I have so many song lyrics to fit almost any occasion. Same as it ever was (Talking Heads) - to describe most things happening rn in this country Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me (RATM) - and answer to this fascist regime and anyone who thinks they can run me

If your thinking, theorizing, scholarship, politics, and public writing doesn’t include Black and Indigenous people, I think you should stfu. Cuz all you’re doing is centering whiteness as the norm. There are and have always been 2 Americas. 1 half knows what’s up, the other lives in fugue state

I’m glad people are recording these violent assaults. It didn’t need to be this way. This is what MAGA voters, third party voters, and non-voters supported.

I’d say, take a look at the sandwich trial today. If the guy had been Black, what do you think the outcome of that trial would have been? Hell, do you even believe he’d have made it alive to trial?

If you study Black history, you know this country only became a “democracy” with the VRA in 1965, making me among the first gen of Black folx born with the right to vote. But tests, suppression, poll purging, gerrymandering, and more kept many ancestors from voting and prevent many 2day.

Seeing the news today. AI is going about as well as expected. When exactly can we pull the plug on this disastrous tech? Now would be good.

Non-Black people, especially white people: it’s time to retire the use of “the Blacks”. That’s a racist way to discuss Black people. Other ways of saying it: Black people Black folx The Black electorate Black voters Black heroes Black veterans Black humans Black blokes Black chaps Black mortals

When I say the GOP is trying to ethnically cleanse so many of us, this is one example. JFC. Repro health should be between a womxn and their doctors and anyone the womxn they themselves choose, not politicians (mostly men who couldn’t find a clitoris if is smacked them in the face).

I feel like I should feel sad that his criminal syndicate keeps weekend at Bernie’s-ing him. Pretty sure he had a stroke in Sept. and it’s clear he has dementia (at least from my experience loving people with that disease). But I don’t. I wish him the most uncomfortable process of aging and death.

This is good. AND let us remember that enslavers we’re in Congress through ~1915, segregationists through the ~1990s, the descendants of both are still in Congress, the KKK ran and got elected to office at state and national levels through - idk when, has that stopped or just changed masks?

Made it to the polls almost by the skin of my teeth. My kid picked me up from the train station and we went right to the polls. I brought my emergency pocket Obama with us. The family that votes together…not sure how to finish that, but basically we’re some cool kids getting our vote on.

This white on white violence is getting out of hand. Idk even know who to root for. Jk. I’m rooting for the complete and utter demise of both hate groups. Let’s see how it goes.

It’s really something to watch groups that earned their rights on the backs of ADOS freedom movements play purity politics, demanding their needs be met or they’ll work to tank any potential prez candidate who who doesn’t address their issue in full out the gate.

I’m going to say again - focus on corporations. Buy from locally owned small businesses. Buy from Black owned, Indigenous owned, woman owned, or LGBT owned businesses. And we should be shifting our buying power to these small businesses every day besides this small window.

Idk about anyone else but I’m seeing this as a harbinger for things to come (besides the sheer disgusting grift and corruption of it all). This is more than unusual. I think it also tells us they know they are widely reviled. Is this their form of doomsday prepping? Planning civil war 2.0?

A good thread if you’re freaking out about “a possible 3rd term”. The 22A is sound, clear, and firm. There is no way around it. But please don’t take it from me, take it from an actual legal expert.

JFC. I’d forgotten about LIHEAP. Idk why, I once needed all these services to survive. Ethnic cleansing. I’m telling ya. In a year or two when we’re deep in it, remember I said it. FUCK! These fucking monsters won’t be happy until we all die the most miserable deaths. And they’ll ensure we do.

But, will Delta ask to speak with the manager?

I’m thinking with everything we’ve seen and experienced these last 10 months or so, it is safe to say our government is creating/has created the conditions for ethnic cleansing and genocide. Instead they prefer to protect affluent pedophiles, insurrectionists, white terrorists, and criminals.

When people say white people could stop what’s happening right now any time, here’s one possibility. Cuz I’m sure when Walmart’s bottom line is hit, the Waltons will ask to speak with the manager.

Ferdinand’s hot fudge sundae for Monday brunch. When in Pullman, one must swing by the WSU campus and get the best ice cream in the universe. And GO COUGS! 🐾

Gotta say of all the hypocrisy of the racist lying GOP, bodily autonomy is one that really pisses me off. Like, it’s not hard to mind your own biz. People with small lives have too much time of their hands to concern themselves with what others are doing. The tiny little meaningless lives.

There are so many things I could say; I’ll only say 2. One of the biggest lies is that we can leave our personal beliefs at the door when we enter the office. That wrong minded thinking causes racism and sexism and all other isms to run rampant in work places, causing significant harm to others.

I’d like some tech whiz to create an app to disable AI from my technology. That would be a service to humanity.

