#FUCK the NAACP

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Biden previewed the shift in a Zoom call Saturday with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out — I don’t want to prematurely announce it — but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court … I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help,” Biden said, according to a transcript of the call obtained by The Washington Post

Four days after that debate, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump was immune from prosecution for official acts during his first term in office. Less than an hour later, Biden called Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, to discuss the ruling and the arguments for and against reforming the court.

Biden continually works with really smart people in the background, quietly, until he's ready to do or announce something. He uses these tactics in negotiations with other countries as well. He's not bombastic nor does he make the media happy because he's boring, but he's effective.

Whether you like him or hate him, he's actually good at this job and he gets shit done and often times it's actually good shit.

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USHER at the 55th NAACP Image Awards (2024)

Outstanding Male Artist

President's Award Honoree

Entertainer of the Year

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I'm planning on writing an article for my school paper critiquing their response to the Israeli Palestinian war and I want to research how they've responded to foreign wars in the past, and I forgot to specify that to the archivist when i was looking for articles and she was like "I only have two or three articles on the civil war that will work with that prompt, sorry" and I was forcefully reminded that my college is older than the bicycle.

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Jeremiah Reeves has a horrific but crucially important story to know.

Rosa Parks was not the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Long before her, people were fighting for change. The Civil Rights movement did not just appear into thin air one day. It was centuries of mistreatment and people trying to take a stand against it.

Almost a year before Rosa Parks refused to move on a bus, Jeremiah Reeves was a 16-year-old child, and accused of attacking and violating white women. The police tortured him to try to get a confession. Despite the NAACP trying to fight to protect this child, and multiple appeals, he was found guilty and sentenced to death.

The Civil Rights Movement was never just a single moment. It was centuries of miscarriages of justice abcs abuse that lead to those moments.

Jeremiah's story deserves to be known, especially because this treatment against Black people have never stopped.

TW- Jeremiah's story is tragic and it is heart breaking. CW for discussions on rape, police torturing a child into confessions, lynchings, death and racism. Please be aware of these triggers. There are no graphic images or graphic depictions in this video.

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Florida is not safe for marginalized people.

[msclaritea]

It must be exhausting to live in conspiracy land all day long. Have you thought of taking a break from the internet? Going outside would probably be a big help. Therapy would also be useful in your case.

Tell me, when is the last time one of your family member or real life friend talk to you? I bet they're all avoiding the crap out of you. You're not making friends on the internet, you're isolating yourself.

Funny. I could have SWORN I was visiting family, and a friend, who has a non-profit, building him a garden from scratch, single-handedly, for free, in the middle of winter,

and after a day of work outside, am currently curled up on a couch, belly full of Chili and Spaghetti, with my legs being warmed by 1....2...3 Chihuahuas; all the while watching my favorite episode of Doctor Who (the Doctor and Martha with Shakespeare, if you must know).

See? I can multitask, too. I can go scorched earth on Hollywood AND fully involve myself in healthy relationships and activities.

Jealous?

Now, you are interrupting my night. So, FUCK OFF.

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The royalties from Jackboot Jump go to NAACP in perpetuity. It's one of my favorite songs of his. STREAM IT. BUY IT. GIFT IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

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Body-cam video shows Illinois officer fatally shooting Black woman in face

White deputy Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey, who called police in fear of a home intruder, after boiling water dispute

Massey, whom her daughter confirmed was paranoid-schizophrenic, had called police because she thought someone was trying to break into her home. When police arrived, they began looking into Massey’s home with flashlights, a neighbor, Cheryl Evans, told the Guardian. Evans wondered why police had not knocked on her door, as they typically have done in the past when searching for suspects. Eventually, Grayson, who is white, and his partner entered the home where they began speaking to Massey. After an initial discussion and request for Massey’s driver’s license,Grayson spotted a pot of boiling water on the stove and ordered Massey to remove it to avoid starting a fire. In doing so, Massey asks the officers – who visibly distance themselves from her as she goes to handle the pot – why they moved away from her. “Where you going?” she asks them. “Away from your hot steaming water,” Grayson answers, with a laugh, before Massey responds: “Away from the hot steaming water? Oh, I’ll rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” With his gun drawn, Grayson closed the distance between himself and Massey, who was beginning to kneel behind a counter with her hands up. “You better fucking not, I swear to God I’ll fucking shoot you right in your fucking face,” Grayson warned. Massey can be heard saying, “I’m sorry,” as Grayson continues to advance. “I’m sorry,” she says again as Grayson fires three shots, striking her with a bullet below the eye that exited from the back of her neck. As Massey lay dying on her kitchen floor, Grayson says he’ll go get his medical kit to render aid. “That’s a headshot. She’s done,” Grayson says before going to get the med kit. As the pair stand there with their guns still drawn, Grayson says: “I’m not taking a bullet out of her fucking head,” then points out that the water from the pot had reached his feet. “What else can we do?” Grayson asks his partner. “I’m not taking hot boiling water to the fucking face.”

