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she/her Black girl magic+disabled pride |MA Global Comms | my thoughts | #DisTheOscars + #AbledsAreWeird #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow | ✉️ imani.barbarin gmail

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I don’t know what the training is like for the Kpop girlies, but whatever that looks like, they deserve financial compensation for the intensity.
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Women Posting W's
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kpop idol tsuki beats an olympics gold medalist athlete at squatting
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A Black deaf kid nominated for an Emmy on his first try?!?! LET’S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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tori ☻
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Keivonn Woodard has earned his first emmy nomination in his first ever acting gig as Sam Burrell in HBO’s The Last Of Us 🤗
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Thinking you can get the French to NOT protest something is objectively hilarious.
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Macron; I ordered a ban. The French...
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“The gay agenda is to indoctrinate kids with harmful ideas about gender roles at an early age...”
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Then maybe stop shipping it to them?????
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Biden administration "concerned" about reported Israeli use of white phosphorus
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It should terrify every, particularly nonwhite, person that the US cannot confirm or deny that it still believes in the Geneva Convention…
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The US administration refuses to confirm that the Geneva Conventions apply to Palestinians.
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I’m really upset with these Montgomery brawl “training” videos…
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Disabled people have sex, faith.
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they come out with anything 😂
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These are the “overcoming disability” stories we need more of.
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CCTV IDIOTS
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Man with no arms commits armed robbery
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Amy Schumer saying she is the most successful female comedian of all time is literally the funniest thing she’s ever said.
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Portia J.
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Her latest IG post. She really is fully and completely deranged on every single level.
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TW: Sexual Harassment. Carmen and Lupita have said repeatedly they have been sexually harassed by Nondisabled people in the name of “curiosity” since they were literal children. The NY Post continuing that tradition and encouraging another internet pile on as they talk about
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I’m being so serious right now when I ask, why is she always near Black folk? Is that the only way her “humor” works?
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Wost🐰
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Bobbi look like she enjoying the Drake concert
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You useless fucks.
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United Nations
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Schools are #NotATarget . Hospitals are #NotATarget . Children are #NotATarget . Civilians are #NotATarget . Humanitarians are #NotATarget .
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I just learned today that it is illegal for Palestinians to collect rain water.
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Tariq Ra’ouf
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Abdul Rahman Maher Herzallah, my second cousin, was killed earlier this week by Israeli forces when trying to get water for his family. He was only 20, and my cousin Tala said they were too scared to get his body because they didn’t want to be shot. For getting water. 💔 1/5
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The point of this meme is for it to be factually untrue. This is not...
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QPOC Shakur
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Ima tell my kids this was Beyoncé manager.
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Why would they risk their lives for a phone?? Quickly!
@CryptoKaleo
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Society is so broken in California that employees are basically trained to help assist tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise being stolen right in front of them (notice them holding customers back) as everyone else just stands around and watches. How did we get here?
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No, he was correct when he said it was an American operation…
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Quds News Network
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US President Joe Biden mistakenly says the Israeli attacks on Rafah, Gaza were an American military operation.
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About 30-50% of all people kïlled by police have a disability.
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Imagine having to do this
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“I swear I won’t wash them, Yousef. How else am I supposed to sleep near my kids.”
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A children’s hospital.
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Quds News Network
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#Breaking : Israeli bombardment set fire to Al Rantisi pediatrics hospital North of #Gaza .
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September 11th is how I learned that in emergency situations they’re trained to leave disabled people in the building. Around the same time my middle school had a fire drill and they did just that.
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Is it cheaper?
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She coded herself as disabled, that’s why they found it funny.
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Trevor Fraley
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I don't have skin in this game but like. Why did y'all find this funny? Was she like a clown or something? There is nothing appealing about this face she's making or the voice she did. Were y'all okay?
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TW: Rape There’s this account “anonymous prolife confessions” and this one stopped me in my tracks. This parent called her child a BRAT—after coercing the daughter into having her rapists baby and no longer talking to her. The kid is 14…
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Look at their eyes and cheeks. They’re also starving.
@RamAbdu
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
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Children in Gaza wail in pain for their father, who was murdered by Israeli missiles. #GazaGenocide
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We don’t talk about Britain’s role in all of this enough for my liking.
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And yet, the perspective of the photo is someone IN the hospital bed. Doesn’t seem “healthy,” now does it?
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Lord Douglas 🏴‍☠️
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any person who looks like this has no business giving anyone health advice or medical care of any kind...
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Which means that if they knew, guess who else did too…
@folkoftheshelf
sof’s library ✧˖°. 🥄
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I’m shattered. They knew. And they let it happen so they could have precedent for genocide. It’s beyond the threshold of horrific. The deaths of Palestinian babies, women, and men in Gaza had been premediated before they realized it. The occupation knew, and they chose this.
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…why would an official government account…
@PopBase
Pop Base
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The official government account of the state of Israel calls out Gigi Hadid for sharing post about condemning the Israeli government: “Have you been sleeping the past week? Or are you just fine turning a blind eye to Jewish babies being butchered in their homes? Your silence has…
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You don’t get to finance the problem and then act like you’re fixing it too.
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Vice President Kamala Harris
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Today, I met with Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres to discuss the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza. I reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself and made clear that international humanitarian law must be respected.
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If you want to start deconstructing propaganda, then ask yourself how many superhero movies you saw made after 9/11.
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Umm… your daughter is going to be immune compromised…
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This may be controversial to say: but I think Gen Z’s constant annoyance with “cringe” may actually be facilitating their ability to identify propaganda on social media…
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Girl math is essentially the recognition that time, convenience, and money are interchangeable currencies.
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•QUAN•Tánamo•BAE•
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Wtf Is “Girl Math” ?? I can’t keep up …
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What channel is rugby usually on?
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🗿Tracey The Blocked 🏹
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Jesse Kriel really said PHYSIQUE.
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Sometimes I think they just want to play but they’re like a kid that doesn’t know their own strength.
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Interesting Things
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guy casually prevents shark attack
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Not the racism?
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Black Lives Matter has increased racial tension, 55% say in UK poll
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As someone previously noted, MonkeyPox is going to spread at a ridiculously high rate once school is back in session and given that it has been irresponsibly discussed as a virus that only impacts queer men, it is important that we nip that rhetoric in the bud fast because
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Lmao, Colleen Ballinger making sure people know that she’s thin in her ukulele song non-apology really is the icing on the cake.
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1. Kanye has mental illnesses 2. Kanye is anti-black and misogynistic 3. Kanye’s anti blackness and misogyny is not a result of his mental illness. 4. Correlating those things is dangerous to people with mental illness.
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Why is Barbie facilitating better DEI trainings than many organizations?
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The white women who evoke Handmaids Tale imagery in this moment are also complicit because they waited until they could see themselves in the things Black, Indigenous and people of color have been experiencing since this countries inception in order to get upset rather
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You’ll never be straight enough for the people who want you gone.
@MarkyHutt3
Marky Hutt
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*SNIP SNIP* It is now OFFICIAL. I now pronounce the mutual divorce between the LGB & TQ+ community. The time is now. 🏳️‍🌈✂️🏳️‍⚧️
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So they don’t get shot by police.
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TW: Lynching The lynching of Jordan Neely is what happens when you blame every violent thing that happens in this country on mental illness because while it excuses violent behavior from white people, it criminalizes mental illness in Black people. The man who choked him
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If you “don’t see race,” you don’t fight racism. If you “don’t see disability,” you don’t fight ableism. If you “don’t see gay or straight,” you don’t fight homophobia. If you “don’t see trans or cis,” you don’t fight transphobia. Stop shirking responsibility with ignorance.
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Mind you, both countries are currently aiding a genocide right now.
@RpsAgainstTrump
Republicans against Trump
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Today 79 years ago, the US army blew up the giant marble swastika overlooking the infamous Nazi rally grounds at Nuremberg, Germany.
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I know this feels like absolute hell. My God.
@FaatiTheStreet
Mis Leading
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“Where will she go? How will she recover? Does she even have any medicine like antibiotics or painkillers? This is inhumane. Share every video. Be the voice of the voiceless.” -rosypirani
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This includes gay marriage, interracial marriage and interfaith marriage in case you thought it was all going to end with trans people.
@JoshuaPHilll
Read Let This Radicalize You
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It’s a five alarm fire yall. Please wake up this is all hands on deck.
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Then neither does the role of Professor X. Simple as that.
@comicquarters
Comic Quarters
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Giancarlo Esposito would prefer not to be in a Wheelchair if chosen to play Professor X: “The physical idea of being in a wheelchair every single day does not appeal to me.” (via: @FadetoBlackPod )
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They made a sickle cell cure, which is known to primarily impact black folks, $2 million for treatment of each patient…
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Wild that an MRI costs $4k but the chair gets one for free at the low cost of internet clout.
@gunsnrosesgirl3
Science girl
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This is why metal is not allowed during an MRI
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Why is “medical supplies” in English? Also, wouldn’t it make more sense to label the boxes with the specific contents so it could be distributed properly? If the boxes contained medicine, wouldn’t they be styrofoam or insulated because they cut off electricity?
