William Jamal Richardson
@DecolonialBlack
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PhD Candidate @ Northwestern studying urban settler colonialism/Black-Native solidarity. Long Covid/Autistic/Agender. They/Them
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A reminder that if you're about decolonization , socialism, Black liberation, Pan-Africanism, etc and you aren't taking reasonable COVID protections rn but have the means to then you're not living up to your principles and are actually just participating in ableism eugenics.
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THIS IS NOT INSPIRING. PEOPLE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SCROUNGE AND BEG FOR THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. FUCK CAPITALISM.
This lady's father is on oxygen. She broke down when realizing the last generator was taken. This man insisted she take his. God bless them!
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Our ancestors slit the throats of slave owners and their families in they sleep so they could escape slavery.
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Can we just sit with the fact that most of the people that will have paid time off for Juneteenth are upper middle income/rich white men...the same class of people that owned my ancestors. A cruel joke is that this place is.
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When Pitbull is better than the people y'all elected....
Pitbull is sending his private plane to Puerto Rico so that cancer patients can receive treatment in the U.S.
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MSG being bad for you is a boldface racist lie made up by western scientists and doctors that drew on long standing racist ideas about East/South Asian, specifically Chinese, food and cooking practices.
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So the toddler just came over randomly and started rubbing shea butter on my elbow talmbout "No dry baby" (what her mom says to her when she lathers her in shea every morning). I'm at the same time completely in love and also feel like she low-key dragged my ass lol
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Imagine how many bus passes they could give to folks on public assistance for the price of even a few of those cameras (and the associated cost of monitoring, wiring, software, maintenance etc.)
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👏🏿KEEP THIS SHIT GOING👏🏿
ICYMI: Thomia Hunter has also been granted clemency after serving a life sentence for killing her abusive ex-boyfriend
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As an EducatedBlackMan™ this pic is classist. Education has nothing to do with dress. Our greatest thinkers are on the corner or in prison.
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Funny how white vegans miss how colonized ppl been eating meat for 1000s of yrs w/o health or enviro probs until their ancestors came along🤔
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RT if you a POC student/academic who has legit considered throwing hands w/ a white student/prof for saying some wild racist stuff in class.
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Ok so I don't get this "blaccent" convo cause there are multiple regional AAVE dialects each of which produce very distinct accents. Whatever Awkwafina doing doesn't match a single one of our accents. Call it what it is: a minstrel accent.
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At this point we need to start calling leftists who refuse to mask w/ N95s (if they have the means/ability) or use mitigations at their events counterrevolutionaries. Same goes for the decolonial folks who know damn well colonized communities are bearing the burden of this spread
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Watching white settlers lose all the land they stole
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Forget this noise about Kanye. When are you gonna answer to all the Black women wondering why you worked with well-documented pedophile and abuser R. Kelly? If you can apologize for your Kanye tweets in a day, I'm sure you can address your association with Robert too.
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Its funny how people talk about "time management" as a problem as if its not really just a symptom of:
-crippling anxiety
-depression brain fog
-you really hate this job/project
-completely uninvested in the thing
-other trauma distracting you from work
etc etc etc
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Our ancestors liberated themselves from Jim Crow when they had no electoral voice or standing, and yet we think the lesson from that is to depend on the vote for change instead of the tactics that got us the vote in the first place.
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Just because we also went thru slavery doesn't mean we need to be included in every convo bout it esp when that slavery isn't like ours.
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#DepressionFeelsLike
knowing everything you need to do while sitting at the computer and literally being unable to think the thought necessary to start the task...for 4-6 hours.
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Speaking of Native American Heritage Month, if you aren't Native you should learn about the nation in your local area or hometown this month
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When the British exiled the King of the Ashante and demanded the Golden Stool, the symbol of their nation, Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa responded by raising an guerilla force and attacked British forts and slaughtered their troops for 2 years until she was finally captured.
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On a serous tip that Tumblr porn ban is directly related to both growing tech (vertical) monopolies, namely Verizion and Apple, as well as the ongoing efforts by the state to make the internet unsafe for sexuality in general and sex workers specifically.