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Massey’s death carries on a troubling legacy of racial violence in Springfield: Massey’s family said she is a descendant of William Donnegan, a Black man who was lynched by a white mob but survived during the city’s infamous 1908 race riots that took 17 Black lives over a two-day period in mid-August of that year. As a result of the violence and carnage, a group of white and Black Americans banded together to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Massey’s family said that the irony of having to reach out to the NAACP for help after her killing is not lost on them.

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has not only issued a travel warning to warn against Gov. DeSantis's recent laws restricting black history being taught in schools, but also defends LGBTQ+ individuals and urges Floridians to boycott and defend against DeSantis. Reblog to spread the news, I literally just found out about this.

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I also think there is a difference between large corporations temporarily boycotting North Carolina over the bathroom bill (which lead to the governor losing his election and NC voting in a Democrat governor AND the policy being overturned in 2017) and the NAACP issuing a travel advisory about Florida since it's "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals" (a direct quote from their advisory)

VS queer artists like Chappel Ronan having unapologetically queer affirming events in homophobic & transphobic states as both a protest and a way to show support to the queer people living in those states

Neither approach is wrong! Also giving Chappel shit over performing in NC when the people of that state worked to overturn that bathroom bill in 2017!!! Like, I don't think you care about the trans people of NC, you just want a righteous reason to dislike Chappel Ronan.

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Watching the NAACP Image Awards and Benjamin Crump is one hell of an orator. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Propaganda

Ava Gardner (The Killers, The Barefoot Contessa)— She's so goddamn hot. Her and Frank Sinatra could've sandwiched me and I would've thanked them for the privilege

Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones, Porgy and Bess, Island in the Sun)— The first Black actress to ever be nominated for best actress, Dorothy Dandridge was a groundbreaking actress who deserved better. She started her career as a singer, being put in a song-and-dance duo with her sister by their stage mother, and singing in soundies (I highly recommend cow cow boogie, it's adorable), proto-music videos. She started appearing as a featured singer in films. Her star was on the rise and she soon became a star solo performer. She continued acting, but had limited options because she refused to do stereotypical roles. She finally landed a starring role in Bright Road in 1953, but it was the movie Carmen Jones that truly cemented her as a star and sex symbol. Not to sound cheesy, but she literally sizzles on screen. You can't help but understand how poor Harry Belafonte gets caught in her trap, just look at her. This is the role that got her that Oscar nom. She didn't win cause I mean #OscarsSoWhite, but she was a sensation and continued starring in films, despite troubles in her life (including a shitty director bf who fucked with her career and a traumatizing pregnancy/delivery). Outside of her filmwork, she was also an activist, fighting against racism. She left behind an amazing legacy, and continues to inspire many actresses to this day (including also very hot first (and only) black woman to win best actress, Halle Berry).

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Ava Gardner:

Ava Gardner is one of my favorite actresses of all time. Although a lot of her roles in movies are about her being beautiful and nothing else, there are some films where her acting truly shines.

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HER FACE. LOOK AT IT. Also was a life long supporter of civil rights and a member of the NAACP, had lots of fun love affairs with other stars, bullfighters, married several times but was also happy in between to just have lovers and was unapologetically herself.

I literally gasp every time I see her.

Between 1942 and 1964, Ava Gardner was credited in no less 50 films, and is still considered by some to be the most beautiful actresses that ever graced the silver screen. Despite life-long insecurities regarding her talent as an actress, she weathered public scandal, industry hostility, and outright condemnation by the Catholic Church with fearless grace. She would later in life talk candidly about the reality and pain of living through two (studio approved!!) abortions during her short marriage to Frank Sinatra, and while the two of them could not make their relationship work, they remained in each other’s lives for nearly 30 years. She would forever describe herself as a small-town girl who just got lucky, but always felt like a beautiful outsider.

Really genuinely one of the most beautiful human beings I have ever seen. An autodidact. Had amazing chemistry with Gregory Peck to the point where I do think about watching On The Beach again sometimes because they're so good together even though that movie did destroy me. Was a great femme fatale in many movies.

