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🧵 So you’re not excited about the election and ppl online are telling you to JOIN AN ORGANIZATION? Now what?
Well, here’s a start! I’ll give you some options organizing RIGHT HERE in Michigan & what they’re working on! ❤️
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Big Sean be rapping so hard and it do not be mattering at all.
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If we’re being frank, 1) rom-coms seldom perform anymore. 2) Billy Eichner is insufferable to watch. 3) it’s not 2004, nobody’s spending $10+ to watch white men unless they’re in a super suit committing war crimes.
#BrosMovie
struggled to connect with audiences, opening to about half of the $8 million to $10 million that Universal projected it would make.
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The irony of this is so many black films, queer black films especially don’t see theatrical release bcuz studios don’t believe folk will buy tickets. But wallah, it’s the whites everyone’s passing on.
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Amazing quality renovation but I can’t stress enough how the wrong ppl are buying Detroit homes! Leave our silly little pink/green bathrooms alone!!!!!
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When will Ayesha Curry and Chance realize they’re meant for eachother.
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Crazy part about this is I ain’t even say ppl shouldn’t see it. Imma still see the movie;I got AMC Stubs and will give most movies a chance. But like releasing a very white rom-com during spooky season was always a risk. Y’all not bout to guilt black folk into caring.
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I get why niggas used to sit on the porch & sing the blues
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In Detroit you can buy fried chicken, pizza, Chinese, shawarma & American from an Arabic man 💀
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And for folk saying “being too much & annoying is his brand”. That’s cool; go for it. Don’t mean I gotta find it funny tf. MFs know I love movies and gon always give em a chance if they’re not touting hate-speech/senseless trauma. But chances don’t mean chuckles.
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And while a wide array of stories need telling, reference point matters. I’m in Detroit where queer black & latino folk literally can’t even find sustainable housing & middle class romance is a privilege. Ppl need happy stories, but their disinterest in this one is valid
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Predicting Canva is the Spotifyfication of graphic design. An AI-centered UI that makes everyone feel like a professional at the cost of their creativity/agency. But also expect enshitification, less affordability, & data selling in the near future.
Goodbye Photoshop
Canva Create is officially here and it's INSANE
Here're 13 Canva features you should not miss:
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haters of ska often forget that black people were in those bands, and that the punk community respected reggaeton, african jazz etc. hence its adjacency to ska. seeing black kids keep the sound going should absolutely be celebrated, even if you don’t like it. Ska is ours.
BUT ITS JUST THE PRICE I PAY 💸💸
DESTINY IS CALLING ME ☎️😯
OPEN UP MY EAGER EYES
👁 👄 👁
IM MR. B R I G H T S I D E
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A Detroit Proverb
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You get one good Detroit tweet off and then here come the metro-detroiters like “I too hate when hams at the coney doggybone 🧍🏻”
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Detroiters deserve niche, rustic third places. Not everything has to be modern & streamlined. Sometimes a janky, colorful cafe is our oasis. This is Motown! Detroit Rock City!
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I'd argue Detroiters are likely some of the best drivers because they're driving with: the poorest roads, the poorest signage, high-speeds, often without insurance, and while black. We work miracles everyday. Its them Macombers that can't fuckin drive
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1) Detroit exited bankruptcy forever ago
2) Detroit has some of the cleanest and best drinking water in the country
3) Ohio is Ohio
4) You compared a state to a city 💀
5) Ohio is Ohio 💀
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Kenya Barris is making shows for whites. Tyler Perry is making trauma soap operas. 50 cent is making the gangster cinematic universe. They’re the 3 biggest black show runners; talk to them
We’ve had Living Single, Girlfriends and Insecure…shows about positive black women & their relationships with each other. Has there ever been a good, successful tv show about black men like this? (One that lasted at least 4 seasons?)
