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Tonya Abari

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Jesse Hirsch @jessehirsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"There generally isn’t a lot of widespread coverage of Black oyster economies and farmers.” That's why we had @iamtabari.bsky.social dig into the rich legacy of Black oystermen and women in the U.S., who helped build it into a multibillion-dollar industry today. ambrook.com/offrange/fis...
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The Legacy of Black Oyster Farmers - Offrange
Steeped in a rich history, Black oystermen and women across U.S. coastal regions have been disappearing for decades — a revival may be underway.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Absolute Intuition @absoluteintuition.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#gut_feeling #artificial_intelligence #intuition bigthink.com/the-long-gam...
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Why your intuition, imagination, and emotion will outlast AI
A dialogue with Angus Fletcher — author of the bestseller Primal Intelligence — who explores the true engines of human progress.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Like many, feeling shock and disgust as I pay taxes for a government that won’t even observe the constitution. And that seems to be strip mining our data to sell to Russia.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Feeling like a big dumbass working on my taxes right now. Who am I sending this money to
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/02/2025
The rapidity with which major media outlets are just rolling over for this administration and making a grab for authoritarian approval and cash is absolutely craven and disgusting. Treating journalism as an extractive, for-profit enterprise is an insult to the profession, and to society.
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Joann, a destination for generations of lovers of crafts projects for 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores
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Fabric And Craft Retailer Joann To Go Out Of Business, Close All Of Its Stores
The company said it expects it will take a “number of weeks to complete our final sales.”
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neesha @womanistbae.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Welp.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Monday, February 10, 2025 American Medical Association Might want to listen Update on dairy cattle in Nevada youtu.be/ruBXo3r_pXQ?...
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Nevada dairy cattle bird flu news, American Heart Month, cardiovascular disease facts and flu tests
YouTube video by American Medical Association (AMA)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What a superstar list this year!
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I refuse to let the next 4 years ruin the time I have here. I will have joy. I will laugh. I will rest. I will dance. I will sing. I will spend time with folks I love. I will find ways I can help my community. I will find the beauty. I will hold on to peace. I will live. I will have joy.
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Kam Asanyi (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @kamasanyi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This one is meant to be your Black owned Amazon. #DIVEST www.julo.shop/pantry
julo.shop
Pantry Staples, Specialty Foods, Snacks, & More from Black Owned Brands | Julo Shop
Shop from our hand-picked selection of black owned pantry items chosen for taste and ingredients. Discover products from truly amazing black-owned brands.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/01/2025
Soooo Benin says it's offering citizenship to descendents of the transatlantic slave trade and I'm not here to dig into how that will work but I am here to say that I actually went to Benin in 2016 and would you like to see pictures?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
All this pausing and dismantling and pure CHAOS—and we just supposed to be working through all of this. If they pausing funds and cancelling initiatives, start pausing these bills. Start pausing this rent. Start pausing these grocery prices. Everything needs a pause!
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Up on jennmjacksonphd.substack.com, I have a new piece reflecting on my first year as a first-time Black woman author. I discuss publishing with a Big Five Publisher (Penguin/Random House) and how to navigate a book tour.
Image of the book cover for Black Women Taught Us in purple and red with the title of the article over top.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 26/01/2025
The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School is hosting a free hybrid seminar on Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Spring 2025: Black Reconstruction
Please use this form to apply for the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School hybrid seminar on Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois. This seminar will include a lecture and question-and-answer component, an...
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
aclu.org
Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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💎 𝕊ℍ𝔸ℕ𝕆ℕ 𝕃𝔼𝔼 💎 she/her @whoisshanonlee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I keep saying this: This is as chaotic as it was the last time around. We have to stay informed, but we have to react differently. They want us frazzled and unable to function. We can’t afford to come undone.
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andrea-fulani.bsky.social @andrea-fulani.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Shoooot. I'm not stopping at this year. 💯
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We’re meant to calmly accept the absurd idea that any white man is innately qualified for any job or position, no matter what his education, resume or proven capabilities and any non-white man or woman inherently stole their way into employment via #DEI. This of course is pure, undiluted fascism.
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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I love us, for real.
theguardian.com
It was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires
Nikki High’s Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena was spared by the fire, but touched by change, it became a hub of relief
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Check out my latest, I decided to make this available to everyone because it's too important for people not to hear. 9 mins if you can spare harrydunn.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Pardoned The People Who Tried To Kill Me
Donald Trump has officially pardoned the more than 1,500 insurrectionists who tried to kill me and my fellow officers on January 6, 2021.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/01/2025
I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I repeat, if you have been notified that you are being terminated from a federal agency, reach out to us at the www.centerforemploymentjustice.com
centerforemploymentjustice.com
CEJ- Advocates in the Workplace
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💎 𝕊ℍ𝔸ℕ𝕆ℕ 𝕃𝔼𝔼 💎 she/her @whoisshanonlee.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🫡 Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104 #BlackSky #VeteranSky www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104
Retired Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died peacefully in her home at the age of 104.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
He pardoned EVERY SINGLE PERSON... I won't hold my breath for people to be outraged.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Reading list for what’s to come: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246...
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How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt: 9781524762940 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE •...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is not a prop or a mascot. Please don't trot out memes and quotes today featuring his words when you haven't embodied those teachings or engaged with them intentionally on any of the other 364 days of each year.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/01/2025
A 'potential' housing crisis? Babe, we are already there.
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I stopped watching football in 2016, but peek in on the home team during the playoffs from time to time. Ravens…😩💜🖤💜🖤
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Kirsten @rewriteable.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Tressie McMillan Cottom on the TikTok ban (gift article link) "The TikTok Economy Is All Americans Have Left" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
The rage around banning TikTok poses
a lot of political problems. There is the
sense that out-of-touch politicians
dislike young people who like and use
the app. There are also big issues about
the First Amendment, proxy wars with
China and executive overreach (should
Donald Trump intervene as he implies
he will). But there is also a less-
observed problem: Young people feel
trapped. Their sense that they don't
have a shot at economic opportunity is
being funneled into their online
influencer fantasies. They seem
desperate for anything that promises a
way forward, even if it is just an
algorithm.
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
For my latest author feature for Chapter 16, I had the absolute pleasure of profiling THE Alice Faye Duncan. Read + share. chapter16.org/the-way-forw...
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The Way Forward
In a 1957 speech delivered in Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for ot…
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Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Not me on here searching for #elmo and #cookiemonster 🤣
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 18/01/2025
Love that many of us are returning to paper, pens, notebooks, journals, and stationery in light of these incoming tech overlords... if it's not online, it can't be fed into the machine! I'm planning to send friends care packages with all this stuff I'm talking about on my channel. And nice cards!
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
In response to the ongoing L.A. wildfires, WNDB is now accepting Emergency Grant applications from marginalized writers, creatives, and publishing professionals who have been financially impacted by the fires. To apply, follow the link below ⬇️ 🚨 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
A yellow promotional graphic that says, “Emergency Grants” in bold white text, followed by an illustration of a blaring siren. White text in the lower half of the graphic says, “Diverse writers, creatives, and publishing professionals who have been financially impacted by the LA wildfires, apply for an Emergency Grant today!” At the bottom of the graphic are two yellow arrows on either side, pointing inwards towards a green search bar that contains the URL “bit.ly/WNDB-emergency”An informational graphic sharing more information about WNDB’s Emergency Fund program. The description reads as follows, “Since 2020, WNDB’s Emergency Grants have provided funding to over 120 authors, illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing financial need. Recipients may use their grant funds to cover household expenses, medical payments, debt, rent or mortgage payments, etc. In response to the ongoing LA wildfires, WNDB will be awarding emergency grants to support diverse writers, creatives, and publishing professionals impacted.” At the bottom of the graphic is an image of a green search bar that contains the URL “bit.ly/WNDB-emergency”
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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 10/01/2025
URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
fortune.com
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
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