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Y'all should still be masking y'all kids and avoiding covid. Nobody knew how Polio or HIV truly affected the body until years down the road. There's no good reason to roll a dice with concequences this high. I promise it's easier to afford a therapist than a new organ.
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*United States should get out of every country including the United States.
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So this Harriet movies is basically following the Birth of a Nation formula of ignoring all the rich actual historical texts we have on someone's life and adding in some offensive made up shit instead AND assuming folks won't call them out for it.
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🤔 *thinks about that Black dom from Chicago who has her subs read Black feminist texts*
Dominatrix specializes in turning ‘white, right-wing men’ into socialists:
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Before y'all go trying to invite Jerry Seinfeld to the cookout:
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Mixedness is a white supremacist/colonial conception of personhood and belonging. There's not context in which we one can discuss "being mixed" that doesn't reinforce logics of race, blood purity, and blood quantums that are the root of the violent system we are all oppressed by.
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All this scrapping over Castro is rooted in a conception of history where everyone has to either be a saint or a demon. No one is either.
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Concept: a group of Black and Indigenous writers come together to write an volume of sci-fi stories all set in a shared universe that they've collaboratively developed.
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Instead of blurting "Puerto Ricans are Americans" all over this app, white people should be saying "end colonialism in PR" since that's the condition that renders PRican citizenship vaporware just like it has for every other colonizer ppl under the control of the settler state.
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I have a question: Why aren't all of these seemingly intelligent white scientists, curators, etc fighting to build/create exhibits n resources to teach their people about their violent history instead of trying to be in our spaces telling our stories? I know the answer but still.
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This, Grownish, Blackish, Insecure, Dear White People (movie and TV show) and a bunch of other shows are doing this mess nowadays and it NEVER feels organic.
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When are we gonna stop either only mentioning African chattel slavery or Indigenous genocide as "the foundation of America"? I know everyone likes centering themselves but it was both. Always both. Could never happen w/o both. Your history is unfinished if you dont mention both.
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America when its elections get tampered with by foreign nations like its done to other nations for 100 yrs.
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Maybe prosecutors should stop throwing so many mothers into prison, just a thought.
Shackling pregnant women while they are in prison isn’t just morally wrong — it’s dangerous. We must stop this inhumane practice.
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This is that anti-capitalist content we need more of on here😂
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"Social construction" does not mean "fake", "made-up", or "an illusion". Also "human nature" is a concept with no meaning empirically.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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I'd also like to take this time to mention that every single instance of positive change for a marginal group in the US settler colony has been due to a riot, rebellion, or strike (or the threat to commit the former 3). Yes, rioting is more likely to produce change than voting.
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The point: Stop colonizing the Tizon convo. Filipinos can dissect their own culture. We COULD add something but let's not. Let them have it.
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Imagine the disappointment Black folks felt when they tasted white ppl's food for the first time after they desegregated lunch counters😂
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@Reakash
You should file a complaint because they legit put yall back in danger doing that bullshit. Aint nobody playing with them mfers.
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So you just gonna ignore how your parents overthrew Haiti's govt, pushed them to lower the minimum wage, co-signed abusive UN troops to be stationed there and got kickbacks for all of it. Why don't you just stay in your white ass lane when it comes to African peoples.
Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They’ve certainly helped build our country. cc
@POTUS
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🗣️🗣️🗣️Chattel slavery was a transnational capitalist enterprise and slaveowners had "human assets" in multiple countries and territories. The historically accurate take is that ALL the colonial regimes owe ALL of us Africans (including ones on the continent) reparations.
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Nobody has ever accumulated a billion or even 100 million dollars in wealth ethically. Stop trying to invite these people to the revolution.
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I mean I'm as happy as the next person that a child molester isn't in office but he still rich, free, and like walking and shit.
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It always feel like a prelude to a hate crime
There is nothing that makes me feel more uncomfortable than groups of adults chanting U-S-A U-S-A.
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Quick reminder that the United States is an illegitimate settler-slave empire and the office of President only exists to manage and ensure the survival of the empire. The fact that these people are *choosing* to audition for the job says EVERYTHING bout their ethics and morality.
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Gentrification has exactly ONE meaning: the replacement of a poorer neighborhood population with a richer one via an increase in local cost of living; especially housing (usually due to developers/'urban renewal' policies).
