THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
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Historian, poet, teacher. Author of Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism and Mothering; and A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
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16.09.2025 04:42 — 👍 131 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0Threads post: cereal.bowl78 10h In an alternate timeline, Vice President Walz is reminding us to change our furnace filters
*siiiiiiigggghhhh*
19.09.2025 01:21 — 👍 5452 🔁 739 💬 93 📌 38oh hell yes! The lack of street vendors (and I assume this will apply to parks as well, hopefully??) is a huge barrier to creating vibrant public spaces. We've needed to loosen/define regulations around this for years and I'm so happy to see Green making the effort.
19.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 58 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0Just in case some people missed the memo:
DO NOT USE ULINE. EVER.
IDGAF if you think they "have the best prices" or "have the best tape". Buying from them because of one of those reasons just tells me your morals have a price tag.
Throw your packaging sources in the comments.
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15.09.2025 03:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Once again Black people are the truth-tellers.
15.09.2025 02:07 — 👍 312 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 0"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live."
15.09.2025 02:43 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
15.09.2025 00:50 — 👍 52028 🔁 11158 💬 655 📌 1182Though my faves in the exhibit were Delaney’s portraiture, his abstract/impressionist piece I liked the most was “Untitled, 1961,” gouache and watercolor on paper.
Today is the last day for “In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney,” The Drawing Center, 30 Wooster St, noon-6PM. #NYC
A body of water and blue skies framed by trees, some of which have leaves that are turning yellow and brown (fall colors).
14.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 96 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0It's a good book.
13.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We knew the Missouri republicans would do this but here's where we are. They are trying to eradicate any semblance of left (read Black) voting power in the state. I'm begging people to read the article and understand the situation at hand.
12.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 119 🔁 63 💬 4 📌 5If I was a parent I would be pushing my local officials to bring recreational activities back! Fuck all these video games and AI bullshit! Build a skating rink, basketball courts, laser tag, skateboarding parks, get kids back outside, and GET EM JOBS!! Im tired of seeing grown ass
12.09.2025 21:08 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Soooo....like what music built our civilization? Jazz? Blues? Gospel? R&B? I can't think of any American music that isn't based in Black culture.
13.09.2025 03:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Not y’all sayin “reich on reich violence” 🫠
13.09.2025 02:38 — 👍 1813 🔁 338 💬 45 📌 25I went down a Chanté Moore rabbit hole and learned she competed in a Chinese singing competition last year (after mistakenly believing she would be a judge instead)
She did her rendition of “If I Ain’t Got You”
Y’all…Had them (and ME) IN AWE!
Watch the whole performance: youtu.be/DDYuuWI1bJA?...
Yes, they absolutely were/are.
13.09.2025 04:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That part.
13.09.2025 04:27 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And he keeps firing everybody who is qualified.
13.09.2025 03:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mine too.
13.09.2025 02:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our democracy is not a brand. Our country is not a retail store. At 18F, our inspiration was (and is) the American people.
26.08.2025 02:13 — 👍 151 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0This is a firing offense. Bill Pulte must go.
13.09.2025 00:23 — 👍 2320 🔁 673 💬 57 📌 13In case you didn’t know, here’s the list of what each individual state calls its Medicaid program.
If you are on a state insurance program, it is likely tied to federal Medicaid funding. Just because it’s called Ohio Medicaid or Cardinal Care doesn’t mean your healthcare is safe from these cuts.
But some of them fight it.
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