Mark Anslem
@epluribusmarcus.bsky.social
Human | Openly Black | “I greet you with the love of God that don't make us friends.” —Malice | “I'm dipped in God's black complexion.” —Black Thought
Given the abject cruelty, outright violence, and unashamed white supremacy from this regime over the last 11 months—particularly targeting communities to which I either belong or with which I stand in solidarity—the fact that I have not crashed out is nothing short of a miracle.
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Given the abject cruelty, outright violence, and unashamed white supremacy from this regime over the last 11 months—particularly targeting communities to which I either belong or with which I stand in solidarity—the fact that I have not crashed out is nothing short of a miracle.
“I am one of those who think the best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy, who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism, seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them.”
—Frederick Douglass
—Frederick Douglass
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“I am one of those who think the best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy, who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism, seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them.”
—Frederick Douglass
—Frederick Douglass
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
—Shirley Chisholm
—Shirley Chisholm
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
—Shirley Chisholm
—Shirley Chisholm
TW: Gun Violence
Watching the HBO original documentary, Thoughts & Prayers: How To Survive an Active Shooter in America. And the following quote from James Baldwin quote keeps coming to my mind:
Watching the HBO original documentary, Thoughts & Prayers: How To Survive an Active Shooter in America. And the following quote from James Baldwin quote keeps coming to my mind:
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
TW: Gun Violence
Watching the HBO original documentary, Thoughts & Prayers: How To Survive an Active Shooter in America. And the following quote from James Baldwin quote keeps coming to my mind:
Watching the HBO original documentary, Thoughts & Prayers: How To Survive an Active Shooter in America. And the following quote from James Baldwin quote keeps coming to my mind:
There is NO SUCH THING as “underage women.”
Just stop already.
Just stop already.
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There is NO SUCH THING as “underage women.”
Just stop already.
Just stop already.
“It is beyond hypocritical to cajole and to implore people to send shoeboxes filled with relatively cheap Christmas gifts to children around the world, while uncritically and unabashedly supporting a regime that sadistically cuts off humanitarian aid . . .”
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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“It is beyond hypocritical to cajole and to implore people to send shoeboxes filled with relatively cheap Christmas gifts to children around the world, while uncritically and unabashedly supporting a regime that sadistically cuts off humanitarian aid . . .”
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If he ever went to sleep, I hope Zohran Mamdani woke up listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “wacced out murals.”
That’s the type of time I’m on.
That’s the type of time I’m on.
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If he ever went to sleep, I hope Zohran Mamdani woke up listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “wacced out murals.”
That’s the type of time I’m on.
That’s the type of time I’m on.
re: Christian Nationalism
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
re: Christian Nationalism
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
“The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
This is such a good conversation between @jamellebouie.net, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is such a good conversation between @jamellebouie.net, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
Reposted by Mark Anslem
What used to be a place of joy or simple routine check-ins has become a horror house of fear and separation under this federal government.
As someone who would be the first immigrant Mayor in generations, I refuse to stand for it.
As someone who would be the first immigrant Mayor in generations, I refuse to stand for it.
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What used to be a place of joy or simple routine check-ins has become a horror house of fear and separation under this federal government.
As someone who would be the first immigrant Mayor in generations, I refuse to stand for it.
As someone who would be the first immigrant Mayor in generations, I refuse to stand for it.
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
In other news . . . HBO’s Task. Such good performances by the entire cast. Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey in this week’s penultimate episode: 👌🏾
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October 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
In other news . . . HBO’s Task. Such good performances by the entire cast. Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey in this week’s penultimate episode: 👌🏾
“Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: they are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God. And they live in mortal fear of a rebellion.”
—Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings
—Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: they are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God. And they live in mortal fear of a rebellion.”
—Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings
—Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings
“We need the spirit of Fred Hampton to come alive among us today to say it doesn’t matter what color you are. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. It matters if they got their boot on your neck.
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
October 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“We need the spirit of Fred Hampton to come alive among us today to say it doesn’t matter what color you are. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. It matters if they got their boot on your neck.
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
“Our doctrines are only as good as the fruit they produce.”
— @pastortrey05.com, Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly
— @pastortrey05.com, Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“Our doctrines are only as good as the fruit they produce.”
— @pastortrey05.com, Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly
— @pastortrey05.com, Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly
There are A LOT of good books and other literature that speak to where we are as a nation. Ijeoma Oluo’s (@ijeomaoluo.bsky.social) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America is one of them.
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There are A LOT of good books and other literature that speak to where we are as a nation. Ijeoma Oluo’s (@ijeomaoluo.bsky.social) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America is one of them.
I haven’t listened to this album in so long. Definitely a good time to revisit it. #85toAfrica
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I haven’t listened to this album in so long. Definitely a good time to revisit it. #85toAfrica
Reposted by Mark Anslem
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
As if authoritarianism and fascism are not bad enough, we are living in and under an idiocracy.
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
As if authoritarianism and fascism are not bad enough, we are living in and under an idiocracy.
America is continuing to fail an open-book test.
September 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
America is continuing to fail an open-book test.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if a tape was released with Young Thug talking about Martin Luther King Jr.:
“MLK ain’t put nobody on. Talkin’ ‘bout ‘I have and dream’ and ‘my four little children’ and how he made it to the mountaintop. How many records did he sell? Man, watch out.”
“MLK ain’t put nobody on. Talkin’ ‘bout ‘I have and dream’ and ‘my four little children’ and how he made it to the mountaintop. How many records did he sell? Man, watch out.”
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if a tape was released with Young Thug talking about Martin Luther King Jr.:
“MLK ain’t put nobody on. Talkin’ ‘bout ‘I have and dream’ and ‘my four little children’ and how he made it to the mountaintop. How many records did he sell? Man, watch out.”
“MLK ain’t put nobody on. Talkin’ ‘bout ‘I have and dream’ and ‘my four little children’ and how he made it to the mountaintop. How many records did he sell? Man, watch out.”
“There is a tender way we can confuse violence with love, trying to convince ourselves it wasn’t so bad.”
— @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social, Children of the Land
— @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social, Children of the Land
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“There is a tender way we can confuse violence with love, trying to convince ourselves it wasn’t so bad.”
— @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social, Children of the Land
— @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social, Children of the Land
“I will state flatly that the bulk of this country's white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
September 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“I will state flatly that the bulk of this country's white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin