At a Malaysian festival, Matthew Healy criticized homophobic laws and kissed bassist Ross MacDonald for 20 seconds. Authorities canceled the whole three-day festival p4k.in/m0fA4h0

You know who also learned valuable skills? Free people. And unlike the enslaved, those free people could keep the $ from those skills, they could buy property with those skills instead of be property, they could support their families instead of have their children sold from them

Florida wants to teach about "skills" slaves obtained in the antebellum south because "beneficent" slaveholders taught their slaves to read, write, blacksmithing, etc. They say this is supported by "scholars." Well, let's see what the scholars really say.../1

On this day in 2010 Angie Heaton (Angie Heaton) (Ep 22) released "Time Takes Time EP" angieheaton.bandcamp.com/album/time-tak…  . #MusicWhereYouLive  #CULocalMusic #CUFlashback

...Germany, on the other hand, in an act of deep patriotism, teaches the full, brutal truth about the Nazis. Lying about the true history of the nazis is a crime in Germany. And it does not make German young people feel "guilty" about being German. It makes them angry at.../12

...those in the past who allowed barbarism to spread through the nation, to spread hate of and attempt to wipe out Jews, homosexuals, gypsies etc, to ban and burn books, to manipulate history, to infuse children with false and toxic nationalism, and so on.../13

What is more clear than ever is that American school children need also lessons on African history pre-Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Because the ignorance African architecture, technology and centers of learnings by educated adults is just breathtaking. Like, stunning.

what's the best band in america? boring, exhausting, no way to find consensus, a circular conversation that results in zero fun discourse. what's the best band in every state? exciting, regional, fun debate, could become a big bracket which everyone loves.

I don't think it's the human race that decided not to save itself. It's Americans who've decided on behalf of the human race that it's more important to defend our rich and powerful than save our species.

Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse: “This is a really worrying result,” said Peter Ditlevsen, a climate physicist at the University of Copenhagen, showing we need a hard foot on the brake” of greenhouse gas emissions.” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Tomorrow, President Biden is giving a big speech on extreme heat and the climate crisis. It's the perfect opportunity to declare a climate emergency and use the full power of the presidency to implement the IRA and drive forward clean energy. Here's why --> 🧵

My timeline is Palestine, socialist, feminist, pro trans, anti racist, eco socialist, Marxist, anti colonialism, anti borders, pro refugees, housing, health activism and I've never seen an evening where *everyone* is tweeting about one person -Sinéad O’Connor. She was a giant 💔

for all us street kids, for all us wildlings, when sinead got huge, it felt like one of us made it. It was incredible. im not trying to compare myself or anyone else to sinead, she is one of a kind, but thats what it felt like to me. like she was one of us. she was like billie

We must sound the alarm for responding to our climate emergency with a policy that tries to save the planet for future generations! #SaveThePlanet Mr. Fish Read Press Release: cornelwest24.org/press_release_…

I hold so much love for the people in my life, I truly wish we could just start talking about climate grief and climate emergency more. Things aren’t going back -I wish I knew how to talk about it.