As Toni Morrison said,
"Goodness is... more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite. Evil really is boring. Sensational, perhaps, but not interesting. A low-level activity..."
We don’t have to always be fixing ourselves or on a never-ending goal list. We don’t have to keep attempting perfection or validation from anything/anyone. You can live and enjoy and know you are enough right now.
“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” @KeeangaYamahtta at @PalFest today.
natural disasters happen but how we respond to them is a choice, and to state the deeply obvious this country is making it abundantly clear it does not care about people.
like, really understand this: New Yorkers are paying cops to stay at Columbia’s campus to stop students from protesting war. This is what it means to fund the police
Yale proudly hosts the papers of the
Black Panther Party, yet won’t tolerate 24 hours of occupied civil disobedience by its current students https://t.co/H06cNmTf4h
Everyone deserves to feel safe on their commutes. But militarizing the subways as we disinvest in housing, homeless services, and mental health care is not how we achieve safety. This misguided policy risks repeating the worst abuses of stop-and-frisk.
The White House cannot have it both ways: calling on the Israeli government to uphold international law while bypassing Congress to send weapons that are leading to violations of international law.
How many innocent people must die before @POTUS will demand a ceasefire?