April Johnson
@aprilsfools.bsky.social
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As you listen to your neighbors complain about Kendrick Lamar, I want you to reflect on how YOU engage with Black people telling our own stories.
A lot of you sound exactly like them whenever a Black author comes across your timeline.
A lot of you sound exactly like them whenever a Black author comes across your timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
As you listen to your neighbors complain about Kendrick Lamar, I want you to reflect on how YOU engage with Black people telling our own stories.
A lot of you sound exactly like them whenever a Black author comes across your timeline.
A lot of you sound exactly like them whenever a Black author comes across your timeline.
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt.
This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.
This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.
February 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt.
This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.
This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.
While it feels like the world is ending my dog still needs to be walked ever.single.day.
February 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
While it feels like the world is ending my dog still needs to be walked ever.single.day.
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
🎶 I never thought the leopard would eat my face. 🎶
Look, this is bad for democracy and all, no doubt. But I also can’t help but notice that NYT’s many years of pandering to Trump and shaping coverage in his favor failed to prevent them getting kicked out of the Pentagon press room.
February 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🎶 I never thought the leopard would eat my face. 🎶
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I'll be very frank and say simply that: Your freedom and liberation lies in the freedom and liberation of Black women.
I make one post daring to center Black women-- and responses are like -- "ITS ALL GROUPS!"
And y'all wonder why we are in the mess that we are in. It's not just the right-wing getting pissed off at Black women centering ourselves.
A lot of y'all need to tighten up.
QUICKLY.
And y'all wonder why we are in the mess that we are in. It's not just the right-wing getting pissed off at Black women centering ourselves.
A lot of y'all need to tighten up.
QUICKLY.
January 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'll be very frank and say simply that: Your freedom and liberation lies in the freedom and liberation of Black women.
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
I don’t even know or care if it’s fake news. 😆
BREAKING: ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.
January 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don’t even know or care if it’s fake news. 😆
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My god, January is such a long year.
January 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My god, January is such a long year.
There was never going to be a ceasefire.
What ceasefire?
Israel Embarks on an ‘Extensive’ Military Operation in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/w...
Israel Embarks on an ‘Extensive’ Military Operation in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/w...
Israel Embarks on an ‘Extensive’ Military Operation in the West Bank
The announcement came shortly after President Trump rescinded Biden-era sanctions on Israeli settlers and Jewish extremists raided Palestinian villages in protest against the cease-fire in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
There was never going to be a ceasefire.
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yup
January 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
yup
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It’s MLK day. Feel free to make some Black content creators go viral today. ✊🏾
January 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It’s MLK day. Feel free to make some Black content creators go viral today. ✊🏾
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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January 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Mocking someone else’s grief will always be weird to me.
January 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Mocking someone else’s grief will always be weird to me.
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I have been wondering why US leftists and liberals alike are so terrible at long term strategy lately. Then I remembered that we’re in this predicament because neither camp listens to Black people or respects our history in this country beyond lip service.
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
January 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I have been wondering why US leftists and liberals alike are so terrible at long term strategy lately. Then I remembered that we’re in this predicament because neither camp listens to Black people or respects our history in this country beyond lip service.
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*