Hot take: shut the fuck up about Baltimore 😭
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He’s homophobic now too?
Snoop Dogg says he’s 'scared to go to the movies now' because of a lesbian couple being depicted in 'Lightyear'
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
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New Evidence Finds Titanic Passengers Continued Eating From Buffet As Ship Sank https://theonion.com/new-evidence-finds-titanic-passengers-continued-eating-1836407827/
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You can’t build a coalition of people you’re sacrificing.
Black people are a small minority like LGBT. The idea is to have a coalition of overlapping minorities that can assemble to get a majority.
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Happy birthday Marsha P. Johnson, visionary and fiery Black trans activist who birthed a movement. She’d by 80 today, and should still be alive.
Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
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PCC 7407 the last streetcar to run on Baltimore streets in 1963.
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It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street. trib.al/mQUSfwW
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how is anyone grappling with the ins and outs of how to finesse talking about this?!? if you do not viscerally believe and perceive that military troops deployed domestically for "law enforcement" is blatantly, horrifyingly wrong then go do accounting or something
Journalists writing about Trump's plans to send the National Guard to cities in blue states have to think carefully about how to frame it.
The federal government (including the National Guard) call it an anti-crime narrative. But it increasingly feels like that's a pretext for military occupation.
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Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center
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and this is why ive been saying "but crime is down" as a counter to trump is a miserable response
it needs to be a vehement "military occupation of a city is wrong here and everywhere, regardless of any given pretext"
I don't think you can entirely discount the "crime" narrative, especially when governors are pushing back by arguing that crime is down so they're unnecessary (implicitly accepting the premise).
But I do think you need to foreground that Trump is ordering military occupations of US cities.
