my home state…🩵
Posts by queerblackfeminist
Not that Magyar is progressive but...
Today is the start of Black Maternal Health Week—a call to action for addressing the health & well-being of Black women who still face maternal health complications at 3X the national average.
Proud to be a cosponsor of Rep. Underwood's Momnibus Act—to invest in Black maternal health & well-being!❤️
SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?
CPAC CROWD: *cheers*
SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
that‘s that Jenner gal’s boyfriend and that is all.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Every trans Kansan's license is being invalidated. Assigned projected this as a consequence of the law as written. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled
Strange what some folks understand as political. This was absolutely an explicitly political performance.
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
True leadership. AOC.
AOC says ICE is a distraction and to release the Epstein files 🤪
Under federal siege, Minnesota workers are surviving through union solidarity. How UNITE HERE Local 17 is feeding members in hiding and calling a work stoppage.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social w/ @workdaymagazine.bsky.social reports on a key way Minnesotans are organizing against ICE.
Again, even David Shor explicitly conceded that AOC's argument of "Republicans are looting your healthcare money to fund state-sponsored executions and kidnappings, so Democrats need to abolish ICE to claw back that money for your ACA" is the single most popular message among voters
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
A windchill of around -30F didn’t stop what organizers say was 50,000 from marching through Minneapolis in one of, if not the largest, march in Minnesota history.
Protesters demand accountability in the killing of Renee Good and removal of the federal agents that have upended daily life in MN.
Minnesota is the best of us.
correct!
yes
“Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences,” Walz said.
MTG is still a huge bigot against trans people and minorities, and pushed an anti-trans bill in Congress, so while it's interesting that she's opposing Trumpism now, by no means is she a moral person.
A worker harvesting mushrooms
"Alberto" has been harvesting mushrooms at Monterey Mushrooms for almost a decade under a UFW contract. He says the union contracts guarantees workers many important things including paid vacation days and holidays like Christmas and New Years. #WeFeedYou