Amber

I argue with the word ‘decline’. It was a purposeful, targeted sabotage

2/3s through the month and I still need 117 sign-ups to make rent and cover bills.

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Negro Solstice

Happy Negro Solstice!

Today, the strength we possess merges and we rise in harmony as the glorious negrofied race.

Most white people simply cannot grasp that AAVE is a separate language, not “broken” English.

This is partly due to AAVE’s more-complex, stricter governing rules—which were originally curated to confuse white people; Black people acquire these rules naturally.

[I’m Black with a Linguistics degree]

Lmao like they got a whole slave Bible bruh, condoning slavery, rape, genocide like this is what y'all fw? 💀

They could tell niggas not to eat shellfish but "don't own another person" was off the table???

So apparently the mega churches in Texas put on some insane Christmas shows and that’s cool but can we at least get them to pay some taxes for crying out loud….who needs these monstrosities

Y’all could never make me buy Skims, idc.

Tweet from Alex Press: “NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol” 5-6 NYPD officers locking arms with signs from striking Amazon employees are seen in the background.

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

I have 214.6K followers, and I figure at least some of them are looking to gift books this holiday season, so:

HEY AUTHORS OF BLUESKY: In the comments to this post, tell us (briefly!) about your most recent book, and put in a link to where people can learn more and/or buy the book in question.

Go!

A bill to break up UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna and more has been introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives.

The legislation would force insurers to sell their pharmacy businesses.

It aims to combat PBMs, pharma middlemen who drive up costs.

This is 50% of why they’re not allowed lol

For starters you needed to eat them when you were 10 😭

What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

Float like a butterfly
Skrrt like a beamer

Yep!

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.

The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

Nikki Giovanni

We’re saddened to hear about the passing of poetry great and Black Arts Movement icon, Nikki Giovanni.

According to NPR, she passed away today, following her third cancer diagnosis.

She was 81 years old.

Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni ✨

South Korea fought back an attempted coup, a CEO was assassinated, Syria overthrew a dictator.

The season finale of 2024 is popping OFF.

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

Maybe in Nirvana by Smino on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 10 Songs

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But someee of yall love Brats until a Brat gets to being bratty and ion like that

Black women are the blueprint. From the hair, the fashion, nails, vibe, the whole aesthetic, black women have EVERYBODY beat. There is no competition

A photo of destroyed buildings in the al-Manera neighborhood after Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Oct. 25, 2024, overlaid with the headline, "Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza."

“It is chilling when you put the whole picture together as this report does, and it is a stain on humanity.” https://interc.pt/4eXT9kc

Rey Mysterio's Wrestlemania 22 entrance attire was next level

I’m praying and manifesting all I deserve fr. No weapons formed against me shall prosper 💯💫 it’s only up from here.