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the gaslighting of congress and legislatures and white supremacy and capitalism has made it hard for so many of us to see that even our wildest policy dreams are excessively reasonable. It's the status quo that's audacious.
Renakj.bsky.social
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Renakj.bsky.social
@ReenNahMean
repentant lawyer and tell-all mom. student of radical social movements and believer in PIC abolition. she/her
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2009
- i cannot believe we live in a society where so many think this makes sense. endangering the lives of countless people so cops can play fast and furious over property theft?!
- "bUT tOURism IS GOod FOr loCAL eCONomies."You know who can’t access Jamaica’s white-sand beaches? Jamaicans.
00:00 - I can't express to you how nearly unheard of it is for an Ivy League to allow the CITY POLICE (not even the campus police) to come ARREST (especially white) STUDENTS on campus...for ANYTHING much less protesting? Things are shifting rapidly and horrifyingly in this moment.Police are currently arresting around 20 Jewish Brown University students non-violently demonstrating for a ceasefire now!
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00:00 - please don't watch kanye's interview with tucker carlson. but pleeeaasee understand that his choice to go on THAT platform + willfully, strategically misrepresent Gabriella's words & actions, was a deliberate attempt to incite racist, extremist violence against her.
- y'all are fucking sick. Black women are 3x more likely to die during childbirth than white women. Maternal mortality has increased by 33% since 2020. 84% of maternal deaths are preventable. The Black infant mortality rate is 2x the white infant mortality rate. SICK.Conservative groups have sued to shut down the Abundant Birth Project, which provides 150 pregnant Black San Franciscans a $1,000 monthly stipend They allege the project illegally discriminates by giving the stipend only to people of a specific race 19thnews.org/2023/11/affirm…
- this is what we mean when we say crime is a social and racialized construct AND that media drives mass criminalization. white kids hop a pool fence: it's a fun summer montage scene on Laguna Beach or Sweet Valley High. Black kids do it: filmed by helicopters for the 6:00 news.Several children were caught breaking into one of the many Baltimore City pools that remain closed with their gates chained. The break-in was caught on Monday. Footage details the children breaking in, setting up "camp", and entering the water along with a scooter.
00:00 - watching white "feminists" who have had absolutely nothing to say about the slaughter of Palestinian entire lineages, NICU babies, and pregnant women express "outrage" and "sorrow" because Margot Robbie didn't get an Oscar nomination...
GIF - gives me chills that people can see somebody experiencing houselessness & feel that the governmental failure is the fact that they have to see or be proximate to that person, not the fact that we continually fail to address the conditions that leave people without housing.
- Replying to @kwateleoyo and @JiorJetteto this day i associate the smell of burning plastic with the sweet relief of being at the end of 8+ hours of no food, uninterrupted pain and the same nollywood film on a loop.
- it is extremely wild to watch "liberal" universities and public defender offices threaten their staff and students with punitive bans on using terms like "settler colonialism" and "genocide." the very same people feigning horror at the right's CRT bans are now imposing them.
- do you know what really effectively reduces the number of people experiencing houselessness and mental health crises? consensual, quality and free/affordable healthcare access and infrastucture, universal basic income and infrastructure and meaningful investments in housing.
- Replying to @PallaviGunalanSimilarly, walking by an unhoused person and their dog and coming back to give resources...to the dog.
- Replying to @ReenNahMeanhe's mad that fashion, entertainment & (most) Black folks took her side against his. and because he can't just take a well-deserved L, he took his grievance to those he knows are most primed and eager to attack Black people, women, fat people & so many of us. it's unforgiveable.
