Love back to you, Mike!!
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Love back to you, Mike!!
The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians — because these people are dangerous...Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.
From a lecture to the Library of Congress.
www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/d...
Sixty years ago, five assassins from the Nation of Islam murdered Malcolm X. The FBI had spent years escalating the serious political differences between Malcolm and NOI leaders—and worsening petty jealousies NOI leaders had for Malcolm as his prominence rose.
“It’s a book about friendship & love… & reconciliation & redemption, it’s about the weight of history, & the necessity of hope in dark times. I like to say that it’s a book about love & resistance, love as a form of resistance, & resistance as an act borne of love.” @libbabray.bsky.social on GMA 🔥
A graphic showing the cover for the book UNDER THE SAME STARS with an image of author Libba Bray, the text reads: "An instant New York Times Bestseller!"
Huge congratulations to @libbabray.bsky.social on UNDER THE SAME STARS hitting the New York Times Bestsellers list! 💫
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.