Aaminah Shakur

Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.

Banned Books Week also bothers me every year, lol. CA someone please DO SOME ROOT CAUSE analysis and do more than point out the most challenged books of the year? That entire week should be devoted to recruiting candidates for local school and library boards. Set a goal of recruiting 5000 candidates

Our campaign offers a glimpse of what city government can look like: energetic, focused, and always bringing people in.

It's the 24th & I am $500 short on rent. I am absolutely panicking. I am a sick/disabled queer & support sick/disabled queer family. It has been a rough month. Would love art sales instagram.com/aaminahshakur

Will take kind gifts if my art just does not do it for you. CashApp $aaminahshakur

I have literally never had a driver ask me what svc does she do. But regardless, I paid the pet ride fee, so shouldn't have to say a word. But they all say it isn't showing them, & half say they would have declined the ride & will do me a 1 time favor

Is @asklyft.bsky.social on here? Look, I pay the pet fee so that your drivers know I have my small svc dog with me. Every. Single. Time. Your drivers say they got no notification there would be a pet. Half of them argue w me about why she doesn't wear a service vest & "pugs can't be svc animals" too

I covered June rent, worried for July & still overwhelmed with bills inc Rx. But y'all, I started T! At 50. Pride is next weekend & I don't feel equipped for that right now. Plz support tho! See LinkTree in bio

Democratic officials allowing (or ordering) local police to attack protesters are materially pro-Trump.

Plz connect with your local mutual aid networks (or start one if needed), with local Rapid Response to ICE, with Pride Centers, etc. Support food banks & libraries - formal & otherwise. We really are all we have, & that requires relationships, care work, & showing up in quiet & unglamorous ways.

Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.

Just had a dispiriting conversation with a teaching colleague who has had students say to their face this year they don't want to read a hand out (dealing with a core skill of the subject studied).

Students sat in class with ChatGPT up, asking questions the handout answers.

In unconnected news:

Ché needs our help!

Disabled/sick Queer (planning local Pride & professional queer also), also supporting disabled fam: Am pressed for June rent, student loan payment, & credit card bills (used to survive). See my LinkTree in bio. Art for sale on IG, intuitive services on LinkTree. CashApp is $aaminahshakur Thank you.

My entire feed here is urgent mutual aid requests & clever lovely folks reacting in real time to present dystopia that just keeps increasing.

I too have a mutual aid request I cannot make, but plz buy my art so I can survive.

Do not lose your heart, compassion, kindness & humanity.

hey friends,

i didn't make it to $810 for the room for 30 days, so i have to pay $43 per night (paid for the next 7 nights + got some food- thank you sm ❤️).

i still need help to get my medication + pay to keep up with the surgery repayments.

please help if you can 🙏🏽

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Disabled/sick Queer (planning local Pride & professional queer also), also supporting disabled fam: Am pressed for June rent, student loan payment, & credit card bills (used to survive). See my LinkTree in bio. Art for sale on IG, intuitive services on LinkTree. CashApp is $aaminahshakur Thank you.

Being anti kidnapping is currently a left wing opinion

With the greatest respect, this is an outdated & transphobic statement.

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If still unfamiliar with Donnie Moreland, check out his brilliance here! 🔥🔥🔥
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"If 1 could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will &..power to make art...the work of subjugation, of colonization, is complete. Such work can only be undone by acts of concrete reclamation" - bell hooks, in Art on My Mind! 🔥
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📌READ: Pro-Palestine students are being abducted and disappeared into for-profit ICE prisons in rural Louisiana — the same blueprint the South used to enforce white supremacy for centuries. t.co/7Q02ntVJr6

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Étoile (on the evil/est streaming site) is SOOOOO good. I think the last show that excited me this much was Man Like Mobeen (whose last season is currently airing & I cannot wait for it to stream where I can get it.) I love a lot of shows, so this is saying an awful lot.

Houthis say eight wounded in US strikes on Yemen capital <article data-history-node-id="421752" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/houthis-say-8-wounded-us-strikes-yemen-capital" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/houthis-say-8-wounded-us-strikes-yemen-capital" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Houthis say eight wounded in US strikes on Yemen capital</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Yemen's Houthi rebels said Saturday that a series of US strikes on territory under their control, including the Yemeni capital Sanaa, had wounded at least eight people.</p> <p>"Eight citizens, including two children, were wounded when the American enemy targeted a residential district" west of Al-Rawda in Sanaa, said the Houthi-run Saba&nbsp;news agency.</p> <p>It cited the Houthi administration's health ministry as the source for what it said was a provisional toll.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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