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Osiris Jones 🍉 @zmandretti.blacksky.app · 6m

Like damn all yall parents was fucking raw on New Year’s Eve huh

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Mohammed Jamil 🤍 @jghbnv.bsky.social · 3m

Good evening, dear Chantal 🌹 I hope your evening is filled with peace, warmth, and happiness. May you and your family always be surrounded by beautiful moments and endless smiles. Thank you from my heart for your kindness and care. ❤️

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3m

Look leave me alone now, shit's basic to me & you're annoying me forcing me to entertain you because you don't know shit I know basically when I already satisfied some of your curiosity.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5m

I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.

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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort

Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 5m

This guy now has to beat that charge that can get him locked up years. Federal & military forces are all over DC, literally standing around with guns bullying Black & brown people, & trying to frame us for crimes so they can get their quota up. @harrietsdreams.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 7m

The people these national forces concentrated in DC Trump has commanded here to come against are Black & brown DC residents. Not bad guys, regular working class folks. In the psych ward, a guy on a police hold, the feds had bent him over in public to shove grams of coke up his ass to frame him.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10m

What y'all have to know, Trump's fascist Safe & Beautiful Task force he has implemented to advance his serious military occupation of DC which he wants to expand indefinitely, this is National Guard, FBI, brutal DC police, US Marshalls, ICE & more collaborating to brutalize Black folks here.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 12m

Team Trump likes to tout the sky-high number of arrests they are making in DC. But these arrests are often an unconstitutional mess — and DC Courts are the ones who have to clean it up.

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Safe and beautiful ‘is not free': DC Courts under pressure with flat funding since 2022

Since Congress left D.C. Courts’ funding at 2022 levels, criminal cases are up 160%, with President Trump pushing a tough-on-crime agenda.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14m

It's your eureka moment, it's my normative reality. So that's all the entertaining I'll be doing on the dawning of this knowledge in your life that is basic in the tissues of my brain.

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🎃☭Stalin's Slimegirl☭🎃 @sleepymaoist.bsky.social · 21m

Nonblack Immigrants try to avoid being at the bottom of the unofficial caste system this country has implemented. It's evident in the way they hurl the same racist bullshit the same way white Americans do towards black folk. I'm sorry y'all have to endure that shxt

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21m

It's blocked for that user because she made up drama in early bluesky that I was victimizing her as a terribly harmful predator for quote posting her that caused severe harassment & trouble to come to me.

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Princess Jade 👑 read pin 🙏🏾🆘 @princessjade.bsky.social · 23m

Here it is bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24m

See when immigrants come to this country, the first thing they learn is Black Americans are at the bottom of society getting totally crapped on & brutalized. So they think they'll do anything to prove to white folks they're not us, & that they hate us just as bad too. @sleepymaoist.bsky.social

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 31m

Absolutely. I see the way cops in (especially) the southern US look at me, and I'm barely brown enough to consistently scan as "non-white". Even extrapolating from my own experience, I know enough that I can't *actually* fathom what it's like to be Black in the US.

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🎃☭Stalin's Slimegirl☭🎃 @sleepymaoist.bsky.social · 31m

I know exactly what you mean!! I have brothers & former friends (fuck those a-holes) who say the n word casually. I always tell them not to say it as it's not *their* word to use but I get looked at like I have two heads when I try to stop it

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 33m

Marco Rubio? Whole deal is he's an evil white Hispanic who sucks white folks dicks to get them to like him & think he's one of them, which they never will. And a bunch of Latinx people think proximity to Blackness gives them the right to say nigga! A bunch treat us bad to please white folks.

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🎃☭Stalin's Slimegirl☭🎃 @sleepymaoist.bsky.social · 39m

Latinx have an awful attachment to whiteness and don't often see how internalized white supremacy can negatively impact them personally. Very hard to watch

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 37m

Comrade. It's done with both these crackers who thought they'd fool in the genre of hip hop & get actually cred in Black art just off being white men. Eminem & Kid Rock both are white supremacist fascists who can each such a dick. I respect Paul Wall & the Beastie Boys solely as white rappers.

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shared whiteness matters more than anything to yts..... as Ebony said: "Ain't NO motherfucking such thing as a white rapper" NO EXCEPTIONS!

a pink tanktop with a collage of 3 pictures which are screenshots of Ebony and he is saying:

Ain't NO motherfucking such thing as a white rapper.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 41m

The media told us that Al-Amin was dangerous. So his liberation stopped being our concern

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 47m

Naw y'all ain't coming for Libras. Though all y'all bastards in the rest of the zodiac who insist on demonizing us when we're chill as fuck & great people try as hard as you can. I'm Libra gang tough & heavy. October 11 baby! Y'all hate us cuz you ain't us.

