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Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2016
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I know I'm supposed to say I hate doing this or that I feel embarrassed but honestly I don't. This is just where I'm at right now and where I will likely be until I find a sustainable source of income. I have a short term goal of $250 to avoid overdraft fees.
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Still a pet peeve of mine.
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I lost a friend in HS because I told him I wasn't fasting. He didn't know that if I didn't eat the food at school there was nothing for me to eat at home. He never asked. Just stopped talking to me. I'm glad nowadays people are more understanding.
@samah_fadil
سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️samah
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when i meet muslims that don't fast ramadan i understand that everyone has their own shit going on and don't feel entitled to understand why they don't fast, much less project my own "fear" onto their decisions.
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@CultureCrave
Culture Crave 🍿
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Twitter has updated their algorithm to allow users to see more posts from smaller accounts
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The reason Aaron Bushnell's martyrdom strikes directly at the imperial core is because here is a white man who chose to burn himself alive rather than being complicit in doing so to others. They do not want anyone thinking too long about what that implies.
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If homelessness is a crime, squatting in empty homes is a necessity.
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His name was Kenneth Knots, he was 41 years old and arrested for having a "mental health" episode. Seems to be code for killing Black folks these days.
@PushBidenLeft
Holding Dems Accountable (From the Left!)
6 months
Nothing changed, because nothing changed.
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It's little things like this that can ruin the suspension of disbelief for Black audience members—food for thought.
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9 months
They always say "this person is crazy" and never engage the substance of what's being said. Liberals just react with the primal fear of "what if this Black lady is actually correct?" Which boils down to "omg she's nuts!" 😂
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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I hadn’t checked in on Bree for a bit but holy crap this is nuts
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More than a quarter of a billion in arms, no congressional approval, in less than 30 days. But please tell me about how we're living in a democracy.
@prem_thakker
Prem Thakker
9 months
Note: just within the past three weeks, the U.S. has approved sending a total of $254 million worth of weapons & equipment to Israel. The Biden administration did not get congressional approval for any of it.
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It's also funny that liberals still believe themselves to be left of anything. Y'all are literally new age Republicans.
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10 months
I hope we're all connecting the dots between the lack of empathy for children (physical/emotional well-being) and the systemic push to roll back child labor laws and prison labor leasing programs (slavery). Instead of a school-to-prison pipeline...
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@samah_fadil I would hope so too, that was high school. 😅
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The idea that someone "like" Bushnell could choose to willingly die screaming "Free Palestine." doesn't send a message to me or any marginalized group. The message goes directly to the guts of who white people recruit into the military.
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White hegemonic rule is built on the myth that whiteness is the pentacle of beauty, health, and mental acuity. Bushnell may not be the model archetype for the Bachelor but he gives the impression of an everyday soldier in the Army.
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Touch grass but they closed the parks Touch grass but you gotta pay to get in Touch grass but your neighborhood is unwalkable. Touch grass but you can't afford the ride share. Touch grass but you're allergic to all the food in the restaurants.
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The fact that Black men have developed an idea of masculinity that seems to only protect white supremacy and not even themselves should be a case study.
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8 months
I really want y'all to start examining the terminology you use to describe things because the English language is so encoded with slavery that most of us don't realize what we're saying, advocating for, agreeing to, etc.
@HAILCHERELE
// C H E R E L E //
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just the phrase “cost of living” is insane
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2 years
Look at the lengths the Onion must go to reach satire that can't be confused with real life.
@TheOnion
The Onion
2 years
Gigantic L.A. Police Robot Rises From Ocean To Chase Homeless Child From Park
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What remains to be seen is who will listen.
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9 months
Too many people think revolution starts with guns and guillotines and not strong community support and solidarity.
@eofallthings
eofallthings
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The revolution needs childcare, it needs coordinated transportation, distribution of groceries and medication - yet when you say this to people they throw a tantrum about how we expect too much.
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Given that we're still living through a mass disabling event while sending people to die in genocidal wars... Yeah, everyone should be concerned about disability policy.
Judging politicians on their disability policy has never steered me wrong. Almost ever.
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Genocide is not a natural disaster. It is a human-made process, intentional, planned, and executed to reduce a population to unsustainable numbers. If you don't have a hand in stopping genocide you have a foot on the throttle accelerating it.
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If your ceasefire does not mean end the occupation then you need to reevaluate your definition and whose side you believe you are on.
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Talk about being miles behind your own intel and doubling down on a losing politic.
