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2uselemon

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dolores just wants to sleep

curioscurio

Is that time of the year again... tell me... do we have it?

tinaseh

so the minnesota freedom fund turned out to be fraudulent :///

tinaseh

doctorfreak

y’all..........remember 1. most grassroots organizations aren’t prepared or expecting to raise 30+ million dollars in 3 weeks 2. days after they started they said they had enough donations and asked people to direct funds to needier orgs 3. they announced they’ve spent over $200k bailing people out and are working on doing more 4. community organizing done right is hard work with a lot of different factors and limited resources Beyond just money.

hold these organizations accountable and demand transparency. but this original post has such little information and y’all are just circulating it? read the thread from the oakland mask org that started years ago and how intense this work is. it’s been three weeks and these are what looks like less than 12 people who have been given an immense amount of cash in an unbelievably short amount of time. i wouldn’t be so quick to call this a shaun king situation.

anonymusbosch

I follow Fadumo. She's deleted these tweets.

The MN Freedom Fund has existed since 2016. Prior to the George Floyd protests, they were a small bail fund that paid out around $1000 per day. Paying out over $200,000 in 20 days puts them at over 10 times their previous payout rate.

They stopped taking donations very early on because the support overwhelmed their capacity.

Their front page now, as it has been since late May, is almost entirely links to local efforts which need more support - Black Visions Collective, Reclaim the Block, and funds like Rebuild Lake Street and the Northside Business Association.

Meanwhile, The National Lawyers Guild has said that jails are delaying activists from being able to release protestors.

The MNFF should be transparent about how it's using the money, yes. I believe they should also redirect the donations they can't immediately use to other organizations. But they're a 501(c)3 nonprofit, there are restrictions on how they can spend and transfer money. You can check out their nonprofit filing forms on ProPublica - no one at MNFF receives a salary.

Keep orgs accountable, keep pushing for transparency, but please do a little more leg work before accusing an org of fraud.

lilacbreastedroller

all this. you can't just waltz into a courthouse, write a check for $35 million, and call it a day. it would be scandal if the $35 million had been spent frankly.

pondnaravit

whitepeopletwitter

call-me-emrys

The statement on Ben & Jerry’s site

(06/03/2020)

tunsoffestivepuns

We always stan Ben & Jerry’s

thechronicfuckingmasochist

captcevans

starkiest-deactivated20160905

#ACTUAL STEVE ROGERS AND SAM WILSON

bjornwilde

I love that Mackie didn’t even break character or laugh at his mistake.

sociallyawkwardrevolution

Evans: uh I think you meant-

Mackie:

hey-rissyroo

Omg! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

omghotmemes

If April ends up worse I swear to God

jackironsides

Sure is something to read this post at the beginning of June.

anxietyproblem

caleb-cooper-author

me

starlightandtears

Please look at the contestants for the upcoming season of The Bachelor and laugh with me.

charlesoberonn

Show us your cloning lab, The Bachelor.

hileavemealoneplease-deactivate

candiikismet

Omg

thetrippytrip

We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.

fluffmugger

And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable” “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.

aqueercreative

As an Australian this post surprised me. I knew none of the above.

themerrywriter-deactivated20200

People need to learn this shit so they can emulate it - this is what it means to stand in solidarity with people; it tends to be a difficult, quiet thing that costs you, and yet it’s the right thing to do.