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🇷🇼🇹🇿🇧🇮 | Lover of Politics, Black Peoples 🖤, & Black Culture | Dog Mom | SIPA Alumn | TZ ➡️ IA ➡️ NYC | FREE 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 | Ubuntu Ubumwe ✊🏾
I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:

I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
May 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ICE illegally arrested Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi outside his citizenship appointment solely because of his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights.

His release from detention on bail is a win for free speech.
Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after judge orders his release from federal custody
Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.
www.nbcnews.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I did nothing to yall 😭
May 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
That level of hatred for community that leads to self deprecation needs to be studied!!!!
April 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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This is why you got me fucked up.

1. I do not work for free especially not for white people.

2. I do not give a fuck if you or any other white people understand me. Where you got that is beyond me.
April 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A green flag that’s good for my immune system 🤭
April 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.

But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.

They love it.
April 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I know that JD Vance is a liar but, do they know and do they care? The people who voted for him and Trump?
jd vance just tweeted this

"What process is due" the fucking constitution
April 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The way that white women and white men talk to one another………. You know us Black people (men and women) actually have a decent relationship 🤭
April 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Sorry if I've seemed distant and emotionally unavailable lately, it's just that everything is a nightmarish horror and many of the things I need in order to ameliorate said horror are completely outside of the realm of possibility, right now, and I don't want to bother you with it.
April 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.
JD Vance claims the Maryland father the Trump administration mistakenly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador wasn't "father of the year" bc he had "traffic violations," and says "we do not ask permission from far left Democrats before we deport illegal immigrants."

(He's talking about judges)
April 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out

t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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What’s weird for me right now and imma call it out for my fellow survivors as well

Is how many people are now discussing the horrors of immigration etc

But have no desire to discus or remedy how they’ve treated traumatized immigrants or their previous dismissals
March 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I see the Great Depression recipe of deportation, tariffs, and funneling money to the wealthy still cooks as well as it did a century ago
March 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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it’s about the willingness to engage w complexity, to embrace nuance, & to resist the pull of easy answers. Critical thought requires effort and humility—a recognition that we might be wrong and a commitment to seek truth even when it’s uncomfortable. (2/2)

Short Rant over 😊
March 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Short rant:

I regularly lament the general population’s chronic lack of independent & critical thought. It feels like so many of us outsource our opinions, consuming toxic or half-baked narratives rather than questioning, exploring, or analyzing for ourselves. It’s not just about intelligence;(1/2)
March 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not Vaseline!!!! That’s my favorite moisturizer
March 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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UPDATE: A federal judge broadened the scope of an earlier temporary restraining order, blocking Trump from deporting anyone under the Alien Enemies Act while the case proceeds.

Flights carrying Venezuelan immigrants the DHS attempted to deport were ordered to turn around and return to the U.S.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 15
BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act immediately after we filed our lawsuit.

President Trump is not above the law.
March 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.

Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.

This is historic.
March 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
March 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This girl has been harassing my daughter at school for the last couple days , throwing her backpack on the floor.
My daughter: “keep on messing with me and I’ll call my people in Haiti and have them turn you into a goat. Your handprints are already on here.”

Yep, I am on my way to the office. 😩🤣
March 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM