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Womanist | Scholar-Activist | Decolonize, Defend, Disrupt Assistant professor in counselor education. https://www.liinks.co/blackacademic

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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8847    πŸ” 2747    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 243

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27141    πŸ” 9616    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 358
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Independence or Grief? https://pin.it/5LFbKDFzM

"She’s still there, waiting for safety.
Waiting for softness.
Waiting for someone to finally say,
β€œIt’s okay. You don’t have to hold this anymore.”"
medium.com/@maerssonall...

18.01.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I also recommend turning off automatic updates.

17.01.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

17.01.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 40049    πŸ” 14701    πŸ’¬ 1322    πŸ“Œ 1049

Asking because the use of "occupation" seems odd to me when there are clear examples of U.S. occupation worldwide. There are clear threats of U.S. occupation right now.

17.01.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genuine curiosity.. is it occupation if its our own federal government and ICE agents who are part of the same communities they are oppressing? Or is this the Jim Crow era policies people voted for?

17.01.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

17.01.2026 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 14749    πŸ” 3151    πŸ’¬ 193    πŸ“Œ 112

So working as designed then.

16.01.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1689    πŸ” 468    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.

That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

15.01.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16005    πŸ” 4191    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 170

My Mexican neighbors sometimes play music well into the early morning hours. My academic colleague commented that I should call the police on them. I said, I'm an abolishinst. Thier response, "couldn't be me" and this is how mental health providers can uphold oppression.

16.01.2026 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm shocked by the business as usual vibes conferences and overall higher education is continuing.

15.01.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whether It Is ICE or Local Police, the U.S. Has Normalised Anti-Democratic Law Enforcement Practices The Grotesque Excesses of ICE Sit Within the Broader Context of Police Brutality

Pinning your hopes on police orgs breaking with ICE is not sound thinking.

sherrilyn.substack.com/p/whether-it...

10.01.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1811    πŸ” 480    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 33

DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

10.01.2026 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12137    πŸ” 3991    πŸ’¬ 303    πŸ“Œ 131
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Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

10.01.2026 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 16052    πŸ” 3767    πŸ’¬ 958    πŸ“Œ 528

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09.01.2026 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hearing people say the "left" lacks institutional power gives me the ick. They want us to believe they are different while they all give us the same solutions that keeps us stuck in hell.

09.01.2026 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll take mornings page. Anything over people telling us all their thoughts. It's okay to keep some things to yourself

08.01.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

08.01.2026 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 21106    πŸ” 5209    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 132

I started protecting my peace early by blocking people when they were coming from the other app. Internet strangers will not frustrate me.

08.01.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything about today feels like 2020 again... Everyone is sick, and the police/ICE are killing people. The only difference is that people have stopped calling things "unprecedented" because we've already seen this play.

08.01.2026 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it is understandable to be doomscrolling right now, but maybe try and do something else in 10 minutes? sometimes a timer helps or putting your phone in another room.

You still deserve time to rest and recover.

08.01.2026 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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On Substack, someone said the next world war will be the world against the United States. I've been thinking about that all day.

08.01.2026 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People will say this was one bad agent... yet history reminds us that there is a list of all the people who came before. All the times we could have had a revolution, and instead turned away.

08.01.2026 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I keep thinking about how this was blocks away from where the video captured George Floyd's final moments. Six years later, it seems we haven't learned anything.

08.01.2026 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

08.01.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6436    πŸ” 997    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 34

A clear reminder that nothing protects you. Not your identity, not your citizenship, not free speech, and currently not the constitution. At any moment, time, day, or night, this could always be you. To think otherwise could cost you more than your freedom.

08.01.2026 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching people with POWER lower their standards, throw out their ethical standards, and rewrite historical events when video evidence exists while standing on a pedestal to tell everyday citizens that they are the change we need is CRAZY WORK. Not reporting the facts is a continuous choice.

08.01.2026 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, and for me, this feels deeper than institutional power or bad actors. I'm seeing "leaders" using slogans to gain votes and traction while actively voting against change in the name of keeping their seats.

08.01.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1