Just wasted crucial morning writing time watching videos of quokkas and fennec foxes. Worth it.
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oh look, a consequence www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar.
An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party.
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Glowing from my Black Freedom event at Kindred Stories in Houston. What a joy to talk Juneteenth, Emancipation Days, memory and struggle in Texas!
Black Freedom chronicles the celebration of freedom that began well before the national holiday. Available everywhere books are sold!
I met a writer for coffee this morning and it was delightful.
Except I got rattled ordering at a new place and forgot to say decaffeinated. Really enjoying trying to write through tinnitus which is now a full complement of screaming cicadas and high voltage buzzing.
Eschewing nuance & complexity in every way except symbolism. One would think a basic 3-color flag would be appealing, but regressive nostalgia outweighs simplicity. Bravo to 800 Minnesotans who answered the spam email, an unknown number, or read their junk mail.
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This is a very good read and a nice break from the denser works on immigration that I'm reading through.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647178...
This is the entirety of this administration's approach: Create a problem, make it worse in every possible way, act like it accomplished something, blame the victims, avoid any accountability, seek to control the narrative.
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I carried on with my blog name The Green Study, which was so named because...wait for it...my study is green and that is where I do most of my work. Being excruciatingly literal or just couldn't be bothered, depending on the day.
I tracked down this noisy bugger, an American Toad. I wish I were a better photographer, but sometimes the joy is just in the seeing.
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Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice
I picked WatchinTheSky at the nasty place (way before it was so nasty) and was glad I could use it here when I fled because I like looking at the sky cuz so many cool things are there - birds, trees, clouds celestial images!
Patrick
My nickname is Maddie. J is my middle initial. I spelled it out as jay because corvids!
