L. M. Davis

Also, fellow authors and media folks who game stream, hit me up. I'd like to build a team and set a significant charity goal for the future.

We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx!

North Pole

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A 21 year old is now the mayor of Stockbridge, GA. Young people were doing big things last night.

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Kendrick ran so Sliwa could also run.

Good job, New York!

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Yes!

With Nearly $1B In Gifts, MacKenzie Scott Transforms America’s HBCUs Her unrestricted philanthropy gives historically Black colleges the freedom—and responsibility—to strengthen endowments, expand research, and reimagine their futures.

My take on the transformative gift that is MacKenzie Scott and her almost $1Billion in giving to HBCUs since 2020, and why what she is doing goes far beyond philanthropy--it is protecting the future of Academic Freedom, and Diversity. READ: www.forbes.com/sites/sophia... @forbes.com #HBCUs

Craven dereliction.

He's not funny or charming in the least to me. Never has been.

Unless 25% of their respondants were billionaires.

22% of them are lying.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

But, as you said, they are not Christian.

That is exactly what I thought as soon as I saw this.

Also, this timeline has the shittiest writing. Shoulda left the whole thing in the drafts.

The hell you say!

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Is this a safe space: I have had a crush on Elijah Wood my whole life.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

That sounds really cool. Congrats!

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.

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I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Six days left and a whole lotta doors to knock.

Let's get it: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Even the original hits different when you realize America has morphed from the Shire to Mordor--or Isengard at least.

Feels like killing the government has been the goal; protecting pedophiles is just the cherry on top.

Alice Walker said, “When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer… Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality… People gathering, people working to change the intolerable.”