“The state came to massacre, it wasn’t a [police] operation. They came directly to kill, to take lives,” one woman in Penha Complex told the AFP news agency.

“There are people who have been executed, many of them shot in the back of the head, shot in the back. This cannot be considered public safety,” said 36-year-old resident and activist Raul Santiago.

Brazil’s Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is “horrified” by the scale of fatalities and surprised that such an operation went ahead without prior knowledge of the federal government.

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Adding my own previous tags:

I’d sincerely appreciate it if non-Brazilians reblogged this. Media outlets all over the world (and especially in my homeland) will try to sweep this under the rug but the horror has spread nationwide. We call it chacina for a reason.

It would be of great help if other countries and their citizens held Brazilian politicians/figures of authority accountable. Or, at least, acknowledge very publicly that there's an ongoing effort by the Brazilian police force to exterminate black and brown people, especially in Rio.

Homeless single mom of 2 needs help in Gaza

Maha and her family previously had a verified GFM to pay for basic necessities like food, medical care, and some form of shelter. Horrifically, the person running their former GFM has stolen from them and hijacked their campaign.

Below is Maha’s new GFM. Her previous GFM was vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi on their vetted campaign master list, on line 163.

Somehow, it gets worse

Maha’s 8-year-old daughter Joan, who we’ve explained has a history of gastric health problems, has fallen seriously ill with the viral gastroenteritis that is going around Gaza. She is severely dehydrated and needs to be on IV for fluids and to receive medicine.

Her treatment has accumulated €1000 EUR in costs, and the extension of her treatment for another week means Maha will owe an additional €1000 EUR. Maha’s husband is stranded in Egypt after accompanying his father for medical treatment. His expenses prevent him from being any help to his wife and children. You are their only hope.

We will start with the first €1000 EUR sum, the amount already owed to the hospital. We need to raise this URGENTLY, as the hospital will terminate Joan’s treatment if the outstanding balance is not paid soon.

Current: €108 out of €1108 EUR

Need to raise: €1,000 EUR (about $1,163 usd)

Please note the exchange rate: €1 EUR = $1.16 usd

heres my challenge to everyone for next month, for black history month. any time you want to draw inspiration from art, like poetry, music etc, pick a black artist. web weave with langston hughes and james baldwin and jamaica kinkaid and hanif abdurraqib and derek walcott and set your edits to meghan thee stallion and beyoncé and eartha kitt and coltrane and invoke basquiat in your art and it can be fanworks or original stuff and importantly, it doesnt have to be about race. obviously be cognizant of the context of the art youre using because a lot of the artists i mention specifically create art about racism but like. take your white doomed yaoi ship and make a webweave to poem by langston hughes. set an edit to body by meghan thee stallion. engage with black art in all contexts.

you can reblog this. other people should also be exposed to this idea.

emily brontë receives the first kill yourself anon in 1848

Sogo Ishii

- August in the Water

1995

Just wanna hold you closer
I should've held you closer
I took you for granted
No more second chances
I was always broken

Hiding thе pain
I'm trying to say goodbye
But my words all fade away I
Wish you could stay, I'll
Find a way, to go back
To how it used to bе

- By the Window (ft. Daman Mills) - Honkai: Star Rail HoYoFair | Elodie Xia / Wilson Hinh

The song is about Blade, but I couldn't help thinking about Cipher and Aglaea too...

Deltarune - The place where it rained

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen