Building friendship/community requires you to inconvenience yourself and do things you may not feel like doing at the time. You want friends but aren’t willing to do the work to be a good friend, yourself ? How does that work ?
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DMV 🦀 | Black liberation ALWAYS l not non-violent | EVERYTHING is political | 📚>>> | Big Plant Mama🌱🌵🍀🌻| Published in Italian Vogue 💁🏽♀️ "For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” — James Baldwin
For those automated spam calls: Answer (don’t speak) and hit 9 to be placed on the DNC lists Do it consistently. I’ll answer and hit 9 in a meeting idc idc idc The calls will start to be less frequent I started this late May, I now get zero calls
Manny Voices@itsdrlittle.bsky.social · 2h agoCan you share with the class? I get 96367 spam calls a day
This article is poorly thought out trash. He presents the false choice of either taking the right-wing hateful position, or being silent. He doesn't look at all of the athletes and sports personalities that speak with clarity on political issues from the position of kindness shared by 80%+ of people
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
West Nile and Dengue about to give us a run for our money. Please wear repellant.
Don't fret, the brain worm guy is on top of things.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3h agoVirginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever
Certain folks see more humanity in animals because they are okay with a lack of humanity for people. Will start a GFM for a dog, while PEOPLE in their community are in dire need.
𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧@quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4h agoOkay this was funny (absolutely right about the pet thing)
Many of us don't really want to be well (i.e., free) like we claim. "Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well." — Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
Jim Crow 2.0 doesn't have poll taxes. They just get rid of polling places to make it much harder for you to vote, and kick you off the voter rolls for 'reasons' without telling you. Voter suppression is racism. If a candidate isn't talking about voting rights, they aren't paying attention.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterdayThe NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"
you can't clean cyclosporiasis off of fruits and vegetables by the way. you have to cook it to remove it fully. this has been confirmed by scientists already and mainstream media won't tell the masses this because we live in an extinction economy.
Just read an article that started with the claim that "employment improves health, while unemployment harms health." Work conditions can also be insalubrious, & much harm arises from conditioning healthcare access on employment status, which is also conditional on health x disability status.
My pistol will be on me from now on. You're not going to lynch me and then sell a false narrative. Racial violence is reality.
The GOP doesn't get punished if this country doesn't elect more leftists.
We are not having an appropriate response to repeated recent lynchings AT ALL.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 16h agoJackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
The US is governed by a racist regime. But you know that. "The State Department is making permanent a program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, & raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries
A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...
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I could get into how this thinking is deeply rooted in whiteness...
✨🥀Persephone🥀✨@bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 12h ago“People who say they like animals more than people are not good people. They think they have a deep well of compassion but really they just want a relationship of unequal status”
It’s funny because we do this thing where Black voters are pathologized, literally, every election cycle.
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h agoSo El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Bought and paid for by Zionists and corporate Dems. Ick 😒
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 17h agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Wesley Bell wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 1st Congressional District.
The Lou really went out and voted for this 🦝 again.
In fall of 2027, tuition will be free for Rice students whose families earn between $100K - $200K annually. Students from families earning less than $100K annually will get tuition, mandatory fees, and room and board covered. | Kathryn Palmer www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #BlackskyNews
Rice to Give Free Tuition to Students From Families Earning $200K or Less
Rice University in Houston is expanding its free tuition program, the university announced in a news release Monday. Beginning in the fall of 2027, new students from families earning between $100,000 ...
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The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Black folks watching Taylor Sheridan shows like Yellowstone, Lionness, etc. Just eating that right wing propaganda UP.
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If they’re hiding Mitch they are definitely gonna hide it when y’all know who dies.
Maybe because they're charging $20 for a meal that can only be described as a "food like substance".
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 24h agoMcDonald’s posted slowing growth for a second straight quarter
The U.S. is on a bullet train to the bottom
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 23h agoArizona State University launches degree in content creation