News:

- Brazil Supreme Court ordered Twitter/X to block fake news, hate accounts violating laws+undermining democracy.

- Musk refused & closed all offices in Brazil.

- Court gave him 24hrs to appoint a legal rep in Brazil or it’ll Block X/Twitter in the country of 217million. Some context:

- No organization can operate in Brazil without a head official or “legal representative” responsible for its actions+answerable for them in Brazilian courts.

- Acts of racism, incitement to hate (including speech), political disinformation, are crimes in Brazil.

So, how did Dr. Sirry Alang and Dr. Uju Anya become affianced?

🧵with @ProfAlang, who swept me off my feet and made my dreams come true. It all began with serious, lovingly careful planning by Sirry, who called my senior sister, aunt, and brother to discuss things after we had agreed to marry. Then, she secretly plotted with our kids and friends to join the surprise. She even practiced the proposal with my son!🥹

1st faculty member fired under Texas SB 18 law to revoke tenure is a Black woman. Tenured African history associate professor, Dr. Mickie Mwanzia Koster, who’s been at UT Tyler since 2011, was fired with no just cause, no due process, no chance to respond to claims against her.

https://twitter.com/aaup/status/1717548836179034157

Dr. Mwanzia Koster was given 2 weeks notice to leave a TENURED position claiming she shared her UT login credentials with another person. According to the SB 18 anti-tenure law she was fired under, she has a right to due process, including a hearing. None of that happened.

Parents of college bound children, listen. One thing I discovered during this my first child's college application journey is the importance of calculus. Yes, calculus.

Has your child taken it?

Are they on track to take it before HS graduation?

Walk with me... ...Many competitive universities require high school calculus. Even if applicants wanna major in humanities, drama, art, etc., a basic req to enter the university itself is calculus. However, not all HS offer calculus, and not all HS with calculus track all students into it...

Not helping HBO advertise that documentary by quoting their tweet. Just wanna inform y’all Renee Bach is a serial killer who murdered 100s of children in Uganda pretending to be a medical professional. And she got away with it, because she’s a white woman who killed Africans. If you'd like to learn how Renee Bach killed Ugandan children pretending to be a doctor giving medical treatment with no training or license and blogging about it, read stories from Ugandan journalists:

Rosebell Kagumire @RosebellK wrote about her in 2019
qz.com/africa/1688906…

Every interaction we have with other people is filtered through our own experiences, beliefs, and biases. We can be speaking the same language, but often, we leave conversations understanding completely different things. Take, for example… A US friend described how kids in a West African slum she visited were so poor they didn’t know what a marker was and what to do with it.

We were like huh? She said yes, when she handed kids markers, they looked at her incredulously and said “What am I supposed to do with this?”

Black lesbians out in full force at Pittsburgh Pride!! 🏳️‍🌈🖤⚢🏳️‍🌈 Hanging out with parade Grand Marshall Pennsylvania State Representative La’Tasha D. Mayes @latashaforpa I’ll be updating this thread with sights and sounds of Pittsburgh Pride. Here we have loud and proud LGBTQIA showing the religious assholes our love and joy are bigger than their gospel of hate.

These men who attack me for being gay, saying it’s not part of African culture, lemme tell you 3 things:

1. Your wives lying in bed next to you in Africa enter my DMs EVERY DAY saying they’re gay and trapped in marriage with you, because family and society gave them no choice. 2. Your African wives say they (and many others they know like them especially in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Nairobi) don’t miss a thing I say on Twitter, but can’t openly follow me or like my tweets, because you their African husbands follow me, and they’re afraid you’ll see them.

Pregnancy and childbirth kill women daily, but so called “pro-life” people demand anyone pregnant must risk death to stay pregnant, give birth. Now they say they’ll kill you themselves if you don’t risk death to give birth. Please believe them and start fighting these assholes.

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1631661957735669761

We told you for decades people who think a fetus’ potential to live is worth more than the actual life of the person carrying it are not “pro-life,” they’re pro-forced birth. Now they’ve told you themselves they will literally murder you for protecting your life. Listen to them.

Thread🧵for us observing 2023 Nigerian elections outside.

First, I'm not involved in Nigerian politics. I don't support/promote any candidate, party, leader, movement. My interest is for Nigerians to have a secure functioning democracy.

This election wasn't free or fair.

1/9 A huge problem (along with violence, voter suppression) is the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) body in charge of elections doesn't seem independent. It's plagued with apparent partisanship (favoring APC ruling party), corruption, outrageous incompetence.

