B.U.A

People think that just because something is normalized that that’s the only way things can be. They cannot or actually will not allow themselves to actualize a world different than what they are used to. A majority of those people are also the ones benefiting from that harmful thing

Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after judge orders his release from federal custody Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.

ICE illegally arrested Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi outside his citizenship appointment solely because of his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights.

His release from detention on bail is a win for free speech.

I did nothing to yall 😭

That level of hatred for community that leads to self deprecation needs to be studied!!!!

This is why you got me fucked up.

1. I do not work for free especially not for white people.

2. I do not give a fuck if you or any other white people understand me. Where you got that is beyond me.

A green flag that’s good for my immune system 🤭

When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.

But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.

They love it.

I know that JD Vance is a liar but, do they know and do they care? The people who voted for him and Trump?

You know what you did! That photoshop stole all the booty 🤭

a woman is making a funny face while wearing a tank top . ALT: a woman is making a funny face while wearing a tank top .

Friend……..

The way that white women and white men talk to one another………. You know us Black people (men and women) actually have a decent relationship 🤭

Sorry if I've seemed distant and emotionally unavailable lately, it's just that everything is a nightmarish horror and many of the things I need in order to ameliorate said horror are completely outside of the realm of possibility, right now, and I don't want to bother you with it.

i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

What’s weird for me right now and imma call it out for my fellow survivors as well

Is how many people are now discussing the horrors of immigration etc

But have no desire to discus or remedy how they’ve treated traumatized immigrants or their previous dismissals

I see the Great Depression recipe of deportation, tariffs, and funneling money to the wealthy still cooks as well as it did a century ago

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison

it’s about the willingness to engage w complexity, to embrace nuance, & to resist the pull of easy answers. Critical thought requires effort and humility—a recognition that we might be wrong and a commitment to seek truth even when it’s uncomfortable. (2/2)

Short Rant over 😊

Short rant:

I regularly lament the general population’s chronic lack of independent & critical thought. It feels like so many of us outsource our opinions, consuming toxic or half-baked narratives rather than questioning, exploring, or analyzing for ourselves. It’s not just about intelligence;(1/2)

Not Vaseline!!!! That’s my favorite moisturizer

UPDATE: A federal judge broadened the scope of an earlier temporary restraining order, blocking Trump from deporting anyone under the Alien Enemies Act while the case proceeds.

Flights carrying Venezuelan immigrants the DHS attempted to deport were ordered to turn around and return to the U.S.

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.

Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.

This is historic.

I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

This girl has been harassing my daughter at school for the last couple days , throwing her backpack on the floor.
My daughter: “keep on messing with me and I’ll call my people in Haiti and have them turn you into a goat. Your handprints are already on here.”

Yep, I am on my way to the office. 😩🤣

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.