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Faith Pennick

@faithp.bsky.social
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Writer of things, incl. "D'Angelo's 'Voodoo'" from 33 1/3 Books/Bloomsbury. Maker of films. Lover of life. Chicago native w/NYC in my blood! 🥰📖🎬📝☮️♎️ #ProChoice www.faithpennick.journoportfolio.com (writing portfolio) www.orgchaos.com (the rest). F**K ICE.

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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Final weekend! Sale ends Sunday! ⬇️📚
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Public coffers are the same as Monopoly money to Trump. He steals from the till and nothing will happen to him. 🤬 apple.news/AQt79bc9cTEO...
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Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP — The Associated Press
AdImpact says three taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump are nearing a cost of at least $1.5 million.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching The Dark Knight for the bazillionth time tonight… And with everything happening in our country right now it cuts SO MUCH DEEPER. 🥺
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You have 1 more week to take 30% off my book about D’Angelo’s Voodoo album. Bloomsbury’s “Back to School” sale ends Sunday 10/4. #musicsky #blacksky #booksky www.bloomsbury.com/us/dangelos-...
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many Gen Xers & young Boomers are bummed about the news of Pete Byrne’s death. The Naked Eyes lead singer gave us 1 of the defining Bacharach/David covers, Always Something There To Remind Me. It’s 1 of my fave B&D renditions. Rest in peace, Pete. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrE...
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Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chrysalis Records
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In comparison, Gordon Gekko’s “Greed is good” now sounds like something Ms. Rachel would say to little kids.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Robert Kraft sucks and Ed Sheeran is a punk-ass bitch.” -The Nor’Easter 🤭
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Long “The First Amendment is not an illusion” sigh.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh man! Too talented & far too young to have to go through something like this. Sending peaceful, healing wishes across the pond to Michael Kiwanuka.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.' — Anne Frank
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CDC hasn't yet authorized the updated Covid shots through the Vaccines for Children program, which serves uninsured and low-income kids. (First reported by WSJ.) A source told me career officials at CDC — employees who aren't political appointees — have been working to make them available.
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Covid Vaccines Delayed for Half of U.S. Children (Gift Article)
The Health Department has not decided whether to provide the shots to states through the Vaccines for Children program, which serves uninsured and low-income families.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hot damn Macklemore played this PERFECTLY! This is walking the walk (and walking Robert Kraft and Ed Sheeran on leashes in the process). RESPECT. ✊🏾 apple.news/Ao_giOlOkSyO...
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Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine — Guardian US
Rapper challenged billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft to match his donation, with Kraft saying Sheeran has asked him to match a $2m donation
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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh my god
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shot. Chaser.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Ed Sheeran social media dragging” should be made an Olympic sport at this point.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran didn’t need to come out in favor of Palestinian rights. He just needed to come out against fat cat censorship of a fellow artist who did support Palestinian rights. How embarrassing that he couldn’t even do that.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WHAT?!!! 😲 So Ed Sheeran has to hire a new BAND now?!! They some REAL ONES. ✊🏾
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe Ed Sheeran can ask Lara Trump to open for him. Is Tim Pool and his band free? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It must have been tough to drop his friend from the tour. And U don’t want to potentially cost people jobs & anger yr fan base. But Ed Sheeran cld have called the stadium owners’ bluff. Do they really want 2 sacrifice $$$$ in vendor/parking/merch earnings? It’s your tour, Ed. The buck stops w/YOU.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Washington post correction:
Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I feel this one. I hate what our government is doing to its citizens. I'd say that we deserve better, but do we?🤔
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#neverforget 25 years later.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Security to get to the 9/11 memorial is BANANAS. The entire WTC perimeter fenced off. Metal detectors, bags checked. Drinks that aren’t water (even nonalcoholic ones!) weren’t allowed. I went the last 2 9/11s & none of that existed. This is also the 25th & the biggest crowd I’ve even seen here so 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today, I recommend highly watching the Netflix documentary “Turning Point: Generation 9/11.” 2 children of men killed that day express their grief over fathers they barely knew. It also connects the dots of 9/11, the war on terror, Congress giving up the ghost w/AUMF & how this got us to 45/47 & ICE
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest day. Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s hard for me to believe it happened 25 years ago today. Still a vivid memory. Crossing the Manhattan Bridge on the Q train a little after 9am, seeing the fireball spew out the newly gaping hole in tower 2. I cried the whole way home. To those lost on that day & their families. 🙏🏾 #neverforget
Daytime. Flowers covering engraved names at the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To those of you who secured Stevie Wonder concert tickets: Congrats and I hate your f’ing guts.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Man, I heard several Chicago-NYC/JFK travelers swearing they will NEVER fly @americanair.bsky.social again after today (still deciding if I shld join them)! 2 planes later and after a 3+ hour delay (+ 1 hour taxi-ing the JFK tarmac waiting for our gate to open up), I am finally home! And now, 🛌 💤
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OMG!!!! 🙌🏾 cc: @dancingvalentine.bsky.social
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy heavenly birthday to Aurie Watts, my grandmother. I ❤️ you, Granny.
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noahhunter.bsky.social @noahhunter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bluesky: What if I told you the refs were going to use their winnings to abolish ICE?
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Democracy....
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Whoopi Goldberg: You In Danger, Girl
ALT: Whoopi Goldberg: You In Danger, Girl
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
Read the full story:
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I turned on the Michigan-Western Michigan at the last second of the game. Me: “Well…Michigan’s about to lose.” 1 second later… 😲 Holy shit!!!
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let’s help married stay-at-home moms while HURTING working single moms & IGNORING single stay-at-home moms altogether. Because “family values.” 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones (Gift Article)
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Of course they fucking did.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When JAZZ artists are paying tribute to Dolly Parton, that’s further confirmation that her music & influence defies genre. Robert Glasper & his band playing “Jolene” 2nite at the Chicago Jazz Festival (& I would buy this tomorrow if Glasper recorded & released this). 🔥
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who is this “Court Dawg Daniel” dude?!!
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I haven’t followed the Lindsay Clancy case. But I have a hard time believing that a Black or Brown woman who killed her 3 kids & blamed post-partum psychosis would get this level of support & sympathy.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a great example of “walking the walk,” esp. as it came to the intersection of racism & sexism & inclusion of Black women in the feminist movement. Was it w/o criticism? No. But Steinem’s commitment & sincerity never wavered. apple.news/AJAXvYaiOT_a...
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Gloria Steinem wasn’t in the fight just for White women — The 19th News
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton got Gloria Steinem’s endorsement in her bid for U.S. Senate. But that’s not what matters to her about the feminist icon, who died this week at the age of 92.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 03/09/2026
"Rest in power, Gloria Steinem. We’re all clutching that torch you lit so brightly and will carry it into boldly the future."
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Gloria Steinem: The People’s Feminist
Lately I’ve been in a groove that has me up before the sun most days. Though I try resist the impulse to pick up my phone, this morning I opened Instagram at 4 a.m. and saw Gloria Steinem’s account—a…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, in a never-before-seen interview with The New York Times from 2008, discussed marriage, her career and why she got an abortion in her twenties. Watch the full video here: www.nytimes.com/video/obitua...
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