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Aisha K. Staggers

@akstaggers.bsky.social
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Prince fan and Writer featured in NY Review of Books, HuffPost, Paper Magazine, MTV News, etc. Author of the upcoming book, "The Infallibe Fannie Freeman." Co-host Primetime Saturday w/Aisha & LaLa! Find my work on Medium. No DMs unless I know you.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 1h
If we're to the point that a president can urge his supporters to attack someone who has the right to attend and oppose his rallies- WHILE HE STOOD AND WATCHED, Dems need to bring this back to SCOTUS so they can fix this mess because he's taking presidential immunity TOO far!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 8h
Exactly! "The Freddy" is a big deal here. Marched in it as a high school cheerleader 37 years ago.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 11h
That centuries long trauma is why I feel sick at the sight of the present inhumanity. The trauma is coded in my DNA in a country that begs us to forget the past, but insists on reminding us of it every damn day! This is America.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 11h
Seeing Brown kids of immigrant parents ripped away as ICE attempts violent arrests, my gut is unsettled because I carry a visual of what it looked like when enslaved Black families were ripped apart and sold away. That's generational trauma. It doesn't go away in 10 yrs; it remains for centuries.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They want future generations to be as ignorant as they are.
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Eric @astroeric12.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is going to turn even worse than you suppose it will
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Then comes detention in data centers turned prison camps where they'll use our labor en mass (again) to fulfill their promise of Black ppl working farms/plantations in place of the Latinos subject to mass deportation. It wasn't the 50s they wanted to return to; it's the period before Reconstruction.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Going after people from majority Black countries is the tip of an iceberg that is designed to return Black Americans back into bondage. They can't tell who is from where when they see our skin color. Won't be long until they reintroduce "freedom papers" for us to carry and show at random stops.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I know in NYC, Italians kick off Italian heritage week/month (not sure which it us) with the Columbus Day parade. Same here in my hometown of New Haven, CT. But, we DO have the oldest Black American parade in the Northeast 👇🏾: ilovenewhaven.org/2023/06/hono...
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Honoring the Oldest Black American Parade in the Northeast
The Freddy Fixer Parade traces its origins back to the 1962 when New Haven, like many urban centers, faced challenges.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And thanks for your service!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Only the things they can't blame on Black people first ✊🏾! If there's blame, it's gonna be Black or Brown. As if we don't notice the blame shift as skin tone gets closer to white....
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yep! It doesn't take much. The Obama being elected put them on permanent tilt like those old school broken pinball machines. They were depraved beforehand but now, they are irrevocably broken in the brains! #InsaneInTheMembrane
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Cypress Hill Sen Dog
Alt: Cypress Hill Sen Dog Insane I The Membrane
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How are the same ppl who DIDN'T want Mayor Mamdani to be at the 9/11 memorial as the mayor of NYC, because he was Muslim, are also mad at him for NOT going to the Columbus Day Parade as mayor, a painful day for the Indigenous folks, because they think he should "humble" his brown, Muslim self.
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Anger Angry
Alt: You can't have it both ways, you have to pick one!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@allenorr.bsky.social While listening to you and @claycane.bsky.social (I, too, am early 50s), I scheduled my shingles shot for this afternoon! Like you, time between turning 50 and today got away from me. The callers telling their stories was enough. If you're over 50, get yours ASAP!