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Not at all dramatic to say Kai Cenat’s platform is culturally destructive for boys/young men. Manosphere, rage baiting, staying in a child-like state, political ambivalence. It’s all been there. But also its just a silly little symptom of systems we should be focused on smashing
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Pontiac is a working class, majority black suburb impacted by Emergency Management law with little to no priority in Lansing cuz profits can’t be extracted from it like other suburbs. It is absolutely the trenches—most of Michigan is the trenches if ppl could just unlearn shame.
Pontiac, MI is not the trenches. Just thought I’d add that
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This event would break the Detroit multiverse
42 Dugg wants to have a friendly competition at his Homecoming Concert in Detroit 🗣️
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Pistons marketing team spends so much time tryna teach Metro-Detroiters our culture when the better, simpler marketing is just not being the worst fucking team in basketball.💀
Jit
𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣.
More than just a dance - a cultural expression of Detroit's grit, history, and unbreakable spirit.
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Worst feeling is when all the caucazoids saying “nigga” at the concert and you can’t fade all of them at once
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I think the Detroit pink bathroom is an heirloom many black folk who experienced them now can’t enjoy because of the tragedies of foreclosure, disinvestment etc. It’s a literal socio-political heirloom and to preserve it, resisting insatiable HGTVfication IS black power.
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Because of Detroit's racial optics, folk don't understand just how conservative Detroit is. Our city government still begins proceedings with prayer; the church apparatus still populates political-economy. Sprawl still divides marginalized and othered communities.
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Reading that the shooter is from Oak Park is interesting. Won’t milk this point too much rn but there is a dynamic where folk from edge cities & suburbs feel they can harm in Detroit.
Detroit police chief after Sunday shootings: 'Tailgating, drinking and guns, they don't mix.'
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Straight photographers be on insta like “my new muse 🙈‼️” Like why is sis naked at the WSU reflection pool ??? 💀💀💀💀
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Just watched the CBS Detroit News tonight! 🧍🏾We know that OUR vision of a Publicly Owned Utility is gonna take time to make the final edit, ☕️ but we’re making “monopoly” & “failure” the language for everyone! We want Publicly Owned Power now, tomorrow, & forever!🫱🏾🫲🏿💡
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So I was at a labor rally like a month ago in support of striking baristas and one dude also there in solidarity had a full mink on. This Detroit btw
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Heat index in Detroit is 100° + and all the super polluters are at a greenwashing party downtown rn. No solutions, just vibes 😌❤️😍🤪😜
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Homophobia clocking in for its shift
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I HATE when ppl from out of state say something hosted in Detroit and its somewhere 40 minutes from the city
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Detroit urge to say “see that’s why yo car look like that” when a damaged car almost cause an accident
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The DIA closes wayyyyyy too early let’s talk about it
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PLEASE sign my petition to REMOVE police officers from Detroit Public Schools and install psychologists, social workers, school greeters, more youth programs, and the elimination of locker/desk searches & scanning procedures
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The biggest argument I have against the whole “cars = freedom” shtick is that here in Detroit, ppl never leave their spawn points. Whole adult west & eastsiders who’ve never seen the other side of the city. Cars are cages actually.
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Believe it or not, Detroit does not have to develop rapidly. Being in a hurry has failed so many other American cities as of late.
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Like all of em my baby 😭
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There is a redistricting of city council districts that council members JUST got prospective maps for last week from the City Planning Commission. 😭💀
Meanwhile the city’s twitter:
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Stuff like: Community discussions, blight remediation, growing trees & native plants, porch patrols, rescuing stray animals, fundraising, bill assistance, community fridges, gardens, quiet hours, homework houses, getting sidewalks fixed, clothing swaps etc
Contrary to public opinion, I actually think there are some things a neighborhood can get done through their collective effort and resources 😭 and I think that’s political, or can be.
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LAST thought on this but I also think these renovators are stripping gentleness & femininity from Detroit homes. Our grannies took baths,
wore wigs & hats, sat at vanities, & wore furs etc. more than anything ppl who grew up watching it should also experience such
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Love that everybody got really pissed today about the city of Detroit closing parks for the fireworks. Love that ppl got mad about them shutting down the cinco de mayo parade. More more more!
