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Erica Ash died from cancer today. It really is a shame she never got her big break in Hollywood. But that isn't to say she didn't make an impression.

I knew her from The Big Gay Sketch Show. Then she was on the last season of MADtv. The next really notable thing I watched her on was Survivor's Remorse (M-Chuck, one of few Black lesbian characters ever, still). She was also hilarious on The Real Husbands of Hollywood. Speaking of which, she produced tumblr's favorite meme on that show:

I think the very last thing I saw her on was Legacies. She played MG's mom, and she was so good. That was the first time I'd seen her play a dramatic role.

Ah wait no she was in Horror Noire, that's right! I recommended that to you guys! It is so good!

Seems the last thing she was in was a family horror film with Anthony Mackie, David Harbour, and Jennifer Coolidge called, 'We Have a Ghost' last year. So I'll be checking that out soon!

R.I.P Erica 😔

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i really dont understand how you can grow up your whole life hearing stories about holocaust survivors and maps of giant family trees of hundreds of people where only 2 or 3 survived or families that were separated and had to leave people behind to die and not empathize with palestinians and instead have the complete opposite reaction and say none of this is happening and that its not a genocide... i fucking hate the world so much

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"WHY DO I KEEP LEARNING ABOUT WORLD EVENTS THROUGH THE DESTIEL MEME???!??!1?? 🤣🤣🤣" It's because you don't read the news. Hope this helps.

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What do you mean by worse?

No, be exacting in your language because a lot of y’all escape the particular and give Democrats a blank check simply because “Trump bad.”

What could Trump possibly give to Israel that Biden hasn’t?

What weapons don’t they have and aren’t using because these motherfuckers are liberally dropping white phosphorus now?

Which buildings can’t they bomb because they destroyed most of Gaza’s infrastructure, historical or other wise?

How many more deaths can Trump accelerate when we are already at the conservative estimate of nearly 180,000 dead due to not just direct military conflict, but dead due to what happens when you destroy nearly every fucking health facility in the area?

What you are going to compare numbers? If Trump wins, are you going to say “See? If this was Harris, the death toll would have been half?” at a certain time frame?

A few months ago, college students were beaten, gassed, accused of antisemitism, and lost their degrees for standing up to genocide, but somehow that would have escalated under Trump?

Today, a couple of IDF battalions pulled out of Gaza. Sounds good right? Oh my bad, I mean the IOF because these motherfuckers only did so because they wanted to have a Jan 6 Israel adaptation-ass insurrection to join in the upheaval about arresting soldiers raping Palestinian detainees, and no, nigga, those monsters are upset that the Military police have the audacity to jail those soldiers. But somehow you expect me to believe Trump will exponentially make this worse somehow?

Maybe you should stop letting that reasoning that things would be worse under Trump lie to yourselves about just how spectacularly fucked shit is now? Oppression is bipartisan, baby. Repression is the only common language both parties speak fluently. In the name of “harm reduction,” the reality is that the militarization of society and deteriorating living conditions will continue unabated and won’t cede if you don’t have a line in the fucking sand.

Instead of blaming people for withholding their vote until this shit stops and the US stop unconditionally supporting Israel and shielding them from repercussions, maybe you should be mad at Harris for jeopardizing your future to bet on Israel? Bitch, stand up! If you don’t put your foot down some fucking where, you are only setting yourself up to accept any fucking thing from the democrats under the specter that Republicans are worse.

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the "in another universe" "in another life" posts are funny cause you only get one, this one, and you've already resigned to losing it too. try fighting in this one

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this was the collab of a generation …

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Duane Michals, Shelley Duvall, 1980

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White people encouraging other white people to watch videos of Black people being murdered "to understand better" is like going to lynching but then shaking your head with your arms crossed. You're still there, you're still watching but you've tricked yourself into thinking you're better than the people who came with popcorn.

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Harris is now condemning the 'unpatriotic" protests against Netanyahu

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Representative Rashida Tlaib (the only Palestinian member of the US Congress) holds up a sign saying "WAR CRIMINAL" and "GUILTY OF GENOCIDE" as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

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this is another thing i was thinking about that i haven’t seen many ppl even discuss like sonyas death was gruesome and horrifying yes but im seeing a lot of ppl using one of her final statements as her “seeing the devil in the cop” and while i can see why ppl would draw that conclusion it doesnt help with stereotypes agaisnt psychotic people, as a psychotic black person myself, she quite literally was just nonchalantly saying “id never do that!” and again like this tweeter is saying is why aave and black lingo being demonized or treated as a joke or taken from us and decontextualized is irritating at best and dangerous at worst, people automatically hearing aggression or being unable to detect humor when we talk has claimed lives and will continue to do so because nonblacks inherently see us as more of a threat for simple things like this

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if you can stomach it i would recommend watching the body cam footage of the sonya massey killing, i'll try to describe it but it's hardly possible. you can't truly understand the type of extreme, completely volatile aggression that happens with cops if you haven't seen it, and it's captured here very harrowingly.

several officers are in her house, calmly talking with her about her id and vehicle papers for some time. it's routine administrative stuff, no acute danger or stress whatsoever. one of them tells her to take her pot off the stove, remarking that they don't need a fire in the house now, she walks over into the kitchen and complies. he suddenly backs off towards the front door despite already being several feet away. she asks him where he's going, he says "away from your hot, steaming water." she repeats "my hot, steamin' water?" in an amused tone. then adds "i rebuke you in the name of jesus," in a similar joking tone while pouring the water down the sink. the atmosphere is completely calm, you might even say amiable.

she's at this point still separated from the cops by her kitchen aisle and several feet of additional distance. the cop prompts her to repeat what she said, she repeats her joke about rebuking him in the name of jesus [with the scary water she just poured out]. she doesn't even realise there's been a complete 180 in his head. he goes "you better fucking not, i will shoot you in your fucking face," she's stunned by the sudden abusive language for half a second, immediately he draws his gun directly at her head, she gets out a panicked "sorry!" and ducks behind the aisle, he rounds the corner into the kitchen specifically to advance right next to her, immediately fires 3 shots at her head from above at minimal distance. she's dead where she stood, or cowered rather, by the sink in her nightgown.

after a few seconds you hear the click of him turning on his body cam, saying "she came at me with a pot of boiling water." for the recording. he also nonchalantly tells his partner there's no need to get a med kit because it was a headshot. it's one of the most clear cut cases ever and it's fully recorded only because his partner did already have the body cam on throughout.

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5 VERIFIED PALESTINIAN FUNDRAISERS EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS (BELOW 5%)

I would like to bring attention to the fundraisers that are struggling to get any donations. These are all verified by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi and you can find all of them, and many others, in this list.

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Lol he didn't even give them an hour's warning; he does not give a fuck about his staff.

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Sweet Dreams (2023) directed by Ena Sendijarević