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The Truth Behind The Lies Of The Original 'Welfare Queen' The story of the woman famously referred to as a "welfare queen" in Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign is far more bizarre and unsettling than the stereotype she became the emblem for, as a stellar long re...

Linda Taylor hustled the US gov at a much smaller scale than Trump and his father of course. Republicans have dined out on that ‘welfare queen’ propaganda for half a century now. US children still go hungry.

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Again I know it’s hard to reconcile because you continue assume Puerto Rico is some drain on the US despite reams of documentation proving otherwise, the waste is on Wall Street not on our archipelago.

You mean the body that gave us PROMESA?! Please stop. Look at how much the architects of that made of that deal.

Wait you were just saying PR needs to join the US to help clean the mess y’all made… our own Native identity is still fighting for US tribal acknowledgement — you think we don’t know? 😂 many of us are Native. We know. We are them.

Unsurprising you don’t understand economics. The one taking money is the US. I wonder why you think PR is dependent on the US when the opposite is true?

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I mean you’re already shared with the Skyline what you think of island self-determination. Plus you only brought PR up because you thought to use the island as a consumable resource.

Nah you can keep your ‘union’.
Fight your own battles.
Clean your own mess.

I mean the US is already trying to strip citizenship from their own brown soldiers so SSDD in 🇺🇸

Safe where babes? Show me on a globe where anyone is safe from US imperialism?

This was only after a couple decades of eugenics and the forced sterilization as the US decided the best thing to do in PR was hamper the birthrate without consent sterilizing at least 33% of island women.

journeys.dartmouth.edu/lats3naren/p...

American women and the world reaped the liberation of birth control from the disabled Puerto Rican women Harvard poisoned and killed for profit.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2017...

What the US Owes Puerto Rico - JSTOR Daily As historian Déborah Berman Santana writes, the U.S. is very much responsible for molding Puerto Rico’s economy to begin with.

This… and all at the expense of the people. Treating us like lab rats, cannon fodder, and cheap exploitable labor both on the island and the mainland.

daily.jstor.org/what-the-u-s...

This. Meanwhile Boricuas on the island stand in line sometimes for days for the right to vote despite the US and its tools constantly moving the goalposts to try and cheat their way to the result they want.

The whole ‘Spain sank the USS Maine!’ but gloss over former Confederate General Fitzhugh Lee (Robert’s nephew ffs) demanding the US gov protect Americans from Cuban citizens on sovereign soil. They skip that there were plans for decades as part of US empire building.

They literally trot out Puerto Rico every time like it’s a piece on their red vs. blue political chessboard rather than an island that had an autonomous government right before suddenly the islands needed to be ‘liberated’ from Spain.

Exactly. The whole ‘Spain unlawfully handed the territory over in 1898 after granting it self-determination step to independence’ which has been voiced since it happened and was renewed at the UN when assembled.

‘Financial support’ says someone with clearly no idea how much is squeezed from the island by the US gov and its corporate partners. PR is kept in this ‘illegal & colonial’ status by those robbing everything not nailed down.

Different century, same colonizer.

Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.

New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

Anyone have a source for shade grown tea bushes/tencha direct from Kenya?

Considering the country’s tea output it would be great to buy it direct not from someone who went on a mission trip in high school or a company that exports it to Europe to swap labels and multiply the price.

YouTube video by Associated Press Secretive Border Patrol program is detaining US citizens for ‘suspicious’ travel

I just watched this when I woke!

youtu.be/MQxw9fhmBv4

You can bring it back to the mitochondria too: start with stress, trauma, and their impact on the immune response. Toss in telomeres, improper rest, and accelerated aging somewhere.

First Lady or even future ones don’t need their own office suite when the man demands a gilt ballroom. All that gold is going to oxidize real ugly come 2027.

Oof probably ‘Amor Git*n*’ by La Lupe
The Queen of Latin Soul sings of obsessive love better than anyone.

‘Take this dagger
open up my veins
I want to bleed out
Until I die’

youtu.be/XjvLgI4kDdk

Crates and crates that should be better tended.

Esthero - Breath from Another (1998)

Marvin Gaye
Joe Arroyo
Bob Marley
Manu Chao
Cab Calloway
Otis Redding
George Michael
Sting

Nina Simone
Ella Fitzgerald
Billy Holliday
Dinah Washington
Bessie Smith
La Lupe

I am working through public domain archives now so Ida Cox, Helen Humes, and others are treasures that deserve more ears.

I’m going to be a broken record here Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, El Gran Combo, La Patrulla 15, The Roots, The Upsetters, The Headhunters, Duke Ellington’s Orchestra … I’m a sucker for some filthy brass with bold percussion.

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Imma need a Wikipedia editor to fix the descriptor ‘slang word’. BFFR a dude monetizing his surname as merch due to adjacent spelling (not pronunciation) to a slur sure seems sketch to me.

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We who peeped mollusks are kingdom animalia.