Maia

I feel this deeply

A film honors America’s first self-governed town founded by formerly enslaved people The Spirit We Move With explores the legacy of Mitchelville on Hilton Head Island and its Gullah Geechee community

A film honors America’s first self-governed town founded by formerly enslaved people

I assumed I'd be issued my own neighborhood bar.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

Jesse Jackson is gonna get slandered a lot today by "the others."

Please dont help them.

The problem with getting old is that you dont get to die young in all your glory and best days.

People get to see your full humanity and imperfections.

Like normal

No way you're telling me they think the firesty, fire sign, can't fight. Lmao. Sure, keep thinking that.

Oh no. 😔 First Prue, now Dawson. We're too young for this.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 3:

Seeing racism everywhere!

Why do Black people see racism everywhere?

Oh no 😔

I'm cool jumping out of perfectly good airplanes but scared to climb ladders around the house. Makes perfect sense.

Here's what I expect from Democrats. Their goal is to win big in the midterms. Do some tepid sanctioning of the Trump regime. Then hopefully win the presidency in 28. They want to reinforce that the status quo still works. They don't want to acknowledge the institutions are broken.

I'm getting pissed off over the expectations projected onto Obama over the folks currently in elected positions. Give them this energy. Or ask yourself why you aren't insisting Bush or Biden "do something".

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

And our boycott continues...

Love how they keep giving me reasons to never change my position on never, ever shopping there again.

Because it shouldn't have taken this long to realize you were supporting an adjudicated rapist, 34-count felon who is also a fascist, authoritarian who would prefer you not exist than disagree w/ him politically. You don't get credit for finally coming around to what should've been common sense.

These TikTok commercials aint it...

I talk to MAGA voters a lot. They are open and honest about supporting mass deportation. They think it's a good thing, and they support the mission of ICE.

The language they use to justify it and to excuse the horrors, is *exactly* the same language that centrist Dems use to justify US policing.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

I mean, yea. I wouldn't come here right now.

Cool, so he's implementing UBI then? 🙄

Throwback Thursday: I Do Not Love America As Theodore DeReese Pendergrass once said: ‘It’s so good loving a country when your country loves you back.’ I’ll let you know when it happens.

Whenever you're accused of being "Un-American," remember:

Jefferson Davis said abolitionists "lacked patriotism & moral principle"
The KKK said "America First" meant "love of country"
J. Edgar Hoover said MLK was "motivated by hate for America"

Yes, Sinners!!! That's what I'm talking about! We need more Black art in the mainstream.

British people apologize to me everywhere I go and I expect that to continue until reparations are paid for the enslavement of my ancestors.

colonizer says what

I'm holding a hardcover book (Positive Obsession) in front of a bar at my local Black owned coffee shop, Sip and Savor. Coffee mug on the bar.

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris

I always start the year returning to Octavia's work. This year I had this biography to digest for a new perspective. 💙📚

#BookSky
#BlackBookSky

Further proof that it's counter productive to let anyone suffer unnecessarily... eventually it's gonna turn around on you.

For real, though

Let's see more of this, please