Flo McAfee
@soukieg.bsky.social
Communications strategist with cross-culture edge & environmental justice focus • Former White House aide •Author/Artist • Matron of USNS John Lewis
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“Listen”
how many prayers
must we stack
before the ceiling cracks?
how many babies
must we bury
before the ground
refuses us?
stop calling it tragedy
when it’s policy.
stop calling it freedom
when our children
are the collateral.
we deserve a country
that loves them enough
to keep them alive.
how many prayers
must we stack
before the ceiling cracks?
how many babies
must we bury
before the ground
refuses us?
stop calling it tragedy
when it’s policy.
stop calling it freedom
when our children
are the collateral.
we deserve a country
that loves them enough
to keep them alive.
August 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Listen”
how many prayers
must we stack
before the ceiling cracks?
how many babies
must we bury
before the ground
refuses us?
stop calling it tragedy
when it’s policy.
stop calling it freedom
when our children
are the collateral.
we deserve a country
that loves them enough
to keep them alive.
how many prayers
must we stack
before the ceiling cracks?
how many babies
must we bury
before the ground
refuses us?
stop calling it tragedy
when it’s policy.
stop calling it freedom
when our children
are the collateral.
we deserve a country
that loves them enough
to keep them alive.
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Family, Here’s a clip from my upcoming film Clearing the Air:The War on Smog—a powerful reminder that when crisis strikes, we can come together and solve it.
I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS.
#ClearingTheAirPBS
#ProudBlue
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I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS.
#ClearingTheAirPBS
#ProudBlue
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Clearing the Air: The War on Smog: Chapter 1 | American Experience | PBS
Watch a preview of Clearing the Air: The War on Smog.
www.pbs.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Family, Here’s a clip from my upcoming film Clearing the Air:The War on Smog—a powerful reminder that when crisis strikes, we can come together and solve it.
I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS.
#ClearingTheAirPBS
#ProudBlue
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS.
#ClearingTheAirPBS
#ProudBlue
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
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Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Democrat Catelin Drey wins Iowa Senate special election, breaking Republican supermajority
National and state support from Republicans and Democrats poured into the race for Iowa Senate District 1 with the GOP supermajority in the balance.
www.desmoinesregister.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
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As the EPA works to reverse the Endangerment Finding, gutting the legal basis for addressing climate change, @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price.
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The Endangerment Is Us
As the EPA guts the legal basis for addressing climate change, Dr. Mustafa Ali warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
As the EPA works to reverse the Endangerment Finding, gutting the legal basis for addressing climate change, @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price.
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Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury.
You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.
You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.
July 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury.
You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.
You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.
Thoughts and prayers don’t stop mass shootings, and they don’t stop climate disasters either.
This is a tragedy Gov. Greg Abbott did nothing to prevent. He still denies that climate change is real. He won’t act, and he won’t regulate.
This is a tragedy Gov. Greg Abbott did nothing to prevent. He still denies that climate change is real. He won’t act, and he won’t regulate.
July 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The National Weather Service issued at least five flash flood emergencies, the most severe form of flood warning, Friday in several counties in south-central Texas.
Deadly Flash Floods Sweep Central Texas
The National Weather Service issued at least five flash flood emergencies, the most severe form of flood warning, Friday in several counties in south-central Texas.
www.forbes.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed
The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed
The “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.
www.motherjones.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed
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It's July 4, and Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com is done with performative patriotism. DEI is not the problem. Erasing the truth is. America's birthday warrants a reckoning, so now is the time to show up, speak out, and remember who we are. wordinblack.com/2025/07/amer...
America's Birthday Warrants a Reckoning
Will we let fear rewrite America’s story — or fight for a future rooted in truth, equity, and justice? Stacey Abrams asks us to choose.
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July 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's July 4, and Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com is done with performative patriotism. DEI is not the problem. Erasing the truth is. America's birthday warrants a reckoning, so now is the time to show up, speak out, and remember who we are. wordinblack.com/2025/07/amer...
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Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed
The “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.
www.motherjones.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
Extreme weather is real.
At least six people were killed and frantic searches were underway for the missing after heavy rain in Central Texas set off deadly flooding along the Guadalupe River on Friday, authorities said. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...
July 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Extreme weather is real.
