moon of liberation 🌑 @js0000@toot.cat

made the mistake
of watching a few minutes
of steven miller
endlessly propagandizing
in the ruse of a television interview
on fox

📺🤮

trying #tusky
(after reading toots about gab and fedilab)

ok ... UI more or less same
will know more in a week

too hot
only
too hungry
when
too high

played a sweaty show
at children's museum

kids in audience enthusiastic
band less so
(excessive heat + humidity = sluggish tempos)

some dancing adults were seen

apparently sufficiently entertaining

shirley chisolm on my mind

as i worry for safety of omar
while rooting on squad

arc of history
so slow

bought a juluka album in the 1980s
(still prefer african guitarists)

never clicked with me

i know more about him
now he's dead

tried to use his privilege
to showcase
his talented neighbors
with various skin tints

props for learning the zulu kicks

🇿🇦

your mind-
blooming
into a bouquet

🌱

"aloof from emotions, they are tranquil and clear, abiding in the abode of buddhas, imbued with the power of love and compassion, their senses under control, their hearts without fear, impossible for the hordes of demons to upset."
-avatamsaka

🏵

the story of black america
is the story of america

jeff flake on pbs news
wants to avoid dicussing
tRump's raw racism

despite the videotape (again)

throughout american history
repeated racist incidents
(most fatal to some number of POC)
define character of white americans

we can't make anything better
without thinking freely
without facing past
dispassionately

⛓

"(tRump) can melt back into the destructive fucked-up corner of the american id that manifested him in the first place"

https://thenib.com/why-don-t-they-just-go-back-to-where-they-came-from

(it's complicated)

https://webcomicname.com/post/185226533889

"birth of a nation" (the clansman)

essentially creates film industry
first film ever shown at white house
helps restore klan
american cultural landmark

(2019 echoes 1915)

mental health depends
upon continuing
without hope

▶

eric garner's killer walks free
(medical examiner ruled it a homicide)

#blackLivesMatter
ACAB

(also his daughter erica is dead (stress from her father's murder no doubt contributed))

⚖️ ✊🏼

deeply moving press conference about tRump racist tweets (systemic racism) from "squad":
talib, pressley, omar, AOC

so inspiring to see these women of color standing up to an ignorant bigot (who happens to be president of USA)

their intelligence, compassion, and effectiveness clearly displayed throughout

each one making excellent points about their (mutual) struggle for a better nation

✊🏼🇺🇸

expresso brownie consumed

zip! 💨

even on "meet the press"
she shines!

⚽ 🌈

decent meditation this morning

maybe
higher frequency
higher benefits

🏅

"whitey on the moon"
(and (segregated) houston control)

of the many things
revealed by moon walk-
nation's systemic racism
(also misogyny)
are (mostly) absent from reports

moon walk remains an immense (scientific) achievement

for white americans-
facing legacy of slavery
more alien than visiting moon

🌑⛓