https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3muoxibtwzs25A federal official warns theUSPS is rushing an untested mail ballot system, one that can delay ballots by the thousands. A judge called it likely illegal. Mail voting starts this week anyway. Confirm your registration: www.vote.org With Joy Reid and Ari Berman: https://www.youtube.com/live/EPB7MgDjwHo?is=8suveNPrsxjRyrmR04 Sep 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoxibtwzs25https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mumox7f3bk2eThey moved on a Monday, six to three, when attention was thin. One-fifth of Black Americans born in 1939 & 1940 were never issued a birth certificate. You can’t produce paper you were never given. Check your registration today. Five things to do this week: https://drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-are-moving-this-fast-because03 Sep 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumox7f3bk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mu7vs7dlls2hFor the whites & the gays: no wig, no red lipstick, no breastplate this Halloween unless your politics align with Dolly’s. She said of course Black lives matter in 2020 and took “Dixie” off the Stampede in 2018 because you fix it once you know. You’ve been warned, beloved. www.imaginationlibrary.com29 Aug 2026 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7vs7dlls2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mtjr366x2s22Take away the affirming space and what do we lose? Dr. Terrell Winder didn't hedge. Lives. People lost to their circumstances. We have enough history to know that closing space and pulling resources helps NO ONE. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MSMoUcUmpUlxgJ4FExQed?si=D7snDyg_T5eBk6HuBlmMyg  #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies20 Aug 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjr366x2s22https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3ms7trdghpk2xNostalgia is a trap. The old ways didn’t break—they never worked. Phil Agnew on why your granddaddy wasn’t happy, and why we build new ways of being instead of trying to go back. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-world-is-being-destroyed-by-some-little-boys-with/id1745797318?i=1000778724434 Substack: drdavidjjohns.substack.com #TeachTheBabies #PhilAgnew04 Aug 2026 01:18 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7trdghpk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mr66tz2guc2hTruth Social is selling Wall Street early access to Trump's posts—up to $100,000/mth to read them first. Because his posts move markets. A presidential tollbooth. And it's probably legal, by design. Follow the money. https://open.substack.com/pub/drdavidjjohns/p/the-presidents-words-are-for-sale?r=a7hdg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies21 Jul 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr66tz2guc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mquecnzzls2gThey told on themselves. 2020: Jenna Ellis told Georgia prosecutors, “the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances.” 2026: Speaker Mike Johnson said losing the House would be “the end of the Trump presidency in real effect.” The truth always comes to the light (Luke 8:17). vote.org17 Jul 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquecnzzls2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mqsacatmzk2lTestosterone is testosterone. Hegseth rolled out hormone therapy for troops with low T—“The High-T Department of War.” Same molecule this administration bans for trans troops and discharges them for taking. Same medicine. Opposite verdict. https://drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-believe-in-gender-affirming #WorkWoke16 Jul 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsacatmzk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mqhgds2zac2bRapid-fire w/ @biancajontae.bsky.social: Teachers College or Harvard? The research or the writing? Freedom dreaming or policy change? Her picks stay in the episode. 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teach-the-babies-w-dr-david-j-johns/id1745797318?i=1000775805348
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📝 https://substack.com/@drdavidjjohns/note/p-205779953?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=a7hdg #TeachTheBabies #ThisOrThat12 Jul 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqhgds2zac2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mpvrqc6bv224America is 250. The truth is older—built on stolen land, by stolen people, and still unpaid for. Fannie Lou Hamer asked in 1964: is this America? We're still answering. https://open.substack.com/pub/drdavidjjohns/p/america-is-250-the-truth-is-older?r=a7hdg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies05 Jul 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvrqc6bv224https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mptefnsuwk2pHappy Fourth of July or whatever #TeachTheBabies04 Jul 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptefnsuwk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mplmedaeos2gThe instinct in movement work is to sequence. That sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting for over 36 years. -Dreisen Heath on #TeachTheBabies #Podcast—& why this Freedom Summer, we put the whole menu on the table. Full episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KxyTeuend19I6nhiArpOH?si=6ff1b1a990bd41fc #HR40 #LetsALLGetFree01 Jul 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplmedaeos2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mpj54gbfps2r"We want the whole menu." This Freedom Summer, NBJC + Dreisen Heath of the Why We Can't Wait Reparations Network produced Equity Week in DC. H.R.40 has waited since 1989—we don't have forty more years. New ep of Teach the Babies is live. Stack: https://open.substack.com/pub/drdavidjjohns/p/we-want-the-whole-menu?r=a7hdg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true#HR40 #LetsALLGetFree30 Jun 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpj54gbfps2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mphjpwjb4c2xThanks for making space [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphjpwjb4c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mphhoyifp22w#POV you join @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected. #LetsALLGetFree #Politics #Policy29 Jun 2026 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphhoyifp22whttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mpcyn774ik24The most targeted officials in this country are invisible in the data meant to protect them. That is not a footnote—it's a policy failure. #LetsALLGetFree [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jun 2026 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpcyn774ik24https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mpcymsktxs2457% spike in anti-LGBTQ incidents targeting elected officials in a single year. 181 documented incidents. No federal system to track what happens at the intersection of Blackness and LGBTQ+ identity. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jun 2026 03:07 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpcymsktxs24https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mpcylygwx224Delegate Gabriel Acevero was physically confronted at a polling site on the cusp of Juneteenth by a man with documented anti-LGBTQ animus. His constituents voted anyway. And as I write, he is leading. That is resistance. New Stack is live. 🔗 https://drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-tried-to-stop-him-he-won-anyway28 Jun 2026 03:07 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpcylygwx224https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mp77qyssf222They were college students heading into Mississippi in 1964. They knew the danger. They went anyway. @mspackyetti.bsky.social on who actually carried the cost of Freedom Summer. Full #TeachtheBabies pod out now 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teach-the-babies-w-dr-david-j-johns/id1745797318?i=1000773872283 #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer2026 #BlackHistory26 Jun 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp77qyssf222https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3moutsdcxe225It’s seeing my nephew flanking forever POTUS for meeeee. cc: @joshuadubois07.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jun 2026 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3moutsdcxe225https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3moutnx76v225Authoritarianism's quietest weapon is isolation. Tiffany Loftin says students are dangerously disconnected. The answer is intentional, physical, in-person gathering. Listen to the full #TeachTheBabied pod episode now! 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbuk5wnrYgrhONoAxUhGp?si=45c1b286b5bc4ede #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer #OrganizeNow22 Jun 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3moutnx76v225https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mog47xi37k2eFind your organizing home. Not the org—the people. Not tomorrow. Now. 🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teach-the-babies-w-dr-david-j-johns/id1745797318?i=1000772950610 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbuk5wnrYgrhONoAxUhGp?si=da44df2839ca45db 📖 Stack: https://open.substack.com/pub/drdavidjjohns/p/in-our-comfort-we-cannot-get-free #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jun 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog47xi37k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mog46q4nhc2e"One of the tactics of authoritarianism and fascism is making us feel like we are by ourselves. It is loneliness. It is solitude. It is separation from our community and our people." —Tiffany Dena Loftin. This is the episode for Juneteenth week. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jun 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog46q4nhc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mog44jhhzs2eJuneteenth is not a holiday. It is a reckoning. The promise of freedom was announced two and a half years after it was already law. We have been closing the gap ever since. New #TeachtheBabies #Podcast episode with Tiffany Dena Loftin is live.16 Jun 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog44jhhzs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mnwpl6l5ck25Collin County is ~11% Black. Frisco is ~9% Not one Black juror seated in Karmelo Anthony's trial. Prosecutors struck all 3 Black women. Reason: they were teachers. The judge allowed it. Batson in action. The system working exactly as designed. https://drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/two-boys-are-gone-the-system-is-still10 Jun 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwpl6l5ck25https://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mnkfu6vsus2kSometimes it’s better to adjust than address. #TeachTheBabies05 Jun 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkfu6vsus2khttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mnhm7xisuk2a"While the enslaved were enslaved, the entire society was enslaved." Dr. Marcus A. Hunter reframes who slavery harmed—and it's everyone forced to participate. The 1808 argument. Watch the clip. What if slavery is a diagnosis? https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OrAnlr6sb15mXmypqwVRr?si=d7397a44c0cf4b00 #TeachTheBabies #Reparations #EquityWeek04 Jun 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhm7xisuk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drdavidjohns.bsky.social/post/3mncr565ubc2fThe Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Discomfort is by design — always has been. Many are in the arena. The question is who joins them. #VotingRights #AllBlackLivesMatter https://open.substack.com/pub/drdavidjjohns/p/the-arena-is-not-a-metaphor?r=a7hdg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jun 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:qzu766s7p5gr4o7wo7hbds7w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mncr565ubc2f