iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16h

I love that he's healthy and back at it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkC...

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Lil Nas X - World's Greatest! (Official Video)

YouTube video by LilNasXVEVO

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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 6h

Blacksky be sure to block this weirdo @m-tracey.bsky.social

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 8h

Black Freedom in an Age of White Oligarchy | Aaron Ross Coleman Justin Leroy’s The Lowest Freedom points toward the limits of liberty under racial capitalism. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

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Black Freedom in an Age of White Oligarchy

Justin Leroy’s The Lowest Freedom points toward the limits of liberty under racial capitalism.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

“‘Mark, we have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming,’ the publicist said.”

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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

“I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future,” the publicist said.

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 14h

From 1979-2007, Black women with bachelor’s degrees were the only group of women to maintain labor force participation rates above 80 percent. Yet, despite their high labor force participation, highly educated Black women have been—and continue to be—systematically held back from upward mobility.

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College-Educated Black Women Appear “Well-Positioned” for Labor Market Success, but Still Have Limited Opportunities for Leadership - Institute for Women’s Policy Research

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 20h

most blacksky users don't see the worst of the worst bc blacksky peer moderators use these filters to keep us safe! the biggest difference between #blacksky and other social apps is their team has put COMMUNITY over ENGAGEMENT they're dedicated towards making sure our mental safety is a priority 💕

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19h

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 19h

I decided this year to spend no more than my monthly column budget on games I’ll be covering in that column meaning I make $0 from my roundup columns twice a year. I do it to broaden coverage + I like writing reviews. But if there’s no way for me to request a key I often can’t cover your thing.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.

Compare, for example, the Progressive Policy Institute’s report on The Distortion of American Studies
with a similar study of American political science from the Goldwater Institute: Richard D. Kahlenberg
and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading Journal Has Embraced a
Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January 22, 2026,
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies; Timothy K. Minella, “Peer Review
Gone Wild: Flagship Political Science Journal Shows How Academic Gatekeepers Promote Ideology Over
Scholarship,” Goldwater Institute, December 2, 2025, https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-
report/peer-review-gone-wild/.

12 Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, “Five Reasons Viewpoint Diversity Makes Academic Sense,”
American Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2026, https://cfau.aei.org/five-reasons-viewpoint-diversity-
makes-academic-sense.
13 Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading
Journal Has Embraced a Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January
22, 2026, https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Because it wasn't about finances, it was about faces. They had to whiten the rooms again and realign the power balance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I saw #SchoolGirls, a retelling of #MeanGirls that was set in an African boarding school, years ago. The play had to do with colorism, colonialism, and there was New Edition music— they had Candy Girl and a few others. Wonder if songs were chosen for location. Anyway, it's in NYC now. #BlackSky

nytimes.com

‘School Girls’ Review: A Broadway Glow-Up for a ‘Mean Girls’ Comedy

Jocelyn Bioh’s breakthrough 2017 play about cliques and colorism is just as funny — and devastating — with a sharp ensemble and direction by Whitney White.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday, ON CORNELL’S e-learning platform, there was a panel on building public trust in higher ed, with organizations and individuals who should know better…about this “Trust Agenda”. View it here: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/ove...

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Keynote: Trust in the University | eCornell

Be Informed. Be Inspired. Experience the Best of Cornell, Live and On Demand.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And with all this going on, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social has the AUDACITY to release their “Trust Agenda”…a response to the Trump Compacts on 9/22 AND! @aacu.org thinks it’s a great idea to LIFT THIS UP AS A BEACON OF BUILDING TRUST IN HIGHER ED? But wait, there’s more.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

I know I'm harping on this, but I need non-Black folks to understand this distinction: If you *properly acknowledge* other cultures & integrate elements into your own ALREADY EXISTING culture to create something inventive, that's APPRECIATION. If you outright copy/paste, that's APPROPRIATION.

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"...by highlighting the hopes, experiences, and names of Gazans uprooted from their lives, the work becomes what it promises to be: a memorial to a world already destroyed." — Publishers Weekly Requiem for Gaza by The Chris Hedges Report and Joe Sacco is out 10/6 ❤️ ow.ly/pjOG50ZSVSn

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 02/10/2026

Girl. . .

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

They gotta go to where us heathens are, Saeed!

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Did you put on the temp license plates?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I first heard this in a movie on Nuremberg featuring Alec Baldwin and it really stuck with me

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I was wondering when this would happen. The Satmar's don't play about their support for Palestinians and their disdain for Zionism. They literally fight other Hasid's in the streets of Brooklyn (though not always about Gaza)!!

newrepublic.com

Trump Tries to Deport Hasidic Jew Who Protested Israel

“To claim that he’s an antisemite is the peak of absurdity,” said Yehonatan Ovadia’s lawyer.

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Trump Tries to Deport Hasidic Jew Who Protested Israel

“To claim that he’s an antisemite is the peak of absurdity,” said Yehonatan Ovadia’s lawyer.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Some people are saying. bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”

usatoday.com

Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's the thing; they had toddlers signing away their rights to see their parents through the Bush & Obama years. These atrocities have been happening the whole time.

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Artisanal Misspokes @1uglyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Some folks get really incensed when people use the phrase "rape culture." But I'm not really sure how else you could possibly describe this convergence of events. newrepublic.com/post/215920/...

newrepublic.com

Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation

The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am *shocked* that the same bigoted, mouth-breathing cretins that constantly bleat about "protecting women's sports" have either stayed silent about Aminata Seck being abducted by ICE agents, or are wildly cheering it. Fuck Kentucky State and the NCAA for allowing this to happen. And fuck ICE too.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Meet the Historic All-Black Surgery Team at Johns Hopkins" www.theroot.com/meet-the-his...

Picture showing first all Black Surgical team at Johns Hopkins

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

They wan't everything to be economic and not cultural but so often the behavior begins in culture which then accrues economic benefit.

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Explicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I bristle at the idea that men are more abusive because they're broke or the women they abuse make more money than them. I want Marxists to stop filtering everything through their 'material conditions' sieve.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/09/2026

Becky Sullivan of NPR has written this terrible article about the cynical "protect college sports" bill, that frames as bipartisan the intentional attempt to undo what I and many other people accomplished: reducing the financial exploitation of some of the poorest, Blackest kids in the nation.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These sound like non-trivial problems.

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