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A Boston monument to Phyllis Wheatley. Earliest known African poet in US and first woman to publish a book.

#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky

Everyone ends up disabled eventually. Pre-disabled people don't like to think about it.

How many ADHD-ers does it take to change a lighbulb?

Male emperor penguins feed their babies with a protein substance called crop milk!

Healthcare is a basic human right.

The US is one of the only countries in the developed world not to guarantee healthcare to all.

The budget they just gave to ICE could easily cover universal healthcare.

They would rather fund a militia than provide food, medicine and vaccines.

There is no such thing as “saving” money by cutting social programs. Need still exists, hunger still exists, illness still exists. Cuts merely push the remedies for these many forms of suffering into crueler social relations and more chaotic social outcomes.

Governments – even fascist ones – are still ultimately just A Bunch of Guys Pushing Paper, and can be stymied accordingly.

a medieval-style digital art piece. In the center, there’s text reading “Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair.” written in black gothic script, with a colorful blue, pink, and green dragon hanging upside down acting as the capital L. There is also a smaller red, blue, and yellow dragon as a filler at the end of the text. There’s a thin, blue and white border around the edges.

anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken legislature?

Our corrupt SCOTUS?

Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

Source: eds.hannahlouise on Insta woman looking hopeful "so we've finally found what's wrong with you after all this time" woman looking grossed out "you've got a chronic illness, we don't know why it occurs or how to treat it. You'll be in pain most of your life and suffer with other random symptoms, don't forget the fatigue that'll make you want to stay in bed forever but you'll be expected to carry on as normal"

Source: eds.hannahlouise on Insta

Hot take: Young men “playing video games all day” deserve access to health insurance too. In a humane society everyone should have access to health care regardless of who they are or what they do. We should be expanding health insurance coverage, not kicking people off it.

Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps

A poster with a cat and the words: THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNING THE WRONG ICE Is MELTING

Good morning 🫡

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill.

Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.

“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥

@aoc.bsky.social

Make no mistake:

Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’

As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Understanding the Design of the Disability Pride Flag Here's what you should know about the flag's symbolism and origin.

Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...

The Nazis had incredibly effective propaganda campaigns aimed at dehumanizing anyone they wanted to target

This regime is doing the same thing

They’ve got social media influencers touring Alligator Alcatraz and crowing about how “great” it will be

They’re conditioning you to “just follow orders”

The reason I talk so much about extending grace to multi marginalized people especially is because they're often victimized. No victim is perfect. No human is perfect. So it's unreasonable to expect them to never have made a mistake. And to use that mistake to further harm them.

Growing up in Tennessee, Elliot knew the importance of allowing people like him to get the gender-affirming care they need to thrive and live freely.

The Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti is dangerous for trans youth, but we won't back down.

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

Rachel Hurley © • Follow 2h・C This is Madonna Kashanian. She came to the U.S. 47 years ago seeking asylum after her father's ties to the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran put her at risk. Her request was denied, but she was granted a stay of removal as long as she remained in compliance with immigration requirements—a condition she has met for nearly five decades. On Sunday, while gardening outside her home, three unmarked vehicles pulled up. Officers handcuffed her and placed her in the back of a pickup truck. She has now been taken to a GEO-run immigration detention center in Louisiana.

We are just 6 months in…
the amount of cruelty seems to be never ending. 😢

So much pain, anguish, cruelty, & harm are being intentionally inflicted onto our population.

Are these considered crimes against humanity? (Even folks not directly involved are suffering)

Class action lawsuits?

Democrats have been asked to disavow Zohran more than Republicans have been asked to disavow the guy who murdered two Democrats.

Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.

Medicaid provides care to 2.3 million children with disabilities.

If it gets cut, kids will die.

They’re willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of disabled children to ensure that the rich get richer.

Call, write & email your elected officials. Tell them to vote “No”

We're in an era of anti-Black backlash, so things are about to be even more hellish for Black women in the spotlight.

"Protect Black women," "believe Black women," "vote like Black women," and "let Black women lead" are generating visceral responses from many lately.

It's where we are right now.

Be mad that they’re trying to cut Medicaid and food assistance.

Be mad that they’re once again giving tax cuts to the rich.

Be enraged about why they’re making these cuts. It’s not that they can’t afford these services, it’s that they would rather spend them on kidnapping & torturing immigrants

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.

ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.

This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

Really does seem like whenever the DNC says they "want to win back the youth vote" what they -actually- mean is "How do we get young people to like our brand of do-nothing neoliberalism?"

Explaining Climate Change to an American: "Imagine being allergic to hamburger-"