One of the most disappointing aspects of BLM the large-scale movement was that the org which is largely a small group of disorganized, reflectively, money hungry people, got conflated with the movement and therefore thwarted its momentum.

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

I have something controversial to say that’s been brewing in my spirit. But I realize now that when people in power doing horrible things realize the horrible things they’re doing is unpopular they have to create a boogeyman—something for people to coalesce around fearing as a distraction.

A new SCOTUS term begins today. What fresh hell awaits our flailing democracy this time around?🧵

"These mf are crazy" - @kamalaharris.com

The scariest part of this is that age gap. Idk… I know 18 year olds are adults but having lived life I cannot see myself having anything in common with anyone with “teen” still in their age.

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I feel her cuz even Za noticed I curse now. This moment is so crazy and has shattered so many norms, cursing on social is on the table, cuz sometimes things are so wild only a curse word encapsulates it. 🤣

9pm is so generous. How about 2 days later.

I got a trainer about 5 weeks ago, and I’m inspired by how strong he thinks I am, and then how I am able to do everything he gives me. Today he made me do 60lb goblet squats, and 220lb leg presses. And woo! I really thought nothing more than 20lbs in my hands and 100lbs for my legs lol.

This is what happens when we accept cruelty as something that just happens to *those* people who I convince myself *deserve* it. This is years in the making emboldened by the ongoing dismissiveness of the state’s cruelty to poor black people—even by centrists and “liberals”

It was 81 degrees today in NE and I’m not complaining. My daughter decided to photograph me and now I have my favorite picture! 🥰

One of my favorite things is when Za tells me she wants to talk. And not really because she has anything in particular to say, but just that she likes talking to me. She’ll come lay with me and we talk about every and anything, and her desire to detach and talk warms me up.

Za calls Ms Houston the diva version of Ms Rachel and it makes me giggle.

“Were pulled” is just fucking outrageous! Who did the pulling???? Why?? What in the passive hell?

I’m so very happy to say I been way ahead of the curve. Taylor’s music is like unseasoned white rice and chicken breast. Always been that way—she gets going with a good melody occasionally (I.e., I Knew You Were Trouble) but her meteoric fame far surpasses the quality of her discography.

The way I be forgetting my car needs maintenance. Hundreds of dollars later 🤦🏾‍♀️ after going in for just an oil change.

I’ve been quiet on here because I just genuinely cannot do this for work and in my very little free time I have. I cannot sit in my loneliness and this world’s problems all the time. I feel myself sinking into depression. And I been doing everything to keep my nose out the water.

Which is what Black people have been saying about law enforcement for centuries. No one listened though. Now here we are.

Double Dutch is honestly so cool. It wasn’t a thing back home, I wish it was!

Him was not my kinda party at all. A complete miss. I want my money back.

The deep levels of inequity we accepted. How easy it was for folks to deny the effects of what chattel slavery and racism was doing to people in this country. How unequal and vastly different our eduction system is/was. The “money rules everything” embedded in everything The signs were there.

I think this but almost backwards. That the people putting the country under heat genuinely think they are standing up for America. Better said, how did we get to such vastly different concepts of things like “free speech” “democracy” and “freedom” It makes it hard for anyone to do anything!

I hate to say it but I do not get the rapture jokes. Someone, be kind and tell me what I missed

This is such a great question. I’ve been best friends with my bestie since 9th grade—we’ve gone through 22 years of life together. She shows up, we talk almost everyday like the beginning—aka she makes time, she’s smart, savvy, honest and is the best host!

Untold Stories by Buju is the ultimate song of the working class. I hope I forever feel it to my soul! Played such an important role in my class consciousness. One of my favorite songs ever made. open.spotify.com/track/57m9RM...

Feels apt to play today while meal prepping 😝 open.spotify.com/track/3kXoKl...

Every Sunday I take deep breaths around this time because once I wake up Monday morning it’s a sprint until Friday. It’s just go go go go.

Ohhhhh 🥹🥹🥹 precocious lil black girls are literally my favorite category of humans.

This gentle parenting advocate I follow been doing the Lord’s work for about a week. She talked about talking to her kids about Charlie Kirk, and the vitriol she got—even as she was sooo respectful and patient. I genuinely admire the way she teaches. These screenshots were today after reflecting

Anyway! It’s Cardi B day! I am so excited to listen to this album and the energy on the intro song is bringing the BX in me alive. 😭😭😭 I really try hard to let the BX girl in me rest, but…..

I listened to the Ezra Klein and Ben Shapiro interview. A couple things. I realize why centrism is pushed my typically white middle class people. Their life is shielded from the worst of these policies. They can only ideate and hypothesize about what policies do to certain groups of people

It’s the routines that make me not fall apart. I’m actually less routine oriented when things are normal (or at least more willing to break them).

Never seen this version. The way this song always hits, though? Uugh. So good.

Socafying Adele is my kinda carrying on. This was so pleasing to my spirit lol. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJhvK2D/

I wish I had a 100 jobs to offer. But I only have one. The human in me understands the job search struggle. The hiring manager in me is like, I need to figure out not to have a bleeding heart for every candidate.

I would love to go the rest of my life never meeting anyone who thought Dame Dash was right or spoke facts on the Breakfast Club interview. These are two distinct sets of people and I’d like to only be in the company of 1 group—people who found him completely insufferable.

This week has taught me that grown adults need the to revisit the difference between Celebration vs apathy Free speech vs hate speech Empathy vs compassion And a refresher on how free speech does not come with guaranteed acceptance, agreement, or no push back.

I hate to say it but the young Thug, Mariah, Glorilla beef has taught me that I love Mariah the Scientist’s music. I’ve been hooked since I gave it a little listen 🙃🫢 after someone threw shade, and I expected to hate it, but instead loved it. 🤷🏾‍♀️

There’s a small business I’ve been following for the past 7/8 years. She’s now downsized the product offerings because she refused to be bought out by a bigger company to maintain that level. Her philosophy is that she’d rather have full control & not dilute her product or give in to what PE wants.

Went down a deep Rabbit hole of the Scottish and Welsh accents that a few Caribbean islands accents include. And omg—Cork and Kerry Irish accents really do sound like my island across the sea white cousins! 😭😭

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

I don’t understand because a part of freedom and freedom of speech is that just as you are able to spew whatever you like, I have the freedom to feel like you’re DAF, and not give a damn. Why are we pretending these folks ideas are inconsequential and feelings about them disappear because they die?

I do not like any day where I get caught at a railroad crossing. 🙃🙃🙃

I always feel my class based differences really strongly when something like this happens. I share zero of my professional colleagues’ impulses.

The same America they refer to as great and wanna go back to.

I repeat. Cuz I am so tired of only certain types of violence being cared about. You can advocate for policies that literally kill people, and no one bats an eye but everyone clutches their pearls at someone not caring if a rabid racist died.

Welp. It’s giving Queen of England.

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

There’s this guy on TikTok from Australia who’s been in Jamaica for over 3 months and his videos are everything to me, and gives me a taste of home. He has a series sharing his favorite Jamaican words and I wish he would teach a class on how to embrace and respect a culture and its differences.