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Colette Gaiter

@cgaiter.bsky.social
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Professor Emerita--Africana Studies, Art & Design--University of Delaware. LIBERATION/ART/DESIGN/WORDS

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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 11h
Renee Good’s Family Sues ICE Agent and Top Officials Over Minnesota Killing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Renee Good’s Family Sues ICE Agent and Top Officials Over Minnesota Killing
The fatal shooting of Ms. Good set off protests during the Trump administration’s immigration operation early this year in Minnesota.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Reminder: Hegseth's "no beardo" policy is just his not-so-subtle way to push out Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The racism and bias are mind-blowing. We live in an alternate reality ruled by tyrants and sycophants
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHY is his approval so HIGH?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump vows to protect us from AI on his own--no need for regulations. Nothing like a failed President with dementia to stand between us and the end of humanity. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Trump Insists He Alone Will Protect Americans from AI
"The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," Trump wrote in a stunning Truth Social post Monday.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/09/2026
September is African Immigrant Heritage Month — a time to celebrate the many African communities that have helped shape New York and our nation.
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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⚜️🌊Tyreen BaconSkin🌊⚜️ @baconskingirl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He yells at female reporters, (sorry… Black female reporters) and NO ONE in the White House Press Corps will attempt to defend the women. That’s how low we have sunk.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW: This piece was originally written for Democracy Docket members. Democracy Docket decided to share it with everyone because the stakes for this election are too high not to. Premium members always get my exclusive analysis first. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...
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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vote by mail is holding. Trump has taken it to SCOTUS 3 times and lost every time. Same arguments, new courtroom, same result We @democracydefendersfund.org are fighting to make sure your mail ballot is safe I'll get into it on @ms.now at 7:20 ET👇 -TN
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Democrats mobilize an ‘unprecedented’ defense to combat potential election disruption
Tabletop exercises with Hillary Clinton, training for tens of thousands to act as “democracy protectors” and a new push for in-person voting are some of the things underway.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/09/2026
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have often said that Donald Trump’s plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. Now we know what that will look like in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...
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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.
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Gwendolyn Corvid @gwendolyn-corvid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Evil clown uses giant piles of money to scapegoat transgender people in order to manipulate elections. Everyone sees through his bullshit except the cultists. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Musk Targets Transgender Issues in Key Midterm Senate Races
A political group for the world’s richest man, who is ramping up a midterm spending blitz, began running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio and Iowa.
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#gloriasteinem “In my heart, I think a woman has two choices,” she said. “Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.” Thank you Gloria Steinem.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem taught America that sexism is a symptom of a system that can be changed. 

From the fight for equal pay to abortion access and political representation, she showed that progress comes when people organize, build power and refuse to accept inequality as inevitable.

She staged protests, established domestic violence shelters, created a magazine owned and operated entirely by women and helped build a movement that fundamentally changed this country.

Her legacy is the millions of people she inspired to believe that a more just world was possible.

She lived in New York for 70 years. We were lucky to have her. We mourn her loss and will carry her work forward.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So grateful to have these people telling my story and standing in my corner as I face the Trump administration in court.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026
The feminist movement was never a threat to men. Secure men have always understood that. They stood beside women, fought for equality, and some proudly called themselves feminists too. If women having equal power feels like oppression to you, feminism isn’t the problem.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to ICE. But I won't let this admin steal my joy. Big questions about democracy and the battle I'm in run into the realities of what I want for my family, my struggles with IVF, and being pregnant in Congress. I opened up to ELLE:
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This Congresswoman Is 8 Months Pregnant and Facing 17 Years in Prison
Rep. LaMonica McIver on overcoming fibroids, infertility—and the Justice Department—to have a baby.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026
This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#GloriaSteinem and #ShirleyChisholm. Steinem included all women in her brand of feminism. Steinem with Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for President of the US. “If it’s white, it’s not feminism,” she tells Vice magazine. “By definition, [feminism] includes all women.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was one of the most remarkable people I ever met. She had this glowing aura of intellgience and charisma, you absolutely could not look away from her. But she never left behind her journalist's curiousity. She asked questions; she really listened. What a loss, but also what a life.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A majority of white women have voted for Trump. The fruit of rejecting feminism.
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
He is saying what many politicians are too afraid to say out loud. #Mamdani
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
𝟔𝟎+ 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐂 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟐. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE is cruel to its absolute core. How can you look at this and see anything else. cbsaustin.com/news/local/5...
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5-year-old Liam, father deported to Mexico after ICE detention in Austin
A 5-year-old boy and his father, who were detained by immigration authorities in Austin earlier this month, have been deported to Mexico and reunited with relat
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
More targeting of Black women by the Trump administration.
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama's Anti-Black Racism hyperallergic.com/what-the-art...
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What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026
REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
They are running out of "criminal 'illegals'" so they are resorting to just snatching people for no good reason, figuring they don't have the resources to fight. Ethnic Cleansing. Making the US "White" by Force. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted
As immigration arrests hit record highs, ICE appears closer than ever to meeting its goal of 2,000 daily arrests.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You can take this to the bank. 👇👇
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is so real.
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 26/08/2026
#OTD, we recognize Women’s Equality Day, marking adoption of the 19th Amendment and a major milestone for women’s voting rights. But many women of color remained blocked from the ballot. We honor those who continued the fight for equal voting access. #WomensEqualityDay #TheMarchContinues
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 26/08/2026
In 1920, the 19th Amendment changed the Constitution—but not every barrier at the ballot box. Progress should be honored honestly: by celebrating what changed and confronting what did not. #Pinks
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
STAY WOKE AND VOTE.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.rawstory.com/meta-lawsuit... That led MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle to lose her cool and rail against the attorney generals she argued failed to do their jobs. “If the company lost, Meta could have faced hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in damages,” she said….
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'Unbelievable!' Rage erupts on MS NOW over Meta's 'peanuts' court settlement
Outrage erupted on MS NOW host Wednesday morning as news broke that social media giant Meta had been awarded a slap-on-the-wrist settlement agreement in its highly watched court case.“Meta and a coali...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 26/08/2026
remember: its not a data center its a surveillance data processing complex
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The president has NO authority to make lists of voters & tell the Postal Service who gets a ballot That power belongs to Congress & to the states, which have passed no such law. @campaignlegal.org & @democracydefendersfund.org are in court to put and end to these shenanigans @ms.now👇 -TN
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NYT: "Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is loudly warning that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that urgently addressing the risks should be 'the world’s top priority.'" Dean W. Ball of OpenAI should read. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit (Gift Article)
In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Still can’t believe not one person was prosecuted for the fraudulent electoral certificate scheme, without any question the largest electoral fraud event in the nation’s history
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/08/2026
"I feel extremely vindicated." A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire opinion columnist Karen Attiah with back pay, after she fired last fall over comments she made about Charlie Kirk.
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“They Threw Me to the Wolves”: Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump, Winning Her WaPo Job Back
A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire award-winning opinion columnist Karen Attiah with back pay. Attiah was fired last fall over comments she made following the fatal shootin...
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MORE REASON TO *CONTINUE* BOYCOTTING TARGET
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