Re-upping this piece from @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur 🥀

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Escalator-gate, all because it never occurred to him to back up and walk to the next one over that was working.

He's not the brains of this operation. He can't even maintain a straight thought for 7 minutes, but Stephen Miller can.

Phang: Trump can get up and be an absolute fucking embarrassment and humiliate our country by saying the dumbest lies in front of the UN… and others can get up and say horrific things about people, and they can have free speech. But we can’t? That’s not how the First Amendment works.

Watching Trump give this UN speech, the world thinks America has lost its mind. I do too.

They really didn't think this through.

A third of Americans are loving this. A third is horrified, and the remaining third is checked out. That's how we got here and that's why we are staying here. So, no, two-thirds aren't seeing how embarrassing this is.

The world leader group chat must be on fire today.

Agreed. W is somewhere kicked back painting. Seems he should be doing something. Given the Christian Nationalism going on, the white guy should do something. Not the Black folks.

People demanding things of Harris or even Obama. Where are your demands of Bill, Hilary, or W. There are two other living presidents here and the other woman America rejected.

Kamala Harris told us a second Trump term would be dangerous. She said he would want vengeance. A lot of people said there was no difference between her and him and either didn't vote or voted for Jill, Cornel, or the tooth fairy. She owes us nothing. We were the dummies who gave up.

Why should she have done that? Seems the American people weren't interested in what she was selling. People either sat out the election or voted for that guy. People made their choice. I didn't love her, but I voted for her because I understood that a second Trump term wouldn't be good.

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One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

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An executive order against antifa, all those people and not one clue.

After watching the memorial service, yeah, Christian nationalism is really here.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Genocide is a policy, carried out by starting with those deemed socially acceptable to target, then expanding that scope to include those in any position of influence to oppose it. bsky.app/profile/thet...

You can hear from Chicago organizers here.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I'm old enough to remember when countless Black folks were killed, and they were mocked. Videos of their violent deaths played on an endless loop.

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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Notice how everybody telling you to put your name on some papers circulated by GOD KNOWS WHO are all white folks. Do not sign anything. Do not put your name on ANYTHING y’all. You dont know where its going. See a flier? Show up. Dont sign NOTHING

I feel this more and more. We are 8 months in, and white people still can't believe what's happening. Marginalized people and POC are telling you it's getting worse, and you just want to go to the next protest or call your Congressional delegation.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do

In less than a week, they destroyed evidence? Um, ok.

The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.

Over on Twitter X, Candace is telling a story that sounds interesting. No. Not repeating it. But you can look on her feed over there.

Last week, my brother called me and asked me to be careful about what I publicly posted about the dead guy. I thought he was overreacting, but seeing what's happening, he wasn't. Things have changed.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Hate hearing this and also not surprised given the climate.

Given the current climate, now more than ever, those with privilege who can afford to lose a job need to speak out. Those who are better positioned to weather attacks need to do more.

Black women have been essential to building up democracy through the free press, I write about how in my upcoming book Whether that’s through Black owned/mainstream newspapers, magazines, radio & TV, or as freelancers. When we are being silenced, it WILL blow back on EVERYONE at some point

The thought police are alive and well. Stay safe and mind your keyboard, that's all I got.

The difficulty in holding down a job in corporate media while Black is that you're paid to speak, but you can be fired whenever a rich white man doesn't like what you say. And the real problem with that is that the rich white fucks make up different rules for what you're allowed to say every day.

JB Pritzker: “We cannot rely on President Trump to tamp down the anger and the passion in the aftermath of political violence. Instead, he actively fans the flames of division, regularly advocates violence for political retribution, and declares we are at war with each other”

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

We are literally paying for the fact that he was that weird kid who no one liked. Therapy, man.

Right-wing activists are targeting teachers, workers for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.

This whole thread! and the one thing I would add to it is that there’s “things they will use against us” and then there’s being personally targeted and actually there’s nothing wrong with being thoughtful about whether saying/doing something is worth the fall out for you, the individual

It needs to be pointed out that Elon Musk does not live in the UK, he is not a citizen of that country, and his opinions on its politics can only relate to his pecuniary interests. And he’s calling for their government to be overthrown because he’s acquired enough money that he can do it on his own.

Started my week receiving a threat due to my work, then that man died, and the world lost its collective mind. I feel like I'm on some weird inescapable acid trip. Where upside down is the new norm. Words used to have meaning.