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ADHD, Memphis native, book lover, language lover, general knowledge nerd. Chatterbox. 🩷💜💙
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Every day and in every way, Trump and his cohorts take another shit on the Constitution they have promised to revere and defend.

in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people

A useful visualization of Authoritarian Power that might be helpful for people in your communities. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

Anti-DEI = reinstituting racial and gender segregation

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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"I was a heroin addict for 14 years," RFK Jr just now in his bid to be confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Imagine a person of color or a woman saying that and people shrugging it off as cool. That is 100% pure uncut white male privilege right there.

Join me in giving some dollars.

Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m for suspending accounts over Capitol riots

if you cared about morale and recruitment you would not alienate a group that disproportionately enlists into the military, but if you are a white nationalist…

America wouldn’t be America without immigrants!

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over. open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...

WATCH: After a big rally for Antioch at the Capitol, @jermainedcole and other students and parents deliver a proclamation to Speaker Sexton’s (locked) office demanding common sense gun safety reforms.

MASSIVE student led rally for gun safety at the Capitol today A number of speakers, including the father of Josselin Correa Escalante, who was killed in the Antioch High shooting

so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

Costco pharmacy is selling single dose levonorgestrel emergency contraception ("morning after pill") for $5.99 per dose. This is a product with a fairly long shelf life and they don't seem to mind selling it to people who clearly don't need it. No prescription needed.

I do think it’s super important right now and in the foreseeable future to really value moments of joy and to be intentional about making as many of them as you can

If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.

To exist in the world and be in any way aware is utterly exhausting. Shout out to every compassionate person continuing to function. We need you! 🙌🏾

As we endure these unprecedented assaults on our institutions and Democracy by Felon47 please take these wise words from James Baldwin to heart! We are the #Opposition let’s make their inhumanity our sole focus. Call it out every damn day!!

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The IRONY of this being the LAST tiktok I see. App literally stopped scrolling *laughs in another millennial historical event*

Black ppl in community is everything!!!

Shoutout to the Reddit user who said search #blacksky 🙌🏾