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Y’all seem shocked he hid it but don’t wonder why people don’t hire chronically ill/disabled people? What?
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I’ve seen more yt women disturbed and angry by the violence perpetrated towards Marilyn Monroe in this film than the violence perpetrated towards Black and Brown people in Dahmer—in fact they want that violence to be more graphic. Wonder why that energy changed.
@BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed
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"This movie is weird and perverted and straight garbage."
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Putting my comms hat for a second: this is one of the most well written statements in the last decade.
@granitelefty
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Macklemore easily outflanking countless progressive politicians is crazy
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White women get in the internet every single day and bemoan that they were told by men to “smile more” and then require the same from Black women.
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I don’t mean to speak over Muslims, but do y’all believe in curses? Because I hope that necklace is cursed.
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Quds News Network
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"Noa look, Your boyfriend has bought you a new necklace made in #Gaza ." Israelis brag about stealing from houses that they bombarded and ethnically cleansed their owners. This necklace belonged to a Palestinian girl, who was waiting for her wedding but the Israelis killed her.
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I just saw a tiktok comment considering having “monkey pox parties” in the same way people have had chickenpox parties and I can’t emphasize enough how the anti vax movement will be the death of us.
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Biden killed their families. He didn’t just “disappoint” them…
@TheFungi669
Captain Obvious™️
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Dear Muslim friends: I know that Biden has disappointed you but trump wants to deport you.
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And this is exactly why withholding a vote from him or threatening to is the only way for him to call for a ceasefire. He doesn’t care about Palestinian lives, he cares about polling numbers. It’s really that simple.
@PushBidenLeft
Holding Biden Accountable
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Biden isn’t upset that he and Israeli occupation forces are slaughtering thousands of Palestinian children, he’s upset that pictures of the dead children getting out is bad PR
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We don’t trust what you consider “hateful.”
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@JustinTrudeau
Justin Trudeau
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There is a difference between peaceful protest and hateful intimidation. It is unconscionable to glorify the antisemitic violence and murder perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th. This rhetoric has no place in Canada. None.
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I just saw a tiktok replying to a comment from a WW asking when Palestinian kids will be available for adoption…
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She’s literally in Gaza, a reporter from Gaza. Wtf are you talking about?
@moalusi_victor
8 BLACK FLASHES
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If you are feeling the need to throw your life away for "free Palestine" you are 100% emotionally and mentally invested in a cult and you need to get out of it to seek some therapy, there is only one other group that behaves like this and it's the MAGA Qanon people
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Has any of the people who voted to censure Tlaib, including 22 democrats, asked her how many friends or family she may have lost?
@ABC
ABC News
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BREAKING: The House votes 234-188 to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for “promoting false narratives” about the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and for her use of the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is considered by some as a call for ending Israel's existence.
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For 31 years? What is the point?
@manolo_realengo
Manolo De Los Santos
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BREAKING: For the 31st year in a row, the world voted at the UN to condemn the cruel blockade against Cuba. The United States & Israel are again the most isolated countries in the world for supporting genocide and blockades!
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I can promise you this: there’s not a single disabled person I know that likes being picked up like this—especially publicly. BUILD. A. FUCKING. RAMP.
@nipunmalhotra
Nipun Malhotra
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Ironic...No ramp at a smart city panel. I was invited to speak on accessibility but it was a struggle to get on to the stage
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It was also illegal for disabled people to be in public from the 1860s until the last ordinance was struck down in 1974, so maybe pipe down.
@HerbsandDirt
Carole Mac
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I was in elementary school in the 70’s. My experience: Did not know ONE autistic child. No one had a gluten allergy. No one had peanut allergies. No one had milk allergies. No one was bouncing off the walls from ADD or ADHD. No one had autoimmune diseases at that…
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Also, if Palestinians deserve this because “they’re homophobic, ” then why are all your homophobic relatives still al—[call dropped].
@Megs_needsrest
Megs 🍉 IS ON STRIKE
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“But Palestine is homophobic🥺🥺 why should I support them🥺🥺” That argument sounds a lot like how y’all were acting in Feb 2021 when Texas was hit with devastating snow and ice!!! Literally shrugging it off because it was a “red state”!! The answer is BECAUSE THEY ARE PPL.
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I really hate a “can’t we all just get along” mf…
@PopCrave
Pop Crave
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‘Scream 7’ director Christopher Landon on Melissa Barrera being fired: “Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.”
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A WW tattoo “artist” got on the internet crying bc a client cursed her out for spelling the tattoo wrong, come to find out, not only did the client not do that, but the “artist” basically sliced that girls arm open.