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411 years of genocide, slavery, and imperialism and we still talking about how to reform and save this colonial society. Just let it die already, or better yet, kill it. We all deserve better than this.
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Lowkey mad that
#CyntoiaBrown
is being released on parole instead of just being free (but I'm still happy she out regardless). We know how frivolous the state is about that shit. So listen, she get put back in on some BS we rioting, k?
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This redbaiting bullshit is annoying and should not be applauded by anyone. This is the type of imagery and associations that justified McCarthy and COINTELPRO bullshit and justifies the violent suppression of (especially BIPOC) leftists in the US.
Don Cheadle closed SNL wearing a Russian hockey jersey.
On the back: Trump, No. 45
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See this is fucking community y'all. And note she didn't assume they were just some delinquents or shame them for trying to steal.
These two black kids were stealing out of Walmart Security was watching them So I told them whatever you got in your pockets right now walk with me to the register and don’t question me I copped the deoderant they were about to steal for them I couldn’t let them go to jail...
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You shouldn't be writing science fiction if you have never taken a sociology or ethnic studies class (or at least studied the concepts covered in an 101 class on your own). I'm tired of yall's regressive ass plots.
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Y'all can spend hours reading theory on capitalism and colonialism but can't read a pamphlet about how ventilation is key or why N95s/Kn95s/KF94s are necessary in all spaces shared with non-household folks. I'm over it.
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Is it just me or is the news coverage, especially local news, around the ice cream licker girl feel kinda...lynch-ey. Like I know the shit is nasty but umm Lufkin police talking to the news like they on the hunt for Moby Dick or some shit. That is not ok.
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Anyone who uses the word "breeding" in reference to humans, and especially humans racialized as Black should not be trusted and preferably hit in the throat.
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Abolishing capitalism
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The idea that Black Americans "built a culture from nothing" needs to die. Thats just not true, like at all. Its an offense against our ancestors tbqh. Our culture is a continuation/mixture of the West African cultures we came from + European n Indigenous influences.
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Natives didn't get "free school" but "residential schools" where kids were raped/killed while being forcefully assimilated. Stop these myths
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The worse kind of people are those who look at Bernie's foreign policy and come to the conclusion that his imperialist attitudes are an acceptable cost for obtaining domestic healthcare, childcare, loan forgiveness etc.
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If you wanna truly understand the depravity of Euro-colonial capitalism think about the fact that folks will acknowledge the literal 10s of billions of lives that this world order has destroyed and say it was worth it cause we got computers and cars out of it.
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@Reakash
Damn. Hope y'all good and fuck those cops. "Well what about the good ones" yep...they're useless too.
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One day y'all will stop thinking about different communities' oppressions comparatively and start thinking about them relationally. One day.
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Oh BTW got engaged this morning. Tried to be low key bout it but then the 5 yr old rolled in mid speech to demand I open her LOL Surprise, after which we laughed through the rest of the moment lol.
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Stating historical and sociological facts about race and colonialism= "psychological torture" 👌🏿
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Man yall really gotta let those Tulsa ancestors rest in peace and let go of this Black Wall Street ish. Y'all keep learning the worng lesson from it. The lesson isnt to build new communities of Black capitlaists but realizing that capital cant counter white supremacist violence.
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#StillCoviding
PSA: You can catch Covid outdoors, esp if you are stationary and downwind from an infected person. It takes time for viruses to dissipate even in open outdoor air. Newer variants have higher viral loads, even in vaccinated ppl. Do what y'all want with that info.
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As long as they keep benefiting from the theft of indigenous land and labor and continue to be actively white supremacist then yes, yes we will.
@aidkhal
so ur going to blame all white ppl in South Africa for the actions of their anscestors?
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To be clear it is ALWAYS a good thing for the enslaved, colonized, oppressed to resist their oppressors. PERIOD.
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So I submitted my application for my dream job. I really really hope I get it.
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Y'ALL brought factory farms, destoryed continents worth of land, bred farting ass cows, n forced changes in our diets. Issa you problem.
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This whole universe is a parody of itself at this point.
Self-Driving Cars May be More Likely to Hit Darker-Skinned People, Study Finds
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Nevermind fireworks started and she's reciting the colors of each of them at 150 decibels and by colors I mean her saying all of them are red lol.
