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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h
I don't find that video of those young Black people walking back to their campus uplifting or inspiring in the least. It should enrage every person and all of us of a certain age should be embarrassed that they have to do this in 2026.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
wow what a touching and inspiring story that could literally only happen in america 🇺🇸🦅
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026
You gotta go get somebody to unlock protective glass at the pharmacy if you want some soap or deodorant
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/10/2026
US law enforcement agents obtained authorization to use a controversial cell phone surveillance device to find and arrest a college student who helped produce journalist Don Lemon’s coverage of an anti-ICE protest, court filings show.
wired.com
Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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WNBA @wnba.com · 08/10/2026
The 5th one just hits DIFFERENT 🥹 The moment A’ja Wilson learned she was officially a 5x Kia WNBA Most Valuable Player. #KiaMVP | #WNBASeason30
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WNBA @wnba.com · 08/10/2026
Five is a handful. A’ja makes it look easy. #KiaMVP | #WNBASeason30 | Kia
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WNBA @wnba.com · 08/10/2026
U’nmatched greatness. MVP No. 5 🖐️🏆 A’ja Wilson is your 2026 Kia WNBA Most Valuable Player! Averaging 26.2 PPG, 9.4 RPG and 3.2 APG, Wilson led the league in scoring and adds a record-extending FIFTH MVP to her historic resume. #KiaMVP | #WNBASeason30
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
huffpost.com
The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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Mangusta Deford @shadowblind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Image shows a side by side of Louisiana State Univeristy’s football flag with the Tigers logo on a helmet, next to an image of student and survivor Kendall Francis.

LSU student Kendall Francis is speaking out.

The university's own Title IX office ruled that a football player had r*ped her.

He appealed. LSU reduced his suspension to probation, saying he just made "an error in judgment." He's free to return to campus, class and his team.

Kendall has to take her classes online now.

No criminal charges have been filed.

From Cornell to LSU, shielding r*pists is an institutional epidemic.
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Marcus SOBER 5 YEARS @papacitogordo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck everyone who voted for Trump and enabled him to get elected twice.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”
capitalbnews.org
Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
These are never suicides and the fