Afronola
@afronola.bsky.social
From Addis to New Orleans with love
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🗣️I've been looking around and you were here all the time…
That transition into “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” 🙌🏾
Happy 81st Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎂🎉🎈
That transition into “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” 🙌🏾
Happy 81st Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎂🎉🎈
May 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🗣️I've been looking around and you were here all the time…
That transition into “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” 🙌🏾
Happy 81st Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎂🎉🎈
That transition into “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” 🙌🏾
Happy 81st Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎂🎉🎈
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🗣️I won't stay here locked behind the door.. baby, stir it up🔥🔥🔥
Happy Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎉🎂🎊
This is my favorite song from the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack..
Happy Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎉🎂🎊
This is my favorite song from the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack..
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🗣️I won't stay here locked behind the door.. baby, stir it up🔥🔥🔥
Happy Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎉🎂🎊
This is my favorite song from the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack..
Happy Birthday, Patti LaBelle 🎉🎂🎊
This is my favorite song from the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack..
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Lesbian activist and journalist Victoria Brownworth (aka VABVOX on Twitter) has died.
She was a dear friend for many years, and I know her voice was important to many others.
May her memory be a blessing.
She was a dear friend for many years, and I know her voice was important to many others.
May her memory be a blessing.
May 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Lesbian activist and journalist Victoria Brownworth (aka VABVOX on Twitter) has died.
She was a dear friend for many years, and I know her voice was important to many others.
May her memory be a blessing.
She was a dear friend for many years, and I know her voice was important to many others.
May her memory be a blessing.
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China’s EV leader BYD posts record sales in 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/b9797e5a-1346-4779-9125-686932c9d8ec
https://www.ft.com/content/b9797e5a-1346-4779-9125-686932c9d8ec
China’s EV leader BYD posts record sales in 2024
Bigger companies beat targets as intense competition rocks world’s biggest car market
www.ft.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
China’s EV leader BYD posts record sales in 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/b9797e5a-1346-4779-9125-686932c9d8ec
https://www.ft.com/content/b9797e5a-1346-4779-9125-686932c9d8ec
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Palestine in the early 20th century - a thriving trading nation or ‘a land without a people’?
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
May 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Palestine in the early 20th century - a thriving trading nation or ‘a land without a people’?
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
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This is an awesome tourist ad campaign the U.S. is running. Stellar stuff.
‘Terrified’: Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
A former NSW Police officer has recalled the horrific moment she was jailed and deported while visiting her husband in the US.
A former NSW Police officer has recalled the horrific moment she was jailed and deported while visiting her husband in the US.
Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
www.news.com.au
May 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is an awesome tourist ad campaign the U.S. is running. Stellar stuff.
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What they are doing at Harvard, Columbia, and other universities indicates that they are a bunch of wannabe dictators who want to control American university life.
We need to protect the First Amendment.
It's absolutely critical.
We need to protect the First Amendment.
It's absolutely critical.
May 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
What they are doing at Harvard, Columbia, and other universities indicates that they are a bunch of wannabe dictators who want to control American university life.
We need to protect the First Amendment.
It's absolutely critical.
We need to protect the First Amendment.
It's absolutely critical.
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New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
May 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
With @crampell.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
With @crampell.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
With @crampell.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
With @crampell.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
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So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
May 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
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The depravity of this was neatly captured by the Reuters journalist who shot the image Trump brandished.
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
Trump’s Lie about Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.
newrepublic.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The depravity of this was neatly captured by the Reuters journalist who shot the image Trump brandished.
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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All this draws on an internationalized version of "white genocide" theory that's festered on the global far right.
The "farmers" trope gives it a producerist feel: White salt-of-the-earth populations in their homelands, under siege by dark, rootless hordes. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
The "farmers" trope gives it a producerist feel: White salt-of-the-earth populations in their homelands, under siege by dark, rootless hordes. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
May 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
All this draws on an internationalized version of "white genocide" theory that's festered on the global far right.
