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Imani Gandied Yams

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3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Co-Chief Content Officer at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, AmericašŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ

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Imani Gandied YamsĀ·Mar 31

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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Imani Gandied YamsĀ·Sep 16

I'm really concerned that white people are just not up to the task. A lot of y'all are well meaning but you're just not up to the task because you've never been systematically oppressed and you refuse to listen to people who have been

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Imani Gandied YamsĀ·Sep 16

I rest my case.

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Imani Gandied YamsĀ·Sep 17

My girlfriend bought me dinner because she knows I had a hard day. Nobody has ever cared for me this way before. It's really fuckin nice I'll tell ya

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Literally who cares

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i hope i get smart again some day. they don't tell you how dumb you'll feel when you're menopausal. how you won't be able to remember words. how you'll think you have early onset dementia. they don't tell you about all that. harrumph

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I find it genuinely alarming how many people got the ruling in Chiles v. Salazar wrong. We have a real problem with legal literacy in this country. More people need to know what a preliminary injunction is. It’s actually really important for organizing.

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Sometimes you’re in the mood to listen to Feed the Trees and that moment is now.

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Right! And, like, the Black doctor had to work SO MUCH HARDER throughout their life to get there because racism

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When primary candidates talk about "moving forward" well that's when I'm gonna walk—in flip flops—into the Rocky Mountains

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I don't think white people understand how fucking dorky they sound talking about "woke." Man, shut up.

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"Black people are so annoying." That's how I read that headline.

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The number of people who thought I was wealthy because I had a quarter million followers on twitter. "It's a type of currency." So is my foot in your ass. Here it is. My foot. In your ass.

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This seems not great

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