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“Colonial Apartheid Regime”: Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Plans For Gaza Journalist Jeremy Scahill says the Trump administration’s vision for the Gaza Strip is of a continued “colonial apartheid regime” with Israel and U.S. interests controlling the lives of millions of Pa...

"What Palestinians in Gaza are being faced with is, you either fully bend the knee and accept a colonial apartheid regime as your overseer, you accept a new reality as dystopian plantation workers on Jared Kushner's real estate project — or, we're going to kill you."

“That’s Why Lil’ Kim and Flo-Jo Matter”: Talking About Nail Art | Magazine | MoMA Two women discuss the history and artistry behind manicured nails.

I dont know I stumbled on this, but it popped up in my podcast queue at the perfect time. A great listen for BHM 🎧

“That’s Why Lil’ Kim and Flo-Jo Matter”:
Talking About Nail Art ft @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

www.moma.org/magazine/art...

'COWARDS! COWARDS! COWARDS!': Los Angeles Votes Down A Policy To Protect People From ICE Immigrant workers in Los Angeles face an impossible choice: Go to work and risk being snatched up by ICE, or stay home and risk eviction.

ICE raids have forced many immigrant workers in LA to make a horrific decision: go to work and risk arrest or stay home and risk eviction — which can force people to leave the U.S.

LA officials say they oppose ICE but they've refused to pass eviction protections www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

Bingo

He should be getting pressed on at least three sides:
This
Library funding
The homeless sweeps he has reversed on and started again

Don't give him nay one inch

There's a distinction between "show me what you will do," and "tell me how you will do it."

I want the man to explain what he's up to, not move goddamned mountains in a single day.

Respectfully, Mayor Mamdani, HOW? What will New York City do to step into the gap left by this closure?

Rhetoric is good and all, but you need to show us how you plan to deal with this.

So every social media platform has apparently shadow banned posts from Minnesota, effectively limiting our reach to convince you we're all fine. We're not fine, btw.

Epstein was invited to gatherings with US lawmakers members years after his arrest There was a congressman’s birthday gala, a senator’s fundraiser at a billionaire’s home and a breakfast to discuss ‘homeland security’

Jeffery Epstein was invited to a Hakeem Jeffries fundraiser in 2017

"Notable names include House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Martin Heinrich."

HOW INTERESTING.

A photo of McDuffie

Four characters from the Milestone universe: Icon, Rocket, Static, and Hardware.

The characters of Justice League Unlimited.

Two issues of Damage Control written by McDuffie.

Today is the birthday of writer, producer, and editor Dwayne McDuffie (Feb. 20, 1962-Feb. 21, 2011). #BlackHistoryMonth

Hell the trans bathroom articles are borderline a mad libs subject swap of the 80/90s gay bathroom panic, which also share shockingly close structures to the pro-segregation bathroom panics from even earlier.

White supremacists are lazy as fuck and love to recycle bigotry tactics

Yes I absolutely agree and Serena Williams is an excellent example. Ofc I’m not saying this only goes for Black women, but we are literally the group most affected by all this white patriarchal intersectionality bs unfortunately and it just makes me so sad and angry seeing some of us pass it on.

100% co signed. If you are transphobic, unfollow me, block me, whatever you want just stay far away tf from me.

I don't wanna know about your character flaws.

Unfortunately these arguments often go over the heads of transphobic black women because they despise cis black women almost as much as trans women. Look at Nicki Minaj. Look at Sexyy Red. Calling cis black women beasts and roaches.

Also googles "South Africa's two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya."

Any black person being transphobic should genuinely be pointed at and shamed into the ground b/c when it happened to Serena Williams even my mom was commenting on how she heard those same things lobbed at Black women back in the 1960s and we ALL know those accusations go even further back than that.

Being transphobic as a Black woman when you are one of the main targets of transphobia is so counterproductive and senseless. Now don’t hit me with the “What are you talking about I’m not trans”. How many white folks done called you manly or a man cause you’re big or darkskin or tall, or “strong”?

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

However much you hate British journalists it's not enough. This is up there with the time they hounded a teacher for being trans until she killed herself.

Stones exist for many things, but also for this man, who continues to be alive

I'm trying to be better okay, but the fact that this man was alive after this doesn't sit right with me, it likely never will

May he be judged harshly after death and before it

The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

I sometimes worry I go a bit too hard with my resentment of British newspaper journalists as a class, but then I am reminded of stuff like this and am reaffirmed in my belief that we simply do not loathe them enough.

"Because of a nationwide power shortage—driven largely by huge new AI data centers—we're all facing higher costs to keep the lights on reliably. Starting this January, most members will see about $15–20 more per month on the Base Power Cost portion of their bill.” www.facebook.com/reel/2658484...

HELLO HI, IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH, PLEASE HELP A BLACK TRANSMASC STAY HOUSED THIS MONTH, PLEASE AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH 😭🙏🏾🤞🏾

YouTube video by Tate Nike Davies-Okundaye: Meet the artist preserving Nigeria’s textile heritage | Tate

Nigerian Art!

Textiles amd more

youtu.be/Fsj-IIhtAgM

YouTube video by Craft in America Artist Bisa Butler creates quilted portraits of African American life

Black Quilting art

Happy Black History Month

youtu.be/EmCy62Oo_hI?

Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs."

Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow."

Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.

I set a goal in December and haven't met it yet.

I run threads 3x a week to try to get everyone who posts on those threads visibility as I can't donate myself.

I live 50-60% below the Canadian poverty line and what I receive in disability benefits only covers rent.

We love her.