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Cassy

@cassywithawhy.bsky.social
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PhD who writes about sexuality, race, media, and drag. I should probably be writing right now.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/07/2026
NEW: Cops around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
404media.co
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/07/2026
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
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“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Threatens Democracy
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/06/2026
The environmental toll of the AI boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people.
democracynow.org
“New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint
The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new inves...
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Perhaps suffering through hours of lessons is worth it- despite my perpetual confusion I managed to correctly use the conguintivo in regular conversation. I’ll ride that high the rest of the day ngl
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19/05/2026
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FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time"
FBI will pay vendors to help it track and search for vehicles nationwide.
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’ve managed to sort and save my open tabs on my phone. Whittled from ~400 to 51. Please clap
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a woman wearing a red sweater and a grey jacket is laying on the ground
Alt: Leslie Knope wearing a red sweater and a grey jacket is laying on the ground
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026
For a fictional exploration of MOVE, who were bombed in Philadelphia on this day in 1985, look to the novel THE UNSETTLED by Ayana Mathis. Art will light the way!
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The Unsettled: A novel
A novel
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Since redistricting and the VRA are rightfully getting attention, here‘s info about prison gerrymandering. If unfamiliar, prisoners are counted as part of population of area in which they are held captive and not where they’re from, despite felony disenfranchisement. www.prisonersofthecensus.org
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Prison Gerrymandering Project
Legal and factual research to support advocacy campaigns to end prison-based gerrymandering focusing on the Census Bureau, and state and local redistricting.
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sci.fried @scifried.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day, sci-fi moms
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
The US government has targeted thousands of parents for deportation since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. A Guardian analysis of government records has found that, during the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children. 🧵
A chart showing the average monthly deportations of people with children under 18. It escalates significantly after January 2025 and starts to come down gradually in July 2025 until returning at or below pre-Trump levels in October 2025.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
WIFE: remember the time you talked shit about that restaurant that has now become one of our favorite, most reliable dinner options? ME: oh you mean the time that we dialectically overcame a past era of contradictions through protracted struggle?
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“The billionaire class seeks a world without workers, or at least one in which workers feel as extraneous and precarious as possible. They love AI because they don’t want to deal with human workers’ demands to be treated as … humans!” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
aljazeera.com
May Day in the age of AI: The new war on workers
As companies pour billions into AI, the fight for workers’ rights is being rewritten as a fight for the right to work.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Supreme Court deals a death blow to the Voting Rights Act
The "now-completed demolition" of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
I understand why the lawyers settled for it but $1.5 billion from Anthropic was not enough It should have been in the several billions and now every company knows that the cost of perpetual plagiarism (among problems) is a fixed amount of $1.5 billion
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The president of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights group, said SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Callais delivers “a devastating blow to what remains of the Voting Rights Act”. The ruling is "a license for corrupt politicians who want to rig the system by silencing entire communities."
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‘A devastating blow’: major civil rights group calls supreme court ruling on voting case ‘a major setback for our nation’ – live
NAACP decries 6-3 decision that ruled Louisiana must redraw its congressional map, a landmark case that guts major section of Voting Rights Act
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I kind of wonder if we are creating the conditions where people will learn how to read but not how to write. Where, in other words, we can consume information without the ability to analyze or produce it.
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joysters5.bsky.social @joysters5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org
Poster of free downloadable video books sites
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/04/2026
This piece starts out talking about how Florida's orange industry is on the brink of collapse due to a bacterial disease that researchers cannot figure out how to treat, but then it goes much wider into the orange's role in Florida's culture and the state's truly wild real estate industry.
slate.com
It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It.
The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
sahanjournal.com
ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/04/2026
At least 29 people have died in ICE custody since October.
npr.org
Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I can’t believe I doubted! Ayyy, congrats to our winner! And look forward to seeing the other ALSO on All Stars #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Oh I’m rooting for Myki, but idk if she clinched it #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Puppets?! #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Nini starting out hot- v buzzy energy, wondering about her build #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Nini did show UP for that performance. Darlene gonna be on an all-stars, we know already. And she should be hella proud for making it here #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Lmfao of COURSE her Daddy became a minor celebrity 🤭 I remember folks losing their mind over the man when he arrived onscreen lolol #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Onya just out here looking like a cupcake! Lovely! #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
At lease Jane Don’t won SOMETHING bc looord #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Did anyone doubt that Nini *wouldn’t* bring the choreo? Really compelling use of the backup dancers #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This extra large boa! A fun jazzy number! Okay, Myki, vv solid showing #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Darlene is endearing as fuck. Plus love the Matilda drop in #DragRace
media.tenor.com
a woman in a wig is saying you chose books i chose looks
Alt: a woman is saying you chose books i chose looks
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Well, I thought that was just fine. It was cute, not bad #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A gospel intro? 🫠 into this Big and Rich-esque moment? Where are we going #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ooop, RuPaul added a shimmy to her side to side routine! And props! She’s upgrading- I think she’s to Mariah choreo levels #DragRace
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool


is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar


is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.
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Fitzroy Maclean Angel @mzgunter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Like Mother, like Daughter. #DragRace
Morphine Love DionJuicy Love Dion
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The judging at the top of the episode was raggedy but this final lipsync was a GIFT #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Yall better shake for Ms Freedia!! #DragRace
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✨ Laas ✨ @whatabossislaas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
God I love Big Freedia #dragrace
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Rod @uncannyrodders.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
JUICY’S REVEAL!!!!!!!!!! #DragRace
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a picture of a woman with the words i was gagged and gooped
ALT: a picture of a woman with the words i was gagged and gooped
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Lmfao the coordinated exaggerated walk was art #DragRace
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Cassy @cassywithawhy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I know it’s basic but a looooove a fringe #DragRace
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