Kim McLarin
@kimmclarin.bsky.social
Writer, mother, teacher, baker, Baldwin acolyte and aspiring waterbender. Latest book is EVERY DAY SOMETHING HAS TRIED TO KILL ME AND HAS FAILED and, child, I know you know what I mean.
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Watching the American Masters episode on the great Roberta Flack and this song, which somehow I never heard, is TIMELY 🔥🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
Compared to What
YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Watching the American Masters episode on the great Roberta Flack and this song, which somehow I never heard, is TIMELY 🔥🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
Reposted by Kim McLarin
James Baldwin & Maya Angelou in 1975 @7:10
MA: I believe that we are Americans.
JB: True. Can you believe it? I know it.
MA: I know it. We are Black
Americans. We have our feet our souls, our hearts.
JB: We have paid for this country. That’s why I can never leave it, by the way.
MA: I know. Never.
MA: I believe that we are Americans.
JB: True. Can you believe it? I know it.
MA: I know it. We are Black
Americans. We have our feet our souls, our hearts.
JB: We have paid for this country. That’s why I can never leave it, by the way.
MA: I know. Never.
Maya Angelou and James Baldwin - Conversation with a Native Son
YouTube video by thepostarchive
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
James Baldwin & Maya Angelou in 1975 @7:10
MA: I believe that we are Americans.
JB: True. Can you believe it? I know it.
MA: I know it. We are Black
Americans. We have our feet our souls, our hearts.
JB: We have paid for this country. That’s why I can never leave it, by the way.
MA: I know. Never.
MA: I believe that we are Americans.
JB: True. Can you believe it? I know it.
MA: I know it. We are Black
Americans. We have our feet our souls, our hearts.
JB: We have paid for this country. That’s why I can never leave it, by the way.
MA: I know. Never.
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposted by Kim McLarin
For 4 more days, you can stream Louis Massiah's brilliant documentary "TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING" through the DocNYC film fest! www.docnyc.net/film/tcb-the...
TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING - DOC NYC
NYC PREMIERE The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing celebrates the life of the dynamic author, editor, and activist. From her Harlem roots to her role
www.docnyc.net
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
For 4 more days, you can stream Louis Massiah's brilliant documentary "TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING" through the DocNYC film fest! www.docnyc.net/film/tcb-the...
Was really disappointed to see folks streaming into the Starbucks near South Station in Boston yesterday. Folks gotta get their fix even if the union-busting billionaires just get richer..
No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Was really disappointed to see folks streaming into the Starbucks near South Station in Boston yesterday. Folks gotta get their fix even if the union-busting billionaires just get richer..
This is a death-denying society.
My affairs are in order.
My affairs are in order.
This is my yearly PSA that, no matter how old you are, you should have a basic health directive and will. The forms are free online in California. The number of senior citizens in my neighborhood with no directives and no plan who are already a little off the rails is staggering. A short rant 1/
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is a death-denying society.
My affairs are in order.
My affairs are in order.
🤣
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🤣
Good to get clarity on why I have such an irrational hatred of these things.
You aren’t stealing the book. They’re saying m that you are stealing their charity. And their charity is part of how they perform citizenship. The branded little free libraries are very much tied to white ideas of charity, thus they come with binaries about who deserves charity.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Good to get clarity on why I have such an irrational hatred of these things.
Reposted by Kim McLarin
I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
If you are concerned about people swiping books from your little free library and reselling those books, I ask you to go to your local used bookstore and sell a book
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
Support the arts!
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Support the arts!
Reposted by Kim McLarin
1) Overall, we find that White Americans who live in counties with White American decline or Black American increase *specifically* become more violent and antidemocratic when they receive a simple prime about racial demographic change. We define this as "White fight sentiment."
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
1) Overall, we find that White Americans who live in counties with White American decline or Black American increase *specifically* become more violent and antidemocratic when they receive a simple prime about racial demographic change. We define this as "White fight sentiment."
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My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
A few takeaways...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
A few takeaways...
Reposted by Kim McLarin
Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
A few takeaways...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
Who's pretending????
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Who's pretending????
The BBC has been cowed.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The BBC has been cowed.
Reposted by Kim McLarin
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Hey kids, when driving your foot does not have to always be on either the gas or the brake. When you see a red light ahead you can take your foot off the accelerator and COAST. The engine will keep running! It's magic! No need to race up to the line of cars then slam on the brakes! Try it!
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hey kids, when driving your foot does not have to always be on either the gas or the brake. When you see a red light ahead you can take your foot off the accelerator and COAST. The engine will keep running! It's magic! No need to race up to the line of cars then slam on the brakes! Try it!
Reposted by Kim McLarin
We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
This is the problem.
The only solution is to tax the hell out of them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
The only solution is to tax the hell out of them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is the problem.
The only solution is to tax the hell out of them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
The only solution is to tax the hell out of them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
This was 🔥
It's time for @libraryofamerica.bsky.social's "The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler", a conversation with @imaniperry.bsky.social & @tananarivedue.bsky.social!!!
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This was 🔥
See, the reason I continue to waste my time on social media is so I can discover stuff like this.
Didn't know that I needed a go-go version of "The Right Kind of Lover" until today. Patti went from heels to barefoot to flats in the span of two songs. Incredible stuff here. An entire living legend.
Patti Labelle: Noochie’s Live From The Front Porch
YouTube video by Noochie
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
See, the reason I continue to waste my time on social media is so I can discover stuff like this.
How long, Lord? How long until these people go ahead and leave your beautiful planet like they keep promising to do?
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
How long, Lord? How long until these people go ahead and leave your beautiful planet like they keep promising to do?
Don't know why my reaction to this was helpless laughter, not b/c racism is funny but b/c it's so absurd that Phillip, with his distinguished-looking self, could have this BS happen in the P.R of Cambridge. At least the cop who roughed up Skip Gates didn't show.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
Cambridge coffee shop accused of denying service to Black journalist over mistaken identity - The Boston Globe
Phillip Martin, a former reporter for GBH, said he was meeting someone at Caffè Nero when he tried to order a cup of tea but was denied.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't know why my reaction to this was helpless laughter, not b/c racism is funny but b/c it's so absurd that Phillip, with his distinguished-looking self, could have this BS happen in the P.R of Cambridge. At least the cop who roughed up Skip Gates didn't show.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/23/m...
They convinced y'all a first generation professor making $90k a year was a dangerous "elite" so that y'all would focus your fury that way instead of against the oligarchists (Trump first among them) raping and pillaging and laughing all the way to their private islands.
Americans are such chumps.
Americans are such chumps.
"At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some. . .were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering."
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
They convinced y'all a first generation professor making $90k a year was a dangerous "elite" so that y'all would focus your fury that way instead of against the oligarchists (Trump first among them) raping and pillaging and laughing all the way to their private islands.
Americans are such chumps.
Americans are such chumps.