If you’re looking to get a copy of the new Ta-Nehisi Coates book and you’d like to support a Black-owned bookstore when you do, consider purchasing from Comma Books! Comma is the ONLY Black-owned bookstore in Flint, and they really need help staying open right now.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities. “[Coate...
If you bought eggs in Michigan, Illinois or Wisconsin, check to make sure they aren’t on the recall list—they may very dangerous antibiotic resistant bacteria— Recent Egg Recall Gets Reclassified As Highest Risk Level Class 1 - Chowhound
Hey, as a person who is also worried about the election and has found a way to volunteer that takes up all my spare time, I’m going to post a thread of the opportunities I’ve been emailed about that I don’t have time for … but you might.
i seem to remember a time when STUPID people got fucking YELLED AT !!!!!
Did you know that there was a mental help line just for people going through a disaster? Natural disasters as well as "incidents of community unrest." I didn't. But I'm glad to know of it now. www.samhsa.gov/find-help/di...
The Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) is the first national hotline dedicated to providing year-round disaster crisis counseling. This toll-free, multilingual, crisis support service is available 24/7 ...
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, which is on top of the list, is also doing specific outreach to invisible and highly vulnerable populations like the houseless and migrant workers. A good place to send $5 or volunteer your time.
In the wake of #HurricaneHelene, autonomous disaster relief and mutual aid groups are mobilizing. Check out our roundup of autonomous hubs and projects on the ground in #Appalachia and the southeast who are organizing. itsgoingdown.org/mutual-aid-h...
A Category 4 storm, Hurricane Helene, one of the largest storms to hit the Gulf Coast in a century, collided into the Big Bend area of Northern Florida on Thursday, before moving into neighboring stat...
"I don’t know what language it’s possible to use with people who will never see you as human. Who will always hear an animal braying when you speak." themarkaz.org/a-year-of-wa...
It's the thing that makes me mute people the most. I understand the impulse, but unless someone is actively asking for advice in their post, it's rarely wanted and is often annoying (because it carries the implication that I haven't already considered my options/am not capable of doing so)