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Working against whiteness How does one find a seat at the table fighting against 'the man' while embodying said 'man'?

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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My book, The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy, is a love letter to white folx. I mean that. Not the kind of love that flatters you. Not the kind that makes room for your comfort at the expense of what is true. Love, as I mean it, is acceptance of truth.
Love = Acceptance of Truth
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 22/08/2026
Two months after state officials began investigating the deadly police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot, the toddler’s family and a key eyewitness say nobody has reached out. ow.ly/HUtw50ZC3L2
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Black legislators demand transparency from Mississippi law enforcement on fatal police shooting of 1-year-old in Senatobia - Verite News New Orleans
Two months after state officials began investigating the deadly police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot, the toddler’s family and a key eyewitness say nobody has reached out.
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The books are arriving and folx are sending me photos of their copies. The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy came out August 1st and watching it land in people's hands in real time is something that will never not excite me. ALT: 4 images of the book's cover
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2026
“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This may be uncomfortable to hear, but it’s essential to say clearly…there is no such thing as a “non-racist” white person. Whiteness itself is not just a neutral identity. It’s a social construct built historically in opposition to Blackness.
Why Whiteness Is Inseparable From Racism
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You have been sitting with something all week. Not a conclusion. Not a plan. Just a question that will not close the way questions are supposed to close when you find the right answer and move on. The question is not about your intentions. You know your intentions.
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You have been running the numbers on everyone. Not just yourself. Everyone around you. The people who worked for you, with you, alongside you. You had a standard. You called it a standard. It felt like clarity, like knowing what good work looked like,
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You have been producing your whole life. Not building. Not contributing. Producing. There is a difference, and the system you were raised inside was very careful to make sure you never noticed it.
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You've been told your whole life that certain things are just who you are. Not resilient. Not good at conflict. Not able to sit inside real accountability without needing to escape it. That was never true. It was never missing. It was consumed.
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
White folx, you were taught that racism is not your problem. It is something that happens to others, something you can choose to address or not, something you can stand beside without ever standing inside. That teaching did not make you neutral. It made you racist by default.
Racism Has Always Been Your Problem Too
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
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Faith Smith @faithsm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Are you trying to reckon with this 250th anniversary? I invite you to watch @19thnews.org's Revolutionary event led by @errinhaines.bsky.social w/ leading storytellers on how the past continues to shape our understanding of democracy, belonging and power.
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Whose Story Gets Told? | The 19th News Revolutionary
YouTube video by The 19th
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Memory All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then I remember The time I knew what happiness was Let the memory Live again
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/04/2026
Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.
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The Hand of Rod @sparedarod.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I would pay $100 just to hear Melanija Knaus say, "Kill moose and squirrel."
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Dear White Folx, Yesterday I named the difference between loyalty and trust. Today, here is what confusing the two actually costs. In the 2026 Texas Democratic Senate primary, white liberals and progressives, many from outside of Texas,
The Threshold Was Designed to Be Uncrossable
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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Whiteness Wednesdays, Thursday Edition: Reparations - the Cure for What Ails Us www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Whiteness Wednesdays, Thursday Edition: Reparations - the Cure for What Ails Us
Welcome to Whiteness, well, Thursday today. Illness delayed this a day, but I didn’t want to close out Black History Month without starting to discuss this. If you’ve been reading the series and payin...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 06/02/2026
Following ICE’s deadliest year in two decades, we do not need another massive ICE detention facility. ICE has caused enough harm to our communities. 
They have proven they cannot be trusted to operate detention facilities safely or transparently. Head to crockett.house.gov/media.
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Phoenix @phoenixwb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Deport white people!
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The South has been an authoritarian enclave for most of American history. Madison and Hamilton, despite very different ideological outlooks knew that 1.) slavery could stop the constitution from being ratified, and 2.) the "compromise" over slavery made the Constitution unstable. 2/x
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Infamously, one of the nazi gangs in Portland, the Gypsy Jokers, place cards like this on people they're going to kill.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 25/01/2026
A review of Utah’s 2.1 million voter registrations has shown zero instances of noncitizens voting. GOP House Speaker Mike Schultz, however, said he is sure it is happening.
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Utah voter roll review finds no evidence of noncitizens casting a ballot, Lt. Gov. says
An ongoing Utah review of 2.1 million voter registration records has found one noncitizen who registered to vote and zero examples of any noncitizens actually voting.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 17/01/2026
“These are no longer dog whistles,” Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said. “They’re bullhorns.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
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Some Trump administration social media posts mirror extremist rhetoric
While the posts are a small part of the administration’s overall social media presence, experts say they are clear references to white supremacist messaging.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Marking MLKs birth by recalling when folks opposed me as the King event speaker so I created a radical critique of white racism and capitalism composed entirely of King’s speeches without telling people until the end that the words were King’s and not mine. Can we say: Sublime.
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Elite Club Members Tried To Stop Nikole Hannah-Jones’ MLK Day Speech. So She Schooled Them Using Dr. King’s Words
DOWNTOWN — A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist swapped her words for those of Martin Luther King Jr. after some members of a long-running Chicago club
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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I just did this, it took less than 30 seconds.
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 08/01/2026
“There is a great captive Negro population here, which is well publicized but not well known. And what is not publicized, and what is not known at all, is that there is a great captive white population here too. No one has pointed out yet with any force that if I am not a man here, you are not a man here. You cannot lynch me and keep me in ghettos without becoming something monstrous yourselves. And furthermore, you give me a terrifying advantage.

