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OUR COMMON GROUND :: Alternative :: Progressive LIVE Black Public Discourse since 1985. "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"
Producers of TruthWorks Network. Janice is a pioneer in the movement to offer terrestrial and internet platforms targeted solely to Black audiences. OCG for many years has hosted leading-edge Black thought leaders, authors, scholars, and activists, formulating transformative ideas and solutions that empower Black America.

OUR COMMON GROUND boosted:
br00t4cbr00t4c
2025-12-14
OUR COMMON GROUND boosted:

"A panel of 3 federal judges ruled to block Texas from using its new gerrymandered congressional map in the upcoming 2026 election — dealing a significant blow to Trump’s national effort to rig the 2026 election by creating more Republican congressional seats, at the expense of minority voters. "

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7enmoefj7e7gbm3omg6pvccu/post/3m5wd472efk2s

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-11-16

Highlights just how far America has fallen.
#Trump #Fascism #ICE

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake
Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois
State Police during a protest against immigration
actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in
Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025.
REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-11-12

"We have all lost lives we thought we would live, lives that looked almost nothing like what we are experiencing now. I did not think, as a boy, that I would grow up and find myself in the middle of a class war against fascists in a country that is suffering a collective breakdown. There was no language for that, no understanding, and the culture of aggressive denial at the end of the 20th century led us here."

substack.com/home/post/p-17675

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-11-11

For them, there is no "Happy".

1.2 million veterans receive SNAP
OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-11-09

The Mafia Presidency
"Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say."

"The longevity of the Mafia in Italy serves as a warning that, once this style of rule embeds itself in the state, it is “very difficult to extract,”
@adamserwer argues
theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/

#Democracy #coup #DonaldTrump

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-28

The Lost Democracies of the 21st Century
"Now in the United States, we’re one of them. . . . a “dictator on day one” puts us in the category of countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia that willingly brought dictators and would-be dictators to power.

lynmillerlachmann.com/the-lost

#Democracy #DonaldTrump #uspol

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-27

NOTE: She does not need /use a teleprompter.

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-27

Her Excellency Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, addresses the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 26 September 2025
Speaking truth at UN for the whole world to hear.
“They Make a Desert and Call It Peace!”
Every American needs to hear her.

youtube.com/watch?v=wD1751hEQLg

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-26

Assata Shakur, US political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died in Havana, Cuba, according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

May the Ancestors welcome her with great celebration and offers of eternal Peace. Ndivyo Ilivyo

Uncompromising Black Liberation warrior, Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army. Hunted and targeted by the US, she died while in exile in Cuba.
#AssataTaughtUs #BlackHistory

Black Liberation warrior, Assata Olugbala ShakurBook cover autobiography : Black Liberation warrior, Assata Olugbala Shakur
OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-23

"While Erika Kirk’s private sorrow is no doubt very real, her public remarks are telling, said Jeff Sharlet, the author of several books on Christian nationalism and the far right. “That’s holy war, that’s accelerationism, and it’s incredibly powerful,” he said, particularly in the emotional context of a grieving widow."

@jeffsharlet inight so deep.

#CharlieKirk #whitenationalism #Whiterage #MAGA
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-23

:coffeev60:
Just got back from heaven on Rapture Day. Witnessed a pregnant Mary of Nazareth taking a Tylenol. She turned to me and asked nicely if I would deliver a message to Donald Trump for her. Of course, I said, "of course".
The message read:
"Can't you just stop fu**ing talking?"

OUR COMMON GROUND boosted:
William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-09-13

"For them to try to rewrite his legacy on MSNBC and Fox News, it does a disservice to all of us because what it does is it deifies somebody that has definitely caused more harm in our political system than not.

And if we start to look at this as an embrace of this person for fear that people are going to say, You are supporting what happened to him."

~ Egberto Willies

#CharlieKirk #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #FauxMartyrdom #violence
/21

thejourneyman.substack.com/p/c

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-13

"Liberals were not the only ones who disdained Kirk. White nationalist Nick Fuentes had long feuded with him, and recently attacked him for supporting the war in Gaza and flip-flopping on the Epstein files. (Like Fuentes, Kirk once was outraged by the administration’s failure to release them as promised; when Trump leaned on him and others, he backed off, saying Epstein was a dead issue.)"

And perhaps this was the trigger background and post by #LauraLoomer for the shooting. #MAGA #GOP

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-13

:coffeev60:
"The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did."

thenation.com/article/society/

#CharlieKirk #gunviolence #whitesupremacy #Whitenationalism

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-09-11

"A teenage boy fatally shot himself after critically wounding two fellow students at Evergreen High School on Wednesday, authorities say.

The suspected shooter was wielding a revolver, . . . name and age have not been released, nor has his motive.

A fourth child was transported to a hospital, but it’s unclear why, said Jacki Kelley, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office. "
coloradosun.com/2025/09/10/eve

#Evergreen #gunviolence #mentalhealth #Gunreform #Schoolshooting

OUR COMMON GROUND boosted:
2025-09-11

"Immigration advocates warned that the supreme court has effectively legalized racial profiling, granting federal agents the power to stop people in Los Angeles simply for speaking Spanish or appearing Latino – and opening the door, they say, to a broader unraveling of civil rights protections nationwide":
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s
copy: @renewedresistance

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