Charlyn

Always learning. Sometimes funny. Often lucky. Rarely on time. Hardly quiet.

[Charlyn @Samurai_Flower]

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[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged.

70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t touch that - which would have impacted them and their patrons.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Let me get this straight. SCOTUS says colleges can't take race into consideration during admission....

But they can give preference to "legacies."

Since non-white students were barred from most colleges for 200+ years, legacy students are by definition most likely white.

[Cristian Farias @cristianafarias]

Sotomayor to Thomas:

"The three Justices of color on this Court graduated from elite universities and law schools with race-conscious admissions programs, and achieved successful legal careers, despite having different educational backgrounds than their peers."

[Seat filler & Bagel technician 🫠 @SirPennypacker]

@kylegriffin1 “So often, we just accept that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level.” — Michelle Obama

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Now, at a geopolitical inflection not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall, all that is gone. Updates are delayed, scattered, and unreliable. "Verified" accounts are just every slack-jawed yahoo with $8 to burn and no professional or reputational incentives for accuracy. 2/

[Katlyn Skye @katlynskye24]

On Saturday, June 17, I was on a Lyft ride in Washington, D.C. that made me fear for my safety.

My driver missed numerous turns, prolonging my ride. In the midst of D.C. traffic, he almost hits a car and slams on his breaks, stopping about a foot from the car in front of him-

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

some of you don't have immigrant parents who passively aggressively complained they spent a lot on your jansport backpack so you better get into harvard and it shows

[lily ▴ @lilkorok]

if you're a member of the "totk has been out for a month but still haven't beat the game / i'm taking it slow" club RAISE YOUR HAND ✋🏻

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

children are an oppressed group of people. ALL children. they will never have the same resources, power, or cognitive ability as most adults and their lives are completely at the will of the people raising them. i hate how we treat kids.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Charlyn @Samurai_Flower]

Justice for Conceited

[SZA @sza]

snooze ,love language, kill bill ,nobody gets me ,ex pack ,blind ,good days ,gone girl, I hate u, F2F,low , seek and destroy , ghost , Sos , used. Personal picks .

[III @SHULAGOD]

lol after years of delicate research.
1. pisces women
2. scorpio women
3. taurus women

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Hate it here

[Tiara Willis @thetiarawillis]

wearing sunscreen everyday now > having to spend $$$ on anti-aging treatments later

[GNCordova @GNCordova]

A week ago a white tech worker named Patrick Cooney killed a 23-year-old Black community organizer (and also shot and injured his 9 year old nephew), in my city, and the media still hasn’t posted a picture of him. Why is that?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,

donald trump didn’t lower your taxes. He didn’t get your roads fixed or your bridges built. He didn’t get you healthcare coverage, lower the price of your prescriptions, decrease the deficit, end the opioid crisis, revive the coal industry, he didn’t make “covid disappear”, didn’t make Mexico “pay for the wall”, he didn’t “put America First” and he sure as hell didn’t “drain the swamp”.
So when you say he “fought for you”, you mean he validated your hate.
Because he didn’t do a goddamn thing for you other than that.

He hates who you hate.
And sadly, that’s all you think you need.

[Charlyn @Samurai_Flower]

He is forever the guy who touched Zendaya's face on Wild'nOut.

[✨Kei$ha✨ @GlamazonJay]

Nah this is insane. I wanna see one of his show lowkey.

[Charlyn @Samurai_Flower]

@shaTIRED I have heavy Pisces placements and my hubby has heavy Taurus placements. Married for almost 13 years, together 15. Lots of snacks and naps.