This image is from a City Pop playlist I enjoy on YouTube. It took me some time to realize it wasn’t an actual photo from the 1980s, but rather an AI-generated image—the license plate gave it away.
Horrific: Per Univision, guards @ Alligator Alcatraz went on a brutal rampage against detainees last night, beating them, using teargas & deploying helicopters after a detainee started crying/begging for release after learning that a loved one died. Many bloody.
Per detainee:🧵
Dammit, do I really need to waste my time re-reading Flowers for Algernon (we read the short story back in the day) just to prove either myself or all of you wrong?
So, it's been since middle school that I've read Flowers for Algernon, but I am under the assumption that it's largely an offensive story that flagrantly reinforces ableist attitudes that would want to see people like Charlie normalized and "fixed."
Maybe I am grossly misremembering things or didn't pick up on a subtle message, but I thought it's message is a reductive "ableism = not being nice to disabled people," ignoring how the desire to make him intelligent is itself ableist.
🚨‼️my friend who evacuated gaza alone while pregnant has been diagnosed with several diseases and can’t afford her multiple treatments. she hasn’t been able to get food or medical care. im raising $3000 on her behalf.
mark as “help”
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Emil Cioran was in the same circles as Camus in Paris and once told Camus to "Go fuck your own mother" and "He writes like an middle school english teacher"
Her name was Adrienne Villa.
Last week, an investigation in relation to LA anti-ICE protests uncovered the death of a woman in LASD custody. I interviewed LA community members, including someone who knew her, to dig into what is a very unsettling story.
Link below ⤵️