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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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giv3m3shelt3r.bsky.social @giv3m3shelt3r.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Protect this woman and her seat on the city council

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart #September

Photo of twelve different and colourful toadstools and mushrooms created from crochet against a black background

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Big Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

Cuz they got FIBERGLASS in them. In IVs.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 27/08/2026

Oh nah, y'all gotta come HERE!

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Magic✨DON✨Júan @donsaidwhat.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

Here is a photo of the recalled rice. Y’all be safe out there

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today is also the six month anniversary of my father’s death. While I was fighting the Washington Post, I was deep in grief. I hate that I can’t call him to tell him the news that I got my job back. But Daddy, wherever you are, I did it. I stood up for myself like you told me to do. 😭

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⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮 @purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

Every day we stray further from God’s light

Poptart buzzballs in frosted brown sugar cinnamon and frosted smores

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Everyone in the media industry loses when cases like this happen, at a time when trust is already low. But the publication of these 67 columns did not happen in a vacuum, and I wonder about the people who made Ross Barkan feel like he didn't have to have more rigorous writing standards.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I also find it odd how many writers and reporters — especially Black, Hispanic, and Asian ones — are expected to back everything up with reporting, research, data, interviews, and other sources, plus accept aggressive editing. Ross Barkan was able to publish 67 columns with inadequate attribution.

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Dalindyebo Shabalala (he/him) @dyebo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And we know what’s coming. ‘Reasonable’ concerns being raised about black candidates in the future, just ‘making sure’ to do due diligence, adding to the already existing greater scrutiny and ‘doubt’.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues.

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Luck @iluckyou.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16/08/2026

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will fain @reverer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The individualism of Anglo-American (Euro?) culture, and the personal purity ethics it can engender, leave many otherwise "well-intentioned" people blind to what should otherwise be obvious: we have a moral responsibility to not allow ourselves to be used in the dishonest/evil projects of others.

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Jamie Mortimer @flimflammery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Does this seem like holding someone to account?

Newscord Instagram post reading 'Hounded to death. 249 articles, 22 days.', alongside a graph showing the number of articles published by 15 news outlets, divided into 'Before the resignation (24 Jul to 4 Aug)', 'Resignation to death (5 Aug to 13 Aug)', and 'The day he died'.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/08/2026

This social media 💩 cool and all but at the end of the day Get you some people that truly love you beyond a social media situation

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

They want to drive us from public life and are more than happy to see us dead if that’s what it takes. This man was subjected to the vitriol of a nation unwilling to relinquish white supremacy, and it killed him.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

DEI is not and has never been about tokenization. Tokenization is a tool of incompetent racists seeking to sabotage diverse communities because they rely on white privilege for their managerial positions. So they hire incompetent tokens to maintain their top-level status and avoid scrutiny.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Antiblack racists saw black women with jobs and immediately, because they believe black women are not as capable or intelligent, assumed that a DEI policy allowed those women to "steal" jobs from qualified white people.

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Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

yall don’t understand how emotional i am looking at this pic. don’t ever tell me representation doesn’t matter

Disney Princesses (left to right)

Anika Noni Rose (Princess Tiana)
Brandy (Cinderella)
Halle Bailey (Princess Ariel)

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🧸 @tayloreric.dev · 15/08/2026

Momo Boyd 😍

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

This is the eagerness with which people are consuming tales of Black inferiority. Here and across the world.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Singling people out for special scrutiny simply because of who they are is a form of persecution, even if you do find something. But many people are willing to forgive the persecution if it finds something that tells them what they want to hear. #ShortAttentionSpanTheater

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

there's a pretty straightforward parallel with the way black businesspeople were targeted for lynching. Black success—even fairly mild success—is seen as a violation of the rightful white supremacist order. it's viewed as a cheat and a scandal to be met with outrage up to and including violence.

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@mjohnso27.bsky.social @mjohnso27.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is so tragic. These witch hunts to discredit Black academics and run them out of their prestigious positions for unsubstantiated accusations in the name of some amorphous goal of “preserving meritocracy” by re-segregating elite institutions, have got to end.

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lunarshocked.bsky.social @lunarshocked.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is sad I have seen harvard profs straight up make insane claims about aliens Ive seen korean researchers lie to THE WORLD about cloning and super conducting magnets None of them were hounded to DEATH

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

heartbreaking. he did not deserve the merciless attacks & media attention he got. There are far, far more notable things happening in academia that deserve attention, the rampant racism being one. This is what the harassment campaign led to.

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Somewhere out there is a guy who made money last week writing an op-ed in the nyt drawing the silliest of connections between Arday’s specific case in England and the entirety of academia in the United States and once again he’s gonna throw his hands up and go ‘not my fault just doing my job’

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44 LIGHTS @44lights.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Telegraph was relentless. A team of reporters were destroying him day by day, ripping every detail of his life apart, every kernel of every story. It’s almost as if they wanted to see if they could push him far enough. They did. What was the point…

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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 13/08/2026

Research has shown that Black girls face disproportionate rates of excessive force and punishment by law enforcement officers and teachers.

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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 13/08/2026

The now-viral video of Alisa N. Hacket, 18, being forcefully body-slammed and punched in the face by an Arkansas state trooper is the latest example of the disparate violence leveled at Black girls and women.

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Viral Video of Teen Punched by Arkansas State Trooper Highlights Misogynoir Violence

The now-viral video of Alisa N. Hackett, 18, being forcefully body-slammed and punched in the face by an Arkansas state trooper is the latest example of the disparate violence leveled at Black girls a...

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Dread @dreadful4x.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026

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giv3m3shelt3r.bsky.social @giv3m3shelt3r.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now this was funny 😂😂😂😂😂

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.

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giv3m3shelt3r.bsky.social @giv3m3shelt3r.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You made me spit my coffee out 😂😂😂😂😂

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Schedule F targeted roughly 8,000 policy-related positions. This rule could reach nearly everyone in the federal workforce. This is the kind of political control over federal employees that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 was intended to prevent. It is a return to Nixonian government.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In other words, the agency that writes the rule can bring the charge and then decide the appeal.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The final piece takes effect September 2. Appeals of suitability removals will no longer go to the independent Merit Systems Protection Board. Instead, they will go back to OPM and be decided on paper, without a hearing.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

At the same time, OPM is pushing a standardized NDA for roughly 2 million federal workers, while House Oversight has launched an investigation into tax delinquency among federal employees. These actions do not appear unrelated. They fit together.

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