Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA

Blossoming adult. Love graffiti, food, and epic people.
Let me know if you have all three.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

So many women and girls in Sudan are suffering right now. They need our help to get basic supplies and safe shelter. Please consider donating or sharing to spread the word.🙏🏾💜 https://t.co/s6IIwhoXYX

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

I counted 24 from California. 24.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Here are the 117 Democrats who voted with Republicans against Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon war powers resolution.

Thomas Massie was the one Republican to join 91 Democrats — who all bucked party leadership — in voting for it.

[CleverMonster ✊🏿🇭🇹🇵🇸 @CleverMonsterCT]

Being Black in America feels like…

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American education system does not teach empire.

This is not an accident.

It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning.

It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler.

It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of.

It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations.

It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil.

It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present.

It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention.

The ignorance is load-bearing.

Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable.

They know this.

The curriculum is not an oversight.

The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it.

The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier.

It is the history class.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

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Morgan State University Nursing Program Achieves 100% NCLEX-RN Pass Rate, Ranked No. 1 in the State of Maryland

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The Atlantic slave trade is not singled out because other slavery didn't exist.

It is singled out because it built the world we currently live in.

The financial institutions.
The insurance markets.
The shipping routes.
The racial categories.
The colonial borders.
The wealth distribution between continents that still defines the global economy today.

The Atlantic slave trade is not studied with particular intensity because historians are biased.

It is studied with particular intensity because its consequences are not historical.

They are present.

You don't single it out to assign ancient blame.

You examine it to understand current reality.

The reason your argument wants to dissolve that specificity into universal human wickedness is precisely because universal human wickedness requires nothing from anyone today.

Specific, traceable, present consequences do.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

More of this. John Brown's spirit needs fall fresh on 'em.

[Talia Ben-Ora @taliaotg]

A fascinating first-hand account of someone inside a movement of reliably DNC-supportive liberal voters shifting away from the party and toward progressive resistance. White college educated moms breaking from the pack. Fascinating.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎞️ 🇨🇺 A satirical animated short from Cuban media collective Aguaje Films mocks what it portrays as the modern U.S. regime-change playbook: cutting off fuel through sanctions, allowing blackouts and civilian suffering to deepen public anger, then reentering with “humanitarian aid,” a pretext for intervention, and ultimately military action carried out in the name of “democracy.”

The film features Secretary of State Marco Rubio, widely viewed as the leading advocate inside the White House for the maximum pressure campaign against Cuba.

(English translations from Drop Site News ⬇️)

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

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[ngozi ukazu updates @ngoziu]

Wait....CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR 5 storyline teaser? 👀✨️

Thank you, @PopverseSays!

[elle s. dee @jkyhcbll]

everyone’s addiction to nostalgia is what keeps abusers relevant in the entertainment industry.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

This was great writing with engaging prose. Ate and left no crumbs.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

Point blank.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference?

Don’t care.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared?

Don’t care.

Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you?

Don’t care.

A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings?

Don’t care.

A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you?

Fuck you.

People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy?

Don’t care.

Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you?

Don’t care.

A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack?

Don’t care.

“Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you?

Don’t care.

People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you?

Don’t care.

You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry?

Truly could not care less.

What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive.

The doctors being tortured.

The families erased under rubble.

The starvation.

The concentration camps.

The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure.

But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead.

Not Palestinian lives.

Not Palestinian suffering.

Not Palestinian speech.

Zionist discomfort.

Zionist fragility.

Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups.

All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency.

While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible.

While Palestinian speech is disciplined.

While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable.

That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex.

Not safety.

Not care.

Not protection.

Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale.

Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity.

If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin.

The problem is you.

-- from "The Anti-Zionist" https://t.co/38l41J9sY8

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

America needs a revolution.

Repost if you agree. I’m testing something.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

My mother was 14 when this happened. My father was 12.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1963, four little girls: Denise McNair(11), Carole Robertson(14),Addie Mae Collins(14) and Cynthia Dianne Wesley(14) were killed when white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

The bomber was found not guilty of murder.

[anika ⚢ (RT PINNED !!!) @virtualangel_01]

my most vivid middle school memory is when my history teacher told us she laid awake at night wondering how many great philosophers, mathematicians, writers, scientists, weren’t allowed to read or write due to the trans-atlantic slave trade

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

A quick 1a guide for y'all:

"I will kill you." True threat.

"Kill that guy." Incitement.

"Someone should kill that guy." Not a crime.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

Drone strikes and imperialism in Black Face.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

Disillusioning a generation and paving the way for Donald Trump by using his supermajority to break deportation records and drone weddings instead of passing universal healthcare or codifying Roe v. Wade.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

This is a horrible take. Literally terrible. Elderige Cleaver was raping girls in his neighborhood. He admitted it. The cycle of oppression can never accompany true liberation. Point blank. Liberation for all or its bullshit. Be fucking FR.

[Send the asteroid please @TakeMobGeneral]

@SocialistMMA The main killer of the Civil Rights Movement was feminism.. When Black women abandoned the cause in order to align themselves with white liberal women, all hope was lost.

[Annicia Parnell-Smith, MPA @MusicalSmiles]

And that's that on that. Period.

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

Any adult that blames a child for being groomed & abused is a piece of shit and a dangerous person

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Annie Easley, born OTD in 1933, began her career at the NACA (NASA's predecessor) in 1955 as a “human computer.” When machines began to replace human computers for performing complex calculations, Easley adapted, becoming an expert computer programmer.

Easley's 34-year career at NASA furthered research on alternative power and technology on the Centaur rocket.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Dick Gregory Debunks Crabs and Bucket Mentality Within the Black Community