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Biden: "Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again, like they did before -- cutting babies heads off and burning women and children alive. And so the idea that they're just gonna stop and not do anything is not realistic."
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They will wait until they are sleeping to attempt a raid. While I wouldn't put it beyond the LAPD to put on this show and walk away just to collect the overtime, they are just testing tactics.
@PplsCityCouncil
People's City Council - Los Angeles
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INCREDIBLE!!! PROTESTORS JUST STOPPED LAPD FROM ENTERING THE ENCAMPMENT!! STUDENTS ARE HOLDING THE LINE! WE WILL NOT VACATE THE CAMP!
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We'll have schools replaced by job training facilities that double as detention centers for kids living in corporate-owned housing projects.
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...and for the record. If COVID can take out the president of the United States, perhaps YOU should take it a bit more seriously.
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I saw that tweet and I was going to say something but this sums up everything I thought. What life were y'all living before the pandemic that had you hopeful that it would all come back? In spite of everything?
The Great Gaslight Era
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It's actually very amusing to imagine how excitable people are at the prospect of facing reality 😂
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10 months
While it may sound alarmist, we are not too far from an apartheid here in America.
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11 months
💯 they forgot manufacturing consent goes hand in hand with manufacturing pleasant distracting lifestyles that very few of us are capable of living. Even the lucky few that live in relative ease cannot fully enjoy their lives because their lifestyle has become unrelatable.
Bread and circuses.
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What irks me about project 2k25 banter is that you lot have watched some of the most terrifying cruelty this world has ever seen and your reaction is "but what if I am the who is in REAL danger?" And the danger isn't bombs being dropped on your head or guns pointed at your kids/
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You can't expect people to take your calls for armed resistance in the US when we can't even organize around wearing masks.
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If not for the CIA the Black Panther party were likely to become a power similar to Hezbollah or Hamas. That's something that's still feared today.
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They do. They just don't know how to handle shame so they make a big scene about shaming others. That's the whole reason they resent masks. It makes them think about their shameless behavior and guilt.
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Not their kids, not the women in their community, a lot of what these Black men use to define themselves as men is dependent on where white people allow them to sit and stand.
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I want you all to stop thinking of revolution as you've seen it in movies or read about in history books. Put away the guns and the fire briefly enough to think about revolution as a concept and a process that once started cannot be undone.
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I have ADHD and I forget things. I find it helpful when people acknowledge this when engaging with me. Instead of "did you do this?" I prefer "do you remember doing this?" Or "do you remember what happened?" It helps me start to recall rather than activate my anxiety
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We'll be fighting
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Grifters work with cops. Wear a mask. Don't film yourself breaking the law unless breaking the law is the point. Avoid symbolics whenever possible. Sex pests lead to infestation. Use tools as they were never intended to be used. Establishment media should never be trusted.
@MAD_lines
Flirt Cobain
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It’s great to see young people driving revolutionary change. For those who have been involved for a while, what common mistakes should new organizers try to avoid?
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It would behoove Black folks to remember that 99% of the Black people in position to speak on social issues via their huge platform got where they are in search of financial security and not "Black liberation" in ANY form whatsoever.
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@JimVejvoda no, but confusing "outrage" with "debate" implies the bias you have for it.
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3 months
Y'all are scared when you should be angry.
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1 year
Less than 24hrs after Biden's speech.
@QudsNen
Quds News Network
1 year
BREAKING: The Israeli regime has ordered the immediate evacuation of the Al Quds Hospital in Gaza, where many innocent civilians are seeking shelter after their homes have been destroyed by indiscriminate Israeli bombardment. -- Our channel on Telegram:
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Public Schools have already been destroyed.
It can’t be stressed enough that destroying public school is the explicit goal.
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You cannot radicalize the people profiting from the problems that are killing you.
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It's a tactic that has a lot more teeth than anything else tried thus far. Imani put on glasses and a bonnet and made handwritten notes. Good lesson here.
Here is how the “Attention Economy” works: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
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Notice how there's no Afro Latinx people in this discussion? Why have two people that benefit from colorism talk about the merits or disadvantages of standing up against it? It's frustrating to watch people do that.
@colbertlateshow
The Late Show
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TONIGHT: Rita Moreno comments on the controversy surrounding her friend Lin Manuel Miranda and his film "In The Heights." #LSSC
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This dog has no practical use and further illustrates the superiority complex that runs through every police organization in the country.
@JoshuaPHilll
Read Abolish Rent
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The cops paid for robot dogs by stealing stuff from people. Abolish the police.
