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Imani: That Good Craic

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📌Then there's this ... A network correspondent of repute speaks his mind and says what everybody knows, and is verifiably true: The vile Stephen Miller is a "world-class hater." 📌It's past time for people who know better to speak up. THAT'S what he was thinking, NYT. Lean in and follow the example.
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Imani: That Good Craic @imanidubs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Compiling a list of people still offering help in Liverpool for those that are stranded. If you need help or are offering a ride or a lift - check out this place or add yourself docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Stuck in Liverpool Rides - May 26th
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 19/05/2025
While Palestinian families starve, the Israeli government is escalating its assault on Gaza. The U.S. must stop the flow of bombs and bullets to the IDF. No more destruction and carnage. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/18/m...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/05/2025
Can confirm @jay.bsky.team here: Bluesky has become a great driver of referral traffic. Not demoting link posts is huge, and the community of readers / responders here feels more thoughtful and engaged. X has become essentially worthless for the task www.wired.com/story/big-in...
There’s been an influx of big creators onto Bluesky, but there’s no direct way for them to monetize their work yet. Are you going to change that?

We’re giving them great traffic—and that can convert to money. One big thing is we don’t downrank links, so if you are a YouTube creator or you have a Patreon and you post those links on Bluesky, you’re getting higher link traffic, even with a smaller follower count. This is true of small creators and even news organizations. We’ve heard from large news organizations that Bluesky has better click-throughs and better subscription rates. [WIRED can vouch for this: The platform has become a top traffic driver and source of new subscribers.]
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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 19/05/2025
After first seeing it with a friend last weekend at an IMAX theater in the city, I saw #Sinners again today—this time, solo—at a regular degular theater in my Queens neighborhood. Going to the matinee show, I saw things I missed the first time around, so #SinnersMovie rewards repeat viewing. #movies
Michael B. Jordan playing duel roles, as twins Stack and Smoke, in the 2025 hit film Sinners.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 19/05/2025
Trump & the GOP are already coming for your food & healthcare. Their tariffs are raising prices. And now they want to seize your wages, tax refunds & Social Security if your student loans are in default. This is cruel, it hurts our most vulnerable—and we have a bill to stop it.
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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
TIME TO TAX THE RICH more much more! youtu.be/0quhLtBXijM?...
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Gary Stevenson on taxing the rich and why you're getting poorer | WTCTW podcast
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Imani: That Good Craic @imanidubs.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Kamala should have had longer than 100 days
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).
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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza. Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel. It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.
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Axios @axios.com · 16/05/2025
JUST IN: Moody's cuts U.S. credit rating
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Moody's cuts U.S. credit rating on growing debt burden
The U.S. government no longer has a AAA credit rating.
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Imani: That Good Craic @imanidubs.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Trail of Tears.
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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 16/05/2025
When Orlando and Kansas City take the pitch tonight, the influence of Brazilian players will be obvious. 🇧🇷 More on Marta, Debinha, and bringing Brazilians to the NWSL: bit.ly/3FdKRJ1
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2025
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: “Whites only” immigration.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025
Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison after being convicted of working with an "undesirable" organization, according to Russian news agencies and his attorney.
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Russia Sentences Prominent Election Expert to 5 Years in Prison
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As a reminder, this is a permanent resident, in the US since she was seven, high school valedictorian www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
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Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/05/2025
And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack. Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/05/2025
Bribery is an impeachable offense. Trump isn’t just breaking norms, he’s selling U.S. influence to the highest bidder.
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TheCenci @thecenci.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Sent tomorrow's TAW copy off with the title 'The Boo Madlys' and you're wrong to groan at the title.
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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 10/05/2025
An update on Savy King ❤️
Following a medical event on the field last night, ACFC's Savy King was transported by EMS to the hospital. Savy left the field in stable condition, and currently remains stable and will be undergoing further evaluation. League protocols were followed from both a medical and game operations perspective. We are grateful to the Angel City medical staff as well as to local paramedics who handled this difficult situation seamlessly. As always, the NWSL will review and determine if changes to that protocol need to be made. We share everyone's concern about Savy, and our thoughts are with her, her family, the Utah Royals players and staff, and the Angel City players, staff and community.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2025
Casar: "I've knocked on 1000s of doors and not a single time has someone said, 'Thank God you're here. I want to ask about trans people fencing'..what the hell are we doing? We are here bc MTG thinks if she picks on trans folks, she can avoid having a discussion about allegations of insider trading"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?
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Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/05/2025
Judge says the Trump administration can't deport migrants to Libya unless they have a chance to challenge removal in court.
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Judge says US must allow migrants a chance to challenge in court any deportations to Libya
A federal judge has found the Trump administration can’t deport migrants to Libya unless they have a meaningful chance to challenge their removal in court.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This person doesn’t belong anywhere near the Justice Department. It’s her damn job to uphold the Constitution and due process, not just pursue illegal retribution. Appalling.
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Imani: That Good Craic @imanidubs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Universities should go back to book sources and hand written essays. In class prompts and oral examinations. The Vulcans did oral examinations for a reason. Live long & prosper!
