The Diva Weava (she/her)
The Diva Weava (she/her)
@divaweava.bsky.social
I am historian and crazy crafter from the Alabama Black Belt.
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It’s been concerning to me how so many non-Black people around me are going through life like nothing’s happening. I feel sick. I’m ended relationships over how people react who claim to be friend and/or ally. Nonnegotiable
Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This right here!
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for
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On this day in 1891, Ellen Martin went to the polls in Lombard, IL & demanded to vote. Martin noted that the town’s charter did not explicitly limit voting in town elections to men. The election judges reluctantly agreed with Martin, who reportedly became the 1st woman to vote in Illinois. #WeTheMen
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
The more you know…
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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CONTACT YOUR REPS!!! When Congress stays silent, it’s not being cautious. It’s abandoning its responsibility. They need to assert their authority now. We need briefings, hearings and accountability @mikethompson.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov