For decades, we were told "Never Again" to genocide and mass atrocities.

The Holocaust. Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur.

We were taught to spot the warning signs--dehumanizing rhetoric, violence, forced depopulation, and the destruction of culture.

We were told to speak out and act. Watching the silence, censorship, racism, and hypocrisies on to the assault, starvation, and depopulation of Palestinians in Gaza is revealing.

Too many consume history as stimulating entertainment, neatly packaged for movies, classes, and museums. Not as something to act on.

Not only is this racist, but it reveals that to many white people, allyship is transactional and performative and that Black people should be grateful.

It's also historically ignorant of the lengths Black people have gone to call out and fight Nazism and the oppression of Jews.

https://twitter.com/micheller3307/status/1721661681896448001

The Black press called out the Nazi atrocities against Jews:

"Negro America calls for an end to Hitler and to Hitlerism. Let the sympathy of black men for the stricken Jewish people strengthen the arm of every Negro soldier." -Chicago Defender, 1942
ushmm.org/m/pdfs/USHMM-H…

Five years ago today, my friend & @PostOpinions writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by agents of Saudi Arabia.

For today's paper, I wrote about a disturbing @TIME party held in the aftermath of his murder--which taught me how cruel U.S. media can be.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… Jamal gave everything in order to speak his truth in the last year of his life.

As his editor, I saw how he used his time and pen in the @washingtonpost to uplift the cases of others unfairly targeted and imprisoned.

It makes me think a lot about how I use my time and my pen.

"Tuohys used their power as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million, while Oher got nothing for a story "that would not have existed without him."

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1691136333354250250

"...The movie paid the Tuohys and their two birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5% of the film's "defined net proceeds..

..contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story 'without any payment whatsoever,."

This is worth a watch.

One of my theories as to why men get so violently angry when women reject them...

To exist as a man is to walk through life with a near-total lack of touch, intimacy, and connection with other men.

Men place the burden on women to fulfill that or them.

https://twitter.com/EmmaTolkin/status/1668163596730388480

Like... I can recall plenty of times when have hugged women, and been hugged by women I just met.. after sharing something personal or deep.

And yes, such moments have happened in the women's bathroom, lol.

Her name was Gabriella Gonzales.

Her boyfriend was abusive. She got pregnant, but could not get an abortion in Texas, so she went to Colorado to end the pregnancy.

When Gonzales came back, her boyfriend shot and killed her in a Dallas parking lot.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… The part of the abortion debate we don't like to talk about is the fact that women try to get abortions to protect themselves against abusive boyfriends, husbands or exes.

Male violence is a leading cause of death for pregnant and postpartum women:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Serious question:

Is being humiliated by Trump in real time considered a brave win for journalism? Because what we just saw was infotainment as it’s finest. Theatre, performance. Trump plating to his crowd, and Collins trying to play to…. whom exactly?

At the vet 😿 I came home last night to kitty vomit (which I accidentally stepped in before I turned on the light)

Poor baby was lethargic and not eating much.
Doc says he has elevated liver values and they are gonna keep him on IVs and on watch until tonight. 😿😿

Public art and the decisions around it are political.

In a country that has VERY FEW public monuments and statues of Black people, the "Embrace" Martin Luther King statue in Boston sends a message.

A lot of the wrong ones. (1/n) It doesn't sit well with me that Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King are reduced to body parts-- just their arms. Not their faces- their expressions.

For such a large statue, dismembering MLK and Coretta Scott King is... a choice. A deliberate one.

After the #DamarHamlin incident, the conversation around CPR training and AED access is important.

But we can't sidestep some hard truths.

America is addicted to this violent and brutal game. And the @NFL has repeatedly shown that does not care about Black players' health. "Why do you have to bring race into it?"

70% of the NFL's players are Black. There are only five Black coaches, and no Black team owners. We watch these men destroy their bodies every week for our entertainment.

nytimes.com/2022/02/09/lea….

Here’s my fight + technique analysis with a focus on the WH employee aka Boxin’ Becky 🧵

https://twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1607495972027785217

Now the WH Boxin’ Becky seems to have provoked the anger of the two black women after throwing a glass of.. something.

As the women advance, she takes off her hat to free up her vision. She backs up to create a good enough distance between she and her opponents

I wrote about the Great Twitter migration in the Elon Musk era and why I've decided to stay on this bird app until the ship sinks.

TBH I'm a bit frustrated with the logic people have for leaving as a protest to Musk. (short thread)

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… I totally am sympathetic to those who are part of groups that have been targeted on this app.

The waves of anti-Blackness, misogyny, anti-Semitism in these times have been off-the-charts bad. Whatever people need to do to protect their emotional space, they should do.

Storytime!

So about a decade ago or so, I really fell in love with boxing when I was in grad school..

https://twitter.com/GLDNST8/status/1593863156707004417

I was training almost every day.

A guy I used to date told me to stop because I was losing fat and gaining muscle, especially in my chest, and he "missed my old boobs".

Anyway, I know everything is falling apart.

But I’m single.

This is your chance to slide into my DMs.

Just saying.

*grabs a glass of wine* About me!

Star stuff: Leo Sun, Scorpio moon, Aries rising

Hobbies: martial arts, motorcycles, gardening, fig tree activist

Likes: 90s anime, a good Malbec, sushi, fried plantain, mangoes, live music and lefties

Dislikes: Racists, people who spit in public, and the cold

Well, now is as good a time as ever to thank everyone from around the world that’s been with me on this weird Twitter plane for the last 12 years(!).

Most of my early adulthood, I’ve lived it out on here.

So many of yall, I’ve never met- yet you’ve been a huge part of my life I never would have gotten into journalism or social media if it wasn’t for @anyaSIPA encouraging me to do so.

I didn’t have journalism experience, or family connections or anything when I started.

Twitter gave me and so many others a chance to be heard and make a difference.

As a native Dallasite and having lived in Texas again for the last two years, I am profoundly sad to see the paper's endorsement of Greg Abbott.

As a journalist, I'm pretty disturbed by it.

Short thread. Here goes: I see people saying "newspaper editorials don't matter."

Right now, they do matter. We are seeing extraordinary attacks on democracy, minorities, and women.

The @dallasnews endorsement of Abbott is now part of the attack on Texans' personal freedoms. It is truly a shame.

It is just simply the case that Kanye has openly been using White supremacy and its symbols for attention and profit for YEARS, and no one did anything.

https://twitter.com/Populabel/status/395609457607970816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E395609457607970816%7Ctwgr%5Ee966f6c299029b3309b03d70704045832ed47dd1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Farts-and-entertainment%2Fwp%2F2015%2F06%2F21%2Fkanye-west-once-wore-the-confederate-flag-what-does-he-think-about-it-now%2F

And we all remember this from 2013, right?

If there is one thing that the meeses around @CD6Nury and @SarahKSilverman have made extraordinarily clear, it's that the normalization of anti-Blackness in other marginalized groups makes white supremacy even harder to fight.

And we all suffer for it. How White supremacy gets upheld by powerful members of marginalized groups:

A Black male rapper traffics in anti-Blackness + goes full anti-Semitism.

A Jewish woman comedian calls Kanye out but has her own anti-black history.

A Latina councilwoman in LA, insulting Black folk.

Today, Oct 2nd, marks 4 years since my Washington Post colleague Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

We still don’t know where his body is. I live with the horror and injustice of his murder, and the callousness and impunity of our world "leaders" every day.

I've learned invaluable lessons about what it mean to stand up to power and to speak your truth.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Why is coleslaw still a thing? Does anyone really like coleslaw in 2022? This coleslaw discourse blew up! Believe me when I say, I truly was just asking questions!

I did not know the depths of of the love people have for coleslaw!

Going to urgent care :/ Doc said there’s inflammation and fluid buildup in my ear. Possibly ear infection. Got a steroid shot and a Rx for antibiotics + ibuprofen.

I asked the urgent care doc if I should take my flight back to Dallas tomorrow with my ear like this.

He was like “🤷🏾‍♂️”