You give me this advantage: that whereas you have never had to look at me, because you’ve sealed me away along with sin and hell and death and all the other things you didn’t want to look at, including love, my life was in your hands, and I had to look at you. I know more about you, therefore, than you know about me. I’ve had to spend my life, after all—and all the other Negroes in the country have had to spend their lives—outwitting and watching white people. I had to know what you were doing before you did it. People talk about the new Negro, but he’s been coming for three hundred years. The country thinks he’s new because they’ve never had to look at him before. And they are looking at him now, not because there’s been a change of heart, but only because they must.”

— James Baldwin; “From Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to Twelve — A Forum”
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/01/2026
For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…
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Phoenix @phoenixwb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=gGtl...
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WATCH: Jack Smith's full House Judiciary deposition on investigating and indicting Trump
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Get your tickets now!
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
These folks are resurrecting 18th century racism. See Benjamin Franklin from 1751. founders.archives.gov/documents/Fr...
Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 17/12/2025
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
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Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Trust you will not expect the ending of this commercial
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Phoenix @phoenixwb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
BREAKING: Trump gets adrenochrome transfusions grom Q.
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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America From @toroblanco.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America
Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. One of the constant lies White people tell ourselves is that racism is a dying legacy of the past, and that we’re just about to move past it altogether. This ...
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Over the 14 weeks of Facilitated Conversations with Kim Crayton – Mediocre, I watched white men begin to tell the truth about their lived experiences in ways they had never been asked, or allowed, to do before. One of those participants offered this reflection on what this work made possible.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/11/2025
State supreme courts are generally the last word on important cases. Yet 24 states have no Black justices and 39 states have no Latino justices. bit.ly/3JW6lN6
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State Supreme Court Diversity - November 2025 Update
Many state supreme courts lack diversity in terms of their justices’ race, ethnicity, gender, and professional background. 
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Phoenix @phoenixwb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Shook Everyone—Except Trump
For Trump, outrage over the slaying of the journalist was just the cost of doing business with Saudi Arabia.
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The myth of white supremacy has sold you a life of anxiety, doubt, and ongoing fear—packaged as masculinity. It encourages you to build a lived experience of feeling trapped and then has the audacity to call that “freedom.”
The “Freedom” You Were Sold Was a Trap.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My urgent prescription for Democratic Party leaders, advocates, and voters after the Dem election sweep & the chaotic shutdown vote. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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NOW WHAT?
Part II - Real Talk for Voters, Advocates, & Dem Leaders in Congress
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
⚪️🗑
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
There’s a truth I need you to sit with: White male loneliness isn’t a crisis because it’s new. It’s a crisis because it’s finally being named. For generations, white men have been conditioned by the myth of white male supremacy to disconnect from their own humanity.
To Learn. To Heal. To Engage.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14/11/2025
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"
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Asia Leeds @asialeeds.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Since the founding fathers
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Opinion | It's time for eight brave House Democrats to step up and block the release of the Epstein files. by John Fetterman and Tim Kaine
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