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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3h

For all those who say TS needed to stay silent on the issues for safety, Hayley Williams went on the Tonight Show using art and her privilege to call out white supremacy to its face in direct view of the White House.

Y’all’s favorite was just on the Tonight Show. If they wanted to, they would.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 7h

As a male, I want to confirm that men are responsible for the male loneliness epidemic.

We rarely investigate our feelings.

We think we’re entitled to companionship.

We complain we’re not wanted, but we either never shoot our shot or do it disrespectfully.

We block our own shot. It’s on us.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 8h

“I don’t think Obama really had the Black experience because he went to Harvard.”

“Stop watching CNN and you’ll feel differently.”

“Should churches be segregated?”

I could keep going.

The Venn diagram between today’s white evangelical and yesterday’s Klan member is a circle.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 8h

“I don’t care about black or white, the only color that matters is red, the blood of Jesus Christ!”

White Christians have said the following to me:

“I don’t think Black people experience racism.”

“What is Black culture? Fried chicken?”

“God allowed slavery to give Black people a better life.”

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 10h

{re-upping a personal mutual aid request}

hey Seattle area friends! still looking for someone to foster a 3 year old, 45 pound husky for a friend who lost their housing until they get back on their feet.

Could I get a boost? happy to share additional details with anyone interested 🩵🐕

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 12h

It lasted 20 minutes and featured sketches, cameos, and in hilariously 90’s fashion, the musical guest was Color Me Badd.

Twenty million people tuned into Fox to watch despite the game airing on CBS.

It redefined what the halftime show could be & happened because of the innovation of Black people.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 12h

The funny thing about racist white people being mad about brown people doing Super Bowl Halftime Shows is the fact that halftime shows as we know them exist because of Black people.

In 1992, Fox aired a halftime episode of In Living Color, paving the way for the entertainment spectacle it is now.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 13h

A reminder that Antifa literally means “anti-fascist.”

Given that definition & federal and state task forces that are supposedly dismantling “antifa terror cells”, the question you should be asking is: Why doesn’t the gov’t want to undo fascism?

Either they’re idiots, dictators, or worse: both.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 19h

“You’re always playing the race card”

Anyone who says this has no idea how power dynamics work.

Race is not a card I can play. It is a hand I’m dealt.

Black people have never had the power to keep white people from voting, reading, or writing. If anyone’s had a race card, it’s white people.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been five years since black squares got posted everywhere. If y’all were even halfway serious about listening & learning we wouldn’t be here.

Decolonize your mind. Decolonize your thinking. Maybe then, you’ll realize how gentle the criticism actually is.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

If a white woman cannot be criticized without you immediately bringing up white men, you aren’t trying to have a real conversation about privilege and how it manifests along racial lines.

We know white men started it. We also know white women kept voting rights from Black women for over 40 years.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that pointing out that a rich white woman hasn’t spoken up during a genocide led to defensiveness & near instant anti-Blackness tells me that white women are very okay with racism they can benefit from.

They give TS cover from criticism because they want cover from the same criticism too.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

“There would be less racism if you stopped talking about it”

There would be less poisoning if you stopped calling Poison Control!

There would be less fires if you stopped calling the fire department!

Like, do y’all hear yourselves?

I could talk about racism less if y’all would stop being racist.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

“Criticizing Democrats helps the Republicans”

No. Not joining leftists in asking Democrats to stop funding a genocide when they were in office helped the Republicans.

Campaigning with a literal Republican who sided with Trump 93% of the time helped the Republicans.

God, wake up.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 2d

If a Republican were president, there would still be a genocide.

If a Democrat were president, there would still be a genocide.

But instead of demanding politicians stop the genocide, our takeaway was “if it’s genocide either way, let’s take what we can get.”

Ergo, capitalism.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 2d

There’s nothing wrong inherently with being a Swiftie. But there is something wrong with not being able to hold your favorite to a standard you’d have no issue holding your neighbor to.

It’s not a cult, but it is how cults start. You’ve put a stranger in power & beyond reproach. That’s dangerous.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 2d

“Why don’t you have this energy for anyone else?”

1: I do have this energy. Often. And mostly for men. You must be new here.

2. Protecting a billionaire over people being exterminated is wild.

3 (and I can’t stress this enough): other people deserving energy doesn’t mean your favorite doesn’t.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 2d

We should be able to criticize Taylor Swift without it seen as an affront to feminism.

Women are being devastated in multiple genocides right now, and she has been silent. Is that not an affront to feminism?

Be critical of ALL billionaires. When a man moves the way she does, you have a problem.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 2d

Two years.

We’ve watched a genocide for two years.

We’ve watched fathers carry what remains of the children in plastic bags for two years.

We’ve watched world leaders gaslight us for two years.

What we allow, we become.

Palestine must be free.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3d

“Why can’t we all just get along, black, white or purple?”

Because unity is based on trust.

When white liberals & leftists are met with the slightest accountability, the anti-Blackness jumps right out.

How do you unify with people whose fight or flight response is becoming MAGA?

Decolonize now.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 3d

Hi, me again. It’s not Friday but I’ve got a
personal mutual aid request, specific to Seattle area.

Family friend lost their job and their housing. They tried to move back in with their parents but their parents said “Since you’re not a Christian you cannot stay in our home.” Big sigh.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3d

When I was a homeless man living in Florida, there was a point when you couldn’t get SNAP benefits without enrolling in job training.

Why? Because the government assumed that if you needed help, it’s because you didn’t want a job.

As many as 60% of all unhoused people in America have jobs.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3d

In 2025, I saw republicans cost people their jobs because they called Charlie Kirk a white supremacist.

In 2024, I saw democrats cost students their scholarships because they called the US complicit in genocide.

If you cannot criticize your government, you do not have a functioning democracy.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3d

AmeriCorps, for all my misgivings about it, was where I began to gain confidence as a public speaker. It’s where I was able to put my skills to best use. It’s a springboard for so many, and I hate that the Republicans have done this to so many hard working people.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3d

I worked for a few departments under the AmeriCorps umbrella, Public Allies and VISTA most notably as a service member and VISTA leader. The VISTA’s are paid near or below the poverty line per the guidelines of the program.

Some are far from home, now with no money coming in.

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