Shannon
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Humanitarian and RPCV (Benin). Abolitionist. Support leftist, anti-racist, and feminist causes. Live in the Greatest City in America: Baltimore.
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With #Sinners back in theaters today, thought I'd reshare the article I wrote about the Choctaw Vampire Hunters and why that moment didn't NEED to be centered more even tho we would all love to see more of their story.
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Sinners Gives Us Vampires, Music, and a Moment of Indigenous Power We Can’t Ignore
Set in 1932 Mississippi, Sinners is a haunting, atmospheric tale rooted in the music, spirituality, kinship, and resilience of Black Southern communities. But Coogler threads a deeper, more violent cu...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
With #Sinners back in theaters today, thought I'd reshare the article I wrote about the Choctaw Vampire Hunters and why that moment didn't NEED to be centered more even tho we would all love to see more of their story.
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#redpopnews
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#redpopnews
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
"How you die does not redeem how you lived. ... I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live your life"
September 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"How you die does not redeem how you lived. ... I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live your life"
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Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies.
No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.
No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies.
No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.
No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
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BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
City council members spent most of a special hearing on the city’s crisis response system focused on the shortcomings of crisis response providers rather than the extremely well-funded police…
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August 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
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Lack of ICE oversight shows how Baltimore has long been at the mercy of outside powers baltimorebeat.com/lack-of-ice-...
August 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Lack of ICE oversight shows how Baltimore has long been at the mercy of outside powers baltimorebeat.com/lack-of-ice-...
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Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
August 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
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How Baltimore became a rising star in America’s worker cooperative movement
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How Baltimore became a rising star in America's worker cooperative movement
On a sweltering August afternoon at Red Emma’s, the anarchist bookstore, cafe, and community organizing space in Baltimore’s Waverly neighborhood, something that would have seemed impossible two…
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August 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
How Baltimore became a rising star in America’s worker cooperative movement
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“We shouldn’t sit around and wait for the government to clean up our streets or feed our neighbors,” she said. “We should just do it ourselves, if we can.”
The fridge feeding a Baltimore neighborhood and leading a movement
The fridge feeding a Baltimore neighborhood and leading a movement
Since coming together earlier this year, the Bmore Community Fridge Network has expanded from four community refrigerators to 15 and counting across Baltimore.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“We shouldn’t sit around and wait for the government to clean up our streets or feed our neighbors,” she said. “We should just do it ourselves, if we can.”
"But the conservative group argued that 'it is well recognized that race and ethnicity are inseparable from socioeconomic status,” adding that “Johns Hopkins masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.'" ... So at this point even 'colorblind' isn't enough??? Wild.
Conservative legal group with Trump ties sets its sights on Hopkins medical school
Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school
America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"But the conservative group argued that 'it is well recognized that race and ethnicity are inseparable from socioeconomic status,” adding that “Johns Hopkins masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.'" ... So at this point even 'colorblind' isn't enough??? Wild.
The burden of paperwork—not actual eligibility issues—will cause many to lose health ins (Medicaid) soon and we must see through this paperwork bs wherever it shows up (even our liberal leaders). Baltimoreans should absolutely make it as easy as possible for our city workers to get health insurance.
Some Baltimore employees didn’t have health insurance. City leaders disagreed on a fix.
Baltimore leaders reject plan to auto-enroll employees in health insurance
The Board of Estimates voted down an amendment intended to address a problem uncovered by Baltimore's Inspector General.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The burden of paperwork—not actual eligibility issues—will cause many to lose health ins (Medicaid) soon and we must see through this paperwork bs wherever it shows up (even our liberal leaders). Baltimoreans should absolutely make it as easy as possible for our city workers to get health insurance.
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For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"
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“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
Felicity's story of navigating friendship and the tea boycott is burned into my brain as one of my first exposures to the need for creativity in protest, and helped cement in me the importance of standing up for my values, even in the face of social consequences. This brings me such joy!
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Felicity's story of navigating friendship and the tea boycott is burned into my brain as one of my first exposures to the need for creativity in protest, and helped cement in me the importance of standing up for my values, even in the face of social consequences. This brings me such joy!
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2/ Here’s our new story about how the vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world:
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
2/ Here’s our new story about how the vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world:
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
Days like these I'm reminded of what makes Baltimore so great: the community, creativity, passion of fighting injustice, and so much more...
This is what May Day protests looked and sounded like in Baltimore today.
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May 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Days like these I'm reminded of what makes Baltimore so great: the community, creativity, passion of fighting injustice, and so much more...
I was inspired to create a Baltimore-specific list of "Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting". Check it out and share around!
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Beyond Protesting - BALTIMORE
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting BALTIMORE EDITION This list is inspired by , which itself is a list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics (Here was their original list of 25 actio...
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April 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I was inspired to create a Baltimore-specific list of "Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting". Check it out and share around!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"If everyone has just a little bit of courage, then no one has to be a hero." Excellent interview with Sarah McBride. youtu.be/dUp0caPI72k
Sarah McBride talks Donald Trump, AOC, Trans Rights and Being Targeted In Congress
YouTube video by Pod Save America
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April 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"If everyone has just a little bit of courage, then no one has to be a hero." Excellent interview with Sarah McBride. youtu.be/dUp0caPI72k
While of course I personally believe we should Free Them All, I think we need to have some (multiple! many!) ideas of how to bridge the genuine horror people are experiencing at Kilmar's case and the message that no human deserves CECOT.
This right here. Spreading "perfect victim" or "innocence" narratives is dangerous and cedes ground on the fact that *all* people deserve dignity, humane treatment, and access to due process. Feeding into perfect victim or innocence narratives isn't just irresponsible messaging, it is copaganda.
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
April 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
While of course I personally believe we should Free Them All, I think we need to have some (multiple! many!) ideas of how to bridge the genuine horror people are experiencing at Kilmar's case and the message that no human deserves CECOT.
"The mismatch between what they're doing and the established, professional way to do what they say they're doing ... that just kind of gives away the store, that they are not actually about finding more efficient ways for the government to operate."
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"The mismatch between what they're doing and the established, professional way to do what they say they're doing ... that just kind of gives away the store, that they are not actually about finding more efficient ways for the government to operate."
"Successful campaigns weaken popular support for an authoritarian leader by encouraging different sectors of society—business leaders, religious institutions, unions, or the military—to withdraw their support from a corrupt regime. One by one, the sectors defect." www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Successful campaigns weaken popular support for an authoritarian leader by encouraging different sectors of society—business leaders, religious institutions, unions, or the military—to withdraw their support from a corrupt regime. One by one, the sectors defect." www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
"In the 10 years since Baltimore police officers killed Gray, roughly 3,100 people — mainly Black men — have been murdered in Baltimore; more than twice that many have suffered fatal overdoses; one mayor, one state’s attorney and one police commissioner have been convicted on federal charges;
In the 10 years since Baltimore police officers killed Freddie Gray, no one has ever been held accountable for his death; and Gray never got a chance to grow or mature past 25, and his family and friends have missed not only the 10 birthdays, but every day in between.
10 Years Ago, Baltimore Cops Killed Freddie Gray. Here’s How the City Rose Up.
Organizers, journalists, students, and others involved in the uprising reflect on its impact and where things stand now.
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April 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"In the 10 years since Baltimore police officers killed Gray, roughly 3,100 people — mainly Black men — have been murdered in Baltimore; more than twice that many have suffered fatal overdoses; one mayor, one state’s attorney and one police commissioner have been convicted on federal charges;