Shameless Plugs

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Goodday! Read that in an Australian accent please.

I know it has been about a week since I shared something but that isn’t from forgetting about you—I promise.

Life has been hectic with moving, new pup (s/o Dat Dog Doechii) and writing a few things for non- personal outlets.

More to come on that one but to pick up where we left off last week:

Yes, the market IS STILL BAD. Even if he is doing the tariffs on again off again like a high school relationship.

In other stupid activities…the little petty orange man broke tradition and took down the portrait of one of the last serving Presidents.

I WONDER who the racist ‘colored’ man would remove…

Because…of course he did.

All presidents wait until they are out of office to have their picture hung… but this guy is a rare breed of arrogant.

Side note: I wish I could be THAT confident while simultaneously not having enough intellect to spell confident.

Anyway… nothing is surprising with them anymore so this is par for the course.

Other stuff I’m Doing

So this will be short because I don’t want to take up too much time but also wanted to share a couple things that have kept me out.

First, be on the lookout from ChangeWire for an upcoming piece this week about the power of organizing— also subscribe to it please.

Also in the works is a piece on five years out from what happened to Breonna Taylor and the failure of the city to really produce meaningful and lasting change. TBD on date, up to publisher.

And lastly, a shameless plug for a recent piece over at The Progressive Magazine about attacks on the Department of Education and how it started LONG before Project 2025.

Check it out and look around for other cool and smart pieces.

An excerpt:

The possibility of dismantling the Department of Education has, in fact, been in play for conservatives since 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was illegal in Brown v. Board of Education. They played the long game to get here—a long shame.

Many news outlets have been quick to attribute this proposal to the infamous Project 2025, but the idea that the federal government should take a backseat in shaping education policy is hardly a new one. Its history traces back to the Southern Manifesto, a 1956 Congressional proclamation signed by nineteen U.S. Senators and eighty-two Representatives—all from former Confederate states—characterizing the Supreme Court’s decision as judicial overreach and pledging to resist school desegregation by “all lawful means.”

For those who thought this movement began with contemporary billionaires and conservative think tanks, think again. The purported argument for “states’ rights” in education is as much about ideology as it is about historical resistance to federal intervention, particularly when that intervention sought to dismantle racial segregation. So, before we crown Project 2025 the grand villain of public education, let us take a Constitutional walk down memory lane.

Read more HERE.

Welp..that’s all for now. Back to work but will share more later. And if there is anything you think would be interesting to learn more about in a piece, please let me know.