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I'm imagining an afrofuturist story in which a BW assassin primarily kills her targets with nails that have plasma tips like tiny little lightsabers.
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Quote this with other alternative histories we could make into TV shows instead of ANOTHER take on "WHAT IF THE CONFEDERATES/NAZIS WON!?!?!"
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I'm really thinking now about how colonized ppl, especially Black folks, make delicious food from essentially trash. Rich whites, on the other hand, with their access to an entire planet worth of meats, seasonings, and herbs will turn out fried chicken that taste like water.
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PSA: You can be a socialist/anarchist and STILL support settler colonialism n deny Native people their land rights. Get over it n decolonize
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Settlers are NOT Immigrants. "We are all immigrants" equates settlers with their victims. [Veracini- The Settler Colonial Present]
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Since we've been talking about reparations on the TL I think it's a good time to remind y'all that white settlers DO NOT have the right or authority to give Black people land as reparations. Any convo about land needs to be hand with the Indigenous nations of those lands. Period.
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Myth: "If we all voted we would be able to radically change things."
Fact: There are institutions like the Supreme Court, vetos, 2/3rd majority, and the Electoral College that prevent fundamental change (like say restoring indigenous sovereignty) even if we have a majority.
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The idea that we are dishonoring our ancestors by not voting is knee slapping hilarious to me. I think the real dishonor is putting faith in the same social system that enslaved, lynched, beat, starved, and lied to them for 500 years. Haven't all the bodies taught y'all nothing?
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My toddler just casually walked up to me sans a diaper, said "poop" softly, and calmly handed me a turd. I think I've reached peak parent😑
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The kid randomly had my partner call me while I was out working just to tell me that I'm "a beautiful daddy and we're a beautiful family" 😭😭😭😭
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Y'all thinking biology or engineering is harder than sociology or law is why we got mad Black physicians but still colonized and oppressed.
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If you are a Leftist settler who thinks to create a socialist state on unceded land w/o permission and with y'all still in control you got the game twisted. Y'all mfers can go right along with the capitalists, colonized people ain't having y'all shit.
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You do know that he was refering to the possible need at the time to kill slaveowners and settlers cause they refused to see reason and willingly free African people? Remind me, what was your stance on reparations again?
As Frederick Douglass reminded us: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Real change will not come unless we take on the greed of Wall Street, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the NRA, the military-industrial-complex and other special interests.
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If you call yourself a socialist and are anti-sex work(er) or think sex work=sex trafficking then you clearly done lost the plot on the whole pro-worker thing. These concepts are too straightforward for y'all to be messing up this bad.
(But we all know you just hate sex workers)
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Racial categories are real social constructs with real social impact. "Race isn't real" is an inadequate analytic to respond to racism with.
There is no such thing as a race. White isn't a race. Black isn't a race. Brown isn't a race. Red isn't a race. Yellow isn't a race.
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Y'all calling Thanos' reason for killing half the universe absurd and a plot hole when IRL Europeans have horded enough material resources to feed 10-15 billion people but chose to let half of the species starve and complain about ppl having babies. Thanos is just a capitalist.
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George Bush probably walking into Hell right now talmbout "Y'all won" 😂
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Not to mention how much direct colonial violence happens on a daily basis to sieze labor/land needed to grow ur kale, almonds, n avocados.
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Or he could have...you know...not advanced American imperialism in the region. That would have helped the boy too.
Former President George H.W. Bush secretly sponsored a 7-year-old boy in the Philippines for ten years using a pseudonym, the nonprofit who connected them reveals. The boy didn't find out who was sponsoring him was until he had graduated from the program.
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Lets talk about how fucked it is that Guam, a US colony, might be the victim of a strike sent from another nation the US tried to colonize.
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This is hella fascinating.
Studies show that riskier playgrounds can lead to better risk detection, creativity, and self-esteem among kids.
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This guy just submitted their first draft of their dissertation proposal to my advisor. Academic probation and depression can kiss my black ass 🎉🎉🎉
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Until y'all get rid of your global colonial capitalist system that put alldis food fuckery in place y'all can buzz off.
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