H. E. Bibbs
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Inspired by the life and works of Henry Walton Bibb. The Voice of the Fugitive— Reignited.
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Narrative is a weapon. So I write.
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Narrative is a weapon. So I write.
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H. E. Bibbs
@wordsbybibbs.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Center-left liberals are desperate for a “Sister Souljah Moment” to regain power. Ezra Klein’s Charlie Kirk op-ed was just that — a calculated gambit to court right-wing moderates by intentionally angering his left-wing supporters.
Wrote a piece on this yesterday👇🏾
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Wrote a piece on this yesterday👇🏾
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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In the times before we started Liberal Currents (i.e., before Trump ), I used to say in the chat that Chris Hayes was "the greatest Twitter user." It is really something to have his support, years later, as we start up in a bigger way. Thank you, Chris. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
In the times before we started Liberal Currents (i.e., before Trump ), I used to say in the chat that Chris Hayes was "the greatest Twitter user." It is really something to have his support, years later, as we start up in a bigger way. Thank you, Chris. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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“As soon as the update was rolled out, users found numerous Maga and rightwing influencers who presented themselves as patriotic Americans were operating from other countries…Bots spreading misinformation and propaganda has been a long-running problem on Twitter…”
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“As soon as the update was rolled out, users found numerous Maga and rightwing influencers who presented themselves as patriotic Americans were operating from other countries…Bots spreading misinformation and propaganda has been a long-running problem on Twitter…”
“I believe foolishly perhaps, but sincerely, that I have something to say to the world, and I have taken English 12 in order to say it well.”
Young W.E.B Du Bois, writing to Professor Barrett Wendell, on October 3, 1890.
#BlackWriters
Young W.E.B Du Bois, writing to Professor Barrett Wendell, on October 3, 1890.
#BlackWriters
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“I believe foolishly perhaps, but sincerely, that I have something to say to the world, and I have taken English 12 in order to say it well.”
Young W.E.B Du Bois, writing to Professor Barrett Wendell, on October 3, 1890.
#BlackWriters
Young W.E.B Du Bois, writing to Professor Barrett Wendell, on October 3, 1890.
#BlackWriters
“It’s easy to have a moral center when times are calm. It’s difficult — as people and as a country — to have a moral center when things are so fearful.”
~ @loriclune.bsky.social
~ @loriclune.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“It’s easy to have a moral center when times are calm. It’s difficult — as people and as a country — to have a moral center when things are so fearful.”
~ @loriclune.bsky.social
~ @loriclune.bsky.social
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If the motto of the first Trump regime was the cruelty is the point (Adam Serwer) then the motto of the second is every accusation is a confession: the weaponization of the federal government against political opponents, the Trump crime family, and the torpedoing of the economy and U.S. hegemony.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If the motto of the first Trump regime was the cruelty is the point (Adam Serwer) then the motto of the second is every accusation is a confession: the weaponization of the federal government against political opponents, the Trump crime family, and the torpedoing of the economy and U.S. hegemony.
Trump may have immunity in the U.S., but I can envision a day where China assumes the role of defending the international rules-based order, that Trump abandoned, and his entire administration is indicted as war criminals under international law.
America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump may have immunity in the U.S., but I can envision a day where China assumes the role of defending the international rules-based order, that Trump abandoned, and his entire administration is indicted as war criminals under international law.
Grok identifies itself as MechaHitler. No one in the national media should allow any public official to say they’re a “Grok guy” without immediately asking them their thoughts about Grok’s white supremacist hallucinations, and pro-Hitler declarations.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Grok identifies itself as MechaHitler. No one in the national media should allow any public official to say they’re a “Grok guy” without immediately asking them their thoughts about Grok’s white supremacist hallucinations, and pro-Hitler declarations.
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“Overseeing the GOPs transformation into an ever more radical party, McConnell excused the party’s increasingly open bigotry. Now, faced with the monster he created, McConnell pleads ignorance.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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In the defense of dear leader, MAGA has turned the meaning of WASP from White Anglo Saxon Protestant to We’re All Sinners & Pedophiles, without missing a beat.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
In the defense of dear leader, MAGA has turned the meaning of WASP from White Anglo Saxon Protestant to We’re All Sinners & Pedophiles, without missing a beat.
Once you realize that “woke” is nothing more than a vanilla wafr for racism (i.e., white antonym for racist), it makes perfect sense when you see who uses it as an insult.
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Once you realize that “woke” is nothing more than a vanilla wafr for racism (i.e., white antonym for racist), it makes perfect sense when you see who uses it as an insult.
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Paul Conrad "The Railsplitter," July 1964. Goldwater voted against the 1964 CRA. MLK: “the prospect of Sen Goldwater being president of the United States so threatens the health, morality, & survival of our nation that I can not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represents.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Paul Conrad "The Railsplitter," July 1964. Goldwater voted against the 1964 CRA. MLK: “the prospect of Sen Goldwater being president of the United States so threatens the health, morality, & survival of our nation that I can not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represents.”
White supremacists in this country desperately want a purge, to release all their pent up violence and aggression the federal government has forced them to conceal, up until Trump took the chains off.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
White supremacists in this country desperately want a purge, to release all their pent up violence and aggression the federal government has forced them to conceal, up until Trump took the chains off.
There is absolutely a NYTs group chat that Douthat, Klein, and Weiss (Madam CBS) are regularly engaged in for bad takes. You can’t tell me these three centrist liberals haven’t made it their goal to destroy the anti-genocide, anti-fascist, uncompromising wing of progressive American politics.
I suspect that a lot of people will find Mamdani's uncompromising progressivism much more appealing than a centrism that appears to think we should calculate our moral stances on the basis of whether we expect them to bump us 1 or 2 points in the polls.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-cas...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-cas...
The Case for Centrism Does Not Hold Up
The New York Times editorial board is wrong. Principled progressive politics on the Bernie Sanders model is still the path forward.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There is absolutely a NYTs group chat that Douthat, Klein, and Weiss (Madam CBS) are regularly engaged in for bad takes. You can’t tell me these three centrist liberals haven’t made it their goal to destroy the anti-genocide, anti-fascist, uncompromising wing of progressive American politics.
He’s incensed that the courts are stripping away his only bargaining chip, starving Americans.
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
He’s incensed that the courts are stripping away his only bargaining chip, starving Americans.
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Tell everyone about this story. Make it the face of the ICE invasion
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tell everyone about this story. Make it the face of the ICE invasion
The ADL under Jonathan Greenblatt, has become a far-right tool of Zionist extremism. No investigation has been launched into the antisemites staffing the GOP, because Trump supports the Israeli genocide, so they’re doubling down on the threat of Mamdani, while completely ignoring Trump’s Nazis.
Jonathan Greenblatt declares war to the death against NYC. What a nutcase. In the meantime, antisemitism goes mainstream in the GOP, and Greenblatt says nothing.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The ADL under Jonathan Greenblatt, has become a far-right tool of Zionist extremism. No investigation has been launched into the antisemites staffing the GOP, because Trump supports the Israeli genocide, so they’re doubling down on the threat of Mamdani, while completely ignoring Trump’s Nazis.
Me when they ask for my ID at the grocery store or gas station
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Me when they ask for my ID at the grocery store or gas station
If you replaced the word “divided” with “dissimilar,” in this poll, you’d get a similar response. Basically, 64% of Americans believe America is too diverse, and can’t function unless Anglo-Protestant culture is once again the dominant center of American life.
Hmm 🤔 Where have I heard that before?
Hmm 🤔 Where have I heard that before?
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you replaced the word “divided” with “dissimilar,” in this poll, you’d get a similar response. Basically, 64% of Americans believe America is too diverse, and can’t function unless Anglo-Protestant culture is once again the dominant center of American life.
Hmm 🤔 Where have I heard that before?
Hmm 🤔 Where have I heard that before?
“The great egregious crimes of the past must be re-examined so that we remember them.” ~ Maya Tiwari
youtu.be/tx_XunSBxVI?...
youtu.be/tx_XunSBxVI?...
Episode 172 - Beware the Pitfalls of Hatred and Prejudice
YouTube video by Maya Tiwari
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November 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“The great egregious crimes of the past must be re-examined so that we remember them.” ~ Maya Tiwari
youtu.be/tx_XunSBxVI?...
youtu.be/tx_XunSBxVI?...
He should just plead the 5th.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
He should just plead the 5th.
From Saddam Hussein in Iraq, to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, to Maduro in Venezuela — the U.S. runs the same criminal playbook in its endless wars for oil and resources.
And make no mistake, the crimes of the U.S. empire remain a bipartisan affair.
And make no mistake, the crimes of the U.S. empire remain a bipartisan affair.
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
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U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
From Saddam Hussein in Iraq, to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, to Maduro in Venezuela — the U.S. runs the same criminal playbook in its endless wars for oil and resources.
And make no mistake, the crimes of the U.S. empire remain a bipartisan affair.
And make no mistake, the crimes of the U.S. empire remain a bipartisan affair.
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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
George Orwell
George Orwell
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
George Orwell
George Orwell
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Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.