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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 21h

The racist and misogynist myth of the “Welfare Queen” is alive and well. The focus on SNAP has brought it back to national prominence. But please note: It never, ever went away. It shows up all the time. The entire trope around undeserving people has a poisonous line through our policies.

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 3d

While this is hard to confront, it’s absolutely the truth. We are in the midst of a Second Redemption (google “redemption” to find out what happened during the first one)

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3d

The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 4d

What an icon!

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 5d

Queen Latifah arriving to The Jennifer Hudson Show set.

AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 5d

2. It’s never “deportations are wrong in all circumstances, b/c they rip families apart and are racist,” it’s “let’s make sure we keep the illegals out and keep investing in ICE and DHS”

AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 5d

1. It’s never “we need to dramatically reduce the power of police b/c Black and Latine folx are constantly targeted and arrested,” it’s “we need to get back to the status quo (when police left the Good White People alone)”

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 5d

This is why I think Dems aren’t going to come back to power in the foreseeable future: rather than offer a vision for a multiracial, inclusive future, they keep offering a future where only white people will be treated as full citizens

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8d

Hey Bernie, quick question, what the fuck is wrong with you?

www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...

Bernie Sanders praises Trump's job on securing border

"I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it," the senator said.

www.newsweek.com

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 5d

I already had this #Cardi album on repeat, and now #MTS done released #LoverGirl

🗣️ FEMALE EMCEES ARE DOING THE DAMN THING!

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 5d

🗣️ UNGODLY HOUR!

SWIIRL it's my birthday 11/20 🎈🥳 @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 6d

#BLACKSKY What song was yours?

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 7d

🗣️ TURN IT UP!

a woman wearing headphones is sitting on a train with her eyes closed ..

ALT: a woman wearing headphones is sitting on a train with her eyes closed ..

media.tenor.com

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 8d

I’m what’s known as a “gold star gay”: I’ve only ever been with guys, never a woman

🗣️ BUT I’M READY TO CHANGE ALL DAT FOR MEG! PLEASE HAVE YOUR WAY WITH ME, GODDESS!!!

#MTS #LoverGirl #Hotties

Megan Thee Stallion - LOVER GIRL [Official Video]

YouTube video by Megan Thee Stallion

youtu.be

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 13d

Damn, still sinking in that we lost #DeAngelo. But what a great lil’ tribute here

Spooky Soulaan 🎃👻🐈‍⬛ @venusiangoddess92.bsky.social · 13d

This is perfect 🥹🕊️💔

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 20d

Just realized my dean is the same kind of evil conformist as the male camp counselor in Addams Family Values and 🗣️ I’M SCREAMING 🤣

AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 20d

Glad this brother captured how *incredible* #ComputerLove is, from beginning to end

nai THEE black barbie 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 20d

Computer Love was WAY ahead of its time.

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · 21d

Stumbled upon anaiis a few weeks back, and this is one of my fave songs from her album. Melody/vibe reminds me a lot of #Feist

anaiis - My World (beyond) [Preview]

YouTube video by anaiis

youtu.be

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Aug 30

This new #SabrinaCarpenter album is giving #UnderTheBlackLight by #RiloKiley, but updated. Taking me back to my 20s and summers in the City 😭

AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m loving this season of #ProjectRunway. Not just talented contestants, but love the energy/realness that #LawRoach brings. I’ve been seeing a lot of yt folks say it’s “too dramatic” and that they won’t watch anymore, but I think they actually just dislike seeing a Black femme who’s opinionated 💅🏾

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · Aug 7

a message; a word.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Aug 6

Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Aug 3

We have a two-part dilemma: (1) we don’t have a *national* movement fighting back against all of this, and (2) building that type of movement feels impossible when so many white & other non-Black people gleefully and willingly chose this.

Things are rapidly deteriorating, and I fear for the future.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 3

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 2

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Aug 1

I find these times to be terrifying, especially because I know that they are NOT unprecedented: for the majority of this country’s history, Black people have been subjected to the whims of white people, whether private citizens or police officers — there was no “rule of law” that applied to us.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · Jul 31

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

www.thenation.com

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Jul 28

🗣️ YOU HEAR ME?!?!

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Jul 24

🗣️ I DON’T APPRECIATE FOLKS TAKING PICTURES OF WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO WITH MEN IN THE PRIVACY OF MY OWN BEDROOM!

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · Jul 24

Vocal fry

A mouthbrooding fish horfing up many babies

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 24

I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.

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AfroFutureSis @afrofuturist24.bsky.social · Jul 24

I want *OFF* of this fucking timeline.

Amerikkka is enabling the genocide of Palestinians. Musk is a Nazi who has ruined thousands of lives. Trump is disappearing nonwhite people to foreign gulags and Dems aren’t doing a damn thing about it.

But the *scandal* is the fucking Epstein files?!?!

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