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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸

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Contributor, @aljazeera.com; Other Stuff: donaldearlcollins.substack.com; author, Spinnng Sage's Gold; used to be a hist prof;(looking for work/speaking opps/more income); donaldearlcollins@gmail.com

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zionism IS racism.
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The flip-side to finding oneself bullied, assaulted, exploited, abused, neglected...is that those with power and influence will always #underestimate you" - all to their peril! #misogyny #LSU #Cornell #SpinningSagesGold Pls check out my latest! donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/they-alway...
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They Always Underestimate the People They Marginalize
It’s a flaw in The Matrix of our real lives, racism and rape culture included
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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
The MSMA hotline for reporting ICE abductions in DC is: 202-335-1183. Text if you see ICE, call if you see an arrest.
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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Looked out the window just now and I see fucking ICE and Capitol police on the street hanging around an empty car, at North Capitol and L Street NE in DC, with Capitol police SUVs and a tow truck there to take the car. They've detained someone.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thread below: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France
About 735 schools have faced disruption as violent protests over standards and lack of teachers continue.
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Monique Wicked @phoenixketchum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social I count myself very lucky to have you as my follower and I would like to kindly ask you to read and share this thread. The situation is very dire here in France, high schoolers are being beaten and even tortured (one policeman has been recorded trying to drown one–
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 02/10/2026
Our co-founder @tinavasquez.bsky.social is an excellent reporter. ALWAYS read Tina:
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So, The Great Whyte Hype/Hope machine falls majorly short yet again, as their 2020s version of Gerry Cooney (for anyone who followed boxing in the 1980s) didn't rise to the occasion/wilted in the playoff *fever*. Like so many others from the past 120 yrs (going back to Jack Johnson). #WNBAPlayoffs
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The physical and psychic wages" of whiteness. This is their religion, their supposed Christian beliefs, bc for them, being Christian AND being white are 1 and the same. Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Anthea Butler, I can't be any clearer than this...
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m not a PETA-hard core animal rights kind of person but it does get to me seeing the anti abortion crowd around the clinic on Thursdays with “NO lives matters here” signs when we slaughter tens of millions of pigs 🐖 who lived their short lives in abominable conditions and pretty much nobody cares
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notmickey ❌👑 @notmickey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“As long as I am sheriff of Frederick County, we are going to work with ICE and we are going to take the criminal aliens—as many as we can—out of Frederick County.” Sheriff Chuck Jenkins boltsmag.org/frederick-co...
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Keep in mind, the US did most of the Men's World Cup hosting in June & July AND is still celebrating birthday 250 this year. The world has realize what many of us have known for years -- the US is its own version of a shithole country, esp if you are not WASP...
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monday marked 50 years on since the release of #SongsInTheKeyOfLife. #SpinningSagesGold has benefitted from 5 decades of me listening to #StevieWonder's 2-LP. #Afrofuturism #mentalhealth #Blackness Pls check out my latest - thank you kindly! donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/songs-in-t...
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Songs In The Key Of My Life
Without Stevie Wonder’s double album of ‘76, I’m probably not here in ‘26
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All maddening true, but pls, the ppl under attack are Black (and some Brown) ppl, not "non-white" (there's no such thing, and centering whiteness and white ppl's mediocrity IS the problem here, anyway)...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This entire group has like three--four, at most--muscles between them
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The affluent people who keep saying the choices Black parents have to make for their kids’ educations is #impossible are impossibly wrong." Pls check out my 2¢ on that NHJ article in the NYT, my idiot father, and #parenting and #education donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/parenting-...
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Parenting in White Supremacy Land Isn’t “Impossible”
My 2¢ on that NHJ article in the NYT, my idiot father, and parenting and education
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve been held up as the fall of academic discourse , feminism, misinformation And every fucking time it was so someone could destroy something bigger So yes I’m sensitive about everyone being shocked that it’s blossomed in the last years We’ve been fighting for our LIVES for YEARS
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The past few months have confirmed what I've known abt my 86-year-old #father since I was 4 in '74. It's not lost on me most of the men in #SpinningSagesGold are as far away from despicable as I could imagine/put into words." Pls check out my latest! donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/when-even-...
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When Even You Can’t Remember Your Own Dirty Deeds
My father, despite being a “changed man,” has remained a POS all his long life
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In claiming the left needs to embrace economic issues and appeal to conservative values of patriotism and the family, the report does not embrace class politics over culture wars, it just embraces one side of the war over another
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 16/09/2026
"Today’s tragedy underscores the grave risks faced by families living in these structures... No one should have to risk their life simply to find a safe place to shelter."
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Children Among At Least 21 Killed by Building Collapse in Gaza as Carnage Continues Under Israeli Assault
Two years of Israeli bombardment in Gaza have left thousands homeless, living in dangerously damaged buildings. A recent collapse killed 21 people, including children. Rescuers struggle without proper equipment.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When #Harvard has a banner year in fundraising, nearly erasing its budget deficit of $365 million, that’s when you know that the reason behind its academic cuts has been purely ideological, not financial.