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When you spend 2 months gaslighting people about a genocide happening right in front of them? Yeah silence is golden.
You thought I was being sarcastic? I meant liberals need to shut up in quite a literal way.
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You cannot deny that since them white people stormed the capital they have gotten nearly everything they wanted In the years that followed.
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Dave Chappelle is the same person he's always been, and if you carefully examine his jokes, his punchlines, and his omissions, you'll see many of the positive things people believed about Dave were extracted from the company he kept and the people he targeted strategically.
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We're not far from having police armed with drones that drop bombs on civilians.
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Hello, everyone. I am still being evicted. Thanks to everyone who has donated thus far. This process is likely to be drawn out, so anything you can contribute in the meantime will go a long way towards guiding this thing to a positive outcome.
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If you're at a protest and your people outnumber the cops no one should be arrested unless they want to. Anyone detained should be "de-arrested" using preplanned tactics and contingencies. But getting arrested for credibility only makes you propaganda for your oppressors.
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The killings of Jordan Neely and Sonya Massey serve as psychological stress tests designed to determine public reaction to exterminating Black people. A lot of you are passing that test with flying colors.
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The cost is often the life you built up being someone or something that society can accept. Most people have personalities outlined by social rejection.
@DariusAmore
Juicy Gentleman
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Finding yourself comes at a cost… I don’t think people talk about it enough.
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All these fucking bodies. All of them. On his head. 288 fucking days. 186,000 Palestinians might still be breathing if not for that fucker. That's his legacy. That's who he always was.
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Some of the best thinkers on this app fell into this trap and it's disappointing to watch while it happens.
Let’s talk about cultural translation. Part 1 | Part 2
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Your president looked at his flagging poll numbers, dissention among his own party, poor outlook for a second term, his alienated base, dead and disabled Palestinians and Muslim Americans, 30k dead bodies in Gaza, increasingly overwhelming support for a cease fire, and said...?
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Because the message internationally becomes, "If Israel can do it, why can't we?"
@BreeNewsome
Don’t Boo…Revolt!
11 months
Liberals who justify murdering Palestinians to create a Jewish ethnostste are shocked to see the aspiring autocrat of Turkey say he doesn’t want any Jews in that country. Again—how do y’all think this ends? You can’t simply dabble in autocracy & genocide to your personal liking.
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Touch grass but you got no one to touch it with you. Touch grass but be home before sundown. Touch grass but ignore the people who've made a home of the grass you touch. Touch grass but the animals are dying. Touch grass but the air is unclean.
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1 year
I was literally just explaining this about an hour ago.
Colleen Ballinger just triggered the internet’s Streisand Effect.
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Who is this?
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The way y'all don't care they are killing these babies is remarkable, to say the least. To think you still have a claim on your soul when you see Palestinians grieving over lumps of flesh that used to be their kin, and you feel nothing is the epitome of arrogance and hubris.
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1 year
This is the energy. Make democrats as afraid of you as the GOP is afraid of Trump voters.
Democrats can’t win if you get to keep your rights.
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Sorry, "new age moderately shy Republicans"
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2 years
Malcolm X woulda hit send on tweets that got the whole block shot up.
@msolurin
Olayemi Olurin
2 years
Which Black thinker/historical figure you think would’ve dragged ppl for filth if they had twitter in their time? My money is on Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston
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2 years
"turns out caring about nothing but money is bad for us"
@UberFacts
UberFacts
2 years
What will be the "turns out cigarettes are bad for us" moment of our generation? 💭
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Touch grass but take off that mask so the cameras can see you. Touch grass because tomorrow man you never know... Touch grass but don't pay the man to trim it. Touch grass because yo tweets ain't saving the world. Touch grass because they ain't reading all that.
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2 months
Sonya Massey should still be here< Sonya Massey would still be here if Democrats had not increased police spending.
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9 months
@queenie4rmnola Democracy isn't defined by the function of the vote but the industry of it. Trying to evidence democracy simply by pointing out people vote in meaningless elections every 4yra doesn't prove we are living in a functional democracy. If anything it proves the opposite.
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9 months
Your president out here tryna sell people on "Bidenomics" exactly when did you lose the plot?
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3 months
Did you lose interest in your hobbies or have u become disillusioned with capitalism and consumerist metrics or happiness? 🤔🧐😀
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1 year
Just want to add that a transaction is different from an exchange of service. I do that for you, you do that for me (consensually) is an exchange. I will do this for you and I get "something" from you later, is a transaction.
The question does not just lie in whether they helped but how and why.
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Touch grass because jobs are outside Touch grass because she's not gonna fuck you no matter how many tweets you like. Touch grass because we're tired or reading your tweets about a tweet about a tweet. Touch grass because... You're scaring us.
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That's not even statistically true, most people in prison are not there for murder, rape or abuse. Most people in prison are there for drugs and theft.
@thanks4zaire
z ☆
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“kamala locks up black men” and a majority of the black men she locked up are murders, rapist & abusers. like ok
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Dave has only been as pro-Black as it has been financially and politically expedient and beneficial. His core audience has always been white people who don't like Black people but need someone else to tell the joke so they can laugh.
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I promise you, if genocide in the global south, Cop City, homelessness, failing infrastructure etc. were all fringe issues with nil effect on voters and comprehensive polling there would not be such a concerted effort to silence, divide and isolate those who speak to those topics
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Shabazz
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When you recognize that people view Blackness as disability, you'll understand why it's so hard for white folks to envision Black folks in their social order.
@laymagdalene333
lay - CHECK PINNED🌺
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a lot of yall don’t see disabled people as part of your utopia.
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Hi everyone 👋🏿 I am still being evicted and I need your help.
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Community is about consent. People will try to gaslight you into feeling like you're asking for the world but if people don't respect your right to consent they don't respect you.
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Shabazz
2 years
I don't know why anyone defends a guy that Will Smith had to slap because he was a habitual line stepper.
@lovingheard
little miss pr parody
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Nicole Brown Simpson’s memory being one big joke as if she wasn’t literally murdered after leaving an abusive parter just shows that not even murdered victims of domestic violence get peace.
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The incoming recession isn't just going to be people losing homes and losing job opportunities. It's going to be a recession fueled by viruses and newly disabled people being forced out of the labor market. It's going to get really bad outside.
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Shabazz
7 months
They are totally unprepared for this.
@JoshuaPHilll
Read Abolish Rent
7 months
Pentagon Spokespeman Pat Ryder was asked about Aaron Bushnell. And in his answer he invokes Israel’s right to defend itself.
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It's never been about not wearing a mask; it's been about denialism, the lack of solidarity, and the dismissiveness. If those things were not so prevalent, wearing a mask wouldn't be a bare minimum.
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2 years
I don't even wish you knew what it was like to be unhoused. No one who's been through homelessness would wish it on someone else. Still, how do you get people like this to understand an experience they can't even imagine correctly?
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Shabazz
7 months
Tyranny breeds resistance, always.
@BreeNewsome
Don’t Boo…Revolt!
7 months
I have no doubt that the fight for global liberation will win in the end. It is the God-given nature of human beings to be free. No empire or oppressive system lasts very long because systems of oppression are always at odds with the natural order. People will always revolt.
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2 years
All these solutions cost money that the most vulnerable people don't have.
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3 years
I didn't have privacy as a child, so masking became a means of survival. A false impression of myself helped me to get through situations I didn't understand. When I don't mask, people are either afraid of me or pissed off.
@mykola
Myk - 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 - Here To Help
3 years
It's the penultimate day of #AutisticPrideMonth and one thing we haven't talked much about yet is masking. Dear #ActuallyAutistic friends, can you retweet this and tell us what masking means to you? #AutismAcceptanceMonth
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Shabazz
4 years
The regular season only matters when the Clippers lose; that's the new rules of NBA Twitter.
@JamCristopher
Jamal Cristopher
4 years
you can’t say dont overreact to the clippers 1st two games, the regular season don’t matter, but then act like the 3rd game of the season for the clippers is everything. pick one lol
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Retweets help but I could really use funds right now.
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A lot of y'all are looking for reasons to not care about anyone but yourselves.
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2 years
She literally thought up a race of slaves that loved being slaves.
@OnlyAWorldAway
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It costs me anywhere from 50-200% more just to eat. Inflation is harder on people with gluten, caffeine, and lactose intolerance.
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1 year
That part. People go on and on about their literary heroes and how much they are influenced by them, but it's in moments like this that you prove yourself just to be a fan of someone else's life.
@j__osman
Jamila
1 year
this generation of writers is truly bitch made. to have the gift of language and to then lift your pen to betray the palestinian cause is unforgivable. long live the cultural workers who aren't afraid that expressing solidarity will get in the way of a book deal or a byline
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@ShabazzArts
Shabazz
4 months
The sooner y'all unlearn Christofacism, the better.
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