Clarence Okoh

I'm beyond grateful for the millions more who are fighting back and working their asses off every day for all of us. But it's just sad af seeing how down bad so many people are rn

It's so wild that millions of people will accept an authoritarian takeover so long as they collect a paycheck every two weeks & have stable Internet connection. COVID & capitalism completely hollowed us out. The only freedom we value is consumption & convenience. A bunch of dollar tree zombies

The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected.

So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure.

If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.

The fall of Chappelle is so tragic. I'm old enough to remember when he left the country to avoid money. Now he's out here tap dancing for dirty dollars. He's just a bitter & hateful old rich man doing dated stand-up. His art used to challenge power & privilege. Now he's become it.

Ughh I hate autocorrect, it's "insidious" not "industrious" lol although the second kinda applies too bc these ideas are produced at an industrial scale

In the US, we are conditioned from childhood to devalue historical atrocities against nonwhite people— if we are ever taught about them at all. It reflects a racial hierarchy of human life that shapes how we interpret the world around us today. It's industrious, but it can be unlearned

A big tell is when they can only compare ICE raids to Nazis and never to slave patrols or white settler violence. It's low-key a sign of internalized racism.

Ask yourself why authoritarianism is a *foreign* concept in your imagination? Who taught you that? Who benefits from that thinking?

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. 🏴‍☠️

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

This is very bad journalism. The experts cited are highly controversial figures that do not reflect the consensus of the field. Suggesting that the military use predictive policing as an "evidence based" strategy against civilians is reckless, unethical & irresponsible. I expect more @npr.org

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Should've said Nicki....

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating. These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿‍♂️

They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.

No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡

And people stop caring before truth hits

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They're Getting Ready As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

We also need to revisit "not voting as a form of protest" after the 2024 election. the lack of popular support for the centrist candidate did not change the party's behavior, at all. If anything, it pushed Dems even further right. The protest vote failed & we have to remember that in future cycles

ChatGPT is such a powerful distraction from the evils that are necessary to make AI work. You can't build these machines without environmental degradation, mass surveillance and other structural injustices.

And then they treat you like the problem for making them feel "uncomfortable" when all you did was tell the truth

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

This dynamic annoys me to no end. Black people are the most gifted political strategists in the history of the US by sheer necessity. Our survival is contingent on accurately assessing what comes next. Why the Ezras of the world cant see/internalize that is indicative of their privilege

There's no level of political evil that disqualifies you from public life in the US. It's both pathological and quintessentially American.

We need to start lowercasing the "(D)" next to their names so it matches their energy...

There's no need to compare this administration to foreign despots when our own history is more descriptive. We've been fighting over censorship, rounding up non-citizens, and ending sanctuary laws for a long time. The afterlives of slavery are our dystopian groundhog day

How to Start Your Own Rapid Response Group to Protect Immigrants In Your Neighborhood

The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you.

@eltragon.bsky.social

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

Josh Allen is standing by his words on the passing of Kirk. “If you want to be remembered kindly, then speak kindly while you’re still here. Allen doubled down: “I meant what I said. We need kindness - now more than ever.”

#Pinks #ProudBlue

~ We need more kindness

Josh Allen is standing by his words on the passing of Kirk. His original post read: “if you want to be remembered kindly, then speak kindly while you’re still here.”

Allen doubled down: “I meant what I said. We need kindness - now more than never.”

They know it's not a real organization just like they know Obama has a birth certificate & Trump lost the 2020 election. Propaganda is about power, not truth. They exploit big lies to create in-groups & out-groups— the real source of their power. Stop chasing lies. They're distractions from power.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

This has been my favorite form of entertainment over the last eight months. Yes I'm petty