My favorite is when a texting person bumps into you and gives you a dirty look.

I’ve begun and deleted comments three times now. I have no words.

Obligatory.

What I’m seeing is a generally peaceful group of people on the sidewalk. The police yell at them to get out of the street, they’re like wtf we’re on the sidewalk, and then they get stormed.

And it is no longer peaceful. Lots of “fuck the police” chanting now. People getting pepper sprayed, arrested, threatened, pushed face down on the pavement....

Having this particular photo up as the lead image is an example of the ways in which Black death is so commonplace that it is a backdrop. And how Black suffering is not nearly as important to people as they’d like to think. Because posting this photo as the main image, forcing those of us who are visiting the site to…

For anyone still awake, there is a guy live-streaming the protests. About 3 dozen police just ran across the road and attacked peaceful protesters who were singing and chanting. Things are going to get bad tonight.

a 12-year-old girl got arrested for protesting, too.

We really do need to do better.

I’m trying to figure out how to put what I feel in words. This is heartbreaking because it keeps happening over and over. It doesn’t seem to be getting better.

Ferguson is 70% black and entirely controlled by white politicians and cops. This has everything to do with them trying to maintain their power as it slips away from them. Expect this kind of violent suppression efforts throughout the South as Latinos and Blacks explode demographically and demand political power (look…

deray and netta give me so much hope. my heart was breaking tonight reading about netta’s experience - not only the violence from the police officers, but the fact that she had to watch the white women she was arrested with being treated so much better. it turns my stomach.

and deray tweeted about the beautiful sunset…

That Kylie story made me a little teary eyed. I remember when I was 18 and my first the first significant other gave me a Ferrari. As you grow older, getting Ferraris from your partner becomes so common place that I think we forget the rush and thrill of that first time.

Somehow the most horrifying thing here is that a 30 year old man told his mother to go to the store to get him a sandwich and a soda - AND SHE DID IT.

BRB changing all of my profile “about me”s to say “gorgeous loner”