My latest.
Black journalists knew from the jump that the end game of the CRT panic was to justify legalizing anti-Black efforts.
Florida and DeSantis are showing us what was under their *ahem* hoods this entire time.
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Any sort of strangulation or choking is the reddest of red flags. That action is the most frequent precursor to domestic murder.
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People keep telling you the secret to a long, happy life. Listen.
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Them: Wow, you look great! And your skin is glowing! What's your secret!
Me: I'm single, and I refuse to let men stress me out lol
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Them: Wow, you look great! And your skin is glowing! What's your secret!
Me: I'm single, and I refuse to let men stress me out lol
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Sadly, I've been threatened with or experienced violence in a lot of my intimate relationships with men. I was able to get out of them safely. Many women aren't.
I hope your daughter will get long-term medical monitoring. Brain damage from strangulation can show up years later.
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:trigger warning:
My daughter was strangled to the point of unconsciousness this morning when she was telling her boyfriend of four years she's leaving. We're bringing her home right now. It's all I can do to not get into my car and my tires have a discussion with him.
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Harry Styles saying people like him don’t win very often. Meanwhile, there are watch parties in Puerto Rico rooting for Benito to win the first-ever Puerto Rican Album of the Year at the Grammys. El chiste se cuenta solo.
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i saw two grammy voters quoted in that variety article who said they didn't vote for beyoncé because she always wins and every time she does something new "it's a big event" and it really pisses me off. people just don't like seeing Black women win "too much." it's nasty.
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"Anti-Blackness hasn't just been about lynchings and slavery and being cruel to Black people. It also requires white people intimidating white institutions from being allies to Black people," explains to :
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That's true.. and decades ago down South the KKK would threaten or kill any white people they perceived as being too nice or two close to black people. I saw it as a child.I ran away from MS at 17. Im 68 now. I don't want a replay.
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I yearn to be an author that Florida finds problematic.
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A certain housecat is puking up a storm right before I’m supposed to go on air
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Tonight, on the on , I'll be discussing DeSantis, racism, police violence, Nancy Mace, the Chinese balloon, and more with:
That's live on from 8pm ET.
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What on earth is happening in Florida? My expert panel of , , and join me to discuss tonight on the .
Live on from 8pm ET.
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I am the snitch
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Not possible. Get rid of the snitches or get the cat a good lawyer
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It cannot be done. Back in the days of phones with curly cords I had to keep mine in the fridge to keep him from chewing through one every night.
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In an educational history sense, I’m starting to think of the past and present iterations of the A.P. AfAm Studies exam as similar to the relationship of the idea of integration to the reality of desegregation.
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Black History Month is, uh, not off to a great start
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you already are, my old landlady said it was better to have two cats, "One cat alone comes up with very silly ideas"
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Black suffering has become an industrial complex of its own, snuff films as ritual entertainment, writes.
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How do you stop a cat from committing crimes
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TS Eliot wrote about that poets.org/poem/macavity-
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How do you stop a cat from committing crimes
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True. We must show are abilities, promote ourselves, support and lift each other up.
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My ancestors did not put me in this realm to endlessly battle for white permission to access our own past, present, and future.
As long as Black people walk this earth with the ability to remember, to speak, to write, to teach, and to learn, our power can’t be erased.
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BIG FACTSSSSSSS!!!!!
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The relative silence from other groups re: AP African American Studies mess is quite... loud.
Imagine a state trying to formally wipe Jewish history, Asian American history, or other marginalized groups from AP curricula.
If they come for us, they can come for yall, too.
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My latest.
Black History Month is, uh, not off to a great start
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Remember when relativity was deemed "Jewish physics" & removed from German university teaching? Because that happened. This is the exact same, on the social science of structural racism. Structural racism is removing studies of structural racism from the curriculum - funny that.
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Everyone needs to pay attention. The US College Board caving to a white supremacist to remove Black scholars' work from AP studies has precedents.
I say this as the daughter of a German-Jewish physicist. Banning minority scholars is pure Nazi 💩and should be named as such.
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My latest.
Black journalists knew from the jump that the end game of the CRT panic was to justify legalizing anti-Black efforts.
Florida and DeSantis are showing us what was under their *ahem* hoods this entire time.
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The College Board’s decision to gut the AP African American Studies course is a craven move that erases Black history and enables white supremacy.
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Let me get off twitter cause right now I’m trying to not cuss people out
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This is the one!
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My ancestors did not put me in this realm to endlessly battle for white permission to access our own past, present, and future.
As long as Black people walk this earth with the ability to remember, to speak, to write, to teach, and to learn, our power can’t be erased.
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The people who told us we have to learn about manifest destiny in America, “civilizing missions” in Africa, are the same ones who are literally running scared of teaching about Black resistance to these very ideas.
Fitting.
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