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freer because of us
—july 4th, with memory in my mouth—
i don’t light fireworks
i light candles
for crispus & kin—
Black breath blown
into battles
they weren’t meant to win.
they called it revolution
but asked us to wait
told us freedom was coming
just show up late.
but we were there—
boots muddy
—july 4th, with memory in my mouth—
i don’t light fireworks
i light candles
for crispus & kin—
Black breath blown
into battles
they weren’t meant to win.
they called it revolution
but asked us to wait
told us freedom was coming
just show up late.
but we were there—
boots muddy
July 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
freer because of us
—july 4th, with memory in my mouth—
i don’t light fireworks
i light candles
for crispus & kin—
Black breath blown
into battles
they weren’t meant to win.
they called it revolution
but asked us to wait
told us freedom was coming
just show up late.
but we were there—
boots muddy
—july 4th, with memory in my mouth—
i don’t light fireworks
i light candles
for crispus & kin—
Black breath blown
into battles
they weren’t meant to win.
they called it revolution
but asked us to wait
told us freedom was coming
just show up late.
but we were there—
boots muddy
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is the Big Lie wrapped in a flag, handed to you with a smile, and signed in ink that looks suspiciously like blood. It’s not policy—it’s a death sentence in red, white & blue. Patriotic theater with real-life casualties.
Listen and Read👇🏾
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Listen and Read👇🏾
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July 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is the Big Lie wrapped in a flag, handed to you with a smile, and signed in ink that looks suspiciously like blood. It’s not policy—it’s a death sentence in red, white & blue. Patriotic theater with real-life casualties.
Listen and Read👇🏾
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Listen and Read👇🏾
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"The proposed changes (to the clean energy tax credits) would likely disincentivize investment in renewable energy, potentially slowing the transition to a cleaner energy grid & impacting the economic viability of solar & wind projects, while providing tax breaks for the coal and oil industries."
The Big Beautiful Bill: A Reckoning for Black Communities | African Elements
The Big Beautiful Bill threatens Black communities with cuts to vital programs and healthcare, exacerbating existing inequalities.
www.africanelements.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"The proposed changes (to the clean energy tax credits) would likely disincentivize investment in renewable energy, potentially slowing the transition to a cleaner energy grid & impacting the economic viability of solar & wind projects, while providing tax breaks for the coal and oil industries."
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“this too shall pass,”
auntie said,
stirring truth into her tea—
but not without us.
not without feet in the street,
mouths wide with no more,
hearts loud as drums
that won’t stop beating
‘til justice
opens the door.
©️MustafaSantiagoAli
#WritersCommunity #Poetry #Resister
auntie said,
stirring truth into her tea—
but not without us.
not without feet in the street,
mouths wide with no more,
hearts loud as drums
that won’t stop beating
‘til justice
opens the door.
©️MustafaSantiagoAli
#WritersCommunity #Poetry #Resister
June 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“this too shall pass,”
auntie said,
stirring truth into her tea—
but not without us.
not without feet in the street,
mouths wide with no more,
hearts loud as drums
that won’t stop beating
‘til justice
opens the door.
©️MustafaSantiagoAli
#WritersCommunity #Poetry #Resister
auntie said,
stirring truth into her tea—
but not without us.
not without feet in the street,
mouths wide with no more,
hearts loud as drums
that won’t stop beating
‘til justice
opens the door.
©️MustafaSantiagoAli
#WritersCommunity #Poetry #Resister
“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social
Juneteenth: The Freedom We Knew, the Truth They Couldn't Handle
Activist and poet Dr. Mustafa Ali says Juneteenth isn’t when freedom arrived — it’s when America could no longer deny it.
wordinblack.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world won’t just know peace—
it’ll breathe again.
No more boots on necks, bombs in skies, or borders drawn in blood.
Just humanity, finally choosing heart over empire.”
#Peace #Truth #Resistance #RevolutionOfLove
it’ll breathe again.
No more boots on necks, bombs in skies, or borders drawn in blood.
Just humanity, finally choosing heart over empire.”
#Peace #Truth #Resistance #RevolutionOfLove
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world won’t just know peace—
it’ll breathe again.
No more boots on necks, bombs in skies, or borders drawn in blood.
Just humanity, finally choosing heart over empire.”
#Peace #Truth #Resistance #RevolutionOfLove
it’ll breathe again.
No more boots on necks, bombs in skies, or borders drawn in blood.
Just humanity, finally choosing heart over empire.”
#Peace #Truth #Resistance #RevolutionOfLove
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“Honoring The Original Patriots and Roots of #MemorialDay”
On that May day, the shadows danced In Charleston’s aftermath, where chains had broken.
