Thee Take with Food 💛🐝

Pediatric pharmacist with a BA in journalism. #Washedlegs Surgeon General of #ElectionTwitter She/Her

[Randi White @RandiWhite]

Yall remember when people would try to school Ms. Denise, not knowing who she was?

They would talk nasty to a literal Black Panther bc she didn’t have a blue check like they did (in the days when you couldn’t just buy one).

She’d correct them with much more grace than we would.

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

the lettuce parasites getting a PR rebrand as a new weight loss technique

[Zackory Kirk @zackoryk]

Rest in power, Denise Oliver-Velez (1947–2026). Daughter of a Tuskegee Airman. Blocked bulldozers with the NAACP as a teen. First woman on the Young Lords Central Committee. Decades as Daily Kos’s moral compass. Elder, priestess, teacher, fighter.

We inherited what she built.

[Haley Taylor Schlitz, Esq. @HTaylorSchlitz]

This morning, we lost a great tree, & the news brought me to a complete stop.

@DeniseVele49788 spent her life fighting for freedom & reaching back to prepare the next generation. Earlier this year, she placed her faith in me.

I will carry it always. Rest in power, Denise.

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@GammaReigh She was so generous with her time. I am a better voter and citizen because of her.

[THEE Pro-Democracy Voter 🇵🇷🇺🇸🐝🪷 @BklynDin]

Rest in power Ms. Denise. Forever grateful for her wisdom, her vision and love for our people. May she watch over us as all our ancestors. Prayers for her family.

[Linda Lee Peacock 💛🐝💛 @LindaLeePeacock]

Our Warrior Healer has Left on Her Next Journey https://t.co/1ZZ4QrqnTq

[union moderate that support Dems, not socialists. @reesetheone1]

I first knew of Denise in my Daily kos days in 2016. She was a Hillary supporter that Berners couldn’t question her life credentials.

Sleep well.

Cancer Sucks.

[Bitch McConnell™, CEO of Elitist Inc. 👸🏾🐕 @tiffmc1013]

RIP to our blessed warrior woman Ms. Denise.🙏🏾 She drew the blueprint on how to advocate without being performative. Decades of activism. I'll miss hearing her in the spaces leading up to the 2020 and 2024 elections, as well as reading her music column in @dailykos every Sunday.

[Desichica2005 @Desichica2005]

We lost one of the most profound voices I ever heard on this site and bluesky and Spoutible

@DeniseVele49788 will be missed and remembered for an eternity

May your memory forever be a blessing and may you rest in peace and power

Om Shanti 💔💔💔🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😢😢😢🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💔💔💔

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

I am sure she will be welcomed with open arms ❤️💔💔❤️

[Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung]

May a flight of angels guide you to rest my warrior auntie Queen! RIP Ms. Denise ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@Nightwing16 @FreddyLA7 @OberGatlinburg @Dollywood @Neyland_Stadium @martinsbbq All the bears I have seen in TN have been in Gatlinburg

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@Rizabellepow damn…welp screw that guy! eww

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@hovah76 This kind of contact can be seen at any girls game from 3rd grade and up…..

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@TheBaconFather Did @OKWildlifeDept see this 🤣🤣

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@KevOnStage heel

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@SayidMet @SussexHenryVIII The problem is half the country doesn’t care because he’s a brown man. The rest of us are enraged. We need more people to join us.

[Thee Take with Food 💛🐝 @Take_with_Food]

@Rizabellepow @SeitterSimora yes you are 😉

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

If you need another Haaland to root for 😉 https://t.co/p1reOzagCB

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Alabama a man said "Roll Tide" to me as a greeting.

Later that same day, the same man said "Roll Tide" as a goodbye.

I asked a woman at the store what it means.

She said, "Roll Tide."

I asked what it means.

She said, "It means Roll Tide, sugar."

So I began collecting evidence. I kept a list. I am not embarrassed about the list.

I have now heard "Roll Tide" used as: hello. Goodbye. Thank you. I am sorry. Congratulations. That is unfortunate. I agree. I disagree. And once, in a hardware store, as a complete set of instructions for installing a ceiling fan.

I heard it said at a funeral.

It was appropriate. It was the most appropriate thing anyone said that day.

I began using it. Carefully at first, the way a man handles a borrowed sword.

I said it to a cashier. She said it back.

I said it to a police officer who had stopped me for a broken taillight.

He looked at me for a long moment. He looked at my face. He looked at my taillight.

Then he said it back, and nodded once, and did not write the ticket.

I wish to be extremely clear that I am not claiming those two events are related.

I am also not claiming they are unrelated.

A man at a gas station heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him Japan.

He said, "Roll Tide."

He meant welcome. I knew he meant welcome. There was no ambiguity at all.

I have been in Alabama eleven days.

I have one word.

It has been enough for everything.

I have started saying it in other states.

It does not work in other states.

I said it in a warehouse store in Oregon. One man turned around.

He was from Alabama. He said it back. We did not speak after that. We did not have to.

I say it anyway.