Recovering academic. EdTech founder building AfroLearn. Slow traveler. West Baltimore to West Africa. All power to the people.
Dakar
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If you’re having a bad day, just think about how Jair Bolsonaro is going to die in prison 🫶🏽
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Q-Tip made the "Electric Relaxation" beat in Phife Dawg's grandmother's basement. She'd given him a key.
Phife came home, heard Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew" drifting up from below and ran downstairs without even saying hi to grandma: “Yo, what the hell is that?!”
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America isn't witnessing the rise of fascism. It's watching its own fascist foundations become impossible to conceal. The empire isn't abandoning its traditions; it's doubling down. The mask is slipping, and the ruling class is done pretending. #USImperialism
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Not enough people know this: in practice, the IMF is controlled by the US.
The US is the only country that has de facto veto power at the IMF because the biggest decisions require an 85% supermajority of total voting power. The US' vote share is 16.5%
This was by design, and the supermajority threshold was actually moved in 1978 so that the US vote share would continue to give the country veto power.
We should not see the IMF as an organisation that serves global development.
We should see is as an organisation that serves mainly Western interests — and, above all, US interests.
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The people of France protesting on the 65th anniversary of the slaughter of unarmed Algerians protesters opposing the enforcement of a racist curfew is amazing.
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Capitalism has enclosed the entire planet. There is no frontier to escape to. No new world to colonize. No outside to flee to. The only option is to fight here, together.
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The U.S. is a high gross income, low net living standard country. It pays high wages and then takes them back through privatized costs that other high-income countries socialize. The working class here is more indebted, more precarious, and more alone.
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Listen man I hate the diaspora wars so much because the common enemy is always able to sneak out the back door while yall arguing about dumb shit. It’s so frustrating.
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One of the most important lessons of African history is that independence and liberation are not synonyms.
Independence gives you a state.
Liberation requires the power to determine its economic, political and strategic direction.
Asia Leeds retweeted
Liberals are smart enough to know the US has plunged headlong into fascism. They're smart enough to know that the Dems aren't an actual opposition party but more of a "good cop" for capitalism. They just won't ditch the Party because they fear losing their position in capitalism.
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch…
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
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Student homeless rates also almost at 20%.
1 outta 5 of your kids classmates in metro Atlanta do not have a Stable night time residence and that’s the ones we know of.
Atlanta is leading the nation in evictions, and Black families face the greatest risk
Officials are sounding the alarm over Black renters making up 70% of evictions cases in the region despite only being 52% of the population atlanta.capitalbnews.org/met…
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Imperialism is not simply a foreign policy. It is the international expression of an economic system that constantly seeks new resources, markets, labour and spaces for the expansion of capital.
Understand the economic structure, and much of the political behaviour becomes clearer.
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also makes it incredibly tiring when so many Nigerians and some other continental Africans act like they don’t understand racial dynamics
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Pierre writes primarily about Ghana in this book. But she helps us see how race, as a modern and colonial institution, shapes outside/living/recreational spaces, trade hierarchies, colorism, and segregation in West Africa. Not only a Southern Africa, American, or Caribbean issue.
