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The onus is always on voters and never on politicians to do shit they know the voters want them to do (see: gun control, abortion rights, student debt relief, legalized marijuana, throwing Trump in prison before 2024, etc. etc. etc. . .)
If you live in the following states: OK, KS, IL, IN, IA, WY you should lock into this. Gets down to the city and neighborhood level to warn people.
Rain wrapped tornados are not visible until they are on top on you.
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Current Illinois radar with me writing in hail sizes
Hail storms becoming widespread across northern Illinois (numbers are hail diameter) #ilwx
Oklahoma I meant not NE
Be safe if they come your way
Yep tornadoes hitting Illinois and Nebraska right now
Idk I feel like it’s kinda early for tornadoes to be touching down.
Good to hear! I’m aight as can be. Lol
Enjoy it after today! Are you healing okay?
Thank you 💕
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It’s only Tuesday?
And the comments from people who refuse to just be normal and stop talking about what 1 meal will do to their body.
Various creatures and Dino like monsters in a Roblox game. All designs by my teen son.
Related: u can finally show off his latest artwork because the Roblox game is out lol. He’s so cool to me! The talent and hard work he puts in. He already knows what he wants to do in life and he just goes for it.
I’m a proud momma!
In a black and white photo taken by Steve Schapiro, James Baldwin danced “the hitchhike" with CORE worker Doris Castle, New Orleans, 1963.
Today’s small victory: Looked at an inventory of still photos of James Baldwin and learned that I correctly identified the #60s dance (the “Hitchhike”) he was doing in a photo I created metadata for two years ago. Yes, I have knowledge of popular 1960s dances for some reason lol 😆 #photography
Tired of people colonizing Black culture and then universalizing it as if it didn’t stem from the same AAVE these same people mock relentlessly as “ghetto” or “unprofessional” or “grammatically incorrect” language.
Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Evan Bentley, discusses today's severe weather threat and the upgrade to a Level 4 out of 5 (Moderate Risk) across portions of northern Illinois and northwest Indiana.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton to life imprisonment
The 75-year-old was set to be executed even though he was not the person who shot and killed the victim
Let me charge my electronics and hopefully it doesn’t storm too much.
I started looking at myself in the mirror naked more and giving myself compliments. I started getting dressed in things that made me feel sexy and pretty. I never thought I was ugly, but I was holding on to shame around sex and sexuality that stemmed from childhood.
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Harriet Tubman Day!
There’s a Harriet Tubman quote on the marker that says:
If ya' wanna be free, keep a goin'
If ya' tired, keep a goin'
If ya' scared, keep a goin'
If ya hungry, keep a goin'
If ya' wanna taste freedom, keep a goin'
“There was one of two things I had a right to—liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other.”
-Harriet Tubman
Firstly, I had to have more experiences. Interfacing w/more ppl and realizing the positive feedback outweighed the negative. Then I had to internalize that. So what if 10pppl thought I wasn’t enough? 100 ppl said otherwise.
Add therapy + spiritual work + mirror work
Ignore the critical voices (that come from literally everywhere when you're a Black girl coming of age) like water off a duck's back. Understand that when people hate themselves they only seek to drag others down with them. Unsubscribe from the beauty "standards"and become your own standard.
She was well read, paid attention to the world around her and was honest. More people need to tap into that.
