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Los Angeles
Joined June 2011
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Late-stage capitalism figured out how to monetize loneliness. Erase third spaces. Make going out too expensive. Work people too hard to keep up friendships. Then sell the emptiness back as dating apps, delivery, streaming, and subscriptions. Isolation as recurring revenue. Nasty work.
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Our ancestors knew only one homeland. I saw no Africans or people of African descent anywhere. Freedmen status and Soulaan ethnicity are autochthonous to America.
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Most people know that street trees have many benefits (cooling, beautification, air quality, flood mitigation). But today I learned they also decrease crime??????
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White men shouldn't be allowed near positions of power, they've proven that for 400 years straight.
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Get you a red onion, orange, lime, lemon, ginger, garlic & turmeric. Boil that shit, add some honey & drink it. Then eat a whole garlic clove, that shit gone burn & hurt but you will knock that sickness out before it can even try to take over. I promise you’ll feel better in a day or less.
I’m getting sick , I feel the cold coming . Someone I work with has the flu .
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These Zionists were 3 of the single most famous real estate agents in New York and Miami. For 20 years they drugged and raped at least 70 women. Guess who they represented? @JaredKushner & @IvankaTrump.
Israeli-American brothers sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for serial sex trafficking —— Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander—three brothers from a prominent Israeli-American family who once dominated high-society real estate and security circles in New York and Miami—were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday for sex trafficking, conspiracy, and multiple counts of sexual abuse. Presiding US District Judge Valerie Caproni delivered the sentences in a Manhattan courtroom following an emotional, hours-long hearing where more than a dozen survivors delivered harrowing impact statements detailing years of systemic abuse. During the five-week trial, federal prosecutors laid out evidence demonstrating how the brothers exploited their immense wealth, high social status, and Israeli-American background ties to lure women to luxury properties—including estates in the Hamptons and international locations such as Tel Aviv—before drugging and violently assaulting them while incapacitated. While Tal and Oren operated elite luxury real estate brokerages, their twin brother Alon worked as an executive at their family’s security firm, utilizing their network to shield their predatory conduct. Judge Caproni firmly rejected the defendants' late assertions of innocence and unconvincing appeals for mercy, describing their actions as "monstrous" and likening them to "sadistic, misogynistic sexual predators." The landmark sentencing marks a dramatic downfall for the brothers, who maintained their defiant stance even as victims confronted them directly in court. Federal prosecutors had pushed for life sentences, citing the profound psychological trauma inflicted upon more than 70 victims who came forward to investigators.
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WHAT IF SUPER MARIO WAS NEVER JUST A VIDEO GAME? Think about it… A man running through different worlds, collecting coins like he’s accumulating wealth and abundance Eating mushrooms that transform his perception and unlock new abilities 🍄🧘‍♂️ Leveling up into a more powerful version of himself… Battling strange reptilian creatures, navigating hidden realms, and suddenly gaining the ability to perceive ghosts. Sounds like a game, right? But what if every level represents a different layer of consciousness? What if the coins symbolize the rewards we chase, the mushrooms represent altered perception, and the enemies are the challenges we must overcome to evolve? Perhaps the real question isn’t whether Mario is playing a game… What if WE are the characters, this reality is the simulation, and awakening is simply discovering how the game works? 🎮 Or maybe we’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. for decades without realizing we were looking at a metaphor for our own reality. ARE WE PLAYING THE GAME… OR ARE WE INSIDE IT?
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“Swag” is Black American. “Juice” is Black American” “Drip” is Black American. so seeing all these ppl use these words to describe their style and try to say we lack style is actually hilarious. Even the way yall describe yall shit is Black American AS FUCK
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If you're shocked finding out any country has hot people, you have deeply rooted racism guiding your opinions.
