizabeth Gray-King

The top picture is a huge zoom-in to a tiny detail from my finished piece for a residency at the 2016 Rural Christianity Conference (bottom picture). I was hearing about all the things the church coul...

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October 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Donald Trump’s AI Video Is a Psychosexual Confession

This Substack is reader-supported.

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October 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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FloridaWildChild (@floridawildchild)

Next …

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October 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM

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Colleen Tallen (@colleentallen)

No Kings on October 18 in Dublin, Ireland

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October 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter)

Gov. Tim Walz is spot-on here. Eat shit, KKKaroline Leavitt.

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

October 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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Simply obscene. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday

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October 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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A must read - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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October 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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Beyond the March: Strategic Tactics for No Kings Day and Beyond

Millions of Americans will take to the streets on October 18 for No Kings Day protests across 2,000+ events nationwide.

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October 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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Marta (@grammamarta)

October 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM

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🇬🇭 Woven With Spirit: Ghana’s Kente Cloth Earns Protected Status “Every thread holds a proverb. Every color remembers a people.” This week, Ghana’s Kente cloth — a sacred textile long woven by the A...