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FAS Raised Roughly $800 Million In FY2026, Far Surpassing Its $500 Million Target | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences raised roughly $800 million in fiscal year 2026 — far surpassing its $500 million target and marking the school’s strongest fundraising year in at least five yea...
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I continue to be miffed by the words people who should otherwise know better continue to use to describe tens if not hundreds of million of people...But...I reserve a special hatred for the word '#nonwhite'..." Pls check out my latest! Thanks! donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/nonwhite-i...
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“Nonwhite” Isn’t Right
There is no such thing, so why do people keep using it?
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks for this, but, if there are millions of USians working but cannot afford housing on their own or are unhoused entirely, then they aren't "casualties of *our* prosperity." They are being mugged by govt-sponsored robber barons & their robbing megacorporations...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Also, this experience makes me think that maybe we should organize some type of mutual aid for folks who want to get vaxxed but may not have insurance.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@pedalingpastor.bsky.social with a banger here. Just getting around to it. Pretty good "view from the inside" about Operation Metro Surge. www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...
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Opinion | ICE thought it would scare these churches. Instead it launched a revival.
G. Travis Norvell: Surveillance inside churches was another awful feature of Trump's Operation Metro Surge
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/09/2026
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medical examiner ruling her death a homicide. cnn.it/4Aazd9x
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"So, a big theme of Spinning Sage’s Gold is about building a post-Western, #Pan-Africanist world of communalism and cooperation...Apparently there are at least four Black men in the DMV alone who aren’t ready..." #DiasporaWars Check out my latest! donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/yes-diaspo...
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Yes Diaspora Warriors, USian Black Folk Have a Culture
And it’s central to the US in aspiration, to the African Diaspora, and to a freer globe
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Beck Andoff @andoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The article author is accidentally making the point that kids actually do need to be taught how to research, how to spot bias, how to develop conclusions about what they read, at which point... they have the skills, so they don't need years of experience in coaxing a shittier version out of AI.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Racism.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 04/09/2026
More than 1 million federal workers have lost bargaining rights as the NLRB is unable to protect workers and immigration enforcement is used to suppress speech and organizing. These violations landed the United States on @ituc.bsky.social’s watchlist. inthesetimes.com/article/work...
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Workers’ Rights Are Plummeting Under Trump—and the World Is Taking Notice
The United States now appears on a watchlist alongside countries like Zimbabwe and the Philippines.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Six lawless radicals on the Supreme Court let this happen. And they let it happen because they *wanted* it to happen. They will be damned by history.
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“They were paying me $5.20/hour with a BA under my belt...[it] should have been $8.25/hour…But when they notified me that they were only increasing my salary by 5¢, I was livid…I couldn’t let that stand.” #WorkplaceAbuse Pls check out my latest! donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/horrible-b...
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The terms "state-sponsored terrorists" and "state-sponsored terrorism" work, too, wsp bc it is...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I get it. OBSESSION was the feelgood movie of the summer and definitely the vibe you'd want your athletic equipment associated with. And hey, no women were ACTUALLY tackled.
Callaway Golf has severed ties with brand partner Good Good Golf following backlash over an advertisement for a golf driver that showed a man aggressively pushing a woman to the ground.Clark said his company's marketing team had wanted to "recreate" the 2026 hit horror film Obsession, by having his character in the ad "become obsessed with his driver." "Looking back, super dumb concept, terrible ad in general, not the greatest idea' he said, adding that he did not actually tackle the woman in the advertisement.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As perfect an encapsulation of the Right Wing mindset as I’ve seen in a minute. People who have enjoyed incredible privilege and coasted to unearned wealth and power in a system rigged for them and still convinced they are persecuted heroes battling a system that’s out to destroy them.
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Finally finished #OctaviaButler's Parable of the Talents during a DMV power outage this morning. It's a great, genius-level must-read (tho the title really should be Parable of Getting Beat Up and Beat Down By the Talents).
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely
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Devrim Yavuz @devrimyavuz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Academic freedom is important to me. I was 10 when my dad was detained by Turkish military for assigning a book on classes and history. Academic freedom is there to allow us to teach and research topics of importance without fear of reprisal. Debunked racist theories or harassing people ain't it.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💔 Rest in power and beauty, Dolly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 25/08/2026
“What Harper sees as groupthink madness was interracial solidarity by experts in their fields.” A rebuttal to the Atlantic’s dream essay.
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In light of #Kantor's idiocy and #NatashaCloud's righteous response, re-upping this piece from 2022, 1 that I'm particularly proud of. #WNBA #misogynoir www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Misogynoir in sports: How Black women athletes are devalued
Black women in sports do not receive the recognition they deserve; worse still, they are often degraded and attacked.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Karen fuckin rules, suck shit Bezos
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