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last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)

Thank you to all who protested VP Vance’s visit to La Crosse. We had more people at the protest than he had at the event.

Choking on the cruelty Stalling the bureaucracy of detention machinery is a start.

I wrote about the ways that concentration camps cross-pollinate and repeat, and how we can work to prevent even worse systems from rising on the foundation being laid by the US today.

America was already losing to China on clean energy. Trump just sealed its fate. | CNN The new global clean energy regime can be summarized in one incredible statistic: China installed more wind and solar power in a single year than the total amount of renewable energy currently operati...

The new clean energy regime can be summarized in one incredible statistic: China installed more wind and solar power in a single year than the total amount of renewable energy currently operating in the United States.

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Lia will not be erased

THERE IS NOT A NATION ON THE EARTH GUILTY OF PRACTICES, MORE SHOCKING AND BLOODY, THAN ARE THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES, AT THIS VERY HOUR.

Frederick Douglass

YOUR SHOULDS OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY, HOLLOW MOCKERY; YOUR PRAYERS AND HYMNS, YOUR SERMONS AND THANKSGIVINGS, WITH ALL YOUR RELIGIOUS PARADE AND SOLEMNITY, ARE TO HIM, MERE BOMBAST, FRAUD, DECEPTION, IMPIETY, AND HYPOCRISY--A THIN VEIL TO COVER UP CRIMES WHICH WOULD DISGRACE A NATION OF SAVAGES.

To him, YOUR CELEBRATION IS A SHAM; YOUR BOASTED LIBERTY, AN UNHOLY LICENSE; YOUR NATIONAL GREATNESS, SWELLING VANITY; YOUR SOUNDS OF REJOICING ARE EMPTY AND HEARTLESS; YOUR DENUNCIATIONS OF TYRANTS, BRASS FRONED IMPUDENCE;

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A DAY THAT REVEALS TO HIM, MORE THAN ALL OTHER DAYS IN THE YEAR, THE GROSS INJUSTICE AND CRUELTY TO WHICH HE IS THE CONSTANT VICTIM.

THE FEELING OF THE NATION MUST BE QUICKENED, THE CONSCIENCE OF THE NATION MUST BE ROUSED; THE PROPRIETY OF THE NATION MUST BE STARTLED, THE HYPOCRISY OF THE NATION MUST BE EXPOSED; AND ITS CRIMES AGAINST GOD AND MAN MUST BE PROCLAIMED AND DENOUNCED.

For IT IS NOT LIGHT THAT IS NEEDED, BUT FIRE; IT IS NOT THE GENTLE SHOWER, BUT THUNDER. WE NEED THE STORM, THE WHIRLWIND, AND THE EARTHQUAKE.

At a time like this, SCORCHING IRONY, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

“I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;” I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be fight and just.

DARE TO CALL IN QUESTION AND TO DENOUNCE, WITH ALL THE EMPHASIS I CAN COMMAND, EVERYTHING THAT SERVES TO PERPETUATE SLAVERY--THE GREAT SIN AND SHAME OF AMERICA.

STANDING WITH GOD AND THE CRUSHED AND BLEEDING SLAVE ON THIS OCCASION, I WILL, IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY WHICH IS OUTRAGED, IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY WHICH IS FETTERED, IN THE NAME OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BIBLE, WHICH ARE DISREGARDED AND TRAMPLED UPON,

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

THE CHARACTER AND CONDUCT OF THIS NATION NEVER LOOKED BLACKER TO ME than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting.

I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that

To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be TREASON most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery.

If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!”

Fellow-citizens; ABOVE YOUR NATIONAL, TUMULTUOUS JOY, I HEAR THE MOURNFUL WAIL OF MILLIONS! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them.

You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?

Rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought STRIPES AND DEATH to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. THE BLESSINGS IN WHICH YOU, THIS DAY, REJOICE, ARE NOT ENJOYED IN COMMON.

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?...

An Open Letter to Arsenal Football Club Today, the news broke that Thomas Partey, an Arsenal player until the beginning of this month, is being prosecuted for five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

I'm planning on continuing to talk about Thomas Partey, Arsenal and rape culture as long as it is a problem within football
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Arsenal wanted to hand Thomas Partey a new contract and it only didn't happen b/c of his salary demands.

Tremendously poor decision-making from the club from start to finish.

You will never convince me that there weren't alternative paths that didn't involve continuing to play and feature him.

I want to hear what this fucking club has to say for itself. Spoiler alert, there's no excuse and there's never been any excuse. They dropped Auba like a hot potato for not showing up and being a problem. They protected Thomas.

The crime is the fault of the perpetrator, and continuing to play him probably would have been the recommendation of counsel. The club had plausible deniability on that. But trying to extend his contract goes outside the air cover.

The top of the house has a lot to answer for today.