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Charlene A. Carruthers

@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
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she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer. Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com

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Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com · 18/03/2026
Chicago reshuffling how $8M in HIV funding will be directed after grant process mismatch Chicago health officials are revising how roughly $8 million in federal HIV funding will be allocated after the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) released grant applications before a required spending…
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Chicago reshuffling how $8M in HIV funding will be directed after grant process mismatch
Chicago health officials are revising how roughly $8 million in federal HIV funding will be allocated after the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) released grant applications before a required spending plan was finalized. As a result, HIV service providers last year applied for grants without knowing how much funding would be available for different services, leaving some organizations requesting less money than was ultimately allocated for those programs—a mismatch that advocates warned could translate into smaller grants and cuts to certain services at some organizations.
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grosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Racist BS!
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Israeli war on Lebanon killing or wounding 30 children each day - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israeli war on Lebanon killing or wounding 30 children each day
<article data-history-node-id="436108" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-war-lebanon-killing-or-wounding-30-children-each-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-war-lebanon-killing-or-wounding-30-children-each-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli war on Lebanon killing or wounding 30 children each day</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli war on Lebanon is killing or wounding the equivalent of an entire classroom of children every day, a senior Unicef official said.</p> <p>Lebanon’s health ministry has reported that Israeli strikes have killed at least 111 children and wounded 334 since 2 March, when Israel expanded its attacks on Lebanon. The toll averages nearly 30 children killed or injured each day.</p> <p>"That's a classroom of children every day since the beginning of the war that's either killed or injured in Lebanon," Unicef Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban said in an interview&nbsp; with Reuters on Tuesday.</p> <p>Israeli attacks have killed more than 900 people in Lebanon since 2 March, Lebanese data shows, while sweeping evacuation orders have forced over one million people from their homes. Among them are roughly 350,000 children.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Patios has been one of my favorite festival experiences to date.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Did you know Latino men have the US’s highest risk of new HIV infections? They are 72% more likely to be diagnosed than the general population—and in Minneapolis, they are skipping clinic visits for fear of ICE, report @cameronoakes.bsky.social & @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
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Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care
Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2026
NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do. With @oregonian.com
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Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia
After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 27/02/2026
I've been going a bit ham for this project because it's an amazing chance to bring much-needed mental health support to children formerly in occupation detention—and we only have a few weeks to make it happen. Therapy workshops and more. Anything helps: chuffed.org/project/hmg
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Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention
Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/02/2026
Transgender residents of Kansas have received letters informing them that a new state law requires them to forfeit their driver’s licenses if they include a gender marking that doesn’t match the sex identity they were assigned at birth.
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Kansas Invalidates Transgender People’s IDs After GOP Legislature Passes New Law
The law, which goes into effect on Thursday, provides no grace period for the people it affects.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 "Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"
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Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Knowing that White supremacists are living out their ancestors dreams is not a comforting thing.
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Capital B Atlanta @capitalbatl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
But before there was MARTA, before the high-rises, before Black folks were paid for the culture that created the pulse of this city, we were on the auction block. atlanta.capitalbnews.org/underground-...
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Atlanta’s Five Points Was Once a Slave Market - Capital B News - Atlanta
This Juneteenth, we're remembering the ancestors sold at slave markets in Atlanta.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/02/2026
Amazon's latest data center project in Canton, Mississippi, has left residents unprepared for how its development would change their daily lives. “We had no idea all of this was coming,” said René Johnson. “They didn't tell us anything, even when it was in the making.”
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Amazon’s Canton AI Data Center Brings Dust, Noise and Pollution Fears for Neighbors
Canton residents say that a new Amazon data center is bringing unwanted dust and noise, raising concerns about pollution and falling property values.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Is it me or is the Black History Month pandering low this year?
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 12/02/2026
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much. —Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…
Quote:Saidiya Hartman, "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments"

alt-text: photos from Instagram of @facesofhaiti show a Black man and woman modeling the 2026 winter Olympic outfits designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean.
Inspired by Édouard Duval-Carrié, the design features a blue sky, lush greenery, and a riderless horse painted onto quilted thermal ski fabric. The woman wears matching headwrap & full skirt. They are standing in snowy mountainous setting.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
HOW do the OG abolitionists do it? I'm a baby in comparison to many of the folks who've been doing this for decades.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Pero, this whole place thrives on the force of violence. What would be possible if many many more of us who wanted any aspect of it to end, organized ourselves with *that* in mind?
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I be so stressed reading this stuff as someone who believes in and works towards PIC abolition. What is PIC? What is PIC abolition: from our comrades at Critical Resistance: criticalresistance.org/mission-visi...
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What is the PIC? What is Abolition?
THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment...
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The public, especially the local, response to the killing of Alex Pretti*
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
There are just so many issues with the "If Kamala were president..." statements.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
And I voted for her. So don't even try the foolishness with me. This is why I need a long-form blog loooool
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It is HIGHY likely that Kamala wouldn't have done many of the things 46 is doing. AND let's be clear, she's not a pacifist. She is not pro-abolition or pro-defund. We can't be okay with state violence anywhere. Part of why we're here today is because its acceptable for people to suffer "elsewhere."
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Well...I can almost guarantee that she would've contributed to or turned something a war zone somewhere. Her remarks about the military made it clear. War zones shouldn't exist anywhere.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I want to write essays, have them edited by somebody, publish them somewhere, and send them out. Trying to do decide where to do that in 2026 is 😮‍💨 Looking at Beehiiv, Ghost, and Buttondown.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thank's y'all! I got some clarity and some other options.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hey, question (if you feel like answering): What's the political issue with using Sub Stack? I've seen folks saying its a no no, and I'm not clear why.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In the words of prolific Price Is Right audience members GO LOWER!
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Sending love to all the folks who do work to end Family Policing everyday. May this be a key moment that people tune into the destruction of families that happens everyday in this country.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We need more plays, more movies more tv shows, more discussions that tell the truth about slave societies in the western hemisphere.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wrap this experiment UP.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Typos 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ban all past and future presidents of the United States from receiving and prizes until much further notice. And I mean all.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Lemme go to bed.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I didn’t go to film school and have no plans to. I am steadily building my knowledge while continuing to make films and write. Im writing another feature (I know, yes I’m also finishing my dissertation). It helps me manage my sanity.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Beautifully made and clearly references one of the greats — Sembéne’s Black Girl (1966)
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I watched Hedda the other day. DeCosta does deviance well. Too damn well.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
tHey DoNt caRE ABOUT what’s legal.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
*dissociating from all the “it’s not legal to pepper spray or assault bystanders* where were those of you who were adults less than 15 years ago? Hell, five years ago.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Just watched Nia DeCosta’s latest spooky, demented, and wild ride of a film. I should’ve watched 28 Years Later first! But anyway, if you wanna be creeped tf out, go see it! #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Build fast speed rail transportation. We fly too many planes in this country.
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
IKYFL.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social
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Senior Editor, Science
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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