This would be comical if D’Souza wasn’t the guy who amplified and gave the illusion that his racism was backed by scholarship and academic rigor. So, he FAFO what his community that he’s been caping for really thinks about him.

If ya know me, you KNOW that I walk my talk on this one issue with a hyper focus: BUY BLACK. If we want to shift course in this country, we have to shift our buying power from white owned and controlled corporations as much as is possible. This is a good idea AND we need long term vision.

Idk if they’re losing the messaging war but I will say that the playbook they’re playing from and the rhetoric they’re using is as old as white people colonizing these lands. Their propaganda machine works because it the propaganda machine that has always been used in this country.

Visiting the Cape Coast slave dungeons in Ghana, I was struck by how the church sat atop the male dungeons. To enter the church, people had to first walk by a trap door (~2’x2’) that opened up to the dungeons. People see the human suffering, pray to their god w/ the cries of human suffering.

I keep saying, never in the entire history of this country, or the roughly 60-years of Black people being able to vote in this country, have we EVER had a prez candidate that wasn’t some level of anti-Black. And still, we ALWAYS overwhelmingly vote for the lesser of two evils. Self protection.

I bet many of the guys who become cops, ICE, or even join the military have an image of themselves as Rocky, Rambo, the Terminator, or whatever. Most of us have over-inflated sense of self in some way. The Rocky/Rambo fantasies of self are actually toxic to the body politic.

Why the hell are people protesting at Kamala Harris’ book tour stops? And why are some of them screaming for her to do something? First, what the hell is actually wrong with you? 2, you are aware she’s a private citizen like you or I now, right? 3, you’re showing your whole anti-Black ass rn.

This is also an excellent example of what Ancestor Zora Neale Hurston said, “all my skin folk, ain’t my kin folk”. And for anyone confused as to why a brown guy is doing this, I seriously hope you read Paola Ramos’ book, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America

Just putting this here for Monday.

Men, are you okay! I mean, most of y’all don’t even know how women’s bodies work at all. And now, some of y’all are betting on WNBA players’ periods? WTAF is wrong with you? 🤦🏾‍♀️ Bunch of sick mothafuckas.

So, protest/resistance music. I started a thread that I’ll add to (hopefully) of metal protest/resistance music. There are so many excellent protest songs, across generations and genres. This 🧵 is country, cuz I’ve heard a few bangers recently. youtu.be/qtt-DhGs89w?...

This probably made me happier than it should. In the dictionary, they could just use Drake’s image to illustrate the word ‘loser’. Anyways, back to the drudgery of everything sucking all at one, all the time. Find joy where you can.

I was raised by hippies, so protest/resistance music is kinda one of my special interests. I’ve been thinking of creating a protest/resistance music thread. Don’t know how committed I am to that, so I’ll see how it goes. For now, here’s one of my faves. youtu.be/zpc-xJwXmyw?...

Learning only becomes knowledge through action. What have you learned in the last decade or so that you have put into action? How so?

Black issues are human rights issues. Black issues are NOT niche issues. We’ve fought for the rights and liberties of every single group. Every one. While I’m concerned for everybody, my energy, talents, and focus are centered on Black people and our full liberation, across every intersectionality

Omg! The egret came back to our little pond! I’m so excited. And the heron was there too. He stalked the egret for a quick minute, then they both went to their sides of the pond. Gorgeous birds.

This seems/feels hopeful, like a good convo starter. If you’ve been to Ghana, Senegal, or other nations that still have the slave castles, I would also argue that the nations that built and used them should have to maintain them as world heritage sites in perpetuity.

This is the way. WA and OR, pay attention.

This is real and absolutely hysterical. Portland, keeping it weird. Can’t wait to see how this turns out. I’m rooting for you Portlandia! ✊🏽🚲😂😂😂😂😂😂 This is really putting your bodies on the line!

If you’re thinking through this moment, your resistance, and your commitment to democracy , I highly recommend reading The Movement Made Us by David Dennis Jr. & Sr. It, like few other books, captures the personal toll the CRM took on one person

This is the only LLM I’ve ever needed or wanted. Need and want are doing a LOT of heavy lifting here as I know the colonial background of Merrimack-Webster. But I’m stuck in the English language, so this is what I work with. For now.

I vaguely recall a report (believe it was FBI, can’t remember that deep, probably read about it in the NYT) about 20 some years ago where the FBI was warning about white supremacists infiltrating the military. Anyways, not much to see here - another day in Amerikkka, another mass shooting,

I’ve been many of these most of my life and my family has a long tradition of being some of these things. My great grandpa said, “I belong to the church of the round order, so the devil can’t corner me.” It was his way of dealing with the religious zealots in our fam. Cuz we never were religious.

Please be on the look out.

Watching Sinners again and caught plantation money (missed it last time). Anyone know if this closed economic plantation system was the precursor to company towns and stores in coal country? #AcademicSky

Rest in power, Queen. Now you ascend to ancestor.