Dorothy Dandridge propaganda:

Beautiful actress and hand-working and talented singer, she's especially notable for the number of firsts she accomplished such as the first African-American woman to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the first African-American woman to appear on the cover of Life magazine.

Dorothy Dandridge was a classic Hollywood triple threat, singing, dancing, and acting with the best of them. She was the first African American nominated for an academy award for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones and she was just jaw-droppingly beautiful.

this og of black film needs no introduction (star on the hollywood walk of fame anyone?), voice of an angel, heavenly features, just an overall stunning lady :)

Look at her!!! She is so unbelievably charismatic in Carmen, it’s insane. Her chemistry with Harry Belafonte is off the charts, and every time she puts another outdoor [sic] on it’s like ‘oh god this is a whole new level of stunning’ 🥵. She was so so talented, when she’s on screen I genuinely dare you to tear your eyes away from her. Deserves to be known so much better but due to Hollywood racism and a tough personal life she didn’t make it as big as she should have done. She’s incredible.

First Black actress to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress! Was the first choice for the role of Cleopatra that went to Elizabeth Taylor (we were ROBBED).

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Adobe Film And TV Fund To Support Underrepresented Creators And Filmmakers – Deadline

EXCEPT Adobe, highly corporatized, will be partnering w/other corporatized orgs, one of which is the Hollywood NAACP Bureau, run for a year by another Hollywood insider, Kyle Bowser, who among other things, worked for NBC FOX HBO and warner bros AND oversaw the Scientology-linked show In Living Colour. What's also interesting is how much the words 'diversity' and 'inclusion' are used by both Adobe and Bowser, but they never talk about what kind. I'm just going to say it. This is just another avenue for the Cult of Scientology and Hollywood Gay Mafia to add more people to their little army. Don't doubt for one minute that being QUEER is going to be the default. Might as well warn young heterosexual creatives not to bother with the Nuclear Family-hating Hollywood.

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Fuck Trump, here’s all the civil rights orgs I know:

(Most have education pages and/or socials to follow and boost if u can’t donate right now)

LGBTQ+

Trevor Project—queer crisis hotline/counseling (NOTE THAT THEY CALL POLICE IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS)

List of Crisis Hotlines/etc compiled by Inclusive Therapists .com which DON’T CALL POLICE

Point of Pride��helps trans folks having trouble accessing gender affirming healthcare

Trans Lifeline���community support/resources/financial aid for trans folks

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

National Network of Abortion Funds—financial assistance/transport/childcare for people in ban states seeking abortions.

Brigid Alliance—same

Sister Song—reproductive justice for WOC

Indigenous Women Rising—helps Indigenous families access abortions/menstrual hygiene/midwifery/etc

Afiya Center—reproductive justice/HIV care for Black womxn in Texas

Abortion access orgs for Americans in the

Midwest

South

Appalachia (they also offer free emergency contraception/support services/etc)

RACIAL JUSTICE

NYU Law Center on Race Inequality—self-education resources on racism & antiblackness/how to contact elected officials/how to protest safely.

List of orgs protecting Black Americans, compiled by NYU (incl NAACP, Audre Lorde Project, BLM, Black Voters Matter, etc)

National Immigration Law Center—fighting for asylum seeking/DACA; helping immigrants access healthcare/worker’s rights/etc

American Civil Liberties Union—working on many intersectional initiatives

Southern Poverty Law Center—same

GLOBAL AID (While we Americans wait for shoes to start dropping, let’s not forget others in need, and that Trump’s atrocious foreign policies will affect everyone!)

World Central Kitchen—hunger relief

Action Against Hunger—same

War Child—supports and educates children in conflict zones, like Yemen and DRC

Medecins Sans Frontieres— medical aid

Islamic Relief USA—emergency aid

PALESTINIAN AID

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund— medical aid for kids

Anera— emergency relief & long-term development resources for Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan

United Nations Relief and Works Agency—aid for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon/Syria/West Bank/Gaza/Jordan

Palestine Red Crescent Society—medical aid

SUDANESE AID

List of humanitarian orgs working in Sudan, compiled by 500 Words Magazine

CONGOLESE AID

Panzi Foundation—supports assault survivors & their families

Eastern Congo Initiative—supports ands funds local/community-based Congolese efforts

Please reblog, & add any legitimate humanitarian organizations you know of! I love all of you!!

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Yeah… it’s um getting fucking bleak out here! There’s been talks about travel advisories on Tennessee and Missouri as well. Keep an eye out!