Existential insomnia

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

Synthetic testosterone, roid rage politics, huh.

We play different roles. Electeds working within a harmful system - who succeed insofar as they make it less harmful. activists who push electeds based on movement values. If you expect electeds to behave like activists or activists to applaud all an elected does, you’re going to be dissapointed.

Okay I’m at $565, can we get to the goal? This is the last week ! Baby Heba says “please?”

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

making a tableside caesar salad at my next job interview

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

Sen Josh Hawley wants to deny the truth of Trump Crow. But he can’t hide from Black voters. This week, we’re on Capitol Hill unmaking MAGA’s plot to erase the Black vote, sabotage this election and lock in white supremacy for another generation. Join our civil rights mvmt to win a future of repair

this is just the most evil soul crushing shit

Aww. I went to college nearby. Very cute area lol. I love Illinois.

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

I say this over and over again. It’s trans rights. It’s immigrant rights. It’s Palestinian lives. It’s always been Black and indigenous lives. No one is free until everyone is free is a warning, not a mantra!

Now, this I did not know !

Not to debase human life into electoral politics, but Black women are the base that has turned out reliably for Democrats in elections. Or organizing get out the vote efforts. What happens when that base is now in economic survival mode with no ability to organize for the next 3, 5, years?

Ed Sheeran is proof you can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars — and still be an indentured servant to wealthy supremacists.

There’s nothing

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/