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The bittersweetness of begging to be seen and then being seen only for what can be extracted/consumed feels like the never-ending life cycle of cities
I've never had so many people tell me that Detroit is nothing like how the national media portrays the city.
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How you come to somebody hood & not check in?? You ain’t expect the city with the largest population of Arab ppl in the country to protest a genocide???😭
Whitmer cancels Dearborn visit after Arab American group planned protest
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Quincy Jones is a classically trained musician cultivated from playing with jazz legends. DJ Khaled is an event planner with distrokid.
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it’s giving me sexy yt woman watching black people get hosed by police from her window in Montgomery, Alabama 🧍🏻♀️✨
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Detroit niggas gon have to stop saying “I’m sick” when some bad shit happen
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Actually think its INTEGRAL that we be as dramatic as we can be when $400k is misused in this fashion given all of the needs working class families have. Just a smaller microcosm of a The misleadership Class that has no generative, thoughtful way of managing resources.
Everybody’s being a little dramatic over the aesthetics of the Detroit sign.
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Not to be the fun police but the amount of black made prison content as of late is wild. Stop cop city & mass surveilance this year, but fuck it prison is heeheehaha
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So TOMORROW city council will vote on spending $8M in ARPA funds (COVID Relief funds) on the Shotspotter contract. In light of this vote I want give a quick timeline of all that’s happened!
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Thread 🧵 - I Think we need to have an honest talk about Detroit’s food scene! As a lifelong Detroiter I feel that:
- we don’t spotlight our staples well enough⭐️
- we don’t invest in healthy options 🥗
- great food is a little…too underground 🔬
Here’s some ideas idk 🤷🏾♂️
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Spider-Man not being poor & calling Stark Industries everytime he has a minor inconvenience.
what mcu character's decision in marvel made you feel like this
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such is true 🤖
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This thread means so much at a meta level. The outsider male’s complicated descension into tycoon loser. The life & death of millennials’ worst fashion vices. The rise of hypercurated social media. Thanks for this.
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Watching Detroit clean up for the NFL Draft is so funny. Like $1M to parking lots alone??? These ppl are morons
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Getting political education from Chris Rock is like eating sushi from Wendy’s
A Martin Luther King Jr biopic is in the works with Chris Rock set to direct.
(Source: Deadline)
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We’re gonna keep saying it. This is a litmus test to see if they can silence all forms of resistance. First the press, then their bureaucratic circles. We the people are next and they been building the surveilance capacity to do it too
BREAKING: The House votes 234-188 to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for “promoting false narratives” about the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and for her use of the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is considered by some as a call for ending Israel's existence.
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After last nights DPD “Townhall” I broke down; I felt the worst there I’ve felt in a long time. Literal kids dressed in police uniforms, exploiting our trauma. Preachers demonizing poor folk. I’ve seen a lot of shit growing up in the city, but never anything that wicked.
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Bestie👨🏾🤝👨🏻 (
@MayorMikeDuggan
) finally😭 unblocked 🤲🏾 me, cause public 🇺🇸officials 👔can’t do that 🚫to their constituents🫵🏾.Silly 😜 move 🕺🏾 though 🙊cuz I’m NOT 🙅🏾♂️bout to stop 🛑 talkin 🗣️shit 💩!
