@nativemindstate

Author of We Are A Haunting @astrahousebooks @janklownesbit curator of mood @lampblack_lit

Oxford, MS
Joined June 2011
had a book bday yesterday @greenlightbklyn
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Atlanta is a great example of how Black faces in high places won’t save us. Nor will a wealthy Black elite. Atlanta has the worst income inequality and highest eviction rates in the United States. ‘Black capitalism’ is still capitalism.
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Fascism comes for the arts precisely because art is a window to empathy and humanity.
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The people in power want you to be stupid, empty serfs whose lives are measured only in terms of economic output. There is no public good, only the bottom line
Final moments before the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum in Philadelphia closes for good after 150 years at this location. Sad☹️
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Im speechless. My God.
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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Colin Kaepernick’s new book has some NASTY observations and accusations against Jay Z. That Jigga and his higher ups called the Black Panther Party a “hate group” to his face and that they were putting hit pieces out on him while Jigga was wearing his jersey on stage for performances.
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Remember at Obama’s second inauguration when Lupe Fiasco performed his lyrics, “Glenn Beck is a racist, Limbaugh is a racist, Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit. That’s why I ain’t vote for him…” and was escorted off stage?
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This is the shit we be talking about. Just fake.
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This is what happens when you spend 2015-2026 platforming all the MAGA bullshit just because it helped ratings
Joint statement from CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO:
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American exceptionalism has cooked the brains of Black democrats to no end and they genuinely don’t see the intersections of resistance between Black Americans and Palestinians cause they don’t know how to resist outside of the neoliberal practices they were taught to believe in
During his interview with MSNOW's Symone Sanders-Townsend and Eugene Daniels, Hasan Piker talks about Hamas, the Palestinian resistance as a whole and the issue with the concept of a 'perfect victim.' He compares it with other liberation movements throughout history: "And that is the issue at the heart of the matter; people want perfect victims. Whether they be Black people engaging in the Civil Rights' struggle, historically, whether it be the forces against apartheid in South Africa, whether it be the liberation struggle in Algeria. The expectation from the white moderate or the expectation from people who enjoy the order that exists in civilized society, is that people are not supposed to fight back and try to even match the intensity or the violence of the occupation, the colonial entity or the forces of police brutality that are defending white supremacy. So, that's the reason why I make this distinction. I want people to start thinking; what would they do in that situation? What would they do if they lived in the world's largest open air prison that's hermetically sealed, that is a nuclear armed state, that is backed by the most powerful entity on the planet?"
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Shut the company down, remove all the cameras. Send every executive and lobbyist who wanted this to prison forever.
Hackers ripped a Flock camera off a pole, dumped what was stored on it, and handed the files to WIRED and 404 Media. One camera. 21 days. ~50,000 vehicles. 1.6 million images. About 3,300 cars a day. Peak day: 4,454. Flock sold this as “license plate readers” with on-device encryption. The software on that box wasn’t just reading plates. It was tagging vehicles, bikes, and people. Dozens of shots of a single car. Bumper stickers. Even an American flag patch on a motorcycle bag. They put the encryption key on the camera. Then acted shocked when somebody opened it.
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They let a white man school them on state sanctioned violence and the parallel of Palestinians/black people in the diaspora and global south. The utter shame.
During his interview with MSNOW's Symone Sanders-Townsend and Eugene Daniels, Hasan Piker talks about Hamas, the Palestinian resistance as a whole and the issue with the concept of a 'perfect victim.' He compares it with other liberation movements throughout history: "And that is the issue at the heart of the matter; people want perfect victims. Whether they be Black people engaging in the Civil Rights' struggle, historically, whether it be the forces against apartheid in South Africa, whether it be the liberation struggle in Algeria. The expectation from the white moderate or the expectation from people who enjoy the order that exists in civilized society, is that people are not supposed to fight back and try to even match the intensity or the violence of the occupation, the colonial entity or the forces of police brutality that are defending white supremacy. So, that's the reason why I make this distinction. I want people to start thinking; what would they do in that situation? What would they do if they lived in the world's largest open air prison that's hermetically sealed, that is a nuclear armed state, that is backed by the most powerful entity on the planet?"
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The strongest heat dome on Earth right now is sitting on Tennessee. Heat makes air swell. The hotter the dome, the higher the whole atmosphere stacks up. Over Tennessee, the halfway point of the atmosphere is 19,665 feet up. That is higher than over the Sahara. Higher than the Middle East. Higher than anywhere else on the planet. Nashville hit 100 yesterday and is forecast to do it again today.
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Long Live Brownsville Ka 😮‍💨
Mahershala Ali talks about how Ka’s "Honor Killed the Samurai" inspired him while preparing for his role in "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother," a film he stars in. Credit: @etalkCTV
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Tyriek White retweeted
they dont teach about the deacons of defense for a reason
The first step of neoliberals sanitizing MLK was to erase the fact that he had hella guns.
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The Morrison that makes most sense for adaptation is JAZZ (I’m not pushing for it; #justsaying), but everyone overlooks it. JAZZ *could* be a beautiful period piece w the right director, cast, vision, and musicians for an incredible soundtrack!! It could be lush!
Replying to @kima_jones
i have never thought "oh this should be a movie/tv show!" i feel like it was never meant to leave the pages, like of all her works this is not the one i would've selected
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Spent the last few days working on a dynamic map that shows hanging deaths of Black people since 2018. Of all the ones I’ve tracked so far, a vast majority of the circumstances of the hangings are disputed by family. So much more to go.
Another black man found hanging in Roanoke Rapids
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STATISTICALLY, a woman is more likely to receive a harsher sentence for killing a man than a man is for killing a woman. It’s called “intimacy bias” and it is OVERFLOWING the prisons with women. It’s why I do what I do thurmanperryfoundation.org
You’re telling they’re trying to put a woman in prison because she defended herself against a man who broke into her home? After he ignored a restraining order? And she was EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT?!?!
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She called police 50 times about her abuser and there was a restraining order against him when he broke in the night she defended herself. It's unconscionable that charges would be filed. Prosecutors are supposed to be the ministers of justice.
Today is the first day of Keshia Golden’s murder trial. Keshia was 8 months pregnant when she was attacked by her abuser, during which he slammed her head against the kitchen counter. She stabbed him in the leg and ran. He died. Prosecution initially offered a plea deal with no jail time. They know she’s not a murderer. She turned it down because she works in healthcare and a feeling would bar her from her career. She deserves to live the rest of her life without having to face life long consequences for being a victim. Her child deserves a free mother.
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Jimi Hendrix's manager, Mike Jeffery, was an ex-MI6 agent w/ ties to the CIA. Intelligence targeted Hendrix for his political activism, with Jeffery served as the operative, using bogus arrests & drug pushing to neutralize him. Within 48h of Hendrix firing him, Hendrix was dead.
CIA's MKULTRA front, the Human Ecology Fund, supplied LSD to rock musicians in the 60s through figures like Michael Hollingshead. Dentist John Riley hosted John Lennon & George Harrison at his London home & spiked their coffee w/ LSD. Riley likely worked for British intelligence.
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