Gerard Miller (they/them)
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Herbalist. Full-spectrum birthworker. Tidewater conjure. Historykeeper. Sacred Other. Committed to empowerment through Ancestral memory.
Come through, Tish!
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article)
A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Come through, Tish!
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For day 3 of #BlackMagicalHistory month, we want to remember Wilma Rudolph.
Who is a Black Olympian you admire?
Who is a Black Olympian you admire?
February 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
For day 3 of #BlackMagicalHistory month, we want to remember Wilma Rudolph.
Who is a Black Olympian you admire?
Who is a Black Olympian you admire?
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honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
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Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
February 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
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You need to understand that spotify is paying them in exposure by exposing them to less than one thousand monthly listeners
This is beyond f**ked now.
Spotify was already pushing it with the whole "no pay-out for any song with less than 1,000 streams per year"
No pay-out for any artist with less than 1,000 monthly listeners is remarkably abusive and exploitative toward small artists
theneedledrop.com/news/spotify...
Spotify was already pushing it with the whole "no pay-out for any song with less than 1,000 streams per year"
No pay-out for any artist with less than 1,000 monthly listeners is remarkably abusive and exploitative toward small artists
theneedledrop.com/news/spotify...
February 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
You need to understand that spotify is paying them in exposure by exposing them to less than one thousand monthly listeners
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Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚
December 30, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚
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Evangelicals overwhelmingly chose Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter — a literal Sunday school teacher.
There is no reason to think they will ever return to sanity…
There is no reason to think they will ever return to sanity…
December 30, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Evangelicals overwhelmingly chose Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter — a literal Sunday school teacher.
There is no reason to think they will ever return to sanity…
There is no reason to think they will ever return to sanity…
Mind you, she was with him from '92 to '19, so she's no saint. While we applaud her doing the right thing by giving away the ill-gotten gain, we should be careful not to pedestalize her.
Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model...
fortune.com/article/mack...
fortune.com/article/mack...
MacKenzie Scott's game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: 'Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability'
"What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check," Indiana University's Pamela Wiepking says, "and that’s typically not what she is doing.”
fortune.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Mind you, she was with him from '92 to '19, so she's no saint. While we applaud her doing the right thing by giving away the ill-gotten gain, we should be careful not to pedestalize her.
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just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! many also have dvds, cds, video games, internet hot spots, grindr hookup spots, chupacabras, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, skibidi toilets, gateways to the shadow realm, and so much more! maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚
December 31, 2024 at 3:10 AM
just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! many also have dvds, cds, video games, internet hot spots, grindr hookup spots, chupacabras, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, skibidi toilets, gateways to the shadow realm, and so much more! maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚
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someone in that semafor “what we got wrong” referred to trump’s “totalizing victory” and i think it is swell how people are pretending like this is 1984
December 31, 2024 at 12:53 AM
someone in that semafor “what we got wrong” referred to trump’s “totalizing victory” and i think it is swell how people are pretending like this is 1984
He pulled an Edison
I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.
December 31, 2024 at 5:21 AM
He pulled an Edison
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“I really like to think that a black, beautiful, loving world is possible. I really do. I think.”
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
December 10, 2024 at 4:44 AM
“I really like to think that a black, beautiful, loving world is possible. I really do. I think.”
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
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“The Black University already exists; it’s for us to recognize it, not to create it. Our work is crystal-clear. The question is, are we teachers ready to learn—are we leaders ready to follow?”
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
December 10, 2024 at 6:57 PM
“The Black University already exists; it’s for us to recognize it, not to create it. Our work is crystal-clear. The question is, are we teachers ready to learn—are we leaders ready to follow?”
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
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Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us
December 1, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us
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Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”
Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV
We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”
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The Helix Nebula
November 26, 2024 at 11:21 AM
The Helix Nebula
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Eeeeeepppaaa, Baba Orisa! Maferefun, Obatala!
November 26, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Eeeeeepppaaa, Baba Orisa! Maferefun, Obatala!