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[tern @1goodtern]

Covid is just a cold that

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Claudette Colvin, at the age of 15 in 1955, refused to relinquish her seat to a white woman on a bus, asserting, "it's my constitutional right to sit here." This action occurred nine months before Rosa Parks' renowned protest. So, why did Colvin largely fade into obscurity while Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights movement?

Many of the "incidents" within the Civil Rights movement were, in fact, meticulously orchestrated by the NAACP. Colvin, being an unmarried, pregnant teenager at the time, led the NAACP to reenact the incident with Rosa Parks, a respected older woman in her community. The NAACP wanted to avoid choosing someone who could be easily discredited or attacked.

It's important to note that Rosa Parks' protest had a specific purpose: to challenge the notion of "separate but equal." In Montgomery, Alabama, buses at that time designated the front half for white individuals and the back half for Black individuals. If the "separate but equal" rule were true, once the white section filled, white passengers should have been turned away. However, this didn't happen. Instead, the bus driver expanded the white section and forced Black passengers to move back a row. Rosa Parks, not seated in the front of the bus but in the front of the Black section, refused to give up her seat. Her arrest highlighted that "separate but equal" was a false concept.

When asked years later if she would repeat her actions, Colvin expressed, "I feel very, very proud of what I did. I do feel like what I did was a spark and it caught on. I'm not disappointed. Let the people know Rosa Parks was the right person for the boycott. But also let them know that the attorneys took four other women to the Supreme Court to challenge the law that led to the end of segregation."

[Serious trans vibes Comics @AssignedMale]

Gender-neutral bathrooms

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Tory govt has covertly signed a contract targeting 20% cuts to new education plans for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to bring down costs.

With a SEND son, I know the pain this will cause to so many children & families
😡 https://t.co/38Rh1b1qcB

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

Refugees are human beings. They have mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. They laugh and cry just like you. They have hopes and dreams and a desire not to live in fear. They have not collapsed your NHS, built no homes or filled your rivers with sewage. You are being conned.

[Sophie K @iamsophiek]

RAGGA METAL FOR NUMBER 1 🤘

The rock community is showing up, this is emotional. We just need to keep going! We have until midnight
*use the code SMILE20 👀

https://t.co/MOUS6jRXtP

[🌸Bibi🌸♿ @BibiBlossoms]

So this TERF copied and stole my sliding pins design (pic on the right). And is selling a ripoff. Trying to profit off my work.

I am in no way associated with this TERF and as you know, I hate TERFs. Just letting you all know. Please RT so others can know. Thanks!

[no @Lillabel]

@hootenanny21 @rowanlou1312 🫂💔

[Casey Explosion @CaseyExplosion]

Got an inordinate amount of abuse that forced me to just delete this entire thread because I couldn't deal with it, but I was I right to say it.

[Shirley Raines @beauty2streetz]

CBS San Diego was filming yesterday but I had to fix a wrong. Last week young King wanted to give me a hug…I said I don’t hug but later realized he must have needed it. I felt like shit all week and couldn’t wait to see this young king to make it right. ❤️

[Shirley Raines @beauty2streetz]

Thank you for your support and donations! Without you, we could not continue to feed, shower, and service 800+ homeless people every Saturday in skid row 🙏🏾
If you would like to donate please go to https://t.co/Kjy15qWxhi

[Bristol Pride @BristolPride]

Our statement on the @TransPrideSW picnic 🏳️‍⚧️ Bristol Pride are all sending love and solidarity

[L.S. Dunes @lsdunes]

Shows kick off this week in Jacksonville on the 6th with @SadSummerFest and then officially one week from today we will start our summer headline tour in Nashville on the 9th! Oh and @NathanMBergman will be opening that particular show!!

[Nitin Sawhney @thenitinsawhney]

They defund the NHS so it looks like it’s failed. Then we have to turn to privatisation and they cash in. They close all safe routes for asylum seekers entitled to our help under the human rights convention we signed up to. Then they blame asylum seekers themselves for crossing in boats and hold them up as racist bait in hotels while they wait years to be processed. They do this because they know capitalising on racism and attacking vulnerable people is a vote winner, even though it shouldn’t be. People die as a result of their inept policies. They blatantly throw parties and socialise during a pandemic whilst making it illegal for us to do so. They capitalise on the pandemic with commercial nepotism and corruption. They empower criminals and spread hate to distract from their BS. They attack the legal professionals protecting our rights by calling them lefty lawyers. They put inflation through the roof. They make house ownership an impossible dream whilst causing rents to rise everywhere. They increase energy bills to insane amounts, whilst passing laws to allow sewage to be dumped in our rivers and waters and discrediting any scientist who points out environmental or climate crises. They abdicate all responsibility for the bonkers mess of Brexit, the gift that keeps taking, and burden taxpayers with hare-brained unlawful multimillion pound deals to deport people to Rwanda with no right of appeal. They and their supporters have done so much damage to this country. Don’t let them completely destroy it. Let’s vote them out when we can… They are the worst of us.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lady in green, "As a child I couldn't understand how the nazis came to power. And now I understand it... Truss and Kwarteng tanked the economy, my daughter is paying £400 more a month for her mortgage. They are deflecting all of that by talking about small boats." #BBCQT

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Water privatisation is a con.

(Location: Thames Water HQ)