Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F

Socioeconomic & Health Justice Warrior. Fannie, Ida, Toni, James, & June guide me. 'Umi Says' is my anthem. Views are mine & ever-evolving. #WakandaForever

[Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F @Frederc10]

This is AmeriKKKa. Violence, cruelty, exploitation, inequity, sickness & their profitability are this nation's tools of choice & preferred way of life. Always has been & will be until we honestly reckon & truly redress.

#UvaldeTX #BuffaloNY #NewtownCT #ParklandFl #TulsaOK

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

The people of Michigan are sick and tired of politicians who tell us what we can't have and shouldn't fight for...

We can fight for a world where everybody can be guaranteed healthcare.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

À 23 ans, elle guérit la lèpre. À 24 ans, elle disparaît.
Et pendant 90 ans, un homme blanc s'attribua le mérite de ses travaux.
Voici l'histoire d'Alice Augusta Ball, le génie qu'on a tenté d'effacer.
Elle grandit à Seattle au début du XXe siècle, dans une famille qui croyait au potentiel des Noirs.
Son grand-père fut l'un des premiers photographes noirs d'Amérique.
Sa mère lavait les sols pour pouvoir offrir un microscope à Alice.
Ce cadeau changea le monde.
Alice dévorait la chimie comme l'oxygène.
Elle obtint deux licences.
Elle publia des recherches alors qu'elle était encore étudiante.
Puis elle s'installa à Hawaï et devint :
📷 La première femme à obtenir une maîtrise en chimie à l'Université d'Hawaï
📷 La première femme noire à obtenir ce diplôme
📷 La première femme professeure de chimie de l'histoire de l'université
Elle avait 23 ans.
Mais pendant qu'elle enseignait, elle fut confrontée à une urgence bien plus grande que le monde universitaire :
La maladie de Hansen, la lèpre.
Un diagnostic signifiait l'exil.
Arraché à sa famille, on était déporté sur une île pour y mourir seul.
Il existait un traitement :
une huile amère et collante, peu efficace et extrêmement douloureuse.
Nombreux furent ceux qui le refusèrent. Nombreux furent ceux qui moururent.
Alice refusa de baisser les bras.
Dans son laboratoire, elle trouva la solution que personne d'autre n'avait trouvée :
Elle transforma cette huile épaisse en une forme assimilable par le corps.
Une injection révolutionnaire qui sauva enfin des vies.
Les patients commencèrent à guérir.
Des familles furent réunies.
Des personnes condamnées guérirent subitement.
Sa découverte devint la méthode Ball.
Elle changea l'histoire de la médecine avant même que la plupart des gens n'aient terminé leurs études.
Et puis… elle disparut.
À seulement 24 ans, un mystérieux accident de laboratoire lui coûta la vie.
Elle ne vit jamais le miracle qu'elle avait accompli.
Puis vint le vol.
Le président de l'université, un chimiste blanc nommé Arthur Dean, s'appropria ses recherches, en retira son nom et les rebaptisa :
« La Méthode Dean ».
Pendant des décennies…
📷 Son nom figurait dans les manuels scolaires.
📷 Son nom était encensé par les médecins.
📷 Son nom était attribué à la seule reconnaissance de ses mérites.
Son nom a failli disparaître complètement de l'histoire.
Un vol si discret que la plupart des gens ignoraient même qu'un crime avait été commis.
Il fallut 90 ans pour que la vérité éclate enfin.
Des chercheurs ont mis au jour les documents originaux d'Alice.
Son travail.
Son génie.
Ses découvertes majeures.
Les projecteurs se sont braqués sur elle. Le mensonge s'est effondré.
Et aujourd'hui, le monde le sait :
C'était la Méthode Ball – TOUJOURS.
Alice Ball a guéri une maladie qui avait ravagé des vies pendant des siècles.
Elle a libéré des familles.
Elle a sauvé des milliers de personnes de l'isolement et de la mort. Et elle a accompli tout cela en une seule année.
Imaginez ce qu'elle aurait pu faire en une vie entière.
Alice Ball méritait un prix Nobel.
Elle méritait des statues.
Elle méritait que son nom soit sur toutes les lèvres des étudiants en sciences.
Au lieu de cela, elle a été étouffée par le silence…
Jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Nous prononçons son nom parce que l'histoire a refusé de le faire.
Nous l'honorons parce que d'autres ne l'ont pas fait.
Nous nous souvenons d'elle parce qu'elle l'a mérité.
Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916)
La chimiste qui a changé le monde avant même d'avoir eu le temps d'y vivre.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

To understand the stakes of the progressive vs. centrist fight to control the Democratic Party, just compare Zohran's term so far with Spanberger's.

