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on jan 22, 2026, jaque ramon was shot 11 times in the back and murdered by (at least) three unidentified san bernadino sheriff's department officers who refused to identify themselves when filmed and confronted at the scene.

they just. left jaque there. for paramedics to pick up. we still don't know why in the world they thought this could have ever been a necessary response to an unarmed Black man, no matter his supposed crimes; the department refuses to properly comment on the situation.

i have not been able to support his family financially because i am going through extreme hardship right now. however, this is my community, and this is my home; i try to be there for the gatherings (every 22nd, on the monthly anniversary of his death, at place it happened, by the petco across from the tyler mall) i can make it to.

if any of you can please help boost & support his case and his mother's gofundme, please please please do so.

we think the media has been suppressing his case, so there's been very little coverage even locally. despite being very involved in my community, both i and many others did not even learn about this until very recently. please try to signal boost, share, support, etc if you can. it is so important word gets out there.

jaque's mother is struggling a lot, too. i haven't been able to talk to her much, but it's very plain to see for anyone who sees or talks to her directly. she deserves answers, justice, and peace.

please help us bring her that.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-jaque-rabon-fight-for-justice

IG: justice4jaque FB: justice4jaque

familiesdemandingjustice.org

Don’t stop talking about the atrocities in Sudan

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Don’t stop talking about the atrocities in Palestine

Don’t stop talking about what Isreal is doing to the world

In case you have any followers in Cincinnati, OH, I wanted to share that the Cincinnati Opera is premiering a new opera this weekend called Lalovavi that was written by a Black composer (Kevin Day) and librettist (Tifara Brown) and features a predominantly (maybe entirely?) Black cast.

Cool things about this opera:

It's the first in a series of three operas being commissioned and premiered through the Black Opera Project

It's an Afrofuturist opera set in Atlanta 400 years in the future

Parts of the opera are sung in Tut, which is a language that was created by enslaved Black Americans as a mechanism for learning how to read and write when it was illegal for them to do so.

In preparation for the performance, the opera company made sure to hire Black lightwalkers (people who test lighting on stage) to get the lighting right for the actual actors

Anyway I'm stoked about this and want people to know it exists!! Opera tends to be like 50+ years behind every other art form in terms of confronting racism so I'm really excited that this is happening.

Thanks for everything you do - your blog is amazing. <3

I wanted to last year but I 'never got round to it'. I kill a lot of plants (not on purpose. ADHD and constant watering is hard, and sometimes it's just me confused as fuck about why I suddenly have x thing happening to my leaves) and kind of felt it was hopeless anyway.

Then I was reading your posts, and how you were seeing biodiversity in even small little hopeful changes. And I was like. Hey. Even if I do kill the plants. They will feed insects for a little, while they survive, and after, I can put them in my compost pile and they will feed more insects, and the flowers (if I get any) will feed bees (which are my special children) and so, even if it doesn't give me food, and even if they die, it might be worth it to try.

I never ate the cilantro. Turns out my flatmate has the soap gene. But it flowered like CRAZY and there were SO many happy pollinators.

I ate so many green onion shoots. The bulbs I still haven't pulled because they just keep giving me shoots to eat.

The mint is going HAM and also the insects loved the flowers.

The cucumber plants went absolutely APESHIT and produced flowers ALL SUMMER, and they were BEAUTIFUL, and I couldn't walk outside without a bee or, occasionally, a butterfly dropping by. It's STILL FLOWERING in NOVEMBER in PHILLY and now I have ladybugs and fireflies. FIREFLIES! I didn't see a single one last year and now they love my balcony and I love them so much. I only got two cucumbers but I don't even care.

I had a bunch of nonedibles in a little greenhouse thing, and they flowered too, and I'd find random bugs (a grasshopper. Huge. Massive) in there hanging out. They died when the greenhouse got blown over but they lasted longer than I ever expected to keep a plant alive.

The birds came by my balcony despite the cat avidly watching them by the window. More types of birds, too. And my little compost box is constantly happy with fruit flies and regular flies and things I don't recognize. I never did get around to buying worms, but I haven't had to because the insects are having a blast in there and every time I think "oh, it'll be full" it is, once again, not full because it has been broken down further.

There is a tiny ecosystem on my 6th floor apartment balcony because you get excited about plants, and it was inspiring enough to get me off my ass. Because even if I didn't eat my plants, you reminded me SOMETHING ELSE WOULD.

as a Black girl myself, I'm upset at the fact that there is only one Black girl. cheetah girls was really important to me and showed Black girls that I could look up to as a kid and were good repersentation when there isn't a lot of repersentation.

I've been seeing the whole "well now other girls can be represented too" but I feel like this was not the time to race swap, especially since Black girls barely have repersentation. I belive if they wanted to have a Latina then they could've made her Afro-Latina, still Black. or for Asians they could make her Blasian. I feel like replacing the Black characters with other women of color that are more "white" and lighter was a way that Disney could whitewash a predominantly Black movie in a "non controversial" way. or maybe im looking to deep into this

I don't have any opinions on it worth giving, because I only heard about it in passing. I don't watch kids shows or keep up with children's media, unfortunately. I don't think they need to make a new Cheetah Girls at all, tbh. I think they coulda just made a New Thing. I understand wanting the diversity, for girls to see that multicultural community and fun together!

But I also understand the issue, that is they already took a book series that was all Black, and removed a lot of what made it what it was for the movies, and now are removing even more from it. It just should have been its own show, not the Cheetah Girls.

It should be Afro Latinas and Black girls. If the Latines are not Black, I don't want it. And that's of whatever skin tones. (I don't think they were initially dark skinned) But, it should be a Black story with girls from different Black backgrounds.

I think THIS is the perfect time to hire all the light skinned and mixed Afro Latinas that are often cast in Black and dark skinned roles, tbh. The author is light skinned. The characters are Black diaspora but also kinda light skinned. This is literally their lane.

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.