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i have not penalized a single student for late work and if you have you should not be an educator. yes, this is my hill.
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just realized Greta gerwig and Greta thunberg were different lmao I was like little Greta is BUSY.
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conservatives are playing The Long Game and I believe democrats are playing Animal Crossing.
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Yâall gonna protect that niggaâs ghost more than you do Black women and thatâs the fucking tea.
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"this virus doesn't care what color you are or how much money you make" ok gandhi but the hospitals do.
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2,000 people died yesterday.
Joe & Jill Biden invited singing nurses to perform in the East Room. WATCH:
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drones that buzz incessantly. bullets that explode knees. skunk that stays in your nose. bombs that burn your bones. israelâs technologies of sensorial terror & extermination are on full display. developed with & funded by the USA.
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woke up crying after hearing something really great in my dream so I'm tweeting it in case someone else needs to hear it.đ§Ą."you deserve to celebrate not only who you've become, but who you could've become and fought not to.".
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the price of ascendance, baby. only FIVE years ago this woman wrote an op-ed advocating for Democratic presidential candidates to BOYCOTT AIPAC. now she's doing unpaid overtime for them. hot clown shit.
Still have not been able to process this on a political level, professional level, human level, any level
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if youâre celebrating âindigenous peopleâs dayâ and also âstanding by israelâ itâs time to open up a book mama letâs research.
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Remember when J. Cole said he doesnât read books but he thinks a lot.
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white americans have crowdsourced nearly $6,000,000 in 48 hours to build a wall that will never be built; a wall that is already built; a wall that can never be built. don't talk to me about "poor disenfranchised whites." $6,000,000. 48 hours. venture capitalists for suffering.
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Rihanna realizing that the real money is in luxury goods and abandoning her music is peak grad student culture and we might have to stan in perpetuity.
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Ethan Bronner, The New York Times' Jerusalem bureau chief, lives in a home that zionist colonists stole from Palestinian linguist and BBC journalist Hasan Karmi and his family in 1948.
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hey fellas is it gay to hold yourself accountable? I mean youâre basically holding a nigga. .
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white men can't criticize trump without diagnosing him as mentally ill or calling him putin's gay sex slave. it's almost like they have to disidentify with him at every level to leverage any substantial critique at all! how interesting!.
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the fact that AOC was re-elected after this is the real scandal.
this remains one of the most out of pocket things ever stated & i will always think about it
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when they say âthis is not genocideâ what they mean is âthese are not peopleâ.
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Cops are good at that.
Kamala Harris has the ability to turn any debate, any hearing, any moment into an absolute slaughter. It is a talent unlike anything weâve really seen.
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mo'nique: i have integri--.steve harvey: if i crumble, my children crumble, my grandchildren crumble, blueberry crumble, rumble in the jungle, bitch be humble, i am a CLOWN.
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White: Mila Kunis, Anne Hathaway.White passing: Nicole Richie, Wentworth Miller.White-trespassing: Eminem.White bypassing: Bobby Caldwell.Racially ambiguous: Malcolm Gladwell.Racially amnigguous: Maya Rudolph, Vin Diesel.Black: Mariah Carey, Cicely Tyson, Sade, Hot Sauce.
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poor black people: âwe have limited to no access to vegetables, education, or clean water. we live paycheck to paycheck and have no time to think or dream about how to get freeâ. black capitalists:.
JAY-Z performs new freestyle: âGentrify your own hood before these people do it.â
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wow itâs almost like the trajectory of our very lives are at the whim of billionaire wealth hoarding monsters who at any moment can change it because they feel like it. philanthropy: capitalismâs hype man.
"I'm amazed. I have a degree and I'm tuition free, it was shocking," says Morehouse College graduate Aaron Mitchom on having his debt paid off. "He changed our lives. He changed a generation of wealth right there just off of a couple of words."
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when future dies niggas gonna light themselves on fire at child support offices nationwide.
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they say "slipped" as if poverty is accidental, unpreventable.
EIGHT MILLION people have slipped into poverty since May, when federal aid dried up in the coronavirus pandemic.
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don't use "the real world" as an excuse to be cruel. isn't that the same "real world" that pays you 3k per class, doesn't compensate you for office hours, and doesn't provide you benefits? grace is the only currency you have sweetie why not be a socialist w that shit?.
