Twitter thread on research-based ways to stop police violence from Samuel Sinyangwe, a Black data scientist and policy analyst who grew up about 25 minutes away from Sanford, FL, where Trayvon Martin lived his last days.

Those are food bank beans! So this is the state throwing things at the state.

After reading other replies, my first protest was a solo one in junior high, when I petitioned, like as in getting signatures from my classmates, to show Glory in school. My parents are teachers, and I found out through them that there was a school version of the movie. It was easy to push through and although it…

I taught kindergarten at a small BIE school in Arizona, and for whatever reason, every morning, the entire school stood around the flagpole to recite the pledge. Idk what my kids were saying, but I was saying this: I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the Republicans for which…

Dion Johnson being left lying on the freeway for six minutes in Phoenix in late May is one of many forms of brutality here. We get up to triple digits by 8am this time of year, so that was inhumane to have him lay there roasting. I do not know what time of day his murder happened, but since it happened during daylight…

Just posting to share this. My mom makes art from dead wood she forages, and she uses a chainsaw to take down the wood. Anyway, my sister-in-law tells a story about being at work and discussing the upcoming Mother’s Day, and my SIL said “we’re getting my mother-in-law a gas can for her chainsaw”, and that was how my…

I didn’t know that was him in Attack the Block! It was so long ago and I remember walking out of the theater feeling exuberant about my ability to beat the shit out of alien spores.

I came here to say Dalvin Hollins’ name too. In July 2016, he was shot and killed by a Tempe cop. (Tempe is a city in the metro Phoenix area.) We tried to organize around it but it got very little traction in local media. Dalvin’s medications had recently changed, and he went to a Walgreen’s in the midst of a mental…

Those scrapy things are good, but not just for cleaning a work surface. They’re also good for shoving the dough into the shape you need it to be, like when rolling out the dough for cinnamon rolls and it has to be in a rectangle, or when about to shape wheat bread dough into loaves, and it has to have a certain length…

Those scrapy things are good, but not just for cleaning a work surface. They’re also good for shoving the dough into…

It’s interesting that she went with glasses and natural makeup for the “sorry, our bad” vlog. I doubt she rehomed her contacts, contouring brushes and white shadow for her browbones. 

Fingers crossed!
I just know all their older children are going to question all the “Live, Laugh, Love” and “In this house, we...” word art after they understand what happened to the challenging one.

Damn, that video definitely makes them seem monstrous. Before the adoption was finalized, she divulged his private medical history to her 5 million subscribers, and they did not have guardianship of him then. In France, I know they have stricter regulation of children’s online privacy, and it’s too bad that she can’t…

Starred for “I’m no phrenologist, but...” You just don’t hear that much these days.

Scottsdale Fashion Square is a luxury shopping mall. It has a concierge. Cartier, Jimmy Choo, a Peloton store, Montblanc (the fancy pens), Tory Burch and so on. Arizona has been no stranger to mass protests, seeing as how we had years of anti SB-1070 protests in the early 2000s when tens of thousands of people marched,…

Any words I could say here are lame, so all I got is-so glad you recovered and I gave you a star because I really did not know what else to say.

Hello AEB. If you have the time and energy, please school me. Inserting multiple smiley faces :) to show I am not being combative and would appreciate knowing where I effed up :) so that I don’t repeat the mistake.

I have zero religious instruction and I just showed it with that post!

If it’s not the government’s job to protect health, then we should get mob-with-a-pitchfork angry when the government inspects agricultural products and finds e. coli or listeria in them, or when Head Start/Early Head Start programs require lead screenings for their students, and we should have staged a coup in 1983 wh…

Two things.
A few weeks ago, we got a knock on the door, and since we are new to the neighborhood and I was wearing a sports bra and shorts, I made my husband answer the door. An elderly man with a shaved head, facial and scalp tattoos, and REEKING of cigarettes was at the door. He is the three doors down neighbor and…

Idk. I think that since drinking water is regularly tested, that would cover the water in the grocery store misters, but re: the cleanliness of the lines of the misting systems themselves, I don’t know if those are regulated.

Maybe it’s kinda like those bugs in the strawberries. I wasn’t too distressed about it,…

My dad has multiple myeloma, and underwent an autologous STC last fall, so 1) I am grateful for your work. His pre- and post-transplant care coordinators were always just an email away whenever we had questions, and when he was discharged, I was sad that I didn’t get to say goodbye to them. 2) I was literally in tears…