Zohran:
- Free childcare for 2-year-olds
- Banned junk fees
- Filled 100,000 potholes
- New bike and bus lanes across the city
- Wealth tax on luxury second homes
- Millions of dollars won for tenants and thousands of apartments repaired

Spanberger:
- Vetoed bill to let public workers unionize
- Vetoed bill allowing class-action lawsuits
- Vetoed bill to stop warrantless arrests by ICE
- Vetoed bill legalizing cannabis sales
- Vetoed bill to lower prescription drug prices

Trump was defeated in 2020, only to return in an even more dangerous form four years later. So we already know that it is not enough to beat MAGA once at the ballot box.

If Dems don't pair their next electoral victory with Mamdani's commitment to positively improving people’s lives, rather than Spanberger's model of selling out to corporations, we are going to be right back in the maws of fascism one election later. And this time, we might not be facing an authoritarian as incompetent and self-defeating as Trump has been.
https://t.co/TugdQiSj73

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion.

They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care.

So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

[Activist Ponk 🖤✊🏿 @educatedhashira]

I am pro-black. That means I am anti-everything that tries to destroy black people; even if it’s other black people.

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

A Portland mother was falsely charged with theft. Misidentified because she and the suspect are both Black. She waited months for a public defender. 1,280 people in her county were waiting too. They lost jobs. Lost housing. Lost custody of their children. https://t.co/ENtGgKZIdm

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

She wasn’t confused, she was being racist, and she should be charged.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

Look,

I'm not trying to start a war

but Democrats are not prepared to fight the one we are in.

what the actual F*CK is this?

[Ola Ojewumi @Olas_Truth]

Kyla Norton is free and out of prison after serving only 2 years out of her 15-year sentence.

Stop forgiving racists. It creates opportunities for leniency for people who don’t deserve it.

[Dr.Hamza Alsharif 🇵🇸 @Hamzasharif5750]

For those who don't know.

Gaza now has the highest rate of children with amputated limbs in all of modern history.

Something you stand before with great sadness and shock,

not a passing news story.

[Vidya Dennis @TheFuncGlitch]

An HIV-positive man with colon cancer, unable to work for four years, lived in his Los Angeles apartment for almost 25 years.

He says he mailed his rent on time. The landlord said the check never arrived and filed for eviction.

After a trial, a jury ruled he DID mail the payment, but since it wasn't cashed, they said he failed to pay on time.

A judge ordered him out. Sheriff's deputies escorted him from his home of a quarter-century.

He took his dog, Simba, and his clothes. He left behind his furniture, his blankets, his two TVs, and his beloved Madonna CDs.

He's now homeless, sleeping on a friend's sofa.

The system will evict a dying man over a payment dispute.

But a corporation can squat in bankruptcy court for years? "That's a different matter entirely."

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

I am so heartbroken.

Israel has just shot my 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in Jabalia Camp. She is in critical condition; the bullet pierced her chest and exited through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen.
At the moment she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears.

I just spoke with my uncle, who told me that Israel has been using subsonic bullets lately. He said his sister is the second mother in the camp to be shot in the chest today.
Please pray for her and our family. Her husband was abducted by Israel in November 2024, and we still have no word on his condition.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This is horrifying and barely getting media coverage.

Trump set April 30 as a deadline for the Zambian Govt. They must either accept Trump's new health funding agreement to have access to critical AIDS meds—and thus give the USA expanded access to its precious mineral resources like copper, lithium, and cobalt—or let its citizens die due to lack of vital AIDS medications.

Zambia is 98% Christian. Christians will die as a result of Trump's extortion. Notice how MAGA is wholly silent? Barbaric.

[C. @crackdaya]

Clarence Thomas is the ultimate manifestation of how internalized white supremacy is cancerous for the black community… tokenized blacks that are invited into the enclave of whiteness are not accidental blips they are tools and weapons forged against the people who raised them

[ADI ALARDAH @alardah91]

@the_andrey_x This is systematic racism and brutal aggression an undeniable crime against humanity, and the world’s silence is a shame that cannot be justified.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Anyone gonna say anything about Lebanon’s right to exist?

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To do this to a child is beyond barbaric. No words.

[Dr. Afua Nicki 🇬🇭 @nickirich14]

I need people to understand that about 60% of homeless people are employed but just don’t make enough to afford housing and that’s the real issue

[strawberry switchblade time @moodybitchtm]

A doula being told she doesn’t have a right to decide how she has a child…this on top of the Black woman that died & they basically kept her as in incubator for a baby that has horrible health issues bc surprise! you’re not supposed to do that…things are bad, very bad