#Bozo
#hahaha
#PackThemUp
#VisitDetroitSometime
#Dweeb
#Dork
#Loser
#Tyrant
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A city council where the police chief can speak for 30+ minutes but residents only get 60 seconds is telling
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AFTERPARTY AT YO MOMMA’S HOUSE (the album)
OUT EVERYWHERE FEB 17th
b ready 2 groove 😛🕺🏾
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Detroit underdevelops black boys and then propositions the few comfort-class BM as avatars for “youth leaders” while BW are the majority of folk in civic-public work— its kinda fascinating
One thing I HATE is attending a public meeting and getting the “look at this young man getting involved”. Like pls fuck off im tryna stop y’all from getting us all killed
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Religious ⛪️ Leader 🎤 & Community activist 🪧 Rev Thaddeus E.L. Heatcliff ✝️ is telling🗣️ us 🫵🏾why HE 👨🏾💼is supporting 🗳️ the District Detroit Development 😈deal 📝 to fill 🤲🏾billionaires 🦹🏻 pockets 👖 while Detroiters🧍🏾🧍🏾♀️ plead 🥺👉🏾👈🏾for investment 💰 in their communities 🏠 !
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It was either that or more kids dying bcuz ppl in cars have no judgement to slow down on residential streets
The most annoying thing Detroit could have done was put speed bumps on residential streets
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So hilarious that we can no longer hold our phones in the car but can legally have this monstrosity. This is an iPad 😭😭😭😭
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In Detroit everybody got a full time, part-time, a DoorDash shift, cut/braid hair, a scam method, a mixtape, and be an event planner. And you want us to daaaate????
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One thing I HATE is attending a public meeting and getting the “look at this young man getting involved”. Like pls fuck off im tryna stop y’all from getting us all killed
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MFs in Detroit be a nonprofit development director, consultant, and DJ 💀
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My whole thing is like…why? It’s not like Detroit gets all the picks lol. 😅
DETROIT. YOU SHOWED UP. This is the scene 2.5 hours before the NFL draft starts. INCREDIBLE.
Full coverage:
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The right to creativity doesn’t constitute performing it. For some gatekeeping ass reason, niggas act like we have to perform our work in order to give it value. The work had value when it left the pen.
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Hear me out. I’m assuming age range here is 15-30, an age range downtown has 1) priced out & 2) not created adequate recreation for. Instead of recording/posting fights we should be organizing for better but maybe I sound soapboxy.
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I love the thirst-quenching, infrastructureful taste of Táp de Detroit
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FAST !!!??????
Construction update from the Hudson's site in downtown
#Detroit
today. Unreal how fast this one is going up given its size.
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This was an umm awful read💀 I don’t tend to use such language to describe ppl’s writing but what an absolute moron???😭😭
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Girl please
WSU Alert: Due to an ongoing public safety issue, Wayne State will shift to remote operations effective immediately until further notice.
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Not at all a conspiracy. What’s destructive about this is that 128K homes are currently out of power and unable to see where power is still on nearby because of this new shitty map DTE made to control the narrative.
Conspiracy theory: the new
@DTE_Energy
outage map is designed to make it harder to take a screen shot showing the extent of current outages.
Compare the current map, with this archival map from Nov. 24, 2014.
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City council officially votes 5-4 in favor of $7M Shotspotter contract from General Funds, not ARPA funds. We didn’t get the vote we wanted, BUT we 1) freed up $7M for detroiters and 2) moved a decent bit of Council on this
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When I was at uofd, white kids basically bullied this black kid out of the school for being special needs & queer. He threatened to bring a gun to school and got kicked out. He just graduated from Wayne with me yesterday & that warms my fuckin heart to see him win. 🤟🏾
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Detroit hustle culture be pushing ppl to just form ✨spaces✨ with neither facilitation nor decision making skills. Think it’s how you get ✨spaces with familiar faces✨ instead of community. And no, you don’t need a formal education to have those skills.
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Mr. Mayor literally 500K DTE ratepayers in Southeast MI are now out of power, MANY of them Detroiters. You’d know this if you were ever here in the city fr🤦🏾♂️ Detroit looks freezing and worried in ice!
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wait I’m up rn lemme talk my shit!
•im 22 with a college degree
•I’m officially a hired organizer and work in consulting too
•I got my own independent music blog that the streets fw
•I make music and own all my masters, while writing & mixing/mastering all of it.
😛😛😛😛😛😛
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