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southern supremacist from the 901 🤲🏽| writer + political educator ✍🏽👩🏽‍🏫 | black studies 📚| ♎︎ they

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Beyond the spectacle of elections  https://t.co/8ZP1S0iIe8 via @prismreports

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

You aren’t gonna punch a Nazi if you are too scared to be the only one wearing a mask in a grocery store

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

Everyone get more anti-capitalist immediately

[clarisa ✨️ @peamilkstan]

hello i am a student doctor, researcher, and former biochemist.

covid is destroying your body.

[da’shaun | they/them @DaShaunLH]

assata. miss major. d’angelo. 3 giants in monumentally different ways. incredibly sad losses.

[🤠 @__reee__]

we all deserve so much more than this world and it’s breaking my heart more n more

[dash @thedigitaldash_]

today is the first day of ocd awareness week!!! i’ve been very public about my journey with ocd. it is genuinely the most disabling and debilitating health condition i’ve ever experienced. i almost lost my life to it, but i’m still here! management is possible! #ocdweek

[Eboni Russell @_Russell_00]

I live in Chicago… I live a block over from Cicero. ICE visited my home yesterday. ICE didn’t knock. ICE tried to forcefully open my window. ICE opened my screen and asked me to sign papers. I AM an American Citizen. Born on U.S. soil. ICE forcefully tried to enter my home! WAKE UP AMERICA!

[meenah 🐇🌷 ☭. @westindiedai]

reminder that while in office, Obama doubled the bounty on Assata’s head.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997)

Parenti: How did you arrive in Cuba?

Assata Shakur: Well, I couldn’t, you know, just write a letter and say, “Dear Fidel, I’d like to come to your country.” So I had to hoof it–come and wait for the Cubans to respond. Luckily, they had some idea who I was, they’d seen some of the briefs and U.N. petitions from when I was a political prisoner. So they were somewhat familiar with my case and they gave me the status of being a political refugee. That means I am here in exile as a political person.

Parenti: How did you feel when you got here?

Shakur: I was really overwhelmed. Even though I considered myself a socialist, I had these insane, silly notions about Cuba. I mean, I grew up in the 1950s when little kids were hiding under their desks, because “the communists were coming.” So even though I was very supportive of the revolution, I expected everyone to go around in green fatigues looking like Fidel, speaking in a very stereotypical way, “the revolution must continue, Companero. Let us triumph, Comrade.” When I got here people were just people, doing what they had where I came from. It’s a country with a strong sense of community. Unlike the U.S., folks aren’t so isolated. People are really into other people. Also, I didn’t know there were all these black people here and that there was this whole Afro-Cuban culture. My image of Cuba was Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. I hadn’t heard of Antonio Maceo (a hero of the Cuban war of independence) and other Africans who had played a role in Cuban history.The lack of brand names and consumerism also really hit me. You go into a store and there would be a bag of “rice.” It undermined what I had taken for granted in the absurd zone where people are like, “Hey, I only eat uncle so and so’s brand of rice.”

Parenti: So, how were you greeted by the Cuban state?

Shakur: They’ve treated me very well. It was different from what I expected; I thought they might be pushy. But they were more interested in what I wanted to do, in my projects. I told them that the most important things were to unite with my daughter and to write a book. They said, “What do you need to do that?” They were also interested in my vision of the struggle of African people in the United States. I was so impressed by that. Because I grew up–so to speak–in the movement dealing with white leftists who were very bossy and wanted to tell us what to do and thought they knew everything. The Cuban attitude was one of solidarity with respect. It was a profound lesson in cooperation.

Parenti: Did they introduce you to people or guide you around for a while?

Shakur: They gave me a dictionary, an apartment, took me to some historical places, and then I was pretty much on my own. My daughter came down, after prolonged harassment and being denied a passport, and she became my number one priority. We discovered Cuban schools together, we did the sixth grade together, explored parks, and the beach.

Parenti: She was taken from you at birth, right?

Shakur: Yeah. It’s not like Cuba where you get to breast feed in prison and where they work closely with the family. Some mothers in the U.S. never get to see their newborns. I was with my daughter for a week before they sent me back to prison. That was one of the most difficult periods of my life, that separation. It’s only been recently that I’ve been able to talk about it. I had to just block it out, otherwise I think I might have gone insane. In 1979, when I escaped, she was only five years old.

Parenti: You came to Cuba how soon after?

Shakur: Five years later, in 1984.

[Ang. @AngThaDean]

Slavery was never going to lead to a democracy. The illusion is shattering

[Jordan Taliha @theineffability]

cat’s out the birkin! today is my first day as a hutchins fellow for the 2025-2026 year 🙏🏾✨ 📚 so excited and grateful for the opportunity to focus on my dissertation and be in community with this amazing cohort 🖤

https://t.co/42nOWuJGNd

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

9 former directors of the CDC penned an op-ed stating that what Robert F. Kennedy has done to the nation's public health system is "unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced"

https://t.co/03tMTdpA9u

[baby goat @amourlilp]

feel that wind ?? my birthday otw

[✰sky⭒ @lilshoulderroll]

throwing a rent party this saturday in crown heights. selling clothes, food, household goods. we will have djs and play uno. drinks and za on deck! dm for addy

[Bodega Baddie @CAMONGHNE]

Cover reveal!!

Let The Poets Govern. March 3rd 2026. We up.

[Valerie Zink @valeriezink]

I can’t in good conscience continue to work for Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and culpability in the assassination of 245 our colleagues.

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

The CEO of Delta made a call and Biden switched them COVID protocols up quickly! Our politicians are owned by the people who give them the most money (billionaires and corporations) not by those that vote for them.

[Brendane Tynes, PhD (brendanea.tynes.bsky.social) @brendanetynes]

I am being sued for $750,000 after sharing my experience of st*lking & har*ssment while being a graduate student worker at Columbia University. Please consider donating or sharing to help me defend myself.

https://t.co/m7rRs2DGux