The "farmers" trope gives it a producerist feel: White salt-of-the-earth populations in their homelands, under siege by dark, rootless hordes. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
The "farmers" trope gives it a producerist feel: White salt-of-the-earth populations in their homelands, under siege by dark, rootless hordes. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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If there were a white genocide in South Africa, large numbers would be trying to come here. Is that happening? We don't know!
Dem aides tell me they've asked the State Department to clarify how many white Afrikaners are trying to come here. No answer yet. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
Dem aides tell me they've asked the State Department to clarify how many white Afrikaners are trying to come here. No answer yet. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
May 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If there were a white genocide in South Africa, large numbers would be trying to come here. Is that happening? We don't know!
Dem aides tell me they've asked the State Department to clarify how many white Afrikaners are trying to come here. No answer yet. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
Dem aides tell me they've asked the State Department to clarify how many white Afrikaners are trying to come here. No answer yet. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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But there's something even darker here. Even as Trump used this image of the dead from the conflict in DRC to push a fake "genocide," Trump has suspended foreign aid and refugee resettlement in ways that are hurting countless humanitarian victims of that REAL war! 3/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
May 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
But there's something even darker here. Even as Trump used this image of the dead from the conflict in DRC to push a fake "genocide," Trump has suspended foreign aid and refugee resettlement in ways that are hurting countless humanitarian victims of that REAL war! 3/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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First, note that the printout Trump used to humiliate Ramaphosa came from a conservative blog post, which featured an image from a Reuters video about DRC. It's plausible that an aide Googled "white farmers" and "South Africa," found this, and handed it to Trump. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
First, note that the printout Trump used to humiliate Ramaphosa came from a conservative blog post, which featured an image from a Reuters video about DRC. It's plausible that an aide Googled "white farmers" and "South Africa," found this, and handed it to Trump. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
Trump’s Lie about Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.
newrepublic.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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“Life is short. And there are much more pressing–and actually interesting–questions than ‘Are you less human than me?’”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Life is short. And there are much more pressing–and actually interesting–questions than ‘Are you less human than me?’”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I live a red state and can verify there are almost zero Trump voters here who have any regret. It's a myth. Most of them still have their TRUMP VANCE signs up. They may be a little quieter now but they are giddy about deportations & fascism. It's a racist cult. It's alive, pulsating and gross.
May 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I live a red state and can verify there are almost zero Trump voters here who have any regret. It's a myth. Most of them still have their TRUMP VANCE signs up. They may be a little quieter now but they are giddy about deportations & fascism. It's a racist cult. It's alive, pulsating and gross.
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I will go to my GRAVE screaming that mainstream media pushing this “Trump supporters regret their vote” narrative is to redeem white racists in the eyes of the public and keep the masses from rioting as people are deprived of food, healthcare, and human dignity.
It’s to evoke pity & mercy.
It’s to evoke pity & mercy.
May 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I will go to my GRAVE screaming that mainstream media pushing this “Trump supporters regret their vote” narrative is to redeem white racists in the eyes of the public and keep the masses from rioting as people are deprived of food, healthcare, and human dignity.
It’s to evoke pity & mercy.
It’s to evoke pity & mercy.
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Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...
May 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...
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(also, literally no historian denies that africans were active in the slave trade. the point is that the *transatlantic slave trade* was the product of european involvement and that it was a unique permutation of the trade such that it transformed half the globe)
May 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
(also, literally no historian denies that africans were active in the slave trade. the point is that the *transatlantic slave trade* was the product of european involvement and that it was a unique permutation of the trade such that it transformed half the globe)
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translated: racial inequality is because black people are biologically deficient and have bad culture.
May 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
translated: racial inequality is because black people are biologically deficient and have bad culture.
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this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
May 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
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The great thing about white southern racists being backward is that all the Black people in the south, who are the majority of the country’s Black people, get to have all the rest of the country’s hatred for the south directed at them too.
May 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The great thing about white southern racists being backward is that all the Black people in the south, who are the majority of the country’s Black people, get to have all the rest of the country’s hatred for the south directed at them too.