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only $2,615 more is needed for the Tamir Rice Afrocentric Center in Cleveland to meet its funding goal! share with your wealthy friends! let's get this met today!!
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2020 dems as chicken sandwiches. cory booker as bojangles: lightskin biscuit. dry. kamala harris as chick-fil-a: try hard, overrated. hates trans people. elizabeth warren as popeye's: the ingredients fresh. sauce knocks you into next week. all your student loans are forgiven.
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like most adjuncts, i had +100 students this semester. there was no way i was thoughtfully reading and grading responses every 3 weeks in a timely fashion any damn way. taking out my frustration with how little grace and coin i'm paid on my students is punk shit, pandemic or not.
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earlier today i tweeted the gofundme of ramsey orta, a recently released black man who filmed eric garner's murder. if you didn't donate, or did, please consider donating to his wife, a black woman and mother planning to divorce ramsey, who is abusive.
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there are 30,000 undergrads at UC Berkeley. this year, 2 black students graduated with an English B.A.
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white person: "i think that. black people have the right to live".y'all: "YAAAASSSSSS AUNTIE!!!!!!!! THEY'RE NOT READY FOR THE TRUTH! RUN FOR PRESIDENT MAMA!!!!! WHITE FAVE BEEP BEEP!!!!".
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Students are not owed letters of recommendation. If you want a professor's personal endorsement, don't do shit that flies directly in the face of what they stand for. or find another faculty member. Imagine being so spoiled you demand disingenuous acclamation on command.
A professor @U_of_michigan wrote this letter to a student who was planning on studying in #Israel. Academic boycotts arenât just theoretical. They have a direct impact on students daily lives on campus. This is why we fight.
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students burying grandparents over zoom and contracting covid in the same week. students working in food service without mandated precautions to pay bills, then freaking out about getting their parents sick. these are the students you want to introduce "the real world"? fuck off.
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wild stuff from NPR yesterday-- . baby is born, needs to be in NICU. bill is over $207k. both parents have health insurance. they keep getting bills. here's the crazy fucking reason why omg
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if the brownsville children's prison is shocking to you, not-friendly reminder that give or take 60,000 kids are incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons every day in the US. in michigan, black kids are held hostage at a ratio of 4.2 to 1.
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whenever i hear "post-pandemic economic recovery" or see a headline about "lazy workers" i remember that before the first COVID-19 case there was 1 person alive worth $100 billion and now there are 9 âď¸.
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thread: black women in rap as toni morrison novel covers . âcircles and circles of KASHâ. Sula (1973) x @kashdoll
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In 2013, a black woman named Miriam Carey made a U-turn near the White House. Capitol police fired 26 times, killing her. Her baby daughter in the backseat survived.
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Me eating my McChicken knowing itâs made with chicken beaks, sand, iron nails, cardboard & lettuce
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kamala is that HBCU auntie that ur mom hates bc she brings catered food to christmas dinner and talks shit about your brother behind everybody back bc he got locked up on a weed charge. she's also the prosecutor who locked your brother up on a weed charge.
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their job is not to keep us alive, their job is to keep us working.
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Anderson Cooperâs classist dog whistle that theyâre going to âreturn to the holiday inn &olive gardenâ as if these ppl donât have money to fly across the country with weapons and fireworks and arts and crafts materials in the COVID economy lol. militia is a middle class affair.
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The lack of heat and electricity is not what made that prison âinhumaneâ and unlivable. Prisons are inherently unlivable sites of terror and death. Any other narrative is failing us.
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black people âsaved democracyâ and tomorrow will be slaughtered and incarcerated and policed and surveilled and impoverished as required by said âdemocracyâ because their victories are not our victories. Every victory that is not ours prolongs our suffering.
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if a world without police, billionaires, and anti-blackness is no world at all, then so be it đą.
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poor black people: public schools are nightmares, we have no health insurance, rent is high, and we are hungry. black entrepreneurs:.
i wanna get every black kid a passport dude.
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but every major network is covering bezosâ launch live. sickness.
Patty Hernandez, a 23-year-old Amazon warehouse worker in Tracy, California, miscarried after pleading with her manager and human resources for lighter duty.
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dolly parton on the first time she heard her "i will always love you" sung by whitney
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So I went to a Black Panther pop up bar in DC tonight & they really stared gorilla screaming at this white man who walked in lmfaoooooo I support this moment in black history.
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all week, I've been tearing into friends over their eugenicist apathy (excitement?) over the deaths of (let them tell it, exclusively) unvaccinated people. my great great grandfather was enslaved by a famous physician. one of my grandparents is unvaccinated. thread:.
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yes professor Iâll write that final paper for you amidst the insistent implosion of civil society, indeed Iâm looking forward to writing some of my best work as pandemics spark my creativity and certainly donât, as one might expect, spur depressive spirals. take care đ.
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âWe teach men to shrink themselves, to make their clown shoes smaller. We say to them, you can have red hair, but not too much. You should aim to be creepy, but not too creepy. Otherwise, you would not attract us. Because I am not a man, I am expected to aspire to clowneryââ.
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cancel culture does not exist but for shaun king. we need to invent it.
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Today is the 33rd anniversary of the 1985 MOVE Bombing, when Philly PD dropped a bomb on the homes of Black liberation organization MOVE, killing 5 children, 6 adults, and destroying numerous homes.
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this pandemic has helped me commit to memory how many white americans are willing to kill their parents and children for the familiar comforts of imperial life, the revocable promises of capitalist exploitation.
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hatred of poor people is the most pathetic shit. like, go kill that boss you hate instead of harassing people who go in debt every month to buy groceries. weirdo.
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yesterday a white man saw me wearing my writing retreat hoodie and asked who my favorite author was. i replied morrison and he asked, "have you ever read dostoyevsky?" "no," i said, "& lemme guess- you've never read toni morrison". i was right
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The United States is starving Palestine. And every single person in that administration knows. And they do nothing.
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jay z: "i'lll be donating 5 million dollars to the ghosts of dead white slave owners who will begin reinstating chattel slavery immedi--". y'all: ur simple mind đ¤ cant understand the MONEY MOVES đ¤ jay is making. EYE would like to see what all the slavery fuss is about anyway đ¤Ş.
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academic writing.
Japanese bagmaker Tsuchiya Kaban has created a leather bag specifically for carrying watermelons
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i'd much rather white people prevent their kin from murdering us than show up to the post-massacre protest in tears but maybe that's just me!!!!!!!.
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Yâall want me to believe in capitalism but Ryan Seacrest is worth $300,000,000? Im good luv enjoy.
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this is how I imagine teachers sound writing recommendations for students who never came to class bc they feel bad for them
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for the past month or 2 scientists have been warning that small resumptions of pre-COVID behavior + the spread of more aggressive variants would result in a terrible surge. at the same time, the biden admin has been posting fancams + telling teachers to go back to school.
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ok white ppl, itâs your time to shine! pull out those doc martens and hit the streets.
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you kinda just gave us a really big one. lmaoooooo.
8.5 HOURS is how long i stood in line to VOTE. i donât wanna hear one excuse!.
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to ensure prospective roommates read our entire Craigslist Ad, at the very end we told them our required subject line
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There is no justice in policing. Policing is unjust. No new database, no new wrist slaps, no new policies. Murderers donât abide by contracts. Abolish the police.
Democrats new Justice in Policing Act:. ⢠Bans chokeholds.⢠Bans no-knock warrants.⢠Requires bodycams.⢠Demilitarizes the police.⢠Ends racial profiling.⢠Limits qualified immunity.⢠Police misconduct database.⢠Lynching a federal crime.
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"I love him to death," she said of the former president. "He's a wonderful man. He's a funny man.". The invasion of Iraq killed 500,000+.
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I do not make the rules, I am simply the messenger. If you have amendments talk to Tracey Ellis Ross. I trust her.
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to reiterate why this is dangerous: black elites do not organize people to refuse antiblack terror. they crawl out of their mansions & brownstones for one reason: mute anger & silence critiques of capitalism by declaring a movement they do not belong to, over (hence the title).
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How come Adele never has any back up dancers?.
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we talk a lot about who is "most vulnerable" but say nothing of those who are "most callous" or "most murderous".
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