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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I can totally see a world where teachers use AI to create assignments, students use AI to complete assignments, teachers use AI to grade assignments, and no one learned a damned thing.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025
I mean…
Most professors have come to the conclusion that stopping rampant AI abuse would require more than simply policing individual cases and would likely mean overhauling the education system to consider students more holistically. “Cheating correlates with mental health, well-being, sleep exhaustion, anxiety, depression, belonging,” said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford and one of the world’s leading student-engagement researchers.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025
Who knew steganography would become so important for college profs.
Some professors have resorted to deploying so-called Trojan horses, sticking strange phrases, in small white text, in between the paragraphs of an essay prompt. (The idea is that this would theoretically prompt ChatGPT to insert a non sequitur into the essay.) Students at Santa Clara recently found the word broccoli hidden in a professor’s assignment. Last fall, a professor at the University of Oklahoma sneaked the phrases “mention Finland” and “mention Dua Lipa” in his. A student discovered his trap and warned her classmates about it on TikTok. “It does work sometimes,” said Jollimore, the Cal State Chico professor. “I’ve used ‘How would Aristotle answer this?’ when we hadn’t read Aristotle. But I’ve also used absurd ones and they didn’t notice that there was this crazy thing in their paper, meaning these are people who not only didn’t write the paper but also didn’t read their own paper before submitting it.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025
Speechless.
I asked Wendy if I could read the paper she turned in, and when I opened the document, I was surprised to see the topic: critical pedagogy, the philosophy of education pioneered by Paulo Freire. The philosophy examines the influence of social and political forces on learning and classroom dynamics. Her opening line: “To what extent is schooling hindering students’ cognitive ability to think critically?” Later, I asked Wendy if she recognized the irony in using AI to write not just a paper on critical pedagogy but one that argues learning is what “makes us truly human.” She wasn’t sure what to make of the question. “I use AI a lot. Like, every day,” she said. “And I do believe it could take away that critical-thinking part. But it’s just — now that we rely on it, we can’t really imagine living without it.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” "No work, no play" sounds like an incredibly rewarding college experience.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I wrote about Sinners. Watching so many Black folk call the film "demonic", I explain how its central horror -- and triumph is that the film casts Black/African spirituality as an effective challenge to Western Christianity. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | ‘Sinners’ is a Black challenge to White Christianity
Ryan Coogler’s masterpiece mixes African spirits, the American church and the power of music into a terrifying brew.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Don’t mind me. Cuss all you want. Yes, you can say that cruelty is the point, but also white supremacy. It’s in the soil, the subsoil, the bedrock of this place, as elsewhere. This is Massive Resistance redux.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Board of Visitors ends support for racial diversity goals
The newly approved resolution, titled “Advancing Free Inquiry and Viewpoint Diversity at U.Va.”, calls for efforts to create a campus environment that supports open political dialogue, constructive de...
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 06/05/2025
Each year, thousands of bikes are fished out of the Amsterdam canals. This is important to keep them clean and clear for boat traffic. After they are recovered, the bikes are restored or recyled for further use. via @iulialiveslife on Instagram
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Different Brushstrokes @youwriteuniversity.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Posts like these come from upper middle class to lower wealthy people, likely not people of color, who have a romanticized view of America, and are unlikely to be on the chopping block when shit hits the fan.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/05/2025
Our trade deficit isn’t the crisis Trump wants us to believe… It’s not other countries taking advantage of the U.S. —It’s what happens when you’re the richest country on earth with a consumer-driven economy. We import so much because Americans benefit from cheaper goods made abroad.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Greta Thunberg, she's right.
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Imani: That Good Craic @imanidubs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Here that ladies? A little ED and having the back go out makes men better partners. Imagine that.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 04/05/2025
We're about to need passports and visas to visit Canada because of that man and it is truly the fault of several US/Canada border states, including mine. 😐 Michiganders talmbout some "let us join Canada" all over the Internet knowing full well your friends, family, and neighbors are MAGA. I can't 🤷🏿‍♀️
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/05/2025
Harvard just handed all school and disciplinary records of international students to DHS. Absolutely contemptible. They're putting their own students in danger and lying by telling them that everything is ok. These students could be black bagged to Louisiana or El Salvador after this.
A letter from Harvard University addressed to its community regarding the university’s response to an April 16 request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The letter explains Harvard's compliance with the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) reporting obligations and affirms its ongoing commitment to support international students' visas. It stresses that Harvard does not seek to withdraw from SEVP and highlights the value international students bring to the university. The letter encourages international students to stay focused on their studies and celebrates their academic achievements, welcoming incoming students and acknowledging their dedication.

Continuation of a letter from Harvard University addressing international students and scholars. The message encourages them to stay focused on their academic goals and acknowledges their hard work as the academic year ends. It expresses excitement about welcoming new international students and commends all students for their dedication and resilience. The letter also mentions upcoming guidance for summer travel and emphasizes the value international students bring to Harvard’s educational and research community. It concludes with a note of commitment to student success and is signed by Meredith Weenick, Executive Vice President.
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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Here's a gift link for this article: www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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What a $15,000 Electric SUV Says About U.S.-China Car Rivalry
For an American used to a $50,000 gasoline-powered SUV as the standard family choice, the Chinese market is hardly recognizable.
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Imani: That Good Craic @imanidubs.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Sadly Reform doesn’t work in politics throughout all history
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is about all of us. Never forget that.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/05/2025
Listen to Black women… “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity” “The threats & harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution & the rule of law” - KBJ
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