What's the tipping point between a protest and pep rally?

Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe! Take a walk or a ride on those western streets, join in the fun, and keep an eye out for ICE. You know what to do.

shunning is a useful choice

"When we are so hyper-focused on who should be doing the job, instead of who’s actually doing it, we miss the opportunity to have some really rich connections with people." Nedra Glover Tawwab

A poem for insomnia: The ceiling hums with hours, a few ticks to midnight Your sky is breaking in pale fire. I trace the shape of your name in darkness, a tide pulling east If I could unspool this restless night, I’d knot it gently to your morning light— joyful in a shared horizon.

"Pan-African feminism has always been rooted in solidarity with colonized peoples of the world, not their oppressors". africanfeminism.com/my-withdrawa...

Tune in to this week's newsletter! Scholarly Sources with Laurian Bowles | Fast 5: Art & War with Christopher C. Gorham | Meet A Host with Jenna Pittman @drlaurian.bsky.social www.christophercgorham.com scholars.duke.edu/person/Jenna... newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/headstrong...

Let’s give a round of applause for Ideas on Fire author Laurian Bowles @drlaurian.bsky.social on the release of Headstrong: ­Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra! 🥳 It’s out now from @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282465... #IoFAuthors

University for Development Studies (Ghana) becomes first African university to reach Universities World Cup quarterfinals with 4-1 win over Spain’s Ramon Llull www.gbcghanaonline.com/sports/uds-s...

I have been Facebook free for 15 years

It's always been the bulk bins. From the Home Economist, the Healthy Home Market to Fresh Fields to Sprouts Farmer's Market. Bulk bins keep me and my p-touch in a happy place.

She calls herself a radical but is conflict avoidant 🤔

"And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know...1/2

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"The essay is a razor-sharp critique of intellectuals who, by assuming the roles of “experts” and technocrats for the state, abandon all moral, ethical, and historical judgment in order to advance ruling class interests and U.S. hegemony" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

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No one won the Powerball again last night

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A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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"We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)

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Self love is making boundaries & stepping away from a connection with someone who isn’t choosing you.

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i will never forgive the western journalists who stood by silently or helped enable the killing of their Palestinian colleagues. they covered their own genocide in Gaza while you attended awards ceremonies & cocktail parties. nothing is worth such a betrayal of conscience

New Spike Lee Joint, Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky drops on Friday & there has been spectacularly little press and promotion. www.fandango.com/highest-2-lo...

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"the horror in Sudan is an alarming indication of how far the UAE will go in securing its overseas farmland interests" grain.org/en/article/7...

'Never mind that numerous global institutions, ranging from various United Nations bodies to Amnesty International, have determined that Israel is committing just that. These are organisations that hardly throw the G-word around lightly" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

They really did publish this opinion.

"But the real issue here isn’t the Charleston council’s final decision to just make the whole problem go away. Instead, it’s the fact that the public never got to witness and hear a real debate about this deeply controversial question in open session."

After spending time with some of my family I want to give myself an affirmation I'm really really proud of my emotional growth as a person who really works to be open, self aware and in recovery from avoidant attachments

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