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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

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‘They aren’t real cops’ - no, this is what policing is.

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I'll just say this before heading out. If you're a young person in NYC, THIS IS YOUR TIME. The next couple of decades in this city are going to be shaped by what happens on Tuesday. Be part of the team that is turning the page on politicians like Cuomo. There are better choices.

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that 'reconciliation' institutional discourse thing was always a scam

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This is what we've wrought with the myth of meritocracy. By treating billions as a proxy for brilliance, we've allowed men like Peter Thiel to amass disgusting amounts of wealth and to leverage that wealth to destroy democracy for their own gain.

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the admonishment for finding "too many slaves" Black fungibility www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

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Feels like yet another Charlie Brown football moment, again with big tech playing center. Why are we always rolling up our sleeves to help these people??? AI trained on out-of-copyright anthropology books, what could go wrong? abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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Pressure matters, advocacy matters. Don't let any one convince that it doesn't. 450 CDC employees and several key departments including HIV prevention and STI surveillance and testing departments were reinstated today. Keep speaking up! www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/...

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Maintaining a dead woman's body for 5 months then delivering a one pound highly premature baby from her corpse is a cruel medical experiment. If ever you wonder why there are high levels of medical mistrust in the Black community, remember this story. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

what a world, y'all my god, let's build something way the fuck better

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These are all the countries in Africa that would be part of Trump's travel ban. Insane.

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

Cuomo, Adams, the whole mainstream lot. 👇🏽

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I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

This lady refused a wheelchair user service at her musty little salon suite talmbout “the rules on my website say no large items” and starts listing shit like purses and laptop bags. I don’t even know the woman she turned away, but I sure went full snitch behind her.

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My more optimistic take on the whole “did the protests do anything” debate is that here is value to showing you are not alone and that a massive number of people are willing to come out and be public even in very far right areas. Organization takes time and a diversity of tactics is a positive.

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Concussion protocol at protests is important these days. Victims try to tough it out, but their decision-making is impaired. Please understand that the lucid interval of epidural hematoma can range anywhere from 30 minutes to a full day after initial unconsciousness. Learn to spot obtundation.

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"By turning to legal intervention, universities treat such artifacts as intellectual property and thereby miss important opportunities to rectify atrocities related to African Americans." -- Jasmine Nichole Cobb | Philadelphia Inquirer share.inquirer.com/CZEROq

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I will be looping this while in the shower! Get into it 😆

submitted 214 days ago • 6 comments

los angeles: join me + @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social for the very first black film archive event on juneteenth (6/19) at the philosophical research society, 7 pm. our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨ www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...

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How many reporters are currently working on tell-all exposés about their own organization, detailing all the acts of cowardice of their editors and publishers? I won’t ever buy your book about Sleepy Joe Biden, but I’d absolutely devour a book about the internal collapse of the NYT or CNN.

submitted 9 days ago • 146 comments

they. lie.

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🧵 of radical zines about anti-fascist organizing and mutual aid that I gave out yesterday at my local #NoKings rally! They're all free to download - you can print out copies and give them out at rallies, festivals, or other events, or put them in little free libraries.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Minnesotans were told to stay home, an assassin was at large. We did not bow down. #NoKings

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Yes, he's polling poorly, but he still has the power to do what he wants. If we want to stop him, we must build the power to do that. Sadly, we cannot disapprove our way out of fascism.

submitted 10 days ago • 157 comments

The protests aren’t stopping anytime soon in AZ. Thousands of protesters in Tempe right now for an anti-ICE protest.

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Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

submitted 9 days ago • 743 comments

St. Louis. #STL

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@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

This is as close as I've seen the mainstream media come today to acknowledging that the cops are rioting.

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A few scenes from #NoKings St. Louis County. Over 7,000 lining at least a mile of road!

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LA MASSIVE! #NoKingsDay ❌👑

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Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians

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at Bryant Park, No Kings NYC His rolling out, on both 40th and 42nd street

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Chicago #NoKings

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Emory Douglas-- "Art is subordinate to politics. The political situation is greater than the artistic situation. A picture can express a thousand words, but action is supreme. Politics is based on action; politics starts with a hungry stomach, with dilapidated housing.

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the impotence of symbolic resistance.

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“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” -- Steve Biko Going to a #NoKings rally? Bring a sign reminding folks that authoritarians depend on K-12 as much as military. Defend #TeachTruth Make your own or find one here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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