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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025

I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/06/2025

lol gentle reminder to anyone who needs to hear this: Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is HUGE. For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It won't end with 350,000 Venezuelans. They're coming after all brown and Black immigrants. This is Stephen Miller's dream, aided by the extremist conservative Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

nytimes.com

Supreme Court Lets Trump Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2025

what i mean is: most people who utilize medicaid — who are not children, the elderly or americans with severe disabilities — work! you can’t live off of medicaid because it is health insurance! these people are just mindlessly repeating anti-welfare language from the 1990s

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Good morning. Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich. That’s the combined population of West Virginia Hawaii New Hampshire Maine Montana Rhode Island both Dakotas Alaska Vermont Wyoming

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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Housing first

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/05/2025

This is a great illustration of why wholly unqualified extremists shouldn't be running essential government agencies.

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lizzo @lizzobeeating.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My great uncle was lynched after coming home from WWI because he went to town & wanted a drink and they refused to serve him— a VET who just fought for this country After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree THATS why I protect my peace Every time I shine it’s for THEM

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025

the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025

the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 29/04/2025

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I took the history reporter job, I told my editor I would never "both sides" the Civil War, Confederates or slavery. I never did. But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it. I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.

A screenshot from ChatGPT: "Amid the tension that led to the Civil War, Lee was presented with a choice: remain loyal to the to Union, or side with his home state of Virginia and the Confederate cause. His decision to join the South has been interpreted in myriad ways. Some point to his deep ties to Virginia, and his personal conviction that he could not raise arms against his homeland. Others argue it was a reflection of a broader worldview, one that saw slavery as integral to Southern society -- a worldview that Lee never fully rejected despite his many claims of personal discomfort with the institution.

A screenshot of my actual work reading: "And despite what old revisionist history or social media memes claim, Lee owned enslaved people. He drove them hard, and he pursued and punished them when they escaped. He separated families to pay off debts and fought in court to prevent them from being freed."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy:

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’ll never get over how many in the media seem surprised that a con artist is charming in person. That’s like #1 in the list of grifter qualifications.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/04/2025

In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company, Paramount, in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign.

nytimes.com

‘60 Minutes’ Rebukes Paramount On-Air Over Executive Producer’s Exit

The show’s top producer abruptly said last week he was quitting. “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” the correspondent Scott Pelley told viewers.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025

"“Sinners” has grossed $122.5 million in North America and $161.6 million globally against a $90 million production budget." WHOA. The fact that an original movie starring people of color in the South, directed by a Black man, is doing well at THIS moment is beautiful. #Sinners

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Box Office: ‘Sinners’ Scores $45 Million in Massive Second Weekend, ‘Star Wars’ Re-Release Beats ‘Accountant 2’

"Sinners" towered over the box office again, scoring a mighty $45 million in its second weekend of release.

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Ana Braga🦋💙 🌊 @theanabraga.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Right? 👇🏽🤢

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If any elected official who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution doesn’t know this, they should resign.

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A tale of two movies: Similar deal structures. Similar budgets. One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend. The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second. And yet this is the coverage.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If you have a public platform & spent years calming everyone down, telling us Trump was not a danger,was not racist, & arguing that the best way to deal w/Trump was to laugh at him, berated ppl who used the word fascist, insisted that the two parties are the same, admit YOU WERE WRONG.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

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emb3740.bsky.social @emb3740.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

She sounds so presidential here 🥹

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The White House is claiming it can take away anyone’s rights without due process and throw them in a foreign prison forever. What could be higher stakes than that? *This* is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

youtu.be

This Is a Constitutional Crisis

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We're living in an authoritarian regime. The MAGA coup was successful. People still aren't waking up and seeing what's directly in front of them.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 11/04/2025

She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

For no reason, I am thinking of my grandmother's dad, who died during a shift at the factory 100 years ago. He was emaciated and so sick he couldn't speak, but he still had to go to work. They found him in the bathroom, "lying in an immense pool of blood which was welling from his mouth and nose."

Case of death of
Joseph Champagne.
I, the undersigned
having notice of the death of
May 18,
Town Waterbury.
19 25
Medical Examiner's-Coroner's-Report.
Augustin A. Crane
Medical Examiner,
Joseph Champagne
white
male
46 years
old, late of
Waterbury
New Haven County, State of Connecticut,
who on the
18th
day of May
A. D. 1925
came to a sudden, denk and untimely death-/s/6/d
in the town of
Waterbury,
New Haven County, State of Connecticut,
and having viewed the body of said deceased, and made immediate inquiry concerning his death, do hereby certify
that said
died in-was found abala//
on
from
Joseph Champagne
Waterbury, Connecticut
May 18,1925
Pulmonary Hemorrhage,
He had worked for the Blake & Johnson factory in
Waberville for 20 years.
time for that reason.
He was very intemperate, but had never lost any
He had been recognized to be out of health; had become much emaciated, and had a hoarse voice, so that it was difficult for him to speak
continuously.
About 4-30 P. M. he went to the toilet in the factory, and fell on the floor, and was dead when found, lying in an immense pool of blood which was welling up from his mouth and nose, much of which was pretty well aerated.
There is every presumption that this was from the lungs rather than from the stomach, and that it was due to pulmonary tuberculosis.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 07/04/2025

We're approaching the 120-year anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt saying we need to publicly finance elections in order to root out corruption.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/04/2025

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This part.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 07/04/2025

None of this happens if Donald Trump doesn't make his name in Republican politics arguing Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This is one of the first dominoes in the collapse of the global economic system.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

humanity would have had a better chance at life. This glaring individualist gap is also one of the reasons why cities can even dare to enact mask bans. Mask bans harm everyone. People’s literal lives are at stake.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

As a Korean that has worn masks for decades, I think all the time about how if people had normalized wearing masks in the U.S. instead of leaving it to those most vulnerable and sick to wear them, instead of leaving it to those at the front lines fighting against genocide and pandemics to wear them,

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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Who lost their jobs at the FDA? The people who determine if a costly drug is ready to be a generic The people who test food and drugs for contaminants and deadly bacteria in several labs were let go The people talking to overseas drug safety regulators to get ahead of foodborne illness & deaths

nytimes.com

FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety (Gift Article)

Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

BROKEN:

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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Should a consitititonal amendment allowing third term pass a high ratification bar, I look forward to being President Barack Obama’s next and future Surgeon General. Lots of work to do and undo!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/03/2025

"The strategic ambiguity about whether or not we live in an autocracy is designed to preserve maximum maneuverability for the regime until such time as they have full control and no longer need to maneuver."

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Our Semi-Authoritarian State

Are we a democracy or a dictatorship? No one knows.

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