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Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
And I would have sued. If she’s 10 fucking centimeters someone should have been at the end of the bed already. That baby could have slipped out and hit his head if that dad wasn’t looking. Nurses walking around looking confused asf. He looks irritated and rightfully so.
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
“This is the plantation politic that defines Houston's power structure. The strong donor class often straps non-white people into political leadership as managers of non-white dissent.” — @uyive_
scalawagmagazine.org/2026/09…
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
First of all, I pray that this young woman sees all those in her corner and praying she is well and receives the justice she deserves. Thank you to AJPlus for highlighting the disparity in reaction between to assault and anti-genocide protest activity.
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Houston writer @uyive_ reflects on this year’s Menil Summer School exhibit, highlighting Houston’s Civil Rights Movement history, and the racist, repressive structures from that time that persist & stifle the city’s contemporary social justice movements. scalawagmagazine.org/2026/09…
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Let's get some hype going for this documentary, which investigates Kahanist terror on American soil that targeted Palestinian Americans. Alex Odeh's name should be widely known!
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Huey P. Newton said, “I do not expect the white media to create positive Black male images.” A white woman strangled her three children to death, and yet the lone Black male juror who refused to acquit her is now being cast as the problem. She is given context, sympathy, illness, and complexity. He is given suspicion.
She committed the violence, but he becomes the villain for refusing to excuse it.
Here’s something Black folks have long understood, in the United States a Black man does not need to commit violence to be treated violently.
The lone Black juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial who refused to acquit her used an exercise band and an empty water bottle to visually reenact the way Clancy strangled her three children. The incident was said to have disturbed the other 11 jurors.
He was also said to have ignored the other jurors and scrolled on his phone while they attempted to speak with him or dissuade him from his decision. A male juror who voted to acquit Clancy, Nick Dargie, complained to ABC that “there wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was.”
Due to the lone Black juror’s heroic refusal to bow to pressure from the other 11 jurors, Clancy remains in state custody, likely awaiting another trial by prosecutors.
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Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
For 9/11 @onlineva_ connects the Munich Olympics origins of the GILEE police exchange program to the War on Terror’s expansion of the security state and deadly exchange programs to counter-insurgency, arguing GILEE’s abolition is essential to end Cop City scalawagmagazine.org/2026/09…
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
On the role of Navajo women workers and indigenous textile culture in the development of Silicon Valley circuit manufacturing muse.jhu.edu/article/563663
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web.
Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the @waybackmachine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/…
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
book deal on my arm, no book deal on your arm :/
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Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
I've said this too, tho it's often said somewhat in jest because of Houston labor's weak position, the TX AFL-CIO's reliance on "safe" public-sector unions, and the fraction of laborers who benefit. Not as simple as A+B=C
Friedrich Engels on "the Great Trades' Unions" fwiw:
Read my Labor Day column: Move over Mamdani. Mayor Whitmire is the real left-wing workers’ hero. houstonchronicle.com/opinion…
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Make no mistake, Flock is the brand name, but these vendors need to be banned until they can all be investigated.
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Rep. Maxwell Frost does a good job of explaining student debt cancellation here in a macro-economic sense. But he also exposes something even sweeter: that there is no actual, sensible rationale for anyone to oppose student debt cancellation.
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
On @TexasStandard this morning I spoke about Whitmire & Houston more broadly. I think it's a mistake when people blame voters for low turnout, as if they got what they deserved for not being locally engaged. The better Q is: Why isn't the strongest mayor in the US more inspiring?
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
Who killed Alex Odeh?
In 1985, Palestinian American activist, and teacher Alex Odeh was assassinated by a bomb planted outside his office in Santa Ana, California. 40 years later, no one has been held accountable.
Who Killed Alex Odeh? - in select theaters October 30.
Uyiosa “Unbow Your Head” Elegon retweeted
In Houston, the mayor has near-autocratic power the likes of which other "strong-mayor" cities like NY or LA can only dream of, yet its politics are stultifying, its outcomes unremarkable. For @TexasObserver I wrote about why the mayor is running out of time
