Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social), page 2

I don't say this to be a downer.

But a Black Woman On the Sidelines Reclaiming Her Time kind of warning.

Because if you say you want to 'get rid of Trump,' then what the fuck do you want to put in his place?

What we had 'before'?

Because that's not 'getting rid of Trump'.

That's putting the mask back on.

ok; i'll say it.

MY life is more important than a fetus'.

i don't know why we tiptoe around saying this explicitly when this is what we (the folks who believe in not being forced to be pregnant) mean.

anyway, that's what popped into my head when i read this.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-bounty-hunter-ban-abortion-pills/

Everyone gushing about Newsom's Xitter and TikTok feed 'sticking it to Trump' realllllly must interrogate their politics a little more closely.

He hates the unhoused, the poor, the indigent, the mentally ill, and the disabled as much as Trump and RFK. And it shows in his policies.

He is about to DOGE CA govt and he wants to be the Dem candidate for President.

Do y'all *actually* want a world that exists for everyone or do you want American fascism with better hair and more charm?

#BensonUpdate

My very very high Schmoopie, back from the vet where he had a battery of tests+scans that cost more than my rent. 😑

Um....I'm watching a Murder, She Wrote I have *never* seen.

Jessica Fletcher is in VA doing research on a distant Aunt of hers and she meets a professor (Phylicia Rashad) whose distant grandfather Samuel was lynched -- and was enslaved by Jessica's distant aunt!! Well, these two decide to solve the mystery of his killing.

And thus ensues a MASSIVE FLASHBACK TO THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH.

Y'all. Omg they actually said the n-word.

Where did this come from?!?

It's a 90 min movie!!

Someone: You should ask Person for input.

Me: Nah, I don't need their input.

Someone: Some of their feedback will be useful.

Me: Certain folks are *overrepresented* when it comes to opinions.

Listen up, GenXers - the kids today are talking about a commercial featuring some girl named Sydney Sweeney (who is she? I dunno. She's some rich blonde MAGA influencer.)

But she's in a jeans commercial and the cultural discourse it has triggered is about Whiteness and, of course, the far Right.

If you watch it, see the subtext immediately, but are talking to a YoungUn who doesn't see it, try and get them to bone up on cultural literacy with Jack Solomon's very short and very accessible book: The Signs of Our Times: semiotics, the hidden messages of environments, objects, and cultural images (1988).

Yeah, it's an old book but it's a really good one. I read it in undergrad and it did MOAR to strengthen my media literacy than all the toks on the interwebs.

For some reason, I'm wondering if Alex P. Keaton would be a MAGA Senator or the CEO of a rapacious private equity fund today.

@kingrat

Like, the MSM headlines about this meeting say *nothing* about how utterly bonkers he was.

Nothing about that meeting was normal.

I'm reading about Trump's meeting with the president of the Philippines.

While the Philippines has problems of their own, they didn't deserve any of that.

It was basically a version of 'Sir, this is a Wendy's.'

#uspol

"PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I don’t mind if he gets along with China, because we’re getting along with China very well. We have a very good relationship. In fact, the magnets, which is a little complex piece of material, but the magnets are coming out very well. They’re sending them in record numbers. We’re getting along with China very well. And I don’t mind if the president dealt with China. That’s meant because I think he has to do what’s right for his country. Make the Philippines great again. Do whatever you need to do. But you’re dealing with China wouldn’t bother me at all.

PRESIDENT MARCOS: Well, it is something that we have to do in any case."

DUDE.

Omg the transcript of this meeting is BONKERS.

https://singjupost.com/transcript-president-trump-oval-office-remarks-with-philippines-president-ferdinand-bongbong-marcos-jr/

"PRESIDENT TRUMP: [unhinged rants about Obama, Hillary Clinton]

REPORTER: Mr. President, I have a question to President Marcos.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.

PRESIDENT MARCOS: Yes. Sorry, what was the question again?"

WTH.

This isn’t representation—it’s digital blackface with imperial intent.

It’s camouflage.

The message is war.
But the messenger looks like someone you’ve learned to trust.

The AI video I saw showed a young “Black servicewoman” in combat greens surrounded by other service personnel in a 'desert' holding her phone like it was recording her, celebrating a successful bombing on Iran.

I think the caption was something like a Matthew 5:9 scripture quote, "Blessed are the peacemakers." (a pun on the type of missile, I guess.)

But she wasn’t real.
No real woman said those words. (And how effing dare they tap into the whole church thing.)

Someone generated her to perform consent.

To make empire sound like empowerment.

Black women carry cultural credibility.
We’ve been truth-tellers, moral anchors, movement leaders.

We signify justice, resistance, clarity.

So now? We’re being simulated to sell messages we never co-signed.

Problematic as hell.

🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?

There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face.
Not a general. Not a flag.
A Black woman.
Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.

Let’s talk about why that’s not progress. 👇🏾

When it comes to dating, these days I feel like the angel who came to Sodom.

Me: ☝🏽Verily, I will not burn down this motherfucking place if I can find a righteous Heau.☝🏽

The Heaux: 🤡[no social skills; bad politics; unsolicited pants selfies; vague vibes; emotional fuckery; 'Pleasure Dom' BS; unexamined patriarchal nonsense; can't fuck]🤡

Me: 👿Gotdammit.👿

🔥FOOSH🔥

The pretense at legality is gone.
The US govt is just abducting non white people off the street.

Gee, when has this happened before?

Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!

Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.