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tumblesweed.bsky.social
the rhetoric hashira
@tumblesweed.bsky.social
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Post-academic ex-professor of rhetoric and protest. Current indie contract grant manager for small nonprofits. Sovereigntist. Abolitionist. White-privileged Yo'eme diaspora. masked. novavaxxed. land back. water back.
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
living my best open window at night life
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Michigan Weather @michiganweather.bsky.social · 10h
Cooler weather to settle over Southeast Michigan
The sudden temperature drop to the lower 30s will catch many gardeners off-guard.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
this should have been something the democrats fought to stop, but they'll be too busy burying the fact that Kamala wanted this too.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
looked it up just now when i'm more coherent and awake. It was one of the first things Trump did when entering office. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump deputizes thousands of federal agents to arrest immigrants
The Trump administration authorized U.S. Marshals, DEA and Bureau of Prisons officers to conduct immigration enforcement.
www.usatoday.com
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
i appreciate that. so used to people assuming i don't know basic things. fwiw, this is what i was talking about with my sleepy brain. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump deputizes thousands of federal agents to arrest immigrants
The Trump administration authorized U.S. Marshals, DEA and Bureau of Prisons officers to conduct immigration enforcement.
www.usatoday.com
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
he acted like i was making some wild accusation too...a white leftist man. The way it's always them.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
since people want to act like i don't know the entire history of this shithole country, i'm specifically referring to the law that passed either during Trump or Biden that allows for "everyday citizens" to become proxy law enforcement.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h
No. I'm talking about a law recently, but thanks for being an asshole.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 19h
it's bad and it's also worse.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 19h
does anyone have the date when the law was passed to authorize armed militias?
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d
A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.
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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · 23h
If you’re able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they’ve handled things from day 1 for our community.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21h
“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 20h
come at me bitch
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 21h
www.healthline.com/health/menop...
Why Menopause Is Different for Women of Color
Black women may experience more severe menopause symptoms than White women and tend to start menopause at an earlier age. Here's why this happens and what treatment options are available.
www.healthline.com
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 21h
Someone on Twitter questioned this statement and well there's a bunch of articles easily available if you do a quick search

mlrb.net/menopause-et...
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 21h
that's awesome if that's a supportive space for you all. I'd love a community of support. It would make an excellent group read.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 21h
me and who?
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AOQ’s Glowing Skeleton @faqrules.bsky.social · 21h
If you haven’t listened to an audiobook with your partner while they make dinner and you blast your hair back with live resin vape bongs, I don’t know what to tell you other than you might be fucking something up.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 21h
she's so genuine and honest and put in so much work to provide helpful, scientific health advice. Bonus funny bits too!
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 21h
it's almost like hundreds of years of oppression throughout families has health complications.
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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 1d
I like being the bearer of good news. Today Louay's daughter Malak, which means Angel in English, was born. She is a symbol of Palestinian resistance & joy, but she is also a newborn in need of everything. So donate, share, do not let this sweet angel down.

shorturl.at/48ieS
A young Palestinian girl sitting beside the newborn Malak, a teeny thing inside a white blanket. More beautiful than anything.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 22h
i just finished it. What a beautifully written, honest, and helpful resource. I wish I had read it 15 years ago.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 22h
i inherited my abnormally early menopause thanks to multi intergenerational trauma from colonialism. Thanks so much, colonizers!
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 22h
fun fact; Native and Black people with uteruses start menopause months to years before white people with uteruses. I bet I can guess why.
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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 22h
Naomi Watts's book about menopause is a must-read for anyone with a uterus aged 30+
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