Ọlawale Akerele-Alé
@akerele-ale.bsky.social
He/Him writer/photographer #Vegan #BLM #Gooner #Africa Married; opinions mine, not employers’ Born in Accra, Ghana and grew up in Nigeria. In Yoruba, my primary given African name, Ọlawale, means "Wealth comes home." https://olawaleakereleale.substack.com
We. Are. Immigrants.
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March 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We. Are. Immigrants.
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“This move sends a clear message that, in Trump’s America, only kids from wealthy families are entitled to opportunity. How does that help make America great?”
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Opinion | Trump's cowardly betrayal of America's children
Diverting billions from our children to pay for tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy short-changes everyone.
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March 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“This move sends a clear message that, in Trump’s America, only kids from wealthy families are entitled to opportunity. How does that help make America great?”
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Imagine that Elon Musk, instead of being a white South African, he was instead a Zulu, Russian, Chinese, or Saudi. Would our feckless political establishment be throwing up their hands, saying there’s nothing they can do to stop his rampage?
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February 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Imagine that Elon Musk, instead of being a white South African, he was instead a Zulu, Russian, Chinese, or Saudi. Would our feckless political establishment be throwing up their hands, saying there’s nothing they can do to stop his rampage?
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
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Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel
January 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel
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I do not need the Dems to tell us how bad things are. We already read the news. I need them tell us *what they plan to do about it*
February 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I do not need the Dems to tell us how bad things are. We already read the news. I need them tell us *what they plan to do about it*
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okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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January 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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We Are In A Constitutional Crisis
A POTUS firing thousands of DOJ/FBI civil servants who were involved in the prosecution of convicted criminals who took part in an attempt incited by said POTUS to violently overturn the outcome of a free & fair election is downright monarchical/dictatorial
A POTUS firing thousands of DOJ/FBI civil servants who were involved in the prosecution of convicted criminals who took part in an attempt incited by said POTUS to violently overturn the outcome of a free & fair election is downright monarchical/dictatorial
February 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We Are In A Constitutional Crisis
A POTUS firing thousands of DOJ/FBI civil servants who were involved in the prosecution of convicted criminals who took part in an attempt incited by said POTUS to violently overturn the outcome of a free & fair election is downright monarchical/dictatorial
A POTUS firing thousands of DOJ/FBI civil servants who were involved in the prosecution of convicted criminals who took part in an attempt incited by said POTUS to violently overturn the outcome of a free & fair election is downright monarchical/dictatorial
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ICYMI:
Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, has instructed the FBI to provide, by Noon on Feb. 4th, a list of FBI employees who were involved in Jan. 6th cases.
The Acting FBI Director and Acting Deputy Director sent out a memo Friday night that noted the following:
Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, has instructed the FBI to provide, by Noon on Feb. 4th, a list of FBI employees who were involved in Jan. 6th cases.
The Acting FBI Director and Acting Deputy Director sent out a memo Friday night that noted the following:
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
ICYMI:
Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, has instructed the FBI to provide, by Noon on Feb. 4th, a list of FBI employees who were involved in Jan. 6th cases.
The Acting FBI Director and Acting Deputy Director sent out a memo Friday night that noted the following:
Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, has instructed the FBI to provide, by Noon on Feb. 4th, a list of FBI employees who were involved in Jan. 6th cases.
The Acting FBI Director and Acting Deputy Director sent out a memo Friday night that noted the following:
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
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turns out running the government like twitter costs hundreds of dead bodies within 10 days
February 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
turns out running the government like twitter costs hundreds of dead bodies within 10 days
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U.S. agencies are being bulldozed tonight and media is not covering this dangerous authoritarian shit. I understand there was another plane crash and am praying for everyone but please make time for the overthrow of our institutions
February 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
U.S. agencies are being bulldozed tonight and media is not covering this dangerous authoritarian shit. I understand there was another plane crash and am praying for everyone but please make time for the overthrow of our institutions
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It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data
February 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data
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hey question, is this bad?
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
hey question, is this bad?
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if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.
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Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
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A second plane has gone down in 3 days. Seems like things were safer when DEI was still in place.
February 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A second plane has gone down in 3 days. Seems like things were safer when DEI was still in place.
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This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
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Hey Merrick Garland, fuck you forever. Through your inaction, you enabled this blitzkrieg against the rule of law and democracy.
February 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hey Merrick Garland, fuck you forever. Through your inaction, you enabled this blitzkrieg against the rule of law and democracy.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO