The Wicked Witch of the Midwest

A virulent e-hag in training. #blacklivesmatter #diemadterfs 🏳️‍⚧️ he/him/his

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

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[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The rogue Israeli apartheid regime is now burning UN peacekeepers with white phosphorus and our government is doing nothing to stop them. This is a war crime.

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@duolingo is rly putting on ice shows instead of fixing their sh*t. I have 34 (!!) perfect weeks in 2024 alone but I have achievement credit for 5. So their own self-designed reward system is just pissing me off while I’m watching them 🤡🤡🤡 for attention from 12 yr olds…

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@iron_flask Ive been doing that for months and all I’m getting is canned responses, please let me know where I can find some actual help, thanks!

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@iron_flask i paid a lot for one of your water bottles and now your support team is avoiding honoring your warrantee for the 2nd time in a year. I need help finding a solution for a manufacturing defect in your lids that your company is ignoring so i can stop wasting my time.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

36 years ago today, Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary African leader, was assassinated by French imperialists.

Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.

He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists

As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth.

Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87):

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

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[i can be your long lost pal @PallaviGunalan]

watched people who posted pro-israel propaganda stay quiet as fuck now that they murdered over 700 palestinian children, don’t act like we don’t see you

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@BarackObama You are such a constant disappointment.

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@AvivaKlompas Shut your mouth and open your eyes, you empty blob.

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

Just found out that @elonmusk runs this shit app now, sooo… I’m out. ✌️🖕bye!

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

And she was right all along.

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@joshuwaphang I feel personally victimized by this tweet.

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

We live in hell.

[Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social @AngieMaxwell1]

Two weeks ago, I had four precious 12-year-old girls, including my daughter, with me at the county fair. They were getting blue Icees and corndogs for the walk to the car and ride home. (1/21)

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

“But Ariel is supposed to be a red head!” Black people can have red hair, you stupid bitch. Malcolm fucking X. Ever heard of him? You’re just racist.

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@DonoTharris Why the fuck haven’t I gotten a payment or any communication about it?

[The Wicked Witch of the Midwest @SwampHag91]

@LakotaMan1

[Beverly V @BevVeatch]

The average British person's relationship to the queen made so much more sense when I realized she occupied the same place "the troops" have in American political discourse