FYI: (This is update from someone's earlier quote in the last century.) Writing is easy. You fire up the text editor, open a vein, and bleed on the keyboard.

Book I'm working on now. It will cut. "They gave her a mask to keep her quiet. She learned to sharpen it."

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Listen To and Vote Like Black Women@bullet1982.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THREAD 🧵On April 27, 1971 professional baseball player Curt Flood left so-called Major League Baseball after losing his lawsuit to become a free agent. If not for Mr. Flood? There's no free agency in any professional sport. Don't know about Curt Flood? Glad you asked.

On my 50th wedding anniversary, I am more convinced than ever that I definitely married up. The first pic was on our wedding day in 1976. We were in the back seat of an Austin Marina. The second was a selfie from yesterday. We were in the front sear of an awesome Camaro. I am SO lucky.

#WomensHistoryMonth THREAD 🧵Professor, political activist, founder of a radio station + former member of the Young Lords Party AND the Black Panther Party Denise Oliver Velez is still militantly Black, still militantly proud + is still fighting today. Who is Denise Oliver-Velez? Glad you asked.

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**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

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THREAD🧵During the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan in 1998 the world's most awarded + greatest individual figure skater, Surya Bonaly, performed the first back flip and LANDED ON ONE BLADE during an Olympics. No Ilia Malinin WAS NOT THE FIRST. Don't know about Surya Bonali? Glad you asked.

THREAD #OTD February 21, 1965 husband, father, freedom fighter and one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz or Malcolm X, was assassinated at the Audobon Ballroom in New York City. Don't know about Malcolm X? Glad you asked.

History teaches us a dictator has superpowers and is invulnerable to opposition ONLY until the moment he is not. After his downfall, the collapse =always= looks inevitable. He is only as powerful as the citizens he is oppressing believe he is. Learn. This. Lesson. Now.

THREAD #OTD On January 26, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff. Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, would have been the first civilian to travel to space. Don't know about the Challenger disaster? Glad you asked.

THREAD 🧵"Negroes are human, not superhuman. Like all people, they have differing personalities, diverse financial interests and varied aspirations. There are Negroes who will never fight for freedom. There are Negroes who seek profit for themselves alone from the struggle." 1/4

THREAD 🧵"It’s time now for you and me to become more politically mature and realize what the ballot is for; what we’re supposed to get when we cast a ballot; and that if we don’t cast a ballot, it’s going to end up in a situation where we’re going to have to cast a bullet." 1/2 Malcolm X

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) The Boss has something to say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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THREAD🧵Author and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was born January 22, 1884. He was the first Black person to write, produce, direct and own a film company, starting out with the novels he wrote. Don't know about Oscar Micheaux? Glad you asked.

THREAD On January 23, 1870 the US Army led by Major Eugene Baker massacred over 150 Blackfeet—most of whom were women, children, the elderly, and those suffering from disease— during the Bear Creek/Marias River/Baker massacre in Montana. Don't know about this massacre? Glad you asked.

I am damn proud of Minneapolis and Minnesota. I lived there for forty years. They are not complying. Minnesota will prevail. Trump and Noem will lose. #ICEout.

THREAD🧵On January 14, 1963, after an overwhelming victory by Alabama voters, infamous racist and segregationist Gov. George Wallace, in his inaugural address, calls for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Don't know about Gov. George Wallace? Glad you asked.

THREAD🧵On December 21, 2025 Dr. Renfrew Christie, whose undercover work for the African National Congress was CRITICAL in destroying the apartheid regime's ability to make nuclear bombs, died. Who was Renfrew Christie? Glad you asked.

Martin Luther King, Jr. "On Service," an excerpt of his famous "Drum Major" speech. youtu.be/WkRdj9L3wyE?...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (To Serve)

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After a day of service, nothing like going to SOLD OUT Burr Stadium at The Mecca, Howard v. Morehouse. (Howard won!) There's nothing, absolutely nothing, like the HBCU experience. #HU #YouKnow

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Listen To and Vote Like Black Women@bullet1982.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THREAD🧵Mathematician, teacher, scientist and key contributor to Global Satellite Positioning (GPS) Dr. Gladys Mae West made her transition January 17, 2026. If, today, you used GPS to get anywhere? She largely made that possible. Who was Dr. Gladys West? Glad you asked.

I want everyone to google "night and fog." This is where we are.

MLK Day is the one day each year Republicans pretend they don't hate everything about Black people.

THREAD 🧵On November 14, 1960 six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted by federal marshals in order to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, LA. This was done in the wake of SCOTUS Brown v. Board decision that mandated integrated schools. Who was Ruby Bridges? Glad you asked.

THREAD 🧵On December 11, 1917, the U.S. Army executed 13 Black soldiers who were court-martialed + denied an appeal. July 1917, the all-Black 3rd Infantry Battalion was stationed at Camp Logan, near Houston to guard white soldiers headed to Europe. What was this mass execution? Glad you asked.

Emperor Donald Nero wants to put his face on dollar coins. I'm serious.