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ICE agents wear masks to avoid being doxed—as actual members of white supremacist groups.

Homelessness is a structural failure, not a personal one.

Just a reminder. White Women are the largest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action.

Just because someone works minimum wage does not mean they deserve to live in poverty.

Simple pleasures can boost happiness. People facing food scarcity shouldn’t be denied that. Community fridges and little free pantries play a small role in meeting needs, but a bigger one in challenging the idea that some people are undeserving.

Happy Pride to everyone who celebrates, everyone who fought for it, and everyone who died before they got to see one.

Dear Black people. Are Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey heroes? Ok then. Free Palestine.

The far right builds community through lies, violence, and bullying. Young men aren’t drawn to it because they’re lonely. They’re drawn to it because they’re attracted to violence, domination, and the rewards that come with both.

What book are you reading this weekend? Photos only.

When a woman is found dead, it’s almost always her partner. Or her ex. And the murder wasn’t the only violence she faced. People knew. Her family. Her neighbors. Sometimes the courts. Sometimes the cops. She wasn’t isolated because no one knew. She was isolated because no one did anything.

We care more about violence against famous women than we do about the women next door. Every headline about a woman found dead says “story developing.” I don’t need to wait. It’s almost always someone she knew.

If someone is a new subscriber to Apple TV, what shows would you recommend they immediately watch?

Everybody is someone’s somebody. #TrayvonMartin

An apartheid settler colony has no right to exist. The increased presence of the settler means the increased absence of the native. Until they no longer exist.

I’ll be honest, during the pandemic, Clubhouse would be fun and exciting the first 5-10 minutes and then, I’d lose interest.

Canceling student loan debt for Black students isn’t radical. It’s a start. After centuries of exclusion from higher education, it’s the bare minimum.

Community is a verb. Community isn’t simply about living in proximity to someone, but supporting a fellow human being in times of need. Today, BLM Paterson distributed 100 bags of groceries, clothes and had a cookout that fed plenty. This is community.

BREAKING: Donald Trumps publicly asked advisors whether Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts were “all bullshit.”

The male loneliness epidemic is not real. It’s just what happens when entitlement meets boundaries.

In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

When you’re in a relationship with a woman, how long until you can post a pic of her without getting it approved first?

I’m at the age where I don’t even know a rapper exists until I hear about them being indicted.

Survivors are interrogated. Abusers are excused. That’s how whole systems protect predators.

I do my best

The world’s wealth should belong to Congo. Instead, it’s stolen while Congolese children dig cobalt for billionaires.

If people can work, pay rent, raise kids, and still struggle, then guaranteed income is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

Harriet Tubman at her home in Auburn, NY in 1911

There’s other sodas available and people still choose Mountain Dew. This is how I know people don’t make good choices on purpose.

Be honest. What album or song were you completely obsessed with in high school?

You deserve to be treated well. Just because you aren't being treated well doesn't mean you don't deserve to be.

Surviving in this country feels like ______.

I have to admit. I know the Breakfast Club produced a lot of viral memes, but if it was canceled tomorrow, I wouldn’t miss it.

Too many men ask survivors why they stayed but never ask abusers why they felt entitled to control, harm, and break the people they claim to love.

We live in a country that funds bombs faster than it funds clean water.

Unpopular opinion: Allergies aren’t real. You just saw grass and panicked. Breathe through it.

The U.S. funds genocide. It jails protestors. It kills the poor. That’s not a failed system. That’s the plan.

President Trump has commuted the sentence of notorious former Chicago street gang leader Larry Hoover, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal prison. Hoover, 74, is the co-founder of the Chicago gang Gangster Disciples.

Some of us are tired because we’ve had to be strong for too long. That’s not resilience. That’s survival.

Some days I post because I’m angry. Some days I post because I’m grieving. Some days I post because I don’t know what else to do.

Portrait of Audre Lorde by Robert Alexander, 1983

Trump is telling us a story with every pardon. It’s not a belief in justice. But a belief in white violence and white supremacy.

Trump’s student visa freeze paired with social media surveillance is not about safety. It’s about building a racist police state.

White people want to be seen as oppressed while staying the oppressor. That’s why they invented myths like white genocide and reverse racism.

Mahmoud Khalil missed his son’s birth because he’s being punished for supporting Palestine. He can’t hold his child because he protested Israel killing Palestinian children.

Malcolm X and family pose for a photo with Cassius Clay on a trip to Miami, Fla. January 1964.

“I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I am a black man who loves peace, and justice, and loves his people.” - Malcolm X