Afro Tapp

Afro Tapp

@afrotapp.bsky.social

We discuss Black/ADOS politics and beauty.

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More insanity. 1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola 2. Drugs for HIV 3. Malaria vaccines 4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats. And much more This is another damaging own goal. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...

statnews.comNIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concernsNIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding

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Angela Davis also said that electing MVP Kamala Harris would open more space for radical struggles. Again, she is far more strategic than you so-called "activists". You all confuse temper tantrums for strategy and activism. www.peoplesworld.org/article/ange...

peoplesworld.orgAngela Davis: Electing Harris will open space for more radical strugglesPARIS—“Do I really have to answer that question? I’m certainly not voting for the person leading the Republican Party.” That was the response of communist icon Angela Davis when a journalist asked abo...
Miles Brown@solidarity420.bsky.social

Just gonna leave this Angela Davis quote here too, for ya 😇

This should be illegal!

Billy Binion@billybinion.bsky.social

This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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"This is classic Trump. You create a crisis, then you say, well, actually, I'm going to back off, and the crisis is over, and you end up with yourself and the country worse than before you started." @theprospect.bsky.social's Robert Kuttner explains Trump's on-again-off-again tariffs.

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🧪 Reports detail how firms are acquiring legitimate scholarly journals and operating them preditorily, increasing fees and publication volume. This practice has led to these titles being delisted by major databases. #AcademicSky

nature.comInvasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogueStudy finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.

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Trump fabricated a photo of Mr. Garcia with an MS-13 tattoo on his hand in an effort to keep him in prison. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCIST regimes do. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-fabr...

deanobeidallah.substack.comTrump fabricating evidence to imprison Abrego Garcia is bone-chilling--and it's what he would do to youThis case is about our freedom

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Opinion | Some Rules for Campus Resistance A 2012 governance fight at the University of Virginia offers lessons for other faculty who might need to host “a little rebellion” on their campus, Charles Mathewes writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lxrwTq

bit.lySome Rules for Campus Resistance (opinion)A 2012 governance fight at the University of Virginia offers lessons for other faculty who might need to host “a little rebellion” on their campus, Charles Mathewes writes.

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Replying to @aaronsojourner.org

Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging... bsky.app/profile/josh...

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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"By overthrowing me, you have only defeated the trunk of the tree of freedom; it will grow back because its roots are deep, numerous, and vivacious." Toussaint Louverture We paid tribute to his memoir and his enduring legacy #haiti #liberty #dignity #blackheroe

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Replying to @aljazeera.com

@warnock.senate.gov you gotta wake the hell up or your street cred as a moral politician will be totally shredded. You don't think Palestinians being attacked in Bethlehem & arson during Passover in U.S. is connected? 🗽🥀☯️✡️✝️☪️☮️ No being far-right of @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social on foreign policy. 🗡️🦁⚖️

youtu.beWe will not accept your apology after genocide: Bethlehem church reverendYouTube video by TRT World

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Replying to @polotek.bsky.social

People are having that reaction when they hear statements like "fascist, authoritarian coup". It sounds so outlandish they refuse to engage with it at all. So I share things like this. An expert saying "yes this is actually a coup". bsky.app/profile/polo...

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social

I'm about to dive deeper into books about authoritarianism. But I found this to be an excellent primer. "As a historian of coups, I consider this to be a situation that merits the word coup." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

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every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”