A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.
Charity Thomas
@cheeski74.bsky.social
BK Storyteller, writer, USA 829 ADC. From Chi-town, DC (HU!) media literate blackity Black Black Leo watching & discussing old movies as my natural state. & Y yts?Old movie salons #TCMParty Willing to work internationally. DM for appearances.
The United States used to be a nation of arrested adolescence but now it's becoming a nation of toddlers. When you thought it couldn't get worse.
What's weird is that Marty was in my dream last night and my bd is in a couple of days...is he trying to tell me something?
Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2d agotoday's not really random theater photo: birthday boy Martin Sheen, with Martha Scott, in the national tour of The Subject Was Roses (mid-1960s)
Remembering James Baldwin on his birthday (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)💙🕊 “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
Remembering James Baldwin on his birthday (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)💙🕊
I will never forget waking up at 3am every morning as they turned the floodlights on outside to place more bodies into the mobile morgue outside my window. Everyone’s beloved dead, stacked nightly like so much excess, while the waking city was a claustrophobic nightmare. Never.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
The towering literary genius and fierce social critic James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society, as well as leaving behind a dynamic cinematic legacy.
Gentrification isn’t just white ppl moving to Black or brown neighborhoods. It’s white ppl taking over. It’s absolutely possible to move into Black areas w/out disrupting. Fight the urge to manage. Submit—show respect to the elders who’ve lived there forever. Embrace a new world. Ask questions!
There's really no other way to frame it-white America chose to burn down the status quo because they can't stand the idea of being less of a majority.
JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6d agoProject 2025 eliminates Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is what White America wanted.
Take a moment to watch this video. For our White brothers & sisters who joined Black people in the fight for social justice—we know where you stand. We see you. 🤜🏾🤛🏼 Brother Willie D breaks down this woman's truth. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory youtu.be/u4I5BMASxqU?...
Internet EXPLODES After White Woman Explains Why White People Dislike Black People
YouTube video by Willie D Live
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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.
When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
“It is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law…” Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1970, a young woman was killed after opposing the war in Cambodia. *President Nixon had publicly referred to some anti-war college protesters as “bums.” Her father asked: “Is dissent a crime?” History does not always repeat itself exactly, but it often echoes. Are we listening? #SheShed
People need to Google what communism actually is. Trump and Republicans keep trying to convince us that Democrats are the communists while hoping we ignore what they’re actually doing. One of the biggest examples: the federal government under Trump taking equity stakes in private companies. 1/2
I’m so happy and proud to announce that my nonprofit is awarding $100,000 in scholarships this upcoming 7th cycle of The Perry Second Chances Scholarship. The largest amount of money we have EVER awarded in one cycle. $10,000 PER WOMAN. Subscribe to thurmanperryfoundation.org to stay up to date.
I argue here that Black-centred speculative fiction is not just entertainment but a vital method for imagining our way beyond the racial and colonial structures that Euro-modern law struggles to overcome. As such, it should be an integral part of legal education. folukeafrica.com/law-racial-j...
Beyond the Colonial Ever-Present: Black-Centred Science Fiction and the Possibility of Racial Justice
Does the end of structural racism mean an end to the world as we know it?
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Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
They feed this nation. Farmworkers work through extreme heat so our families can eat. They deserve dignity, gratitude, and protection. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Take a deep breath. Release any negative energy you've been holding in.
insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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For #BlackWomenEqualPayDay, @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I in @bostonglobe.com discussing why the attacks against workers begin and end with Black women. There is no world where workers are valued, and Black women workers are not. Either the economy serves us all, or it serves no one. #blacksky
The attack on workers begins and ends with Black women - The Boston Globe
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is about more than wage gaps. Job losses and stalled pay for Black women are an early warning sign for every American worker.
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