Remember when Tyla performed in India and everyone was *shocked* to find out India had baddies 😭😭💀
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Will you agree with me when I say modern illiteracy is not the inability to read and write; it is the inability to think critically, question what one is taught, and distinguish truth from manipulation? – at Nairobi, Kenya
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Non, ce type révèle des choses auxquelles la plupart des gens ne prêtent pas attention. Si tout ce qu’il explique est vrai, alors le monde actuel n’est pas gouverné par Dieu. Mais au final, qui mettra Satan en prison ?
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Singer Dawn Richard was asked is there an artistic hill she would die on even if no one agrees with her. Dawn: I think Janet Jackson is the epitome of Pop Culture. I think she’s the best representaion of what pop music was & continues to be. She’s the staple for what we now are
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So i have been rereading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and i wont stop thinfking about this part “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
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I repeat Black Americans are aboriginal indigenous natives to this land. I repeat Black Americans are indigenous and native to this soil period point blank flat tf fuck out it’s not up for debate😮‍💨
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Black Americans are primarily descendants of Africans brought to the Americas via the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th century onward, not the indigenous peoples of North America. politifact.com/factchecks/202… leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202… britannica.com/topic/African-…
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THEY DID NOT SHUT DOWN THE WORLD IN 2020 BECAUSE OF A VIRUS. THEY SHUT IT DOWN BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING WHILE YOU WERE LOCKED INSIDE. While you were counting cases on your television screen, the largest military operation in human history was taking place underground. Literally underground. Between March 2020 and December 2021, special operations forces from 22 nations conducted coordinated raids on a network of tunnels stretching across every continent. The tunnel systems were not small. They connected major cities. Some ran for hundreds of miles. Some were equipped with rail systems, living quarters, and medical facilities. What they found inside those tunnels has never been officially disclosed. But the evidence is everywhere if you know where to look. The hospital ships USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy were deployed to New York and Los Angeles. The media said it was for overflow COVID patients. Both ships sat nearly empty the entire time. Exposed nurses and doctors went public about it. The ships were not there for a virus. They were there for the people being brought up from below. Central Park in New York City had a field hospital erected overnight. Exposed medical workers reported that the patients brought in were not COVID cases. They were malnourished. Disoriented. Many had never seen sunlight. Earthquakes were reported in areas with no seismic history. 2.5 to 4.0 magnitude tremors in Virginia, New York, Colorado, and beneath the White House itself. The USGS recorded them. The media ignored them. Controlled demolitions underground register as shallow earthquakes on seismographs. You were told to stay home to protect your health. You stayed home so you would not see what was being carried out of the ground. The lockdown was not a medical response. It was a military cover operation. And the people who were rescued will one day tell you themselves what was done to them in the dark.
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The more you practice fasting, the more you realize that we’ve normalized eating far more than our bodies actually need. Sometimes, the body needs less food and more time to rest. 🌿✨
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🚨 EDWARD SNOWDEN’S CHILLING WARNING IS NOW UNFOLDING IN REAL TIME What China built… is exactly what Western governments are quietly preparing for. Snowden is crystal clear: Every photo, every purchase, every message, every movement — all of it is being fed into algorithms that decide your future. In China, AI “city brains” now track: Where you live Who you visit How you dispose of your rubbish Every step you take in public Whether you “follow rules” or not Break a rule? A camera catches you from three angles. Your score drops. Your life collapses. Snowden’s warning: “If any of your activities differ from what the government wants, you won’t get on a train. You won’t board a plane. You won’t get a job. An algorithm will decide your fate. And what they are selling… is us.” This is not a future threat. It is happening now — in Shanghai, in Beijing… and creeping into the West through digital ID, AI policing, and “misinformation scoring.” China built the prototype. Our governments are importing the blueprint. Stay informed. Stay alert. Do not let this system take root.
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We are taught to admire wealth before we are taught to examine how wealth is accumulated.
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Did you know that many African herbal practices were heavily suppressed during colonization? The herbalists were jailed if found to use plants to heal?
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"When Brazilians realized that Musk and Zuckerberg were manipulating the algorithm to interfere in their country's elections, they turned to social media and flooded it with AI-generated videos of Lula. A social phenomenon to be studied for decades." - via social media
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