Happy Black History Month 🖤🤎

We are under occupation in a fascist regime. There is no argument.

Me: unchecks the option for businesses to send me emails. Businesses: proceeds to send me a million emails anyway.

Having to be constantly the bigger person is how we partially ended up in this political situation imo

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

I've given up resolutions long ago but a practice I continue is choosing three words to embody the year. 2025's words were: intention, audacity, and alignment. Boy were they embodied BIG time! 2026's words are: insight, integrity, and opportunity. Looking forward to see how they unfold for me.

My house is getting the clean down of a lifetime.

So let me get this straight ... on CHRIST-mas, we’re bombing Nigeria to prove that Christianity > Islam. And all of this is to make AMERICA great again? I must be in a fever dream cuz aint no way this makes sense to any person with at least one brain cell.

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Today’s Therapy Thursday consisted of me doing my session while taking my braids down.

Is Iyanla still fixing lives? Asking for myself.

People forget that when you’re part of their story, you’re a narrator too. You get to say your part.

Anybody ever find that place where ain’t no smiling faces lyin to the races? 🤔 I’d like to go.

What do people have against coats?

I hate when people say “I’m not an optimist. I’m a realist” like it’s a flex. What is optimism if not analyzing the realities of the world and deciding that it’s possible for better to exist.

Good Morning to Detroit, Virginia, California, New Jersey, and a special sabah al khayr to Mayor Mamdani ☀️

The margins were close and we have a lot of work today but finally I feel the hope again.

WE DID IT, ZO 🥹💙

JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

This was a good day from beginning to end 💙💙

them: “where do you see yourself in five years?” me: “unless things change drastically, probably still in the mirror, or in photographs”

The news isn’t exactly bad today 🤭

I promise “trending” makes everything so boring. Everyone talking about the same things, with the same songs, and the same cringy dancing. It’s giving mindless.

New NYC mayoral poll from Marist, conducted Oct. 24-28, with 4.2% margin of error: maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/nyc-ma... Zohran Mamdani - 48% Andrew Cuomo - 32% Curtis Sliwa - 16%

Reading Rainbow x Blue's Clues #timelinecleanse #levarburton #steveburns

If you’re in the Baltimore area, and need to cut food costs, there’s a program run by Catholic Charities called Share Food. It’s basically a bulk buying & volunteer packing community that gets you a 50% discount on groceries. I used the Denver version for years, and never saw any proselytizing.

I’m a person that listens to global genres and my friends and colleagues know this about me. So recently a colleague from Pakistan invited me to check out “coke studio” music. I love it. But also these artists are rapping in English! Our influence is undeniable. Hip hop, you are truly that girl!

Did anyone in the media ask why the president got an MRI and took a cognitive test recently?????? ANYONE????????!?!!?!?!?!?!

When children were hungry, we made The People’s Free Food Program. When the hospitals left us neglected, the Young Lords took it over & demanded change. When the schools ignored our history, we had Freedom Schools. These are not unprecedented times. It’s a return to relationship w/community.

I hate when people get their fear all over me. Ugh. Wipe that shit off. We got things to do.

"How did people survive before______" friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps

Ppl who don’t care about kids being shot in school certainly won’t care if they’re being fed. Maybe if we shoved SNAP benefits up a uterus the pro lifers would care

$40 billion to Argentina $200 million on a ballroom 🙄 $7.25 minimum wage And NO SNAP BENEFITS TO FEED KIDS. Children being shot in schools wasn’t enough. Now we’re going to starve them. I’m not OK with this. I’m never going to be OK with this.

The bots are getting more and more sophisticated and they are targeting Black people in order to surveil and discredit. These apps are not safe spaces

Let me get this straight … they want women to be a trad wife/a stay at home mom, buy a home with a yard but only will pay $7.25 an hour to the one working spouse be able to do all that. This math isn’t algebra.

The same country that wants to pay people $5000 to have babies but won’t raise federal minimum wage to afford to keep them alive!

Also while we’re talking about it, federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. I don’t care what state you live in. There’s no way to raise a family anywhere in this country on $7.25. You want to degrade people on SNAP but the govt doesn’t mandate that jobs pay them enough to not need it!

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

When I mention concern over the loss of SNAP benefits and the person I’m in conversation with immediately mentions how “those ppl aren’t supposed to stay on food stamps forever”, immediately I want to give out a number to a therapist. Bc I’m discussing community and you’re arguing from resentment.

Essex County, NJ! Early voting begins TODAY.

But no donation to cover SNAP?? None for healthcare?? Yet we find money for the military?🙃

My mistake was thinking that because we all had access to the same books … that y’all read them.

Just discovered a new covid side effect: Guillain-Barré syndrome. My aunt was never the same after having covid. Five years later, we discover she’s been battling Guillain-Barré triggered by the virus. Protect yourself. Wear your masks. Covid is not “just like the flu”.

Agreed. The only soda like drink Ummi would let us have.

Also I cannot emphasize enough that this is medication. If they can give it away for free, then they could always have given it away for free. Sounding a lot like … UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.

Influencers are doing free GLP1 giveaways … FREE?! Y’all, this is a medication that pharmaceutical companies are giving away for free via influencers. Idk about you but I’m old enough to remember when pharma girls were pushing OxyContin and look where that got us. We’re living in a dystopia.

We're willingly and consensually part of a large consumer study on addiction and all this research goes into how to make these devices more addictive. The more we look down at the phone, the less we're looking up at what's happening. Anyway ... happy scrolling!

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day I hope all colonizers rot in hell.

Many countries sent ships with aide over to Gaza. Millions called out the UN. Thousands refused to trade arms. Worldwide we protested & denounced the atrocities of the genocide for nearly two years to make this happen. Don’t give credit to that orange man no matter what that blue man says.