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[Shone @shonesky]

Hold the line.

[👑 BAHAMADIA @Bahamadia]

May 2026 #BAHAMADIA ✨🐑✨

YAH IS MERCIFUL.

[Shone @shonesky]

SCREAMING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And it’s supposedly from a real sermon 😆😆😆

https://t.co/B53gmyzsUr

[Shone @shonesky]

Sure thing! Grateful for it.

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

Ngl the music your parents introduce you to stays with you forever

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

Learn the red flags of those who see other people as resources, not humans. To them your feelings are a joke, your boundaries are a game and your needs are selfish. No matter how much you do, won’t be enough because they operate from entitlement and lack, not gratitude and grace.

[Shone @shonesky]

This was I’ll. It captures what happens when one who wants to grow is surrounded by low vibrational energy. It was a loud message to be your bad ass self in spite of.

Who’s bad? I am.

[Quam🎭 @Quamclips]

When Michael Jackson dropped the smile and showed real anger on set… even Wesley Snipes knew this wasn’t acting.

[👑 BAHAMADIA @Bahamadia]

And to the ones pretending not to notice, us authentics KNOW yall lookin asses be punchin the air @ some point daily cuz no motion is ever halted lol #BEWELL

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

The kids are more than alright, they're extraordinary. And, incredibly, the bus driver has made a 100% full recovery.

Last Wednesday, on a seemingly ordinary day in Mississippi, a school bus driver suffered a severe asthma attack. She blacked out behind the wheel. The bus loaded with 40 children, was hurtling down a busy four-lane highway. Disaster felt inevitable.

But instead of chaos, these kids showed grit and unshakable courage. Five middle schoolers immediately sprang into action in a scene straight out of an edge-of-your-seat thriller.

A 12-year-old seized the wheel, steering the bus away from catastrophe. Another kid slammed on the air brakes, grinding the bus to a halt in the median, averting disaster. One student dialed 911 with trembling fingers but an unshakable resolve. Meanwhile, another hero-in-training searched for the driver’s nebulizer and personally administered her life-saving medication.

None of these kids waited for an adult to save the day. They became the adults right then, right there.

[Don of The Veilguard @_93Don]

FUND THE ARTS!!!

[👑 BAHAMADIA @Bahamadia]

Authentics protect your identity at all costs. #BAHAMADIA

[✧ @cessonmute]

they burned women
who knew which herbs
could end a pregnancy,
ease a fever,
numb a toothache.

they called it witchcraft.

it was healthcare.

and some of us
are still being punished
for knowing our own bodies
better than the men
who write the laws
about them.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Covid showed us we could slow down, work different, care for each other, rethink everything. We had one rare chance to build a life that was less cruel, less exhausting, less centered around grinding people into dust.

Instead we sprinted right back into burnout, greed, higher costs, worse mental health, and pretending this is normal.

That’s what makes me angry. We learned nothing.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

BITCH WE DONT EITHER

[InspectTheDecks @InspectTheDecks]

Everyone got BUSY on this, but Redman went nuclear 💥🎤

When he dropped that verse it was over - man was playing with a different energy!!

One of the hardest cuts ever! 🔥🔥

[Dixon D. White @TheDixonWhite]

Black people know us better than we know ourselves...

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing.

I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean.

https://t.co/hivzYl1N0Z

Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵

[Shone @shonesky]

Baddest on 🌎

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Michael Jackson had to cut a deal with a drug lord to film this video. The Brazilian government tried to block the shoot. A judge banned the filming. The police refused to enter the area.

Rio was bidding to host the 2004 Olympics and didn't want the world seeing footage of its poorest neighborhoods. So Spike Lee walked into the favela (Rio's version of a hillside slum) and found the local crime boss. His name was Marcinho VP. He ran one of the city's biggest gangs, Comando Vermelho. He also happened to be a huge Jackson fan, and he provided the whole production with security for free.

A higher court eventually overturned the ban. The police still wouldn't go in. So 1,500 police officers and 50 residents acting as security guards sealed off the favela. Jackson arrived by helicopter. He walked the streets handing out candy to the kids. The people who lived there had woken up early that morning to sweep the streets and take out the trash before he got there.

Mid-shoot, two women burst through security. One knocked Jackson flat. Spike Lee helped him up and he kept dancing. That exact take is in the final video.

For the Salvador half of the shoot, he worked with 200 drummers from a local group called Olodum. The media coverage put them on the map in 140 countries. They'd been a regional act before the shoot. They became a global one after.

Over 200 million people watched the premiere around the world. The song itself peaked at #30 in America. In Germany it went to #1 and stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, the longest run of any Jackson song there. The video crossed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2023. Only one other Jackson video has done that: Billie Jean. He's the first solo male singer from the 1900s with two videos over a billion.

The day after Jackson died in 2009, Rio's mayor announced they'd put a statue of him in the same favela where the video was shot. Locals said the turnaround of their neighborhood started with his visit.

[iza @izamamaa]

To be a white man released from prison and your first statement is “wow they really treat Black men terribly in there” is profound

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“Be still and the earth will speak to you.”

~ Hopi,