The sun’s light pierced through history’s trance,
As freedom’s first sighs in silence were spoken.
African hands, calloused by the past, Gathered bones
On that May day, the shadows danced In Charleston’s aftermath, where chains had broken.
The sun’s light pierced through history’s trance,
As freedom’s first sighs in silence were spoken.
African hands, calloused by the past, Gathered bones
May 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Honoring The Original Patriots and Roots of #MemorialDay”
On that May day, the shadows danced In Charleston’s aftermath, where chains had broken.
The sun’s light pierced through history’s trance,
As freedom’s first sighs in silence were spoken.
African hands, calloused by the past, Gathered bones
On that May day, the shadows danced In Charleston’s aftermath, where chains had broken.
The sun’s light pierced through history’s trance,
As freedom’s first sighs in silence were spoken.
African hands, calloused by the past, Gathered bones
#GeorgeFloyd 5 Years later. @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social imagines what he might say now…
“Five years later, #GeorgeFloyd still speaks. My latest piece, ‘George Floyd to America: Are You Listening Yet?’ is a raw reflection on justice, memory, and this moment we’re in. Take a moment to read—if it moves you, pass it on.” #Resister
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Imagine George Floyd Speaking Now: America, Are You Listening Yet?
Activist and poet Mustafa Ali envisions what Floyd would say to his daughter, his family, the Black community, America, and to himself.
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May 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#GeorgeFloyd 5 Years later. @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social imagines what he might say now…
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Tornadoes decimated parts of Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia, killing at least 25 people this weekend. A FEMA staffer says recent federal cuts will hamper the agency’s “ability to reach vulnerable people."
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Disaster Aid Was Already Unequal. Will Changes at FEMA Make Things Worse?
A FEMA staffer says cuts will hamper the agency's "ability to reach vulnerable people," — including Black folks.
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May 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tornadoes decimated parts of Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia, killing at least 25 people this weekend. A FEMA staffer says recent federal cuts will hamper the agency’s “ability to reach vulnerable people."
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The Black Arts Movement began one day after Malcolm X’s assassination. Since then, the icon’s spirit of power & pride has influenced generations of Black artists — from poet Gwendolyn Brooks to hip-hop legends Public Enemy &, most recently, sculptor Nathan Murray.
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Why Malcolm X Keeps Inspiring Black Art
Sculptor Nathan Murray, creator of Omaha's bust of Malcolm X, is one of a long list of artists who've tapped into the spirit of Black pride.
wordinblack.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The Black Arts Movement began one day after Malcolm X’s assassination. Since then, the icon’s spirit of power & pride has influenced generations of Black artists — from poet Gwendolyn Brooks to hip-hop legends Public Enemy &, most recently, sculptor Nathan Murray.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Energy Star doesn't just help protect our environment—it keeps money in families' wallets.
Documents obtained exclusively by EPW reveal that Trump and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plan to eliminate this money-saving program.
Documents obtained exclusively by EPW reveal that Trump and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plan to eliminate this money-saving program.
May 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Energy Star doesn't just help protect our environment—it keeps money in families' wallets.
Documents obtained exclusively by EPW reveal that Trump and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plan to eliminate this money-saving program.
Documents obtained exclusively by EPW reveal that Trump and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plan to eliminate this money-saving program.
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Toxic air doesn’t wait—pollution harms babies before they even take their first breath.
Let’s learn how we can protect future generations.
🗓️ May 8 | 9:00–11:30am ET
📲 Livestream on Moms Clean Air Force channels
Let’s learn how we can protect future generations.
🗓️ May 8 | 9:00–11:30am ET
📲 Livestream on Moms Clean Air Force channels
May 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Toxic air doesn’t wait—pollution harms babies before they even take their first breath.
Let’s learn how we can protect future generations.
🗓️ May 8 | 9:00–11:30am ET
📲 Livestream on Moms Clean Air Force channels
Let’s learn how we can protect future generations.
🗓️ May 8 | 9:00–11:30am ET
📲 Livestream on Moms Clean Air Force channels
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More than 200 flights from and into Newark Airport had been delayed as of Monday morning. Disruptions have prompted United Airlines to cut nearly three dozen round-trip flights per day at the New Jersey airport. We explain what's going on. nyti.ms/42L2aKE
May 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
More than 200 flights from and into Newark Airport had been delayed as of Monday morning. Disruptions have prompted United Airlines to cut nearly three dozen round-trip flights per day at the New Jersey airport. We explain what's going on. nyti.ms/42L2aKE