It’s hard. Because it feels the moment I finally did it , I got every nasty rumor and horrific moment and abandonment I feared . I legit told a couple people I was close to walking off a roof “I hope you talk to a therapist…. But that doesn’t mean you can’t listen to me vent”

Most of them . It’s why DV is so correlated to racism and transphobia . And that’s across all relationships all genders

This is the part the scares me as a woman. They’re kidnapping women off the street. Throwing them in vans. Doing god knows what to them.

I love the fantasies I sometimes hear people say about me … like I don’t have all the messages/ emails etc of them basically ghosting when I ask a direct question or issuing ultimatums and being furious when I accept the conditions

Aww are you being ghosted by the purported left and even intimates who basically only see you as a “platform machine” while disrespecting your experience But no one actually talks to you ?

Like oh wow yeah you mean after the election of a Republican under the guise of fairness .. z people just okayed the mass hunting of Black immigrants and many while claiming to be Allie’s , try to erase and copy you at the same time ?!?

I’m just .. is it alright to say I’m triggered and emotionally for me it feels like another instance where people don’t get it AND point where it feels uncouth to talk about myself But immigration , Blackness, trauma and history are WHY I STARTED BLOGGING

It was always race .immigration and race were always connected . It was always gonna focus on working class Black people

The man has been in for a month .. where’d he get that deficit… be clear

I'd like to highlight the part where he warns that expectations should be tempered by the fact that Adams blew the budget for years Running up deficits is something GOP presidents also do. They use the $ to beef up the security state, enrich their cronies, AND hobble future Dem administrations

I had a really good convo about the failures of historiography and like I’m so happy about that even in hell

My non professional tip for adding Alt Text to an image is to pretend you want to show me something on your screen and you yell "Arnica, come see this!" And I reply "Babe, I'm frying you homemade donuts, can you just DESCRIBE it to me?" Whatever you would holler to me is the Alt text!

U.S. citizen, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor's appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she was brutalized by #ICE on Tuesday. "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled," she said. Read what happened next. ⬇️

27 lines down from "all men are created equal" Natives are called "merciless Indian savages" in the declaration of independence. The so called united states showed everyone exactly what it was before it even became a nation. If you're surprised by what is going on now you haven't been listening.

I think people should read my blog about politics instead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/how-american...

I have to keep reminding myself I have been through a lot and I’m not behind for the year But I’m always going through a lot so maybe I need to adapt

We all saw this coming: first-world countries refusing to accept climate refugees, despite being responsible for the environmental destruction through fossil fuel extraction, and allowing uninformed debates by some fascist who knows nothing about the subject.

Thank you . People hate the idea of this because it means that them being bystanders actually has consequences

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Ma’am we’ve been here for 400 years. This ain’t new.

Caribbean Studies is so vital to the technological critique is because the last large networking of places and people. WENT THROUGH THESE POINTS The same models it took to build empires empires are what is being used for tech ones And THAT IS HOW I GOT HERE

“Listen to Black Women” was treated and is sometimes used as a identity cry But it is also just a good systemic metric , in a world that’s deeply hierarchical but often lying about it Listening to the lowest ranked sub group that can contain most of the others is just SMART

“ they’re just so upset you left , you could have handled that better they need closure” Or “ well they didn’t make you give all that up. So you’ve gotta understand how much it hurts them that you left over it”

it’s the sucky pundits it’s also the pass agressive manipulative mom who “hates talking politics” but lets everyone pick on one kid It’s the communal narcissist who is always doing “so much” but never actually follows through without a camera They NEED the scapegoats and their losing them

And some of it is the larger isms, schisms But most of it across the political spectrum is .. control and power Yes victims learn the power of language and discourse , so do smaller level abusers ….. And my goodness those relationships are CRUMBLING

The pundits are looking for an acceptable trauma dump , an acceptable mule, without saying the words They want to use the animosity to make sure no one allows the icky icky browns to come back They wanna prove that the measurable power we felt in 2014-2020 never happens again

We talk a lot abut “narcissism” and. With this administration well But we don’t discuss family systems, publicly. We don’t discuss that when the main abuser / disruptive personality goes off the people around beg the main target to stay to maintain the status quo And our pundits love that

They mean to. the best thing we can do is treat them like they mean what they say. They are not confused

He published this while a major city is under siege and shooting civilians in the face “He wouldn’t hit you if you didn’t make him mad!!!”

Again we’re not actively rising to the level of 2020 resistance or clarity because for many people ? It is more important that they be in control of the rubble pile . Than safety or actual function

Gretchen is in Minneapolis…. They are just grabbing. Brown people apparently

The urge to write romantic fem dom personal and start flirting online for inspiration

I’m like six genres in one , and Russ Meyer was in charge of casting

We need more people who look like somebody was really really happy to have the sex that made them

I am too ugly for Raya but I really need a dating service that has a floor bar of “ has something to lose “ Too much of dating is populated by people who don’t like their lives enough to not be careless trying to destroy yours

I feel like I’m trapped in the worst group during the worst section of AP EURO

What if … when they got granted power Leaders did what they said they would and took their elections like mandates for policy What if you treated governance like a chance to govern And make public institutions work for the public good of ALL?

Again I think VA could be a model for the nation, a purple state where Dems aren’t afraid to use power and where bad actors are removed from power, instead of keeping them there to protect conservative feelings

And politicians have to be willing to use their power to fight political repression so that those elections can matter

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

We’re in the second half of January yall

“Like, it was the most miserable day of my whole life. But I would do it again because I think that people need to know how evil ICE is and that this is happening." www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-tran...

A wide-ranging UC San Francisco study found that sky-high rents are forcing people into homeless. Middle- and working-class tenants need urgent help. They need rent control.

I’m a vengeful and angry god and a worse auntie . I want -release of Epstein files - comprehensive tax on Billionaires - locked in funding for arts and sciences - DEI guidelines - expand the Supreme Court . Roberts can never occur again

Oh this looks like an actual stance

Mood.

At some point we will have to admit that charm has shifted and a lot of what passes for charm now is just performing validation of class / caste

Translation: I just really really hated having to deal with non white people with deeper intellectual benches . And the “anti woke” folks were so NICE…. so I was willing to frame this however because access

This is the current media landscape-believe what the right says about free speech and anti-cancel culture no matter what the evidence and then act surprised when it turns out to be right-wing grift. White supremacy can be whatever it wants to be and cannot be questioned.

Imma take this as being protected from somebody mad