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I'm a very high risk person of not surviving in this society. If I don't take psychiatric meds, I'll be homeless in a heartbeat, & I work hard to keep from being homeless still. Whites have no clue, but being Black in America is so high risk. You can get shot to death by a cop minding your business.

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Leonard Peltier: ‘I remain undestroyed’www.workers.org The following statement is from political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, in response to the U.S. Parole Commission that denied him parole on July 2, 2024. His parole board hearing is scheduled for 2026. ...

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We're very saddened to hear about the passing of Jane McAlevey, a true legend in labor organizing. May her memory be a blessing. Her lessons certainly are.

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Today we lost an absolute giant in labor organizing and activism. An immense hole will be left by her passing. Rest in power, Jane.

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Gonna check out this new Inside Out movie now I guess

Should we bring back bullying?!?

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Wagatwe Wanjuki

bill gates is one of my favorite examples. white billionaire uses the continent as a testing ground, creating charity projects to "help" Africans. then he sells what he learns and then uses that money to undermine policy that'd help native Africans long term

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Motives matter a lot. I work with philanthocapitalism professionally grant writing to support formerly unhoused women. Its motives are profit driven, not actually altruistic. It’s essentially about megawealthy people getting tax write offs.

honestly I think motives matter MORE when doing charity. philanthrocapitalism only reinforces inequality.

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I'll tell y'all this about the Klan. The only folks shocked the Klan exists & does shit are white liberals. The Klan & its supporters are well aware they have never stopped existing. Also all Black southerners know that they are deep in politics & never stopped terror. @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social

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if the "charity" is only done to amass more wealth and power, then we absolutely should care about that.

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honestly I think motives matter MORE when doing charity. philanthrocapitalism only reinforces inequality.

The hawk tuah that Steven Levy gives Mark Zuckerberg in the book, Facebook: An Inside Story for "gracing Africa with his presence" is why I find it hard to read books by white men nowadays.

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there are no mappable lessons from the french election to the u.s. because the left does not have comparable institutional political power/representation in government. our abysmal party selection and the way campaign finance works are as ever part of the problem

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UK and France have both defeated their right wing parties in elections this year. The US needs to get its shit together.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

Fuck the new Washington consensus, all my homies who ride for the global South hate it

Lmfao > Gets hit with ad about books recommended by Chomsky > books are 3/5 his books www.blinkist.com/magazine/pos...

The Five Books Noam Chomsky Recommends Everyone Should Readwww.blinkist.com Explore the Transformative Reads Endorsed by Noam Chomsky

LinkedIn doesn't know me. I talked nonstop for 40 minutes because I was asked if Tony Stark was a clone (spoiler: yes)

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EXPLAINED: Mass Protests in Kenyayoutu.be Zambian Economist Grieve Chelwa joins Bad Faith to explain how mass protests in Kenya defeated IMF-backed austerity policies, and how the IMF and World Bank use debt as a mechanism of control. Dr. Chelwa charts how the BRICS bank & dedollarization may provide a way out for countries struggling under western debt-control, and the crucial role global solidarity must play. This is one of those big picture episodes you wont want to miss. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Good interview with Grieve Chelwa on the Kenya protests and how IMF loan repayment is at the core of the youth revolt there youtu.be/quYCINP35nQ?...

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There's a lot of things I'm not going to do in order to go out & meet people that someone who doesn't care about catching COVID might do. I'm probably not going to be at that crowded indoor gathering except on a rare occasion as the only masked person feeling panicked I'm exposed the whole time.

People who don't try to be as safe from the pandemic as me don't understand some of my challenges to getting out of social isolation. I'm not willing to be a weekly in person church goer right now because that seems high risk, unmasked people singing & shouting & sharing drinking vessels.

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I do not see flawed Christians as not Christian. I consider all who think of Christ as their spiritual leader to be Christians, & people who were raised that way culturally unless they chose to abandon the identity. Christofascists are Christian. So was Mother Theresa. Christians aren't perfect.

Christians aren’t perfect human beings, but still good & well-meaning if there is compassion for others and a sense of reconciliation for wrong-doings. Our stories of Jesus Christ didn’t speak of Him wearing a mask during a pandemic, but He showed compassion to the sick and marginalized.

finally! i'm rich!

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Why @EmoBlackThot's Identity Reveal Hurt Black Women So Muchwww.papermag.com From white women cosplaying as us on Instagram (known as Blackfishing) to unadulterated misogynoir constantly thrown our way, it is no surprise that Black women seek out safe spaces online. One such r...

Oh my FUCKING gawd not BlueSky dragging madblackthot/emoblackthot up from the GRAVE 💀💀💀 www.papermag.com/emoblackthot...

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More specifically: my dad imparted Intergenerational knowledge about Blackness, Black identity and what it means to be a Black men. He was a polisci professor who taught them how the govt has traditionally screwed our ppl over. AI can't do that, and that's why it's being pushed in that space now.

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Further, at an HBCU, Black students get an education from their Black professors in ways that exceed class syllabus. My dad taught at Morehouse and I literally watched him help Black men become full human beings — an AI can't do that.

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And given Morehouse's stature as an HBCU, if they can normalize this AI shit there, they can normalize it at all HBCUs. This is very specifically an antiblack educational policy and has to be addressed as such.

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HBCUs for all their flaws are still places that allow more Black folks to get higher education & degrees than we would if they didn't exist. This isn't just about rich ppl, this is about the continuing attempts at recreating "separate yet equal" educational systems,

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Yeah basically this. This is yet another attempt at chipping away at the value and legitimacy of HBCUs, which is a fight that has been going on for deacdes & that usually takes place in state & federal budget meetings and accreditation bodies.

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