C O R T N E Y 🥃

The reward for waking up early was a ride across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sunlight streamed down the bridge, seagulls flew in the distance, and my heart soared too.
This is how a San Francisco morning should begin.

president Angry Facebook Grandpa

Just absolutely destroyed

a two-panel Hagar the Horrible gag involving Hagar and his wife seeing a poster for a stage adaptation of Naked Lunch (I swear) and then Hagar daydreams about eating lunch

what is going on

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

Tweet reading, “Fantastic Four skins are coming to Fortnite It is one of the most wanted collabs ever”

fantastic what now

a study in 2020 (www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/11/...) found huge companies like Walmart and McDonald’s paid such low wages that their employees were among the top enrollees of medicaid and food stamps.

tell companies to stop freeloading off the system and take care of their employees. problem solved!

Dune 3's official title revealed — and fans aren't happy

DUNESTRUCK

Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room

Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room

Man on life support from injury during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says A man is on life support after he was injured during an immigration raid at an agricultural area of Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.

Man on life support from injury during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says abc7.com/post/man-lif...

Corporations using small Black neighborhoods as dumping grounds for their stupid AI data centers is nothing new.

They built highways through Black neighborhoods. Destroyed a Black neighborhood to build Central Park. Dumped waste sites and refineries near Black neighborhoods. It's always the same.

what if instead of shutting HAL down, David Bowman wanted him to use more slurs

Is it for yelling at brands? Because that would be the best use of that name.

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

WYMONG

WYMONG

Soulful macaroni with cheese vs klan rally macaroni and cheese.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

Keith David’s reaction to receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

So deserved! Thank you for your work and impact! 👏

Carl Stokes. Photo courtesy of Cleveland Public Library.

Side note: Carl Stokes was the first black mayor of a major U.S. city. He didn’t consider himself an environmentalist; he was focused on the needs of the urban poor. But he became an environmental justice pioneer by drawing attention to the impact of environmental problems on communities of color.

The Cuyahoga River fire of Nov. 3, 1952. There are no photos of the June 22, 1969, fire as it was extinguished before news media arrived. Photo courtesy of Cleveland Press Collection at Cleveland State University Library.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1969: The heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catches fire due to trapped debris and oil slicks, likely ignited by a passing train. It was not unusual, extinguished quickly and caused little damage, but it became a symbol for the Clean Water movement. /1

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

Screen shot of a Fox News article with the headline "White men are 'walking around on eggshells at work, afraid to speak freely: Survey Poll reveals 43% of White men self-censor at work, while 25 million report losing job opportunities due to their race and gender" By Rachel del Guidice • Fox News

100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.

I have no spirituality or anything that gives my life meaning or structure

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.