Just gonna leave this here….

Let me break this down for you:

The Supreme Court is weighing criminalizing homelessness—that means if you’re sleeping outside, you will be arrested.

Approx. 40% of homeless people in the U.S. are Black.

This is not just about housing—this is the prison industrial complex too.

NYU faculty creating a ring around the Gaza solidarity encampment to protect their students after the school threatened mass arrest. So beautiful.

How Curtis Mayfield and Gladys Knight Created a Sound for Working-Class Black America

'The deeply introspective music in 'Claudine', released 50 years ago, brings layers of emotional authenticity and nuance to a portrait of Black love and family.'
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🚨Today, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. The Court will decide whether cities can effectively outlaw the involuntary status of homelessness through purportedly neutral public camping bans. It’s one of the most important cases this term. 🧵

Hundreds of advocates from around the country lie down with blankets in front of #SCOTUS . If they were in Grant’s Pass, they would give you a $295 ticket for sleeping with a blanket.

#housingnothandcuffs #johnsonvgrantspass

A heartbreak as an adult is far worse. You have to grin and bear through an entire workday with meetings while your personal life is in shambles. You're just staring at yourself on the screen like

…watching Sister Act 2.

Lauryn walked out of that class like she didn’t have a mama who would drag her butt right back in there. LOLOL

Will probably delete later…but my pet peeve is when a pastor doesn’t preach a sermon and the whole because everyone was shouting the whole service.

Can they do both? lol

was on the train to Columbia to interview isra hirsi on Thur when she stopped replying; she had been arrested.

Isra's one of 100+ Columbia/Barnard students arrested over the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. we spoke after her eviction from the dorms Teen Vogue
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Record numbers in the US are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and on sidewalks? apnews.com/article/homele…

The tray not being $5 anymore is one of the great tragedies of the decline of American democracy.

Grief intrusive thoughts.

as a daughter forbidden to date, I kinda want to beg you to let your daughters date. espoused the negatives of a relationship, sure, but for the love of gawd do NOT let her leave your house clueless to the world of men

This is a social experiment to see if people would help prevent a child from being kidnapped.

Glad to see how protective our Culture is over the youth

Eminem has officially been sober for 16 years

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