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Trying to make a future

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE: Jon Ossoff just unloaded on Trump’s Republican allies in Georgia:

“I am running against two Trump lackeys who would be voting for this crooked ballroom and this insurrectionist slush fund.”

Then he went even further:

“They’re pro-war.
They’re pro-tariff.
They’re pro-cutting health care.”

That’s the kind of direct political framing Democrats have been missing for years.
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[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Lupita Nyong'o comments on her connection with her Mexican Roots:

“I was born in Mexico. My father was in self-exile there for a number of years and I was born in the last year that he was there. He was teaching political science at the university and yeah, I was born there and then we moved back to Kenya.

And like shortly after I turned one and when I was 16, my parents were like, you know what? You have a Mexican passport. You should speak Spanish. And they sent me to Mexico to learn Spanish. And so I spent seven months there and I did a very similar thing, actually. It's what actually happened.

Informed my decision to speak in an American accent. When I was in Mexico, after one month of being there, I said ‘Okay, enough with the English, no more English. I'm only going to speak Spanish.’ And for the rest of my time there, I spoke Spanish because I was like, I want to learn this language as fully as possible. And if I allow myself to have the crutch, of speaking English to the people around me, my classmates and stuff, I'm not going to pick up this language.

I stopped speaking English and it made me a very quiet person because I didn't have enough Spanish to, you know, be conversational. But what it did is it, it, my, my brain, switched into survival mode and that's the best way to learn a language because you pick things up and you hold on to them for dear life yeah you start creating connections. [...] And i learned spanish pretty well as a result.”

Via What Now? with Trevor Noah

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

The WNBA is getting whiter in the leadership and the rosters even when they are not better

[Young Deuces of WatchMojo @Young_Deuces]

I feel like Black Cinema been eating so mf good lately …the range been insane

Some of my favorites over the last decade or so

[numbuh 4 @SPEEDRCER]

As an avid horror watcher there's plenty in the genre. Horror fans tend to don't acknowledge them whatsoever & it's quite strange. Georgina Campbell been running shit in the horror genre & she's barely acknowledged. Mind you, this is only 4 films. She stay w/ a horror film.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

The IRS has audited every President annually for decades to ensure there was no corruption. Only one president found that to be a problem.

[Ineffa @IneffaIneffa]

Everyone should be more aggressively pro trans and pro gay and pro LGBTQ

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

They probably left her off the list because of who she decided to help— Black people

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Republicans are burning this country to the ground and implementing Jim Crow 2.0 and we are out here bickering over 2024. What the fuck are we even doing?

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

I will be submitting a claim for the DOJ’s new Anti-Weaponization Fund! Last year, Republicans weaponized government against me when they arrested me and held me in jail for 30 HOURS for speaking out against gerrymandering. Their pathetic charges had no weight and collapsed almost immediately, because the goal was never justice. The goal was punishment, intimidation, and political retaliation. They say this fund is “nonpartisan.” Perfect. Let’s prove it!

[Michael Moran | APC Injury @internetuserf12]

If Ebola becomes a pandemic, it will be in no small part because millions of people now view public health measures as oppression rather than the most basic infrastructure of a functioning and sustainable civilization.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Not a drag queen. Not an immigrant. Not a trans person.

A white “religious” man who claimed he could cure people who were gay.

They accuse others so you won’t suspect them.

Never forget it.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Learning about Brooke shields career is what radicalized me because what do you mean everyone was OK with a 10 year old being in playboy?
And what do you mean she lost the case when she sued the photographer?

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

And magically nobody is talking about them anymore.

Ted Lieu on camera: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children."

A sitting congressman said this on the record.

[lil daddy @FitMisterTeeJ]

a lot of gay people 30+ are navigating delayed emotional/relationship milestones because many of us couldn’t openly date in our teens. then you add how transactional queer dating can (sometimes) feel and it’s harder to build something that feels fully grounded.

[Lyric❤⚡ @LyricAiLove]

The way we killed NFTs by not using them or buying into the hype, I feel like we could've done the same with AI. But people are lazy. They don't want to learn new skills. And now AI is more common than it ever should've been and killing the planet at a fast rate.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[Soul Talk, MSW @OpenOfficeHrs]

Maybe I’m just overthinking it lol but for @BET to be about Black music they continue to leave out the Black artists in Alternative, Rock, Jazz, Country, Pop/Punk, etc.

We need to celebrate Black music across ALL genres. I mean we did start it 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Ari🪷 @arikoyarii]

The sad moment when you realize how alone you actually are. No one ever messages or texts you first. So you stop putting effort into people who don't put effort into you, and you end up spending your life at home, never going anywhere

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 Epstein survivors say Blanche lied under oath