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One of my all-time favorite romcoms, less about falling in love than it is about the feeling that you have no control over when or if you’ll get a partner. Should be shown in a double feature with One Night Only.
Timer (2009). Fantastical rom com where an implant lets the user know how long until they meet The One. A very well observed, and very Californian, comedy of manners with Caulfield excellent as a hopeless romantic who is hopelessly modern and wants the impossibility of love with contract riders.
Black voting power means DC Statehood. Period. I spoke at the Progressive Baptist National Convention about attacks on Black voting rights—and why DC must be part of that conversation. Taxation without representation has no place in modern America. #DC51 #StatehoodForDC #VotingRights
I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Say Julian Bailey’s name in the same breath as Alex Pretti and Renee Good. They were all senselessly murdered by Trump’s federal agents.
Julian Bailey's widow finally received the autopsy report in his death this week. The findings? U.S. Marshals shot him six times in the back. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Yesterday 2 PM: not hungwy 5 PM: not hungwy 9 PM: not hungwy 10:45 PM: hm maybe? but miwk icky 11:15 PM: new miwk? nope not hungwy 1:30 AM: not hungwy 5:00 AM: okay sippy pls 8:45 AM: more sippy 11:00 AM: I HUNGERRRRRRRRR MIWK NOW
The library is buzzing with opportunities for job seekers this summer. Stop by Anacostia Library on Mondays and Thursdays for the Hiring Hub, where you can get hands-on résumé help and friendly review sessions. https://bit.ly/4bSBWK5
This guy would win in a landslide if he ran for office. I promise you there are SO MANY voters waiting for the "Were going through every file and we will find all of you" candidate to take on the New Gestapo. Establishment Dems will never hold anyone accountable. They had their chance and blew it
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Encampment evictions don’t solve homelessness, they make it worse.
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the long trauma of covid will be with us so long as people live in denial of the fact that covid is not over
One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
This is going to happen more and more until people in power and in the media stop lying about the basis for asylum. People don’t risk their lives to come here for nothing, they do it because it’s the only chance they have at safety.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.
Hard to overstate the dread in my little circle in Ohio this morning. The woman who helped so much at the end of my MIL’s life is in my racist gvt’s crosshairs, along with her husband and young children, and there’s little we can do about it. It’s abhorrent
I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
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“People are saying he’s a criminal. So what? He had a family. He had me!” So what is right. Criminality is a labeling system for human disposal. We need people to stop accepting the violence it's leveraged to excuse.
“My heart was so broken I don’t even know how to put it in words,” Ruiz’s daughter says of when she found out. “Sometimes when you get shot you live,” so at first she thought he might be alive. “People are saying he’s a criminal. So what? He had a family. He had me!”
Corey Ruiz's 13 year old daughter Kah’liyah gave a very memorable statement today at the press conference held by Ruiz's family and their attorney.
“My heart was so broken I don’t even know how to put it in words,” Ruiz’s daughter says of when she found out. “Sometimes when you get shot you live,” so at first she thought he might be alive. “People are saying he’s a criminal. So what? He had a family. He had me!”
One more thing, because I'm feeling extremely mushy. Truly seeing, and lifting up, the humanity of those our government wishes us to dehumanize and forget is the most satisfying act of resistance I have ever been a part of. I encourage you to give it a try
@chairmanmendelson.com staffer has a thread on the DoorDash anti-homerule bill HR 9720 #DeleteDoorDash
In their letter, DoorDash seems to be conflating the passive congressional review that all of our legislation undergoes with active approval. Suffice to say, those are not even close to the same thing.
I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:
My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines
The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.
newrepublic.com
If this horrific police execution video crosses your timeline consider: - we don’t have to physically witness a murder to know it’s horrific - people who are subject to this type of violence do not have to be repeatedly traumatized by it - you do not have to push violence into people’s timelines
*turn off autoplay on your videos right now*