I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
A genocide story you'll never hear, We need to tell our own stories. 👇
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
Demi Johnson, a teen scientist from Mississippi.won the prestigious National Geographic award for her oyster reef conversation efforts.👏👏👏✊
I’d say psychologytoday.com is a great step to help someone find a mental health professional.
Everyone seems to be waiting on saviors, messiahs.
This is not a strategy.
I know a lot of us have doubts about whether we could organize a potluck or book club, nevermind a revolution.
So if you need to start with potlucks and book clubs, try that for starters.
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
Transphobia, homophobia or any anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior will not be tolerated on this skyline! Keep that shit to yourself or on the bird app!
If you want to rock this shirt, you can also support libraries at the same time! 😊✨
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Question: Why do folks expect advocacy, community organizing, and actual governing from entertainers rather than their own elected officials or community leaders?
Folks have more smoke for performers than they do for folks who they chose, in one way or another, to actually solve their problems.
As a hospital HR director, I’m telling you: check on your loved ones often when they’re hospitalized.
Stay on those nurses’ asses. Learn names, shift changes, all that.
Let them know that patient has people who care and will pop up if something seems off.
It matters more than you think.
When the Nazis were 1st establishing the deportation/extermination camps, they didn’t use the gas chambers just b/c of the efficiency of mass killing but b/c they had noticed the mental toll face-to-face cruelty & killing was having on Nazi soldiers by shooting captives
Anonymity enables inhumanity
Shout out to Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and their team for the Black-ass Beyoncé Bowl, them Black-ass Grammy's, and this Black-ass halt time show.
Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺
Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾
The FIRST DEATHS OF A NEW CIVIL WAR HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED
you just don’t think the matter because they aren’t WHITE
A reminder…
“They Not Like Us” is PLURAL.
There’s a BUNCH of folks that lines in that song apply to, especially “You not a colleague, you’re a colonizer.”
He's saying it out loud and people are still finding ways to contort themselves into "well it's not REALLY a coup"
Because acknowledging what it really is would mean having to make a choice. It's not an easy choice. I get it. But pretending you don't have to make it won't make it disappear
heard multiple examples today of people refusing to comply with this bullshit, ofc will not be describing, so a reminder that there are things that will save us you can’t post about!!!
I don’t have to fend off the desire to comply in advance. Anyone who knows me knows that, fortunately or unfortunately, I would rather die than let someone I don’t respect tell me what to do.
It's funny..... when you're used to having rights, you have no idea how to fight for them.
That's not a problem Black folks have. 🤷🏾♀️
A foreign-born billionaire has infiltrated almost every major bureau of the federal government and has dismantled the entire US soft power system. Republican Senators continue to abdicate their duties and appoint a white supremacist to run the budget. The law is only a suggestion.
It is day 17.
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
HuffPost laid off so many excellent journalists today, including a national investigative reporter we hired literally *one month ago*
