Akilah Hughes

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I transferred from Twitter your school has no gymnastics team this is a last resort

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America isn't a conservative country. It's a center-left country with a democracy problem.

The GOP is quickly becoming a party defined by issues on which 70% of the population disagrees with them. Dobbs and gun regulation has exposed this, and now same goes for GOPs increasing embrace of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies. And yet this race is 50/50. Gift link. wapo.st/3VvKTju

Analysis | The GOP’s sudden turn away from gay rights — and acceptancewapo.st The right wing of the party has re-injected LGBTQ+ rights and issues into our political discussion in recent years. There are real signs it’s having an effect.

Spoke with Louisville Public Media about the mascot and team name at Boone County High School and why it’s overdue for change. www.lpm.org/news/2024-06...

Boone County High School alum still fighting for school to drop the ‘Rebels’ as mascotwww.lpm.org 2005 Boone County High School graduate Akilah Hughes has a podcast out this fall about her efforts to get her alma mater to drop a mascot with ties to the Confederacy.

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People are like it’s free to be kind, like being mean costs extra or something.

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NEW: Listen and subscribe to my new podcast REBEL SPIRIT, where I go back to my Kentucky high school and try to get them to change their racist mascot “The Rebels” to “The Biscuits.” Episodes drop weekly starting 9/3!!! Happy Juneteenth ✨🩵 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

‎Rebel Spirit on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Society & Culture · 2024

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Jamaal Bowman's primary challenger has: -said Bowman has an "ethnic benefit" -said his constituency is in Muslim-majority Dearborn, MI -said "You don’t mention people who are not Black or brown." -slow-walked desegregation efforts in NY I wrote about George Latimer's campaign of white grievance:

Jamaal Bowman's Democratic primary challenger has run a campaign on white grievancewww.thehandbasket.co George Latimer has targeted NY-16's first Black representative with overt racism.

Are y’all talking about Assange pleading guilty over here? I am just about ready to abandon the bird.

‎Rebel Spirit on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Society & Culture · 2024

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RFK is the only candidate who believes in lobal worming

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Multiple women have accused a twitter dinosaur enthusiast of SA. His publisher, Neon Squid, refuses to take any action unless the victims are willing to be named directly to their assailant. Please email [email protected] to express your support for victims & demand they pull his book.

One last one before 2024. If you can subscribe it means so much after a year of double striking. ❤️ thespitestack.substack.com

What is it with schools and horrendous mascots? It’s so easy not to be a douchebag

Don’t worry, when the school *finally* changed the mascot, locals kept printing up bootleg merch with the old name on it and were aggressively proud to wear them out and about, and I’m talking about in like, 2019.

I wrote about the best rejection I ever received. So good, in fact, that I put it on a pillow. Read and subscribe to my substack babies ❤️ thespitestack.substack.com

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The FDA has approved a powerful medicine that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease The devastating illness affects more than 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are Black

FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPRwww.nbcnews.com The groundbreaking approval has been eagerly anticipated by patients and doctors alike. The treatment is expected to be extremely expensive.

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I don’t think hope is involved at all I think it’s a mix of sticking with what you know and the way social media platforms inspire addiction. when your monkey brain gets hooked on pulling a specific lever you just sort of do that until the lever is taken away

I bailed on that site the day he walked in with that stupid sink, so I don’t know, but are a lot of people on X sticking around in the hope that Musk “loses the site soon”? are people trying to wait him out?

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This is where the internet peaked. All downhill from here

I am writing on Substack now. Check out the latest: What Julianna Margulies Can Teach Us about Shutting the F Up. READ: thespitestack.substack.com

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Remember the much-celebrated "AI Seinfeld" show that was supposed to run forever? Yeah, the "AI" has completely broken down and now the characters have been stuck walking against a fridge for a week. Watch out writers, they're coming for your jobs!

AI Seinfeld Is Broken, Maybe Foreverwww.404media.co Nothing, Forever is getting another round of virality as people gawk at what might be the end of the first big AI show.

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oh my fucking god. does he think it’s called blade runner cuz the guy’s name is blade runner

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it is almost like he got a lot more coverage when he was seen as more of a threat to president biden than to trump and then he went independent and was seen as more of a threat to trump than to president biden and then dropped off the face of the planet but i am sure there is more to it than that

RFK Jr, not someone you hear much about anymore.

Rainbow Road all up in your bowling alley!

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Simone Biles has secured her 21st world championship gold medal She is now the most decorated gymnast ever — female or male

Simone Biles wins women’s all-around final to secure record 21st world championship gold medal | C...edition.cnn.com Simone Biles continued to make history at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, winning the women’s individual all-around final on Friday to secure her 21st world championship gold medal.

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Incredible that in less than two weeks, our petition requesting transparency regarding the collusion between the city of Beverly Hills and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust is only 45 signatures away from 2500. If you haven’t signed yet, now is the time!

Sign the Petitionchng.it In August, the LA Times reported on allegations that Beverly Hills city officials, including the Mayor and Chief of Police, colluded with landlord Douglas Emmett and antiabortion radicals to block an...

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$10 ad campaign is so funny. How is that possible. You’d pay more to get a small square on placemats in a random diner

Does earthquake blue sky exist yet

I need to retrain my brain to open this app instead of Twitter cause that shit is deaddddd.

*Googles* how to explain to my dog that I need to play Tears of the Kingdom

I made a really good sign that I’ll be debuting on the picket line tomorrow.

Hadn’t reminded y’all that I’m cute on this app yet. Fixed it.

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gonna start plagiarizing my old tweets on here