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Here’s an important and heartening reflection on Arthur Ashe from Raising Anti-racist Kids!

open.substack.com/pub/raisinga...
From Segregated Courts to Center Court: Teaching Kids About Arthur Ashe
Arthur wasn’t just a tennis star—he was also a scholar and activist.
open.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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As we resist Trump’s tyranny, America gains solidarity.

As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous.

As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime.

As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
August 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Do you ever wonder why I get so jazzed about Chaucer? Please spend an hour with Zalman Newfield as he interviews Shoshona Adler, Shazia Jagot, Craig E. Bertolet and me about our Global Chaucer companion. newbooksnetwork.com/the-routledg...
Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer" (Routledge, 2024) - New Books Network
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July 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.
June 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
‘There are still bullies in the world, of course. But in a civil society, those bullies can be stopped with words and ideas.’
From time to time I burden you with some personal stuff, based on my belief that our values begin with who we are and where we came from. So today I want to get very personal and tell you why I’m so short. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-im-so-short
Why I’m so short
Thoughts about heightism
robertreich.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938
March 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
March 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.
March 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"Books like hers function not as weapons but as maps, navigating a way around the edges of the abyss." Grateful for @nytimes.com review of Money, Lies and God. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...
Book Review: ‘Money, Lies, and God,’ by Katherine Stewart
A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility.

GOP leadership is now advising lawmakers to avoid holding in person town halls.

Keep up the fight.
February 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Every union should be echoing this statement.
February 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
“Black Dictionary” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Black Dictionary”
“I turned myself into myself and was Jesus.”
www.newyorker.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
THIS!
It’s about solidarity, folks.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to defeat Trump? Support unions | Eric Blanc
Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Another helpful post from Tabitha and Adam on anti-racist parenting now: open.substack.com/pub/raisinga...
Part 2: 6 Groundings For Parenting Under Fascism
We can't parent in a bubble.
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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They felt like Black folks were ungrateful. In their eyes, they gave us a Black President so why were we complaining. Bc we had a Black figurehead, they wanted us to shut up about the pain we were still experiencing. Our demands to simply be treated humanely made them uncomfortable
Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.
January 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Part 1: Endurance & Action: Hope for Parents during Trumpism
www.raisingantiracistkids.com/p/part-1-end...
Part 1: Endurance & Action: Hope for Parents during Trumpism
We're in this together.
www.raisingantiracistkids.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM