it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize that in 100 years historians are going to use it as shorthand to summarize the whole era you're living through right now.
some personal news: today is my first day as an intern at NPR covering the Supreme Court! I was just given editor access to the website and am so thrilled to have this opportunity,
lots of young people feel apathy after they go out, protest, get arrested & vote every 4 years & their lives don’t change. no change takes place because these old relics keep winning their comfortable seats in primaries when no ones paying attention. all this investment is what ensures harlem continues to be gentrified, ice is funded like a nation’s military, & israel keeps converting your tax dollars into murdered children.
the ny13 congressional primary has been so unbelievably negative, racist smear campaigns against darializa who has a bold vision for change. she’s been a fighter for some of the most vulnerable populations her whole life. espaillat is a corrupt relic of a bygone era. that’s what’s at stake here. nyc has the opportunity to be this change nationwide. voting isn’t the end all be all, but it’s the easiest most consequential thing you can do.
@GWAMtweets Stop being a coward and say that you want Hasan to go there and get hurt or be killed
He went to Cuba and you were bitching about him being performative so it’s really just you being a big fucking cry bully