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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you for sharing @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app! And if you are in Metro Atlanta area, the Decatur Book Festival is this weekend. I’ll be on a panel focused on how Black women (have been) and are central to building a healthy democracy, Saturday at 3p ET. The fest is free and open to public!

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yikes. And yes, to the note about authoritarian regimes doing this to consolidate power

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Solid ad. Hard hitting. But having seen the last 10 years in politics and who we’ve elected will it work? Has the electorate become so jaded it doesn’t matter?

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean this is a face, walk, and outfit that would cause car accidents

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well isn’t this some great news in an otherwise BLEAK news cycle

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One reason the U.S. will stay in a doom loop w/white Christian nationalisms/fascism is this: White women who continue to think they are somehow not included in the consequences of white supremacy when when they are told so repeatedly Tale as old as the colonized Western Hemisphere 😑

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Uh, This is why most everyone was captivated by Obama after that 2004 convention speech (which directly led to people wanting him to run for President) He told a moral and ethical story about what America was and could be in the Bush Jr Admin era He actually knows of what he speaks

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m sure they wrote this up thinking it was heartwarming, but like WTAF… And 81 year old man in one of the richest nations in the world should NOT have to work so that he can pay his wife’s cancer bills 😩 nypost.com/2026/09/24/u...

nypost.com

Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife’s medical bills — strangers raise almost $250K

“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay so of the Republicans and independents who thinks this and is still voting for him? 🫠

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yknow a big part of what pains me after the 25th anniversary of 9/11…. We are still living the consequences of that day now. Because ICE (and TSA and its overarching Homeland Security) were the Bush administration’s response to 9/11: targeting immigrants This is a nightmare

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean better later than never but….. Y’all could’ve done this the WHOLE time?

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good grief I ain’t never seen it this good across ALL the major polls in a while. Like a couple of polls? Sure. Allll of them?! This is why Trump is trying to find ways to mess with mail in voting

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is what happens when political leaders just blink when he tore down the East Wing of the White House He’s going to keep doing this…

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I saw so many musicals, plays, ballets, and even a little opera. The Kennedy Center was a cultural center in DC. It was a place that one could see award winning and world renowned performers at an affordable rate. And it invested in the arts in the local community Everything he touches dies

nytimes.com

Kennedy Center Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge’s Order

The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whoever is advising Sheeran is doing a bad job Like does his staff work for Sydney Sweeney? Because this milquetoast, wishy washy don’t know where you stand/don’t want to say nothing statement ain’t it either…

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah the lights are definitely on, but… nobody is home.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If I I believed them… It was because his name was added is why Kennedy Center is on the brink of collapse 🤷🏾‍♀️ Took a perfectly lovely institution (putting out world class programming) and like everything else destroyed it

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mitch McConnell has been spotted, wheeled out of his wheelhouse in a suit. Mostly alive? Eyes open, sitting upright, words were not uttered though

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

9/11 for me is about remembering the victims who died on that day as well. But today really hits hard because I remembers the events of that day…and what life was like before 9/11 The world really got turned on its axis in ways we feel today. 🧵 (1/

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This so sums up late stage capitalism

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was in Central Virginia at that time… with the Pentagon just North, and one of the largest U.S. Naval bases just South… I thought Virginia could get carpet bombed like Pearl Harbor I remember walking outside on that clear blue day and instinctively ducking when I realized I was exposed..

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At a women’s leadership conference, I got to meet Gloria Steinem At this point, I’d been working in politics and advocacy for a while, and I was then, President of the Young Democrats of America. And I was pleasantly surprised at how down to her earth and friendly she was as an activist celeb 🧵 (1/

Me meeting Gloria Steinem at a conference

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tarrant County (the home of Fort Worth) has become something of a battleground county in the last few years So yes the closing of polling will disenfranchise students and low income communities and for the GOP that has always been the point

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The lack of empathy with right wingers remains astonishing to me…

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Medgar Evers International Airport in JACKSON, Mississippi Thurgood Marshall, BWI Louis Armstrong NOLA Int’l Maynard Jackson, Atlanta Int’l Tom Bradley, LA Int’l Muhammad Ali, Louisville Airport Only way this made sense is if he asked when we gonna name an airport after a Black Woman🤷🏾‍♀️

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeah nation states/empires don’t collapse immediately. More like over time (eg see Rome, Egypt) slow degradation… that can speed up or stop completely based off pivotal events…

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s almost like, government is useful for things…. “Who could’ve seen food recalls and shortages (as a result) coming!” 🙄

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yes. Black Mamas Matter National Domestic Workers Alliance John Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health Olivia could’ve just donated to a Planned Parenthood (as most like her would), but sharing resources w/ Black and women of color led/centered groups indicates thoughtful intention

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is great news for the SCOTUS expansion project because a Clyburn endorsement means more cautious Dems in Congress (will get on board) Important note: I’m very sure Clyburn was able to get there more quickly given the SCOTUS Louisiana v Callais decision destroying the Voting Rights Act

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🚨PSA: Texas has suspended more than 1 million voters across the state for various reasons.. Of course they did 😑 What voters can do: Check status on the Texas secretary of state’s website, at a county election office, or by mail. Folks have until October 5 to update it .

newrepublic.com

Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race

If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/08/2026

Milo getting arrested by ICE is funny for exactly the same reason that a huge rock landing on Wile E. Coyote is funny

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can’t remember where I was listening to this, but the “weekend at Mitch’s” game being played by GOP? Is for sure a trial run for whenever it could possibly happen The more the media does not push and Beshear doesn’t hire an Olivia Pope to unearth him, the more likely they WILL do this again

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know you f—ing lying Tim Curry?!!

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yeah… I remember working with a young staffer who said her first election she worked was 2016 And I’m like “I’m so sorry” Her teen years were at least during the Obama years…

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Grim Reaper… needs to be put on speaker for a conference call… because WHY is the picker OFF?!

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Brava Karen! Great day for journalism and democracy And as we come up on Labor Day this is possible when you have a strong workplace union behind you too.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yep, Trump wants to be but is absolutely not Marty McFly in reality he is Biff Tannen

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