Gail Drakes

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Bad at bios, but I’m not a bot. 💁🏽‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈

Trained as a historian, surviving late-stage capitalism by giving away Other People’s Money.

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When I am living abroad, and I am testifying in the exile-led Truth & Reconciliation Commission on the Trump re-election, I am gonna read the mainstream media for filth because they are too often profit-pushing pundit portals. They treat every high stakes issue like a damn game and I won’t forgive.

If you see this, post a bird. (Back in the day, I would tweeted a bird, but ELON. 💁🏽‍♀️)

If you see this, post a bird.

It is one thing to constantly expect Black women to save this democracy, but I get annoyed when folks wanna micromanage exactly how we are to do so. This is why you can’t have nice things (e.g. a functioning democracy).

Went on LinkedIn and immediately saw a picture of Michelle Obama with them saying "Can Michelle Obama beat Trump?" What?

I know where the “Say No To Doomerism!” is coming from, but I want folks to make sure they aren’t slipping into some toxic positivity remix. Shock and sadness are among the reasonable responses to the situations we face. And those feelings can exist with others, it’s not always either/or… 1/

Completely random aside from a person who is overwhelmed, scared and sad: The ad for “Wegovy” weight loss medicine should NOT use “This Is Me” as their theme song. That’s messed up and makes me mad. Not hating on weight loss meds, but that song is about ACCEPTING & LOVING who and where you are.

@waiterich.bsky.social Please don’t think I’m creepy, but I just had some sort of dating app, “he’s such a catch!” response to your “interested in sustainably feeding billions of people” bio. Having happily unlocked a new level of “Black nerd girl,” I will now follow back…🌱☀️

@clancyny.bsky.social In unrelated news: There is no way to force an unfollow on here other than a block? I really appreciated the block/unblock flexibility of the other place…

@clancyny.bsky.social Beryl. That’s it. That’s the skeet.

If you see this post a photo without explanation

This argument is fascinating because I was told such closings were due to masses of Black folks stealing too much soap and toothbrushes and hair cream despite being locked behind the plexiglas. Turns out it’s soulless white billionaires fault…good to know.

One of the big unmentioned reasons for the closure is that these pharmacies, including Walgreens, have multi-billion opioid settlements against them. Walgreens is on the hook for $5.5 billion. www.mlive.com/public-inter...

Rite Aid closing stores across Michiganwww.mlive.com As a part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Rite Aid is shuttering more stores in Michigan and Ohio.

Kamala said to Anderson Cooper, “I know y’all are professionally unserious, but elections matter, goddamit.”

I’m watching this Kamala Harris Anderson Cooper interview and…what in the hell is he doing?!? Meanwhile, that’s the best I’ve seen her in a LONG ASS time. Forget 360, AC gonna need to do a 180.

The effortlessness with which these media folks talk about Biden looking/sounding/ being “feeble.”’ Wow.

This Black Woman voter in this Arizona focus group said she can’t/won’t comment on RFK Jr. b/c she doesn’t know about him. Which is a miracle in today’s public life. (And she called Trump on his random non-answers.) Y’all really trying to lean on Black women to save this democracy AGAIN, huh?

I note with interest all this mess comes from folks who feel confident that they would survive a second term. That the potential and possibilities of their daily life would not be constrained. Their worries aren’t like mine.

All. Please. I'm begging. Stop trying to push for a brokered convention. Real life is not an Aaron Sorkin episode, and you know why the future frontrunners (e.g. Whitmer, etc.) wouldn't? It would tear the party in half, and at an even more critical time than right now. Politics is not Vegas.

It is both amusing and frustrating and frightening the way the mainstream media does not own their role is creating public opinion.

Oh my goodness!! Do y’all hear Biden at this afterparty?!? He sounds 10,000 percent better! I hate those debate prep people with the heat of 1,000 suns right now!!!

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Donald Trump cannot answer straightforward questions about anything. He can’t answer them from regular people; he can’t answer them on a debate stage, and he can’t answer them under oath — at least if he doesn’t want a perjury charge. And he’s not the answer for this country or this election.

YES TO THIS. The ableism and ageism is disgusting to me. As is all “felons are evil” talk. And that ableism is a threat to the lives and safety of the abled, wish more could see that…

Yeah, Biden isn’t feeling well. This is not the usual challenge or the wacky debate prep.

I don’t know if he is #onhere, but I agree with everything Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC says about how the presidential debates should be set up. This nation, with all its faults, deserves better than this.

LETS NOT ACT LIKE CHILDREN!!!!!😂🤣😂

This is why the kindly ones haven’t initiated First Contact. Even the intergalactic colonizers type pity us and steer clear.

Imagine you were an alien and this was all you’d seen of the Earth and these were who the earthlings were putting forward as leader? I’d leave??

YOU CAN SPARE ME THE PRAISE OF THIS CRAP MODERATION.

I’m SO CONFUSED. I thought Trump told us the U.S. was horrible and weak BEFORE he was elected. But now he’s saying it’s due to Biden. So was the pandemic our bright shining moment to return to? 💁🏾‍♀️

Trump says he has the biggest heart on the stage! The political culture of this nation is an absolute joke.

Trump calling out Biden on the Superpredator quote!!! 🤣🤣 I hollered. Laugh to keep from crying. Don’t judge me.

I can only listen (and enjoy/respect ) Biden when he is in full “malarkey” mode. When he is making himself not cuss because he’s a good Catholic. The people who coach Biden don’t love him for him.

Trump is clutching his pearls at the THOUGHT that he would say such rude things! 😂🤣😂

EXACTLY THIS. 😡 Old school advisers and some younger whippersnapper debate team nerds who want him to win points on the debate to get to regionals… …and not try to win the damn election that the life and safety of my family depends on.

Jesus. These old school Dem advisors don’t listen to anybody who knows anything about media and how most people understand it or consume it. I don’t even blame Biden; I blame these tenured cloistered guys (all of them guys, over the age of 55) who are apparently the people who have his ear the most