always grateful for an opportunity to get candid and speak on the state of black movements, black thought and the political culture. get into my latest interview for @BARBookForum
Police retreat as protesters push forward in one of the largest demonstrations Central Java has seen in years. Tens of thousands are calling for Regent Sudewo to resign over a 250% tax hike, costly projects and policies they say were imposed without public consent.
This is dystopic
Also sickening considering how else this land could’ve been used to serve people in a city facing an affordable housing + homelessness crisis
I am truly confused about what we should be celebrating here?
“i woke up everyday as a black woman who is queer… nobody had ever seen anybody like me at that podium, and I was proud to stand at that lectern as WH press secretary”
there’s not a guillotine sharp enough
MSNBC’s @AymanM asks former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if she regrets defending Biden’s Gaza policy through 15 months of mass civilian killings and war crimes.
@K_JeanPierre : “I was vey proud of everything that I did. I don’t take anything back.”
the tension between “you have a support system and should lean on them + accept their offerings” and “i like to wallow in my shit alone + dissociate” is so intense
no need to check, just clock that once again dot benefits from the aesthetic inheritance of west coast gangster 🫱🏽🫲🏾 panther political insurgency
he never has to do/say anything remotely radical, as revolutionary proximity allows him to circulate symbols & accumulate accordingly