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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Jul 27

People think that just because something is normalized that that’s the only way things can be. They cannot or actually will not allow themselves to actualize a world different than what they are used to. A majority of those people are also the ones benefiting from that harmful thing

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · May 4

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

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ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 30

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

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · May 1

I did nothing to yall 😭

B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Apr 24

That level of hatred for community that leads to self deprecation needs to be studied!!!!

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · Apr 23

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.

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Apr 21

A green flag that’s good for my immune system 🤭

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Apr 17

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.

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Apr 16

I know that JD Vance is a liar but, do they know and do they care? The people who voted for him and Trump?

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · Apr 16

jd vance just tweeted this

"What process is due" the fucking constitution

Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country. This placed extraordinary burdens on our country--our schools, hospitals, housing, and other essential services were overwhelmed. On top of that, many of these illegal aliens committed violent crimes, or facilitated fentanyl and sex trafficking. That is the situation we inherited.

The American people elected the Trump administration to solve this problem. The President has successfully stopped the inflow of illegal aliens, and now we must deport the people who came here illegally.

To say the administration must observe "due process" is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors. To put it in concrete terms, imposing the death penalty on an American citizen requires more legal process than deporting an illegal alien to their country of origin.

When the media and the far left obsess over an MS-13 gang member and demand that he be returned to the United States for a *third* deportation hearing, what they're really saying is they want the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently.

Here's a useful test: ask the people weeping over the lack of due process what precisely they propose for dealing with Biden's millions and millions of illegals. And with reasonable resource and administrative judge constraints, does their solution allow us to deport at least a few million people per year?

If the answer is no, they've given their game away. They don't want border security. They don't want us to deport the people who've come into our country illegally. They want to accomplish through fake legal process what they failed to accomplish politically:

The ratification of Biden's illegal migrant invasion.

President Trump and I will not stand fori t.

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1912320489261027374

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Apr 13

You know what you did! That photoshop stole all the booty 🤭

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Apr 13

Friend……..

a woman is making a funny face while wearing a tank top .

ALT: a woman is making a funny face while wearing a tank top .

media.tenor.com

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Apr 13

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 🤭

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Apr 13

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.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 3

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.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 3

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)

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 2

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.

Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · Apr 1

Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out

t.co/LeABrGqDei

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Mar 31

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

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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · Mar 26

“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

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Juicy Fruit aka I Am Abundant AF @iamabundantaf.blacksky.app · Mar 24

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 😊

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Juicy Fruit aka I Am Abundant AF @iamabundantaf.blacksky.app · Mar 24

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)

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Mar 20

Not Vaseline!!!! That’s my favorite moisturizer

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ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 16

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 @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.

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B.U.A @macibiri.bsky.social · Mar 15

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Mar 14

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

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Mar 14

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.

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