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Girl boss culture is just capitalism ✨for her.✨
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In hindsight, calling her “scary spice” feels racially motivated…
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Omg, they gave nurses pet rocks as a thank you…
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Thank you for your existence Refaat, may you rest in peace.
@itranslate123
Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸
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George Floyd was all over the walls in occupied Palestine 🇵🇸, from Gaza to the West Bank. Palestinians have supported Black Lives Matter and sent virtual tips for the Ferguson protesters to deal with tear gas. Meanwhile, Israel trains American police to kill Black people. #blm
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Do you all realize that no matter how “curious” you are about them, y’all inundating them with all these invasive questions is just sexual harassment, right?
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imjus.Ke🧜🏽‍♀️✨
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The answers to the questions! I got follow ups tho😭
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Derek Chauvin was a sacrifice to maintain the illusion that it’s an individual, not the system that’s at fault. Make no mistake, the system is at fault.
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There’s…a choice being made with the photo…
@destineybleu
destiney bleu
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this headline 😭
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I really hate the idea of putting a trigger warning on someone else’s grief or pain, but please see this thread and understand its gravity.
@trtworld
TRT World
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"His entire head exploded, and his brain was out." A Palestinian child recounted the moment Israel bombed an area in his neighborhood in the Nuseirat camp in Palestine's Gaza
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Something is fundamentally shifting and many of you are ignoring it.
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Yup.
@Gritty20202
Gritty is the Way
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Every Democrat next year:
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And now we know why his sentence was THAT SHORT. She’s a woman of color.
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IM WHEEZING. I AM INCONSOLABLE.
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Me on operating table well into procedure: “Hello!” (True Story)
@BurgartBioethix
Alyssa BurgartBioethix
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Annoy an anesthesiologist in one tweet.
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Polio is back because you hate disabled people which leads you to deny your children vaccines.
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Don’t ask me why as disability advocates we’re talking about Palestine. Disabling people is a practice of genocide.
@mhdksafa
Mohamad Safa
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Israeli attacks cause more than 10 children per day lose a limb in Gaza and it has been going on at this rate for months. This is a crime against humanity.
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What’s fascinating about this and what I don’t see too many people talking about is this market segmentation and rebrand attempt quite literally covers the same demographic of people currently boycotting Starbucks…
@PopBase
Pop Base
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McDonald’s is launching a new spinoff restaurant called CosMc’s which will sell coffee, snacks and other drinks.
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If I see a child alone. Imma wait until I see their parent before I leave.
@YungYinkv
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What is your most oldhead coded belief? 🤨
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Good luck to the “vote blue no matter who” crowd.
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
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The White House just compared “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase used by the Fox News reporter in his question — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.
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And also needs to be said: the reason why the death toll in Gaza hovers at around 32,000 people is for the same reason the death toll from Covid during the Biden Admin stays at 800,000: because they took away any capacity to continue to count the dead.
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Just a reminder that all 435 representatives in the house are up for reelection this year as well as 33 senators.
@Dexerto
Dexerto
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on banning TikTok tomorrow
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Just an observation about these “Vaccine Injury” videos going around…
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I wish we had universal healthcare.
@ME_Observer_
Middle East Observer
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⚡️Israeli journalist Noam Amir: "The Americans spent nearly a billion dollars on interceptors tonight."
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TW: sexual abuse The reason why M4L want to ban healthcare in schools is multi faceted but it boils down to this: School nurses have access to children’s medical files and are MANDATORY REPORTERS. If you reorient your lens, you realize that their every action is to
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TW: child death Did they just slip it on there the brother died recently, too?
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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Lil Tay, a social media influencer, has died, according to a statement from the family.
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A Ceasefire.
@pet_grief
Dyl
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@ISASaxonists What current civil rights movement do liberals not support?
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So let me get this correct, the cops engaged that man outside of the school unsuccessfully, he was able to get into the school, some are saying he was in there for 90 minutes, parents drove up to the school to see what was going on, police blocked those parents but went in to
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Mind you, Hamas offered the exact same prisoner exchange that the Biden administration is bragging facilitating about 5 days after 10/7… Thats 35+ days and thousands of lives later.
@SecBlinken
Secretary Antony Blinken
6 months
Today’s outcome is the result of tireless diplomacy and relentless effort across the United States government. While this deal marks significant progress, we will not rest as long as Hamas continues to hold hostages in Gaza.
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As I have said before, the fascism you fear under a republican is being designed under a democrat.
@Roots_Action
RootsAction
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Joe Biden's new plan has Homeland Security partnering with local law enforcement to "track hate-related rhetoric online." More policing and surveillance will not keep anyone safe!
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