sende
Former dilettante. Struggling bookworm. Born between worlds, always searching for more. Jack of all trades, master of some. *Banner art by Tamara Natalie Madden*
- I love this. Children are the foundation of society and we should always treat them like they belong!
- Reposted by sendeLiving in this liminal space where things get worse millimetre by agonizing millimetre, where you have to be aware just enough to brace but also mime normal because if you don't YOU'RE the problem is so draining.
- Reposted by sendeThese kids had to be walked to prison by school officials bcz there is no family to take them. They have committed no crime and didn’t get a trial. They are in prison and are in 3rd and 5th grade.
- Reposted by sendeNorth America as a whole cages 35 kids for every 100k kids The US? 49 kids per 100k overall Latino kids? 57 Indigenous kids? 181 Black kids? 228
- Zero. None. And that’s forever! Not temporarily or accidentally. Not one child ever.
- Reposted by sendeI love how Big New Zealand was able to share a lovely personal experience in a way that was meaningful to so many people, myself included.
- For the people who keep saying we should wait for midterms. That man has been broadcasting his plans since day 1.
- I know everyone is applauding Ilhan Omar for continuing to speak after being attacked but I sincerely wished she would have gone to get checked out instead.
- No one knows what that substance was and too many Black women have been attacked by acid to be casual about shit like that.
- Reposted by sendeI have been writing researching and writing about threats to Ilhan Omar for like 8 years and so I don't mean to go all Bluesky Discourse™ on a viral moment I just see in her my friends who I worry about and I'm still shaken. That was too close. My article (well my research) from 2019
- Reposted by sendeTo clarify, I fully support Ilhan Omar being ready to rock that dude's shit (it's a good lesson in what happens when someone oversteps) I just just know how my BW friends are TIRED and I don't want us always celebrating them as fierce when bad shit happens, give them money and support REGARDLESS
- Reposted by sendeI don't want to celebrate how Ilhan Omar was ready to throw down. Tired of valorizing Black women as fighters, that dude should have been stopped and stomped out before he got close to her.
- Reposted by sendeFrom a friend who works at an MPS school with hundreds of families in hiding: "The thing REALLY needed is money for rent/utilities/cell phone bills. It looks like there is a lot of money raised but across 5 schools it’s not enough with February rent coming due." givebutter.com/rent4mplsfam...
- The thing I’ve always enjoyed about watching this is seeing how much love and admiration they had for each other. Just beautiful.
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i think a lot of well meaning people underestimate how many people actually like, trust, and want to keep funding a militarized police force. the "aversion" to the word "abolish" is that people want to keep cops around. - Reposted by sendePeople already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
- Reposted by sendeI need you all to understand something for those of you who think you know what this black woman who has lived in racist America really thinks. I know this is hard for you all, but some of us saw this coming for years, decades even. So understand, I am not being snarky. I am grieving.
- Reposted by sendeIf there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists
- When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by sendeMy name is Saed from Gaza. My voice was silenced and my accounts deleted for saying: we are here. My family faces a severe shortage of food and basic needs, and we urgently need $300 to live with dignity. If you can’t donate, please share or keep us in your prayers. Thank you. 🫂🙏 gofund.me/a0a540b8
- Reposted by sendeSo once ice vehicles have been discovered and are being followed, they often become incapable of doing their sinister work. This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.
- Reposted by sendeEssentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).
- Reposted by sendeAnother question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
- If you can, please help this family stay safe. Every little bit helps!
- Tale as old as time. If I had dollar for every time this happens, I’d be a trillionaire.
- Reposted by sendeIn Pakistan, the CIA went around door-to-door pretending to be giving polio vaccines, while secretly hunting for Osama bin Laden. The result was that real health care workers were ignored or even killed, and hundreds of people got polio, which had otherwise been nearly eradicated worldwide.
- As I (and many others before me) have said, what America reaps on Black people globally will eventually make its way home. History repeats.
- Reposted by sendeHoly fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...
- Reposted by sendelol I feel like people keep calling these folks idiots but I think we should be more precise: They are GLEEFULLY evil.
- Reposted by sendelol no shade to OP but none of the people breaking the things are unaware of who they're hurting by breaking the things.
- Reposted by sendeThe second sentence is actually crazy.
- Reposted by sendeCategorically, and what makes me sad is it doesn't feel like enough of us even understand why we should *aspire* to that strength.
- Reposted by sendeReports said the trial was halted. HHS says it will proceed. The revised protocol remains unethical. Scrutiny must continue until participants are no longer placed in harm’s way. I read the revised protocol and wrote a follow-up. bktitanji.substack.com/p/lipstick-o...
- I know everyone is asking about the husbands but what’s more interesting to me is she wants to know how they’re going to “continue normal life.” Because that is all white people ever care about.
- Black folks get murdered daily and have to define a “normal” that involves trying to manage the psychological damage of existing in a world that wants us dead.
- But white folks “normal” just means how do they keep their kids from seeing the “scary” people aka Black and brown people being brutalized because that might give them a few bad dreams.
- I have family members who keep traveling like it’s 2019. I keep wondering how soon it will be before we *can’t* leave the country. At least not in any legal way that’s made “easy” for us.
- Reposted by sendeMaybe people'll stop talking about midterms and calling senators when they start asking for all this *to leave* the US even temporarily. I promise you that's coming if we stay on this trajectory. (Source is in the second skeet of thread)
- Reposted by sendeMINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
- Reposted by sendeswear this is art history in the making! really powerful really beautiful pieces
- Absolutely pathetic. And this is the man who wants to get rid of vaccines.
- Reposted by sendeA lot of you say "Gaslight" when what you mean is Bamboozle. The result is that we've watered down the real psychological harm of gaslighting and we've underutilized a really fun word to say.
- And I don’t even like Christmas movies.
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- Reposted by sendeThis has been how it works from the start. What people are newly unhappy with is that the scale of violence is too loud in their personal lives, now. Their restaurant experience, upset, people getting snatched from schools, etc. However, this fire has been burning and we've been told to ignore it
- Reposted by sendeFundamentally we're at this place with eye cee eee specifically because most white people are only against the current scope of harm, not that it exists. There's been more than 20 years to say "A organization that abducts ppl, seperates families, can hold ppl indefinitely w/o trial is bad"
- Now???? Shall I point you to the extrajudicial murder of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16 year old boy who was also a US citizen? Abu Ghraib? Iraq and those WMDs they supposedly had?
- I’m so tired of American exceptionalism.
- Please help if you can or share this post. Toya needs gas money to get home.
- The most recent example of this is Covid. People’s relatives died painful, awful deaths and it changed nothing for them. The drive to be accepted and go with the crowd is stronger than most people recognize. That’s why policy is so important.
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- White people stop touching things challenge.
- 🕸️ World’s largest-known spider web discovered at Greek-Albanian border Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. #AFPVertical
- Y tu mamá también.
