After NYU students and faculty were arrested, more students just flooded the streets to stop the cops from taking them away!!

“For me, my gender is always in fugitivity. You cannot capture what you cannot see, you cannot put chains on what shapeshifts. You have zero power and zero ability to misgender me through using the wrong pronoun because my gender isn’t accessible to you.”

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some words from assata shakur, apropos of IWD: “..I’m tired of everybody else’s dream—I want my own and nobody’s going to tell me which way i have to go to be a free Black woman on this earth.”

'I'm not supposed to cry as a journalist when I am covering stories, but I have been crying a lot lately.'

If you have the capacity, which you'll need for this, please read this eviscerating letter by Zeinab Mohammed Salih.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
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“If the university can accommodate speeches by Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos and host President Obama and the king of Jordan at its graduations, surely it can bear whatever burden comes with celebrating Asna Tabassum as its valedictorian,” nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/…

#testify

The brochure listed numerous benefits migrants were eligible for: including “8 months cash assistance,” “job placement,” “assistance with housing,” ++. These benefits were promised verbally to lure migrants on the plane. None of this was true. Judd Legum popular.info/p/the-smoking-…

Just when you think you've seen everything. 😂

“The technological environment in the nineties was miraculous. The millennial generation grew up on it. The indicators of teen mental health were steady or improving in the late nineties, and all the way through the two-thousands—even up to 2011. And then in 2012 and 2013: boom.

'When Republicans blatantly lie, disregard their oaths and — to borrow a phrase — weaponize government, Democrats have an obligation to call them out. That entails refusing to take Republican antics seriously.'

sit. stand. beg.

“To me, she’s O,” McNeal said in an Apr. 19 Facebook post. “Her calls both grounded and elevated me … and though it’s been a while since she’d phoned, I can still hear her voice. Her earthly presence will be missed, but she will continue to lift us.” daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/act…

1830 was also the year of the Indian Removal Act under populist/racist Democratic president Andrew Jackson (who faked the “common man” to get poor white men on board consolidating white supremacy). Also when Blackface was established as first commercial pop. It’s in my book.

¿'petro-masculinity'?...

dude we’re all cool with this light up the night

“These peeling sheds aren’t supposed to be there. They’re not supposed to be used by anybody. There are 20,000 lbs shrimp/day going thru these peeling sheds that are landing on U.S. grocery store shelves.” The high temperatures in the shed could easily lead to pathogen growth...