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JD @jamesond44.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
👀👏👏
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026
🚨 Ben says Treasury Sec Bessent could face CRIMINAL PROSECUTION for his role in the Russian dieseldeal. “I believe Bessent actually already engaged in criminal conduct.” And something to note... Bessent DOES NOT have Trump's presidential immunity.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WANTING A CHILD
BORN IS PRO-BIRTH
WANTING A CHILD
FED
HOUSED EDUCATED
WITH PARENTS WHO EARN A
LIVING WAGE
IS PRO-LIFE!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm 52. Fan since age 9. 43 years long.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Same!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If ppl pay tuition for private schools, then that's it! They don't need it! Ppl whose kids go to public school, pay THEIR kids tuition through taxes paid to that school board from the state and county/city in which they live. If you want access to the taxes you pay, send your kid to public school.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reminder: This is the "president" of the United States growling like a wild animal at a female reporter when she asked him why he needed to pay people to vote. I have never seen an angrier & unhinged president in my life!🇺🇸
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lynn-colorado.bsky.social @lynn-colorado.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In planning to publicly execute Nidal Hasan, the Trump administration “continues to undermine our national values,” and gives credence to those who say the U.S. has lost its way, William H. McRaven argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Prince - Music Icon
Alt: Prince - Music Icon
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So we're funding the country that is providing assistance to another country that we are at war with. Funding your opposition in a war you can't get out of sounds pretty stupid, if you ask me. Trump should NEVER criticize anyone else's intelligence without someone reminding him of this idiotic move!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis is doing a "both sides" interview right now to sell books. Everything he says is BS. Trying to set Trump’s policies and actions level with Obama and Biden is a sleazy attempt to appeal to disenchanted MAGAs to buy his book. But didn't have the guts when it mattered.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I said last month we'd find out adjusted job numbers from July & August wasn't as "great" as they immediately said. I was right. Media, PLEASE stop reporting everything these people tell you when they tell it to you. As we saw this week with Eric Schmitt, faceplanting happens when you don't verify.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Eric Schmitt having an abundance of audacity, so much so his team plants stories about him being a possible 2028 VP pick, and a gaggle of post-hearing press appearances to follow what became the funniest self-own to ever grace C-SPAN, is still asking me giggle! So smug, so wrong and so funny!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I knew it made sense.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Actually you may be onto something. NYC has a rat problem. I wonder if there's someway to combine these.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Watergate was about an election. They're doing this because they are looking for a reason to exonerate Nixon so Trump can cheat in the election. They are looking to break into the DNC, like Nixon did, but "legally" using Marshall Law. When ypu know history, these ppl are SO transparent.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Black artists said this was happe ingredients and going to happen on a larger scale in the 90s. No one wanted to listen. Specifically 👇🏾 this guy called it out 30 years ago. They branded him as weird, difficult, greedy.
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Prince's Iconic Side Eye
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are seeing, "WE TOLD YOU THIS IS THE KIND OF PRESIDENT HE WAS GOING TO BE IN 2017," I told ypu so moment happen in real time. So Nixon, UFOs, a ballroom, an arch, closing the Kennedy Center, a war for nothing, kidnapping world leaders, tarriffs on everything. Are y'all great yet?
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Richard Nixon resigned a month before I was born in 1974. Why are we relitigating this 52 years later? The SAME ppl who have the audacity to tell Black people to get over 200 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow, and 62 years of being free-ish while they try to drag us back to the beginning!
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Bravo You Fing Hypocrite Beth Dutton
Alt: Bravo You Fing Hypocrite Beth Dutton
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just posted about how 2.0 is what many of us knew 1.0 was going to be, except the GOP didn't want egg on its face for allowing a clown to take over and become their front runner in 2016 when they clearly wanted someone else....ANYONE else!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump 2.0 is the clusterfuck many of us expected Trump 1.0 to be. He's the same ignorant, lazy, and incompetent man. The only difference is in 2017, the GOP surrounded him with competent people minus some concessions. After breaking the spine of the GOP, HE chose the ppl who we expectedin 2017.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senate Republicans embarassed themselves today by asking Jack Smith all the questions Donald Trump fed them.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Glad that doesn't play too well here.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't understand the logic behind this. Re-litigating 2020, AGAIN?! What is this supposed to do right now? They are having hearings on this, but not the war we are currently in?! Or AI?! Or healthcare?! People are worried about how they will afford things in September 2026, they are OVER 2020.
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chuck Grassley put Trump's every gripe in that opener. All the MAGA red meat. The fear is palpable! BTW, these folks talking about the "rule of law" while allowing Trump to continuously break them is absurd, at best. This is what the Senate is doing today?! Yo, people are POOR! They don't care!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So the purpose 9f this hearing is to sow doubt in the upcoming election by going back to the election he lost... got it. Republicans in Congress are wasting our time and money! They aren't serious. They have nothing to run on so THIS is the stunt they pull hoping for an "October surprise." So dumb!
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait! So Trump said tariffs will pay for his $5,000 bribe. So you are saying people will just get their money back, nothing extra?! OR you could just get prices slower so the "bribe" is unnecessary. And no one is getting a "dividend" check from a country that is over 20 trillion in debt!
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jackiebrownnow.bsky.social @jackiebrownnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jobs are doing this more and more too. The only reason an employer wants you to download their app is to monitor the content and activity on your phone. Period.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 28/09/2026
It's only right that we have the Creator of #Questionsky @astoldbynai.blacksky.app take over Blacksky-Only posts this Wednesday (9/30) with an exclusive episode. If you aren't using Blacksky-Only posts, tap in! docs.blacksky.community/using-blacks...
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man added a wind turbine to his RAV4 Hybrid. It helps charge the car using wind power Original post
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