Human beings are so much more than 'careers,'man. This is amazing. 😭😭

We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here

Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, today: a massive protest outside the U.S. embassy against the sale/occupation of Greenland by the United States

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

Let me lose my cool for a bit. This shit is so insulting; I grew up next to an interstate (which contributed to my asthma) and under a La Guardia flight path. Amadou Diallo was killed by my local police precinct. And none of this bullshit resonates with me at all. This is so fucking condescending.

In a stunning development, Denmark's streets explode into anti-American rage as thousands flood Copenhagen's City Hall Square, waving Danish and Greenlandic flags in a massive "Hands Off Greenland" showdown. Protesters scream "Greenland is NOT FOR SALE!" #cdnpoli

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I have lived it. Not just seen it, but I've BEEN there. People get so fuckin dense. Like how do you recognize that people's incomes are too low, credit is a scam, it can be difficult and expensive to find an apartment... but everyone w a job automatically has a place to live?

i've lost irreplaceable belongings in a storage unit i could no longer pay for and i can't begin to describe the pain that still lingers from that, after 17 years. please don't let this happen to Clarkisha and her sister. share and pitch in if you can cash.app/$ClarkishaKent

Feel helpless in the face of all this BS? Have a little extra to help? Do what you can and if you can’t share and ask your oomfs to help. We need each other right now. so bad

I used the volunteer at homeless shelters were the residents worked up to 38 hours per week doing manual labor. Many employers didn’t want them working 40 hours a week regularly, because then they’d have to offer benefits.

I can't help, but I'm boosting the signal because others might be able to.

There's another category I refer to as "soft homeless" where you technically have somewhere to live, but are not in control of your ability to stay. You're roommates, but your home is a friend's couch, a sibling's spare room, or even a bad relationship you want to leave but have nowhere to go.

Working homeless are the community Roddy Piper's character is among in "They Live," a movie from 1988.

25% of the homeless work full time. Another 10% work part time. They don’t earn enough to afford a place to live. A third are disabled, also not getting enough to afford a place to live. Affordability is a problem.

Documentary about a local tiny house village. I've volunteered there only twice. Not only did most members work at least one job, they also had to put in hours at the self-governed camp.

Boosting

#HelpSky 💸💖

I've known Clarkisha for almost a decade now. She's a tremendous writer and one of the smartest folks I know. My reach isn't the widest, but if you've got cash and can help her out, it would mean a lot to me if you did.

please help clarkisha out of a nasty jam!

Please help this family.

Hey y’all. So. We are in an urgent and difficult situation. We have a storage locker for our belongings, but we can no longer keep up with the payments and have fallen behind. If we’re unable to cover the full $750 balance, everything in it will be lost in 2 days. cash.app/$ClarkishaKent

“The working homeless” is not a myth. They want us to be invisible so they don’t have to answer for what this capitalistic hellscape is doing to us all. It’s real. We exist. We’re a growing class of people (which is why folks want to look away). And I’ll never be quiet about it.

During this crisis, the connection to my community has never been more important. Thank you all for rallying to support the Twin Cities and Minnesota. Your words and actions mean everything that me.

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

Breaking News! Code Yikes! In case you missed the news, as of January 17th, Arctic sea-ice extent once again dipped to a new record daily low, over 50,000 km² below the previous record daily low set just last year. The Climate 8-Ball says, "Il est déjà trop tard."

This is nucking futs! www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

whistles can’t work everywhere. some communities find they increase fear. and before they can be used, people have to be educated about what they mean. enough people have to have them, and know how to respond. and places have to be dense enough that there are enough people to come ASAP.

Also, if anyone can direct me to a feminist reading of the anti-colonial movement in the period that Getachew and @hofrench.bsky.social focus on, I'd appreciate it. I'm looking for both critiques of the male-dominated intellectual corpus and works that restore women into the historical record.

I want to read more books by african intellectuals and decolonization. Any recommendations? Paging @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and others! #booksky

YES and this is why feel convicted to lean into the BLACK DIASPORA this year specifically. Our fates are linked. Even amidst the chaos, Black people think outside of the box, create without limits, and imagine worlds where we are free (which by extension unlocks freedom for everyone else).

I’m reading @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI and I recommend it to everyone who wants to understand the modern world. ChatGPT has no goddamn place in a sustainable world.

I understand that white people aren’t going to do shit to fix the mess yall caused but yell at others while thinking it make you a hero and that’s as close as I want to get to that cluster fuck.

And the fact that they think focusing on OUR community and not the national mess they created is doing nothing! 🤔

📚💙 request!!! Please tell me your favorite *fiction* that narrates *Black* life during the Civil Rights Movement era 🙏🏽

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

SPPOOOSSSHHH... PHHHFFFFFFF... SSSSSSHHHHHHHH... To paraphrase Bob Ross, you have to make the noises when looking at #paleoart, otherwise it doesn't work. 2018 illustration of giant Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, surfacing in waters that once covered Nevada. #art #fossil #paleontology #sciart

clarifying though about one of the goals

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

White folks. Watch this. Twice if you have to. And don’t just listen to her. Understand what it is she is saying.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Biden would not have won without the movement for Black lives protests etc... PERIOD. There is EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE about this. I am sick of the bullshit.

I hate when people say "this is not how we do things in this country" in response to ... things we are doing in this country.

One lone dude punks four Larper Nazi ICE agents. He walks them down, curses them out, and repeatedly calls them "certified bitches" as they scamper off with their tails between their legs. They act scared, are obviously not trained well, and have no idea what to do.

This. It's OK if your writing doesn't save lives. It's OK if your writing only saves you.