Nostalgia is a trap. The old ways didn’t break—they never worked. Phil Agnew on why your granddaddy wasn’t happy, and why we build new ways of being instead of trying to go back. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Substack: drdavidjjohns.substack.com #TeachTheBabies #PhilAgnew
Truth Social is selling Wall Street early access to Trump's posts—up to $100,000/mth to read them first. Because his posts move markets. A presidential tollbooth. And it's probably legal, by design. Follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
They told on themselves. 2020: Jenna Ellis told Georgia prosecutors, “the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances.” 2026: Speaker Mike Johnson said losing the House would be “the end of the Trump presidency in real effect.” The truth always comes to the light (Luke 8:17). vote.org
Testosterone is testosterone. Hegseth rolled out hormone therapy for troops with low T—“The High-T Department of War.” Same molecule this administration bans for trans troops and discharges them for taking. Same medicine. Opposite verdict. drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-belie... #WorkWoke
Rapid-fire w/ @biancajontae.bsky.social: Teachers College or Harvard? The research or the writing? Freedom dreaming or policy change? Her picks stay in the episode. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/27bH... 📝 substack.com/@drdavidjjoh... #TeachTheBabies #ThisOrThat
America is 250. The truth is older—built on stolen land, by stolen people, and still unpaid for. Fannie Lou Hamer asked in 1964: is this America? We're still answering. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
ICYMI: @drdavidjohns.bsky.social joined @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected.
The instinct in movement work is to sequence. That sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting for over 36 years. -Dreisen Heath on #TeachTheBabies #Podcast—& why this Freedom Summer, we put the whole menu on the table. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1Kxy... #HR40 #LetsALLGetFree
"We want the whole menu." This Freedom Summer, NBJC + Dreisen Heath of the Why We Can't Wait Reparations Network produced Equity Week in DC. H.R.40 has waited since 1989—we don't have forty more years. New ep of Teach the Babies is live. Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree
#POV you join @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected. #LetsALLGetFree #Politics #Policy
The most targeted officials in this country are invisible in the data meant to protect them. That is not a footnote—it's a policy failure. #LetsALLGetFree
Dr. David Johns@drdavidjohns.bsky.social · last mo.57% spike in anti-LGBTQ incidents targeting elected officials in a single year. 181 documented incidents. No federal system to track what happens at the intersection of Blackness and LGBTQ+ identity.
57% spike in anti-LGBTQ incidents targeting elected officials in a single year. 181 documented incidents. No federal system to track what happens at the intersection of Blackness and LGBTQ+ identity.
Dr. David Johns@drdavidjohns.bsky.social · last mo.Delegate Gabriel Acevero was physically confronted at a polling site on the cusp of Juneteenth by a man with documented anti-LGBTQ animus. His constituents voted anyway. And as I write, he is leading. That is resistance. New Stack is live. 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-tried...
Delegate Gabriel Acevero was physically confronted at a polling site on the cusp of Juneteenth by a man with documented anti-LGBTQ animus. His constituents voted anyway. And as I write, he is leading. That is resistance. New Stack is live. 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-tried...
They were college students heading into Mississippi in 1964. They knew the danger. They went anyway. @mspackyetti.bsky.social on who actually carried the cost of Freedom Summer. Full #TeachtheBabies pod out now 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer2026 #BlackHistory
Authoritarianism's quietest weapon is isolation. Tiffany Loftin says students are dangerously disconnected. The answer is intentional, physical, in-person gathering. Listen to the full #TeachTheBabied pod episode now! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu... #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer #OrganizeNow
Find your organizing home. Not the org—the people. Not tomorrow. Now. 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu... 📖 Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
In Our Comfort, We Cannot Get Free with Tiffany Loftin
Podcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · June 16 · 28m
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Dr. David Johns@drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 2mo ago"One of the tactics of authoritarianism and fascism is making us feel like we are by ourselves. It is loneliness. It is solitude. It is separation from our community and our people." —Tiffany Dena Loftin. This is the episode for Juneteenth week.
"One of the tactics of authoritarianism and fascism is making us feel like we are by ourselves. It is loneliness. It is solitude. It is separation from our community and our people." —Tiffany Dena Loftin. This is the episode for Juneteenth week.
Dr. David Johns@drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 2mo agoJuneteenth is not a holiday. It is a reckoning. The promise of freedom was announced two and a half years after it was already law. We have been closing the gap ever since. New #TeachtheBabies #Podcast episode with Tiffany Dena Loftin is live.
Juneteenth is not a holiday. It is a reckoning. The promise of freedom was announced two and a half years after it was already law. We have been closing the gap ever since. New #TeachtheBabies #Podcast episode with Tiffany Dena Loftin is live.
Collin County is ~11% Black. Frisco is ~9% Not one Black juror seated in Karmelo Anthony's trial. Prosecutors struck all 3 Black women. Reason: they were teachers. The judge allowed it. Batson in action. The system working exactly as designed. drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/two-boys-a...
Sometimes it’s better to adjust than address. #TeachTheBabies
Talk about a tense conversation... #UrbanViewMornings economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...
Al Green And Markwayne Mullin Have Heated Exchange Over Racism
A House hearing erupted into a heated exchange between Congressman Al Green and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin when the DHS secretary accused the congressman of calling him a racist.
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"While the enslaved were enslaved, the entire society was enslaved." Dr. Marcus A. Hunter reframes who slavery harmed—and it's everyone forced to participate. The 1808 argument. Watch the clip. What if slavery is a diagnosis? open.spotify.com/episode/3OrA... #TeachTheBabies #Reparations #EquityWeek
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Discomfort is by design — always has been. Many are in the arena. The question is who joins them. #VotingRights #AllBlackLivesMatter open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights
The Arena Is Not a Metaphor
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Dr. David Johns@drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe CBC sent a letter to 300+ corporations asking whether their 2021 voting rights commitments still hold. After Louisiana v. Callais, silence isn't neutral — it's complicity. drdavidjjohns.substack.com #LetsALLGetFree
The CBC sent a letter to 300+ corporations asking whether their 2021 voting rights commitments still hold. After Louisiana v. Callais, silence isn't neutral — it's complicity. drdavidjjohns.substack.com #LetsALLGetFree
5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Felon 47 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...
5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Trump
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Greenwood was the deadliest race massacre in American history. Nobody told him — and he grew up there. / Now Damario Solomon-Simmons is the attorney fighting for the last living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... / #TeachTheBabies #RedeemANation #Greenwood
New opportunities roundup is live—leadership roles, fellowships, & student positions across education, civil rights, and global policy. If it's not for you, it might be for someone you’re rooting for. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
