Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, historian, child advocate, and college professor.https://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m7i65p4a222rThey released this on a Friday for a reason. Trump’s new National Security Strategy walks away from alliances, embraces domination, and reframes “security” as protection from diversity. Trump has made white nationalist power official U.S. policy. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/while-you-werent-looking-trump-made?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false08 Dec 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7i65p4a222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m7djkadyuk26The Dells pledged $6.25 billion to “invest” in America’s kids. Sounds huge, but do the math. $250 won’t won’t stabilize a family. But it will generate applause and tax breaks for billionaires while the machinery that keeps kids poor stays fully intact. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/the-dells-250-investment-accounts?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false06 Dec 2025 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7djkadyuk26https://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m763pu4lbc25This raccoon broke into a liquor store, got drunk & passed out in the bathroom. This tracks with a recent report from scientists who’ve found evidence that raccoons are becoming domestic. I also learned this raccoon’s government name & a little about his struggles. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/exclusive-new-details-emerge-about?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false04 Dec 2025 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m763pu4lbc25https://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m73y74wo6c2lWhen the president of the United States calls a Black congresswoman “garbage,” that’s state-level dehumanization. And history tells us exactly where that language leads. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/when-a-president-calls-a-black-congresswoman?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false03 Dec 2025 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73y74wo6c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m6yxaoue3c2zWhat is Trump’s MRI actually supposed to settle? The power brokers don’t care if he’s healthy or has good cognition. They care that he’s useful. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/donald-trumps-mri-came-back-perfectly?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false02 Dec 2025 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6yxaoue3c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m6ceyl6otc2zToday’s Sunday morning sermon. Get saved. Get delivered. Get sweet potato salvation! https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/thou-shalt-not-eat-that-cursed-pastry?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false23 Nov 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ceyl6otc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m6a7642on22tIf you need a good laugh today, click this. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/breaking-news-i-got-my-hands-on-a?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false22 Nov 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6a7642on22thttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m65ecpay4c2bMedia 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/the-medias-fetish-with-epsteins-deformed?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer21 Nov 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m65ecpay4c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m63ompxhz22nLissen, as a mouthy Black woman journalist, I would have lost my job and ended up in Taliban jail if the POTUS called me “piggy.” https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/who-you-callin-piggy-the-clapback?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer20 Nov 2025 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63ompxhz22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m5rd6y7puc2uIf 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? https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/jesus-loved-the-children-which-is?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false16 Nov 2025 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5rd6y7puc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m5jbgrj4sk2wIf 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/trump-aint-the-first-us-president?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false13 Nov 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jbgrj4sk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m5gq6463lc2zSo, 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/the-40-coochie-economy-and-the-psychosexual?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false12 Nov 2025 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5gq6463lc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m57ayacpb22rSunday 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/jesus-was-the-first-socialist?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false09 Nov 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m57ayacpb22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m52deiydzs2vThree 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/the-body-of-empire-is-breaking-down?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false07 Nov 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m52deiydzs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4xqqawxvs2xThe 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/the-panicked-media-thinks-democratic?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false06 Nov 2025 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4xqqawxvs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4wep76gz22aSo 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/hitting-a-child-works-but-only-for?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false06 Nov 2025 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4wep76gz22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4v6vjnej22uNew York just elected a Brown Muslim Socialist as mayor, and the right wing is absolutely losing its collective mind. 😂 https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/new-york-city-chose-a-brown-muslim?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false05 Nov 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4v6vjnej22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4spwhzg322zTrump 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/trump-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-christians?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false04 Nov 2025 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4spwhzg322zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4npvvnt6k22A sitting congressman told SNAP recipients to “stop smoking crack.” So today’s Sunday sermon is a rebuke of his cruelty. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/lord-deliver-us-from-these-crackheads?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false02 Nov 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4npvvnt6k22https://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4iq4gghcc2rMy 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. https://newsone.com/6573740/student-food-stamps-future-depends-congress/31 Oct 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4iq4gghcc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m4ds7foqfs2t“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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/evacuate-to-where-exactly-the-cruel?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false29 Oct 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ds7foqfs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m443t2gmuc2hTrump 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/the-man-who-made-everywhere-feel?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false26 Oct 2025 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m443t2gmuc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3uviuoh5k2zDMV 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.23 Oct 2025 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3uviuoh5k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3ue7jal2226This essay breaks down why so many white allies demand emotional reimbursement the moment a Black writer critiques whiteness. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/white-people-hate-being-called-white?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false23 Oct 2025 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ue7jal2226https://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3rtjyqy7s2vTrump 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/i-will-kill-him-for-the-future-trumps?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false22 Oct 2025 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3rtjyqy7s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3pasucwss2rWhen 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/donald-trumps-ai-video-is-a-psychosexual?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false21 Oct 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pasucwss2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3n2ebg4zs2sA Fox News Reporter Lied on Me But I Kept the Receipts https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/a-fox-news-reporter-lied-on-me-but?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false20 Oct 2025 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3n2ebg4zs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3kjxm6su22qYesterday 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/jesus-flipped-tables-yall-took-selfies?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false19 Oct 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3kjxm6su22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/drstaceypatton.bsky.social/post/3m3hvyaq5ak2e“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. https://open.substack.com/pub/drstaceypatton1865/p/john-brown-didnt-ask-enslaved-people?r=ps5eh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false18 Oct 2025 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:lusrwodcse54lacu6qf2ades/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3hvyaq5ak2e