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Black people are so funny. Because why is " You better fuck it up " a supportive phrase and statement

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Me when I stop to connect the dots that these BW firsts are happening now bc the country that normally disregards us but always calls on us to clean up the messes, is doing exactly that again.

Stop only electing BW when the sh*t is hitting the fan and giving them uphill battles to fix everything!

Racists are putting out AI videos of Black women threatening to be violent if the prospect of them losing their SNAP benefits next week.

It's rage bait and it's racist and it's fake

Kelly Clarkson (43), not knowing Renee Goldsberry’s (54) age, was like, girl, “I’m older than you…” 😂

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt says we on the left must be "cleansed."

“There is so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their minds, when, in fact, these m****f****s are crazy.”

This make so much sense always follow the money. Because everyone was confused on why this raid took place. #Chicago

Beat Back Trump’s Attack on the Pretrial Fairness Act! President Trump has said he wants to end the Pretrial Fairness Act and bring back money bail in Illinois. We are asking people from across the state to call on their legislators and Governor Pritzker ...

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More real-time fact checking of the Liar in Chief please!

Gynecology Student, Ruben Vanstiphout, Guilty of Rape, Unpunished Due to ‘Good Grades’ and ‘Promising Future’
Apparently, academic success outweighs justice in a rape conviction.

Donate to Help Connie Stay Housed: $2,400 Needed, organized by Lauren Tyler-Fuller Help Our Sister Connie Stay Housed – $2,400 Needed by Wednesday … Lauren Tyler-Fuller needs your support for Help Connie Stay Housed: $2,400 Needed

Please help keep a dear friend of mine housed. They are facing eviction due to financial hardship. Let’s keep our community housed and safe. All donations are appreciated. Thank you. 

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Adriana Smith did not give birth to a baby.

She was used as an incubator, cut open, and a baby was taken out of her lifeless body.

A Black woman was used as a science experiment.

Federal law requires immigration officers to identify themselves and state their authority to detain someone “as soon as it is practical and safe to do so”. If agents do not identify themselves, a person may reasonably believe they are being attacked or kidnapped by criminals, not law enforcement.

AMEN. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

I still don’t get how we didn’t win after that DNC roll call.

Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82 Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.

Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.

With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.

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Anyone looking to ban a book from a school should have to prove they read it by presenting a book report to the school committee.

DEI is the bogeyman for those who believe that if I’m gaining, they must be losing.

The idea that everything would be fine if only white men ran the world is a weak argument—clung to by insecure men who can’t handle reality.

DEI ensures women & BIPOC are looked at fairly IN ADDITION to white men.

Fish and spaghetti does not go together

Pineapples does not go on pizza

Fruits shouldn’t be Cooked

Excerpt from HIDING on climate change and vicious exploitation by plutocrats who want to depopulate the earth

"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

hidinginplainsightbook.com

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

Are most people just confusing free speech with lying?

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Tiny burning embers flew miles, causing L.A. fire destruction on historic scale The life-threatening windstorm exploded into a crisis even worse than predicted, with embers flying an estimated two to three miles ahead of the fire.

The embers were successful in spreading the fires, as were the high Santa Ana winds, because there was no DEI process in their way. 🙄

Ht @cwebbonline.com

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