2/9

A 9yo Black child clearly into science identified a problem harming her neighborhood, researched, found a safe solution, and was testing it. Her white neighbor (who knew her!) called police on her saying a “small Black woman wearing a hoodie” was doing things and scaring him.

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1591370970954088448

Examine carefully the words used by an adult white man to describe a 9yo Black child to police. A child he knew, because she’s his neighbor and one of the few Black people living there.

Black - out of place
WOMAN - adult
hoodie - thug, criminal
scares me - a threat, dangerous

Many of us who did ultrasound at 6-9 weeks pregnancy heard a “heartbeat.” It wasn’t a heartbeat. An embryo doesn’t have a heart. We heard the ultrasound machine converting electrical pulsing or throbbing from a tube in the embryo into a magnified sound people call a “heartbeat.” Hello all reading this tweet. You’ll notice I’m not responding to the forced birth apologists lying about baby murder or whatever else. I’m just blocking them and moving on with my life. Those interested in scientific facts like I’ve shared, look through my feed for more.

Hi all, I'm back.
I'd like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to my loving partner Dr. Sirry Alang @ProfAlang and everyone who rallied for me here and elsewhere. Thanks for tweeting, talking, writing/signing support letters, etc. You showed me something very important: I have people. All of you showed me I have people in my life, in my new city of Pittsburgh, in my university, in this country, and around the world. I am deeply grateful to you, my people, for holding me in strength and community.

The fact that nearly 70% of divorces in this country are initiated by women should tell you all you need to know about the joy and fulfillment you will supposedly find as some dude’s live-in maid. One thing these 1950s housewife fetish videos won’t tell you about the happiness you’ll find in marital servitude is all that joy comes from the alcohol, methamphetamines, Valium, anti-depressants, and opiates you take to numb your anxiety, boredom, rage, and suicidal thoughts.

This is how my mom ended up bringing us to US instead of England where she and my dad previously had 100K accounts and property. Son they sent to UK for uni spent years liquidating+spending all my parents saved there, along with money they sent for school fees.

1980s. Cocaine.

https://twitter.com/MrMekzy_/status/1563855553817878529

Y’all don’t know how a child you send away to study can lie to you every day saying he’s doing great while failed out of school snorting up his nose the tuition you work to send him and, after finishing that, stealing all your life savings and destroying your retirement.

Every contemporary song I like sends me into a deep rabbit hole searching my youth for their samples and similar sounds.

Take the slide guitar from 1da Blanton’s “No wahala.” Listen for Blaise Beatz’ slide guitar sound hook at the start of this clip and his bridge at the end. The slide guitar hook in “No wahala” immediately brought my mind to the 90s and Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, specifically Kenny Withrow’s iconic guitar in “What I am.”

Nigerian embassy got me living like Nigeria in the US. Came to renew my passport, embassy say I need a national ID number (NIN). Left embassy, drove to NIN office. Somebody’s side hustle in a strip mall. Office also does taxes, LLCs, and sells insurance.

Oga said “I’m coming.” If you have any notion of Nigerian time, “I’m coming” is a two-hour wait.

Since the love of my life (who now has a house in Pittsburgh) decided to air me on Twitter, let me tell y’all the full uncensored story.

https://twitter.com/profalang/status/1545805029835264003

We met on this wretched app when we lived a 4hr drive apart. After ogling and internet stalking each other for months, we had some virtual dates flirting with wine on videochat, eventually, in-person dates. Soon after, we began an agonizingly sweet, unbearably passionate fling.

If you think this SCOTUS ruling allowing teachers to lead prayer in public school means they’ll just pray with the willing but not coerce or mistreat children who don’t pray, you’re wrong. A preschool teacher tormented my 4yo son, mobilizing classmates in hatred against him.🧵1/6 I enrolled my son in a secular preschool with no religious affiliation or instruction. During a parents’ night visit to my son’s classroom, his teacher invited my family to Christian worship. I politely declined, saying I’m an atheist and not raising my child in any religion. 2/6

Y’all. Colombia just elected its first Black vice president, Francia Márquez. She ran with Gustavo Petro, the country’s new and first left wing president. I can’t really describe the profound significance of a Black woman with Francia Márquez’s dark skin, African features, and tightly curled hair texture rising to this level of political prominence in a country as racist and anti-Black as Colombia and in Latin America as a whole.

Stop listening to clowns saying “they won’t take it that far.” They already took it that far. That far has been took, tooken, tooketh. “But they won’t try to ban birth control.” They did.

“They won’t arrest someone for miscarriage.” They did.

“They don’t wanna ban interracial marriage.” They said they do.

“They won’t ban gay marriage.” They did.

Whatever your definition of “that far,” we’re there. Right now.