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Raikage Playa

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Black Deaf | Louisiana Native ⚜️ ASL & Deaf Studies Lecturer. UNM ‘23 🐺 | RIT ‘19 🐅. We’re living thru “Finding Out” phase.

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Stanford Graduate School of Education @stanfordeducation.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC) is launching this fall at Stanford University, offering a unique approach to studying Black life, language, and culture. Read more about its interdisciplinary approach and the diverse topics it will explore: ed.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Protesters shouted “Free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time” as Trump dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in DC
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.
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Emmett Till’s Cousin Is Running for US Senate in Mississippi
Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi against incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/08/2025
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I spent a lot of last summer making ASL versions of info about Project 2025. The amount of hatred I got was overwhelming. Those folks are quiet now, and there's no pleasure in having been right. It's just sad. It didn't have to be this way. And tbh P25 is a drop in the bucket of evil these days.
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@Shayterp @drhilltx.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Sharing my article regarding my use of AI: "To be or NOT to be dependent on interpreters?" - available in ASL & written English. Inspired by my experience at TISLR15, surrounded by the scholars I respect so much - had to tag @linasigns.bsky.social @jaceyhill.bsky.social and @d7play.bsky.social
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Liam O’Dell (He/Him) @liamodell.com · 19/07/2025
Hearing families should stop being told not to use sign language with their deaf children, deaf academic Dr Kate Rowley has said, with there being “no evidence” it impacts speech or literacy.
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‘No evidence’ BSL harms speech or literacy, as researchers stress benefits of early access
Hearing families should stop being told not to use sign language with their deaf children, deaf academic Dr Kate Rowley has said, with there being “no evidence” it impacts speech or literacy.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In 2013, the Obama administration introduced a goal for federal contractors to work towards having 7 percent disabled employees. Now, as I reported for @motherjones.com, the Trump administration is working to undo this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.
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This Democrat Won’t Let Go of the Jeffrey Epstein Case, Either
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a severe blow to 1,500 local public stations, as well as PBS and NPR
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Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to NPR and PBS.
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13/07/2025
Pedro Pascal on Instagram: “#SuperFantastic” 🎨 JustRalphyyy | IG
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/07/2025
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Trump was golfing, Ted Cruz was partying in Greece, and the Mexican President was sending in help to the Texas flood victims. Put it on every. fucking. billboard.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A Boston University professor estimates that the Trump administration’s cuts to USAID grants have caused more than 330,000 deaths worldwide, including 224,575 children. 😰😰
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USAID cuts have caused more than 330,000 deaths worldwide, BU professor estimates - The Boston Globe
As USAID offices officially close on Tuesday, Brooke Nichols's research is not alone. An international, 15-member research team also shared its own staggering estimates.
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
France unveils mural throwing shade at America for July 4th www.rawstory.com/statue-of-li...
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France unveils mural throwing shade at America for July 4th
The U.S. Independence Day holiday motivated a new mural in France that shames America. While France was once a key ally in the Revolutionary War against Britain, it is now shaming the U.S. with a mass...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Republicans are gonna pay for this shit. I don't mean this in some sort of violence encouraged rhetoric, but you will pay for this. The American people are pissed. 2026 we will vote you out! This bill is gonna hurt way more people than it help. Remember this!
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I can't believe I still have to cook dinner after they undoubtedly turn off the Constitution this afternoon.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/07/2025
the president just opened a concentration camp
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Not for nothing, but y'all better get to learning ASL, because without Medicaid no one will be able to afford your fancy cochlear implants 🙃. PS--WHO predicts a huge spike in hearing loss due to Covid, noise pollution and earbud use.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.

His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.

That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate. 

Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Frost: James 2:26 says faith without works is dead. So, we can read the verses all you want but until you stand up for the healthcare of people, those words are dead Foxx: I know that scripture very well too
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 01/07/2025
Senate Republicans just passed Trump’s bullshit of a bill—and it’s even uglier than before. — At least 16 million could lose healthcare
— Trillions will be added to the deficit
— Hospitals will close
— Children will go hungry Now it comes back to the House. (1/2)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Rep. Raskin is 🔥
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/06/2025
The gloves are off 🥊
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Today’s SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship sadly confirms the argument of my essay that published today: We are in a once-in-century battle for civil rights, and therefore, democracy.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is the most prescient thing i've ever written, this is a court of roger taneys wearing polite masks www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
JD Vance Bald Baby Face Meme Shown in Irish Parliament twp.ai/4ionPd
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JD Vance bald baby face meme shown in Irish parliament
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
So weird that Dems who said Trump won because Dems weren’t focusing enough on young voters and kitchen table issues are actively opposing a candidate who won the NYC mayoral primary doing just that. Almost as if that’s not really the concern…
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BREAKING: Tomorrow — Friday — will be the final SCOTUS decision day of the term, Chief Justice Roberts announces. The following cases — www.lawdork.com/i/166479240/... — remain:
Kennedy v. Braidwood Management — the Affordable Care Act’s preventative care coverage requirements — Law Dork coverage

Trump v. CASA — the nationwide scope of injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship — Law Dork coverage

FCC v. Consumers’ Research — the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund and the nondelegation doctrine — SCOTUSblog coverage (Amy Howe)

Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton — age-verification internet regulation and the First Amendment — Law Dork coverage

Louisiana v. Callais — redistricting and equal protection — The Preamble coverage (Leah Litman)1

Mahmoud v. Taylor — religious rights surrounding gender and sexuality discussions in schools — Law Dork coverage
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A deaf and mute Mongolian man seeking asylum has spent more than 80 days at an ICE facility. During that time, he has not had an opportunity to see a judge or communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his sister and lawyer.
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The plight of a disabled man in ICE custody shows impact of Trump immigration orders
A deaf and mute Mongolian man showed up at the San Diego border in February. More than 80 days later, he’s sitting in the Otay Mesa Detention Center facing deportation without due process, his lawyer ...
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Raikage Playa @d7play.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Want to give yall a shout-out for giving me so many birthday wishes while I’m on my summer vacation. Always live it up as best I can. I’ll be back to the real world (CA) tmw. 😂
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Pacers, it was an amazing run 🫡
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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The most powerful military machine on the face of the earth, led by Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp. (SOUND UP) #DonaldTrump #WWIII #Iran
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sorry, but I’m all out of sympathy. Farmers who supported Trump should have known exactly what they’d be getting. After all, pretty much his entire campaign was based on his vitriolic hatred of undocumented workers, coupled with his idiotic tariff policy. You reap what you sow, guys.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Oh.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 21/06/2025
“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.” Maya Angelou op: @nytimes.com
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Bankston Pews @profpraxis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Tell a Black child: • I’m so proud of you. • You are so loved. • You make the world brighter. • You are amazing just the way you are. • I believe in you. • You are so creative. • You are a great problem solver. • You have a kind heart. • I love your sense of humor. • You are enough.
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