Gail Drakes

@gaildrakes.bsky.social

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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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So the plan is really to erase the COVID pandemic? The entire thing? That’s the plan? Watching the RNC Convention and thinking about how sometimes refusing to forget is a form of rebellion.

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Bo Thompson

I used to get that vibe from Shonda Rhimes and “Scandal,” so many of the small roles went to Black folks, often Black women with hair or body shape that aren’t appreciated in Hollywood. Music, too…

I feel like Ron DeSantis paid extra for the quality speech and coach and decided if he was gonna do this, he was gonna go big!

Damn. Some part of me wondered if Nikki was gonna go up there a scorch some earth…but NOPE. I know it was unlikely, but it would have been some high-quality TV!

Vivek is good at his job. Once you know what his job is.

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Prisonculture

They tried it with that $15 dollar donation to Democrats thing, but they couldn’t manage it. Maybe they’ll find something on the internet that indicates he spoke to a Black person once or something…

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ApocalypticaNow

I hear you! There are limits of what we can stand! Reminds me of when I saw a dude mansplaining MLK’s civil rights activism…to MLK’s civil rights activist daughter! Oy.🤦🏾‍♀️

In related news: The MSNBC coverage of the Republican Convention is NOT coverage of the Republican Convention. They are literally talking over the vast majority of speeches. Everyone needs a lane, I guess.

J.D. Vance was not running for the working class people of Appalachia! Did he even make such a claim?! What are these pundits talking about?!

Do these MSNBC pundits not know the deal on “Hillbilly Elegy?” That is a problem.

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Sarah J. Jackson

Oh dear.

Only now getting a chance to look at the RNC convention and it is deep to see Trump shook like this. If assassination attempt was planned by a PAC, he wasn’t in on it!😏 That said, all we need now is Trump thinking that he was spared by divine intervention to make Project 2025 real.

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Tinu

Of course! But like with everything, folks wanna think they are doing someone ELSE “a favor.” But you are saving you own life. Maybe that realization will help folks find motivation and offer some damn respect. Come for the fundamental fairness, stay for the interconnection of all struggle…

@oregonthedm.bsky.social Jinx! Twinsies!

Don’t have to click to know the answer! If you think #LandBack would only benefit Native people, you have a lot left to learn…

www.yahoo.com/news/experts... guess where this knowledge comes from

Experts stunned by discovery in wetlands 10 years after reintroduction of centuries-extinct beavers: 'Can transform local environments'www.yahoo.com "To maximize these benefits, we need to provide space along our waterways for beavers to live and create their wetlands."

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Exactly! I hear you, for real. And I mean, I get where the pattern comes from…the systems and such…but it makes me damn near conspiratorial sometimes. Who doesn’t want us to have nice online things? What could these spaces make possible, w/o these messy, hurtful cycles? It could be beautiful.

Honest to God, this raised my blood pressure. Because this BS upsets me in more ways than one. But then I said: No. Nope. “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction….” —Toni Morrison I needed that reminder. Time to get back to work.

The nerve of quoting THAT Audre Lorde quote at a Black woman to justify a harassment campaign against a Black man wherein some of the harassers told him to work for Walmart or Doordash instead of the NYT

“Educating the conqueror is not our business. But if it were, the best way to do it is to not explain anything to him, but to make ourselves strong”. —Toni Morrison

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ApocalypticaNow

Honest to God, this raised my blood pressure. Because this upsets me in more ways than one. But then I said: No. Nope. “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction…None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” —Toni Morrison I needed that reminder.

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Saeed Jones

This week, on a Very Special Episode of “Fuck Around And Find Out”… #TheMoreYouKnow 💫

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Whew. The way it (and all those almost year old posts of yours) is all so damn ever-friggin-green. I am holding my tongue for so many reasons, but I HAVE FEELINGS (and thoughts)…

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

“Are👏🏾They👏🏾In👏🏾Yours???” 👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾

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Eileen Clancy

These righteous women citing sources, dropping gift links…I think I’m defining my online nerd girl love language…

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Eileen Clancy

Sincere, public, white woman allyship from someone who cites her sources?!? Hey, that’s Amber AND you! Love it!

Is this real?! Because this is the kinda white woman allyship I need more of in my life! I know that reporter was NOT ready for Amber. 🫡🫡🫡

J.D. Vance?!? Lordy, I CAN’T with that dude. Doctor said I needed to watch my blood pressure…and now this godawful man is gonna be in my face?! I wanna slap him upside his head with an Appalachian mountain.

Trump selects J. D. Vance for Veep?! I’m legit surprised, because Vance STAYS ready for the spotlight. Trump better sleep with one eye open, because J.D. got that “lean and hungry look” for real. I swear, J.D. Vance is so many brands of white man I cannot stand. Logging off = self care…

Wait. Is there is woman of color speaking?? Telling us Trump isn’t racist? Why tho’?!? Dude said he can shoot ppl w/no consequences, is “not racist” required here? Also: I’m -listening- to the RNC convention because I’m in transit with no wifi or unlimited data… …So much for self care!😏

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Truly! Or perhaps the one they hold out as punishment for wrongdoing… People volunteering for the pane of glass prison from “Superman II” before they’d sign up for this hot, buttered mess.