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shalise manza young

@shalisemyoung.bsky.social

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opinion writer & director of track & field at andover. mom to three amazing humans.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · Jul 2

Stop saying “this isn’t who we are”… What we’re seeing now is what this country has always been. A country that was born in violence and is sustained by violence.

(weird to say I’m proud of this, but from a writing perspective I am…obv not why it had to be done)

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Stop saying 'this isn't who we are'

What we're seeing now is who we've always been.

open.substack.com

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 18h

don’t call it fascism or naziism though

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 19h

my mom’s older brother lives in Townsend and they raised their kids there…in a weird twist, even though my dad was raised in Somerville his mom had the cottage in Groton and my mom was raised in Ayer & Shirley

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 19h

yes!

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 19h

I had a bald baby I named Tyrone

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 19h

a dental hygienist for a time and a landscape architect for a time…but by 16 I knew I wanted to be a sportswriter

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

17. What did you want to be as a kid?

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 19h

my paternal grandmother owned a little cottage (not fancy at all) on a little lake in groton mass and we went every weekend in the summers

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

4. What do you miss the most about your childhood?

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 20h

cabbage patch kids.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

1. Without telling me your age, what was popular around your childhood?

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 20h

top hat for me

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 20h

small thing, but if she actually did do it how does throwing objects at a car = physical assault?? loser fat thugs

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 21h

a group of people are standing on a stage and one of them says you do martha graham martha graham martha graham

ALT: a group of people are standing on a stage and one of them says you do martha graham martha graham martha graham

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for this! a necessary laugh this morning. Sherman is a legend 😁

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 1d

maybe it’s me but if the goal is forced births, sending women to prison for life might not be the right approach. but I’m not an old white man who spent his life as a small town tax collector and is now an expert in obstetrics so what do I know?

good morning…try to find a moment of joy today

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

The South Carolina GOP is pushing for one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. If passed, the bill would:
✅Make abortion a felony equivalent to homicide
✅Narrow the legal definition of contraceptives
✅Criminalize sharing information about abortion
https://bit.ly/47ipe5t

New Attack on Free Speech: South Carolina GOP Wants to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Info

Read more here.

bit.ly

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 1d

we might be best friends now 😆😆

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 1d

for someone who never shuts up, he was stuttering like a fool

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 1d

I’m biased of course, but I believe Black women are a force of nature, and like a hurricane, that is why they are feared.

my latest for @contrariannews.org -
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Trump can growl at Black women, but he can't take our shine

Black women are a force of nature, and like a hurricane, that is why they are feared.

open.substack.com

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 1d

last night @joyannreid.bsky.social showed an old interview she did with this smoky-eyed charlatan when his book came out. he came across as a sanctimonious dork at the time but it’s astonishing how money and a thirst for power has made him a psychopath

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

no shit, save for the hair this could have been my father 😬 in case you’re wondering where I get it from

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

protect this papa at all costs!!! 🤣🤣🤣

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

this this this

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 2d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

P-buddy…good one!

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂 I wouldn’t let you forget either!

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

forgot the town where I was raised: Pawtucket

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

there’s so many here 😆