On this day 50 years ago, Fred Hampton was murdered in his home by the FBI.
Exactly 4 months ago, Toni Morrison passed away at the age of 88.
In honor of their lives, I crafted their image in 500,000 points and a mile long thread. They will not be forgotten.
Rest in Power
Macklemore says Ed Sheeran and his team decided to remove him from tour due to his comments in support of Palestine, after Kraft Group rallied stadium owners and gave Ed an ultimatum:
“[Ed] told me that the words ‘Free Palestine’ and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, ‘I don't take sides.’”
Look, is AI making our lives better? No. But is it making things less expensive? Unfortunately, the opposite. Now, is it making the internet a better place? More slop than ever, actually! But does it allow us to spend more time being creative? That's actually the thing it's best at stealing without shame. Though, surely it's making us smarter, right? You’ll never guess, but…
This gentleman didn't obliterate Jemele at all. He just confidently said a bunch of things that weren't true. He would benefit from reading about racial capitalism as the beginning to the developing an answer to his question.
did not think i'd see a truth nuke from david harbour but he's absolutely right. the obsession with the nuclear family, single family home, "just me and mine" mentality in america is part of the reason we're such evil people
I genuinely don’t understand how we are supposed to casually process that a glacier literally collapsed in Nepal, erasing 19 bridges and killing over 600 people, because the planet is too hot. And instead of stopping it, billionaires are building more data centres. Psychotic!