Another Black Internationalist and Revolutionary socialist for Black August.

Fred Hampton, who murdered by Chicago Police Department at 21 years old.

The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.

Reminder that Smithsonian Open Access [currently] allows you to download, share, and reuse millions of images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. The Mar 27 EO may endanger this access. www.si.edu/openaccess?f...

Fact: trauma survivors tend to assume way too much "responsibility" for our feelings, reactions, & events in our lives than is appropriate. We would MUCH rather feel guilty than powerless.

The trope of survivors leaning into "blame" or "victim mentality" is a pernicious myth.

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Trauma can really do a number on our memory. That’s why it’s so important to document your own story— in whatever way is most accessible to you.🌿🌞❤️‍🔥

In the 1930s the US deported hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent, including US citizens. 100 years later, this country is on the verge of the same. We should all be asking ourselves what we are willing to do to protect each other.

Good morning to everyone who believes audiobooks count as reading 📚 ☕️

The average rent in the United States has about doubled since 2005.

No one is coming to save us. We save ourselves. We save each other.

The hood really does hold the keys.🗝️

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Not quite a blue sky, but very pretty