Dr. Stacey Patton
@drstaceypatton.bsky.social
Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, historian, child advocate, and college professor.
Today’s Sunday morning sermon. Get saved. Get delivered. Get sweet potato salvation!
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Thou Shalt Not Eat That Cursed Pastry: A Black Liberation Rebuke of Pumpkin Pie and Other Unclean Abominations
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November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today’s Sunday morning sermon. Get saved. Get delivered. Get sweet potato salvation!
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Media outlets are treating a predator’s deformed anatomy like a juicy tabloid mystery. Meanwhile, his victims are being retraumatized watching the world turn the instrument of their terror into a punchline.
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The Media’s Fetish With Epstein’s Deformed Genitals Is Deeply Disrespectful to His Victims
Because it’s easier to mock a dead predator’s anatomy than confront the people who enabled him and the institutions that protected him.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Media outlets are treating a predator’s deformed anatomy like a juicy tabloid mystery. Meanwhile, his victims are being retraumatized watching the world turn the instrument of their terror into a punchline.
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Lissen, as a mouthy Black woman journalist, I would have lost my job and ended up in Taliban jail if the POTUS called me “piggy.”
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“WHO YOU CALLIN’ PIGGY?” The Clapback That Would’ve Gotten Me Fired From Journalism Til Jesus Comes
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November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Lissen, as a mouthy Black woman journalist, I would have lost my job and ended up in Taliban jail if the POTUS called me “piggy.”
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If Jesus said harming a child is worse than drowning with a millstone tied to your neck, what do you think he’d say about slandering children by comparing them to people who are intentionally destroying the country?
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Jesus Loved the Children. Which Is Exactly Why It’s Blasphemy to Compare Them to Donald Trump and Republicans
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November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If Jesus said harming a child is worse than drowning with a millstone tied to your neck, what do you think he’d say about slandering children by comparing them to people who are intentionally destroying the country?
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If folks really knew the actual history of this country, they’d know America has been protecting powerful white men who sexually exploit children since before it had a name.
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Trump Ain’t the First U.S. President to Be Accused of Pedophilia.
The long history of sexual exploitation of children shows why this country has never genuinely cared about protecting kids over powerful white men.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If folks really knew the actual history of this country, they’d know America has been protecting powerful white men who sexually exploit children since before it had a name.
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So, we’ve got broke incels out here celebrating women’s hunger and desperation and posting memes about getting them some “$40 coochie.” They’ve their own insecurity into viral entertainment degrading women.
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The $40 Coochie Economy and the Psychosexual Politics of Male Fragility.
How SNAP cuts, misogyny, and America’s broken masculinity have turned women’s hunger into foreplay.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
So, we’ve got broke incels out here celebrating women’s hunger and desperation and posting memes about getting them some “$40 coochie.” They’ve their own insecurity into viral entertainment degrading women.
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Sunday sermon: Jesus fed the hungry, practiced redistribution of wealth, universal healthcare, economic justice, inclusion, disaster relief, servant leadership, criminal justice reform, childcare & education for all. He was a Socialist before it had a name.
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Jesus Was the First Socialist
While MAGA cries apocalypse over Zohran Mamdani, the real rapture already hit their souls. They traded Christ for capitalism and called it Christianity.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sunday sermon: Jesus fed the hungry, practiced redistribution of wealth, universal healthcare, economic justice, inclusion, disaster relief, servant leadership, criminal justice reform, childcare & education for all. He was a Socialist before it had a name.
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Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public.
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The Body of Empire Is Breaking Down
McConnell freezing and falling in the Capitol building. Findlay fainting in the Oval Office. Trump asleep at the Resolute Desk. This is a collective portrait of decline.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public.
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The media, from left to right, keeps panicking or pontificating about what a Democratic Socialist is and acting like Zohran Mamdani’s platform is an impending apocalypse rather than a mandate for basic human decency.
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The Panicked Media Thinks “Democratic Socialist” Means Feeding New Yorkers with Five Loaves of Halal and Two Rent Vouchers
Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election, and the press lost its mind trying to define what that means.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The media, from left to right, keeps panicking or pontificating about what a Democratic Socialist is and acting like Zohran Mamdani’s platform is an impending apocalypse rather than a mandate for basic human decency.
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So many parents ask me how to stop hitting their children. First, you have to understand what’s really happening in your body. Hitting doesn’t “work” because it teaches a child anything. It “works” because it temporarily calms YOU.
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Hitting a Child ‘Works.’ But Only for the Parent’s Body, and Neuroscience Explains Why.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
So many parents ask me how to stop hitting their children. First, you have to understand what’s really happening in your body. Hitting doesn’t “work” because it teaches a child anything. It “works” because it temporarily calms YOU.
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New York just elected a Brown Muslim Socialist as mayor, and the right wing is absolutely losing its collective mind. 😂
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New York City Chose a Brown Muslim Socialist. The Right Is Having a 'Red Scare' Meltdown — and It's Glorious.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New York just elected a Brown Muslim Socialist as mayor, and the right wing is absolutely losing its collective mind. 😂
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Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Trump called African nations “shithole countries” and now he suddenly wants to “save” African Christians. He doesn’t give a damn about Christians in Africa, or Black Christians anywhere in the world.
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Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Christians in Africa
Behind his sanctimonious talk of “saving Christians” lies a recycled lie, oil interests, and ZERO genuine concern for Nigerians.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trump called African nations “shithole countries” and now he suddenly wants to “save” African Christians. He doesn’t give a damn about Christians in Africa, or Black Christians anywhere in the world.
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A sitting congressman told SNAP recipients to “stop smoking crack.” So today’s Sunday sermon is a rebuke of his cruelty.
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Lord, Deliver Us from These 'Crackheads' in Congress
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November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A sitting congressman told SNAP recipients to “stop smoking crack.” So today’s Sunday sermon is a rebuke of his cruelty.
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My student, Dru Strand, just wrote this powerful piece for NewsOne about what it feels like to be a college student who’s afraid she’ll lose her SNAP benefits. While politicians in D.C. play games with people’s livelihoods, she’s wondering how she’ll eat.
I’m A Student On Food Stamps. My Future Depends On Congress
There are thousands of students like me who are juggling jobs, classes, food insecurity, and now a shutdown that threatens to pull the rug out from under us.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My student, Dru Strand, just wrote this powerful piece for NewsOne about what it feels like to be a college student who’s afraid she’ll lose her SNAP benefits. While politicians in D.C. play games with people’s livelihoods, she’s wondering how she’ll eat.
“Did Jamaicans evacuate?”
Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Evacuate to Where, Exactly? The Cruel Absurdity of Asking if Jamaicans Evacuated Hurricane Melissa
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October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Did Jamaicans evacuate?”
Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Evacuate to where? Into the ocean? This question reveals so much about privilege, geography, and the arrogance of assuming everyone has somewhere safe to run in a climate crisis.
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Trump says he can “save 7,000 people a week” and that might help him get into heaven. He told reporters he “doesn’t think he’s heaven-bound” and joked there’s “some kind of report card up there someplace.” He’s thinking about eternity as a deal to be brokered. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
The Man Who Made Everywhere Feel Like Hell Is Suddenly Worried About Heaven
In a recent interview, Donald Trump checked his poll numbers with God . . . and even he had to admit, it ain’t looking good.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Trump says he can “save 7,000 people a week” and that might help him get into heaven. He told reporters he “doesn’t think he’s heaven-bound” and joked there’s “some kind of report card up there someplace.” He’s thinking about eternity as a deal to be brokered. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
DMV Friends, come through this Saturday. I will be keynoting the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 8th Annual Conference. My talk, "The Smallest Nooses," will focus on the history of Black child lynchings in Maryland and beyond. Registration information below.
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
DMV Friends, come through this Saturday. I will be keynoting the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 8th Annual Conference. My talk, "The Smallest Nooses," will focus on the history of Black child lynchings in Maryland and beyond. Registration information below.
This essay breaks down why so many white allies demand emotional reimbursement the moment a Black writer critiques whiteness.
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White People Hate Being Called 'White People'
The good-white identity isn’t an escape from whiteness, it’s just a the most sophisticated evolution of whiteness.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This essay breaks down why so many white allies demand emotional reimbursement the moment a Black writer critiques whiteness.
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Trump pardoned more than 1,000 white-nationalist foot soldiers from Jan. 6, and now one of them has been charged with threatening to assassinate House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. This is the aftershock of a presidency that has turned white rage into mission. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
“I Will Kill Him For The Future:" Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries
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October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trump pardoned more than 1,000 white-nationalist foot soldiers from Jan. 6, and now one of them has been charged with threatening to assassinate House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. This is the aftershock of a presidency that has turned white rage into mission. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
When a sitting president releases a video of himself defecating on the American people, that’s not “satire.” It’s a public humiliation fantasy and an erotic performance of dominance.
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Donald Trump’s AI Video Is a Psychosexual Confession
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October 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
When a sitting president releases a video of himself defecating on the American people, that’s not “satire.” It’s a public humiliation fantasy and an erotic performance of dominance.
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A Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts
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A Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts
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October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts
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Yesterday was the second No Kings protest, which means the first one didn’t move the mountain. 👀
We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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Jesus Flipped Tables, Y’all Took Selfies: A Sermon for the 'No Kings' Generation
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October 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yesterday was the second No Kings protest, which means the first one didn’t move the mountain. 👀
We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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We’ve mastered the choreography of dissent but not the labor of liberation. Today’s sermon is for everybody who’s tired of pretty protests and performative justice.
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“How can I be a good white ally?” “What do I do?” “How do I show POC that I’m one of the good ones.”
Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally
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October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“How can I be a good white ally?” “What do I do?” “How do I show POC that I’m one of the good ones.”
Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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Be like John Brown!
John Brown didn’t ask enslaved people how to be an ally. So why do y’all keep asking us? The question itself is the violence.
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