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 3h

That's right

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 56m

And as always, thank you for everything that you're doing 🤍

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 51m

So see, non Black American friends, this is just another regular fellow Black American who showed up replying to a post about how we all live factually knowing a cop can kill us a any time, just when she asked cops for directions with her cell phone dead, she knew she risked a deadly cop encounter.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 57m

I know, Chantal, this isn't on you--I just don't tag people anymore, it was taking up too much time for me to manage because of the number of people who ask for help, and also increases the risk of being labelled spam/banned.

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white @trashmnk.bsky.social · 1h

The 'writers block' I deal with is mostly tied to expectation — competing with the memory of myself before health issues. Been dealing with leftover aphasia and memory loss for the last year or so. I'm learning to detach myself from it all and just put words to page as I connect to my gift again.

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white @trashmnk.bsky.social · 1h

In that way, I owe her and people like @chantalalive.blacksky.app for provoking thought and access to my writer brain again just by reading and interacting with their work and posts. To lots of the people here. Especially my best friend and former partner, who also posts here.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 59m

Oh my comrade, I'm working very closely with Mahmoud's family in particular. It's true I don't like being tagged because the notifications are too overwhelming & I have to deal with so many I have direct relationships with, but I have special promises to help save Ahmed so it's ok for them.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

I'm a truth teller & storyteller & a mad shaman prophet & I got to survive tell my truths & my stories! That is my frantic grasp for survival against so much in this world set against me as a poor mad Black woman, even my own mind its madness! @dem8z.bsky.social @mewefree.bsky.social

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 1h

A wonderful publication! 😍

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

Amir is my close brother of my soul that I chat with a lot, & he's always playing me sounds around him of terrifying Israeli gunfire he survives. He desperately seeks support for his mom who has a severe eye condition. They need treatment for her, & he loves her so much. Boost & give.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

Oooh girl. Not we talking the craft of writing criticism. I write only book criticism, that's my choice as someone who practices the craft of writing novels & poems too. I'm working with a phenomenal editor at @therumpus.net on a review of an amazing novel now. I'm sat for your wisdom.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 1h

The thing about doing criticism at-large is that there is a tradeoff to not sticking to one medium or genre: you will not, you cannot, immediately respond to or even experience every new hotness the moment it comes out. Well, not in a way that is thoughtful or memorable. Stuff has to steep.

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Atiya Townes @tiarocket13.bsky.social · 1h

Yep, last time I asked one for directions, I knew it could escalate but my phone died and the two of them were right there. One of the reasons why I carry a charger with me now. Never again.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

I promised Ahmed’s family I’ll never leave their side support his severe crisis. His abdomen has ruptured & this sweet little boy who told me he loved me on video is in constant agony, his family in constant terror for his life. He needs emergency surgery at £3000. We must rally to save him & give.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

No one likes looking at a child in such acute suffering. But there's a reason his family's showing you this terrible sight--because only we can help them in Israel's genocidal siege. Without our shares & donations, they can't pay for Ahmed's treatment. Please help, by sharing & donating:

chuffed.org

💚 Help Mahmoud Care for His Family and Four Orphaned Children

My name is Mahmoud Mohammed, and I am from northern Gaza.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1h

Thinking about the moms who never imagined their tiny little boys could grow up to be monsters. Praying they love their sons enough to demand accountability. This is about Cornell, but it’s also about America.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

All Black Americans walking around that you see in your town or online, each one of us knows, a cop can decide to off us because he spilled his hot coffee & it ruined his day, & that's just the end of us, perhaps a hashtag or tiny news clipping, another dead nigger like they want us all dead.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

My comrade @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app mentions this often, it's stark & harsh & non Black Americans forever forget it as something going on in the background in the country all the time they don't care much about but pretend to once in while, all Black Americans know a cop can kill us any time.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

And my friend to your comment, all Black folks in America do expect a cop to shoot us for any reason or no reason. That's living as a Black American. We Black folks here really do live with that as our reality, if you care about the news you see it actually happens constantly. @iramjohn.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10h

Y'all fucking despicable sane world that totally brutalizes all natural difference out of folks so this oppressive norm of sanity that doesn't even let you be a true full human can be violently enforced says I'm crazy scum so you better act like it. @metroplex.northsky.social @ladyartaud.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

My friend, it's fucking vile & gross how cops treated me after my rape, but you know that's just how rape victims get treated, by the criminal justice system who makes us into the perps when we were victimized, & rape victims like me are just shitted on by society as standard. @vedraven.bsky.social

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dusty.rhodes @dustyrhodes.bsky.social · 1h

gonna break out the vinyl Marley today. thanks for the reminder to do so!

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Storm Bleakly, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 1h

Fucking egregious. Acab.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

"You really wanted it didn't you? You liked that dude & agreed to a date & now you just trying to get him in trouble calling rape?" That's what this fucking bitch cop lady said to me when I'm locked in a room with her. And the cops held my rape kit untested for 11 years. @insatiableone.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

Oh since we talking rape culture as discourse de jour, know how this absolute bitch of a detective, Black woman, treated me when I did what they say you're supposed to & went to cops on my rape? I was locked in a room with no door handle with her as she mercilessly interrogated me.

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