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My gosh.

An absolutely BRUTAL start. I love it.

“Radicalized medicine no longer maintained that high rates of consumption among white people was a sign of white superiority; instead, radicalized medicine maintained that high rates of consumption among Black people was a sign of white superiority.” 💥BARS💥

“Eight of the 10 Commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything.”

“And so legislators legislated, building border walls, barring citizens of *there* from entering *here*. ‘The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves’ said the banners and people cheered, certain of all the certainty. But the next day they’d wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt”

“It feels so American to discount dreams because they’re not built of objects, of things you can hold and catalogue and then put in a safe. Dreams, give us voices, visions, ideas, mortal terrors, and departed beloveds. Nothing counts more to an individual, or less to an empire.”

“Hey siri, what does Dole Queue mean?”
“Hey siri, how do you pronounce leanbh?”
“Hey siri, what’s Baby Power?”

Oooooh baby

Okay I’m HOOKED

- Open Instagram for 15 minutes
- cry because the world is burning and your homeland is a fascist hellscape
- read a children’s mystery novel to dissociate
- repeat in an excruciating effort to stay informed

I am once again turning to my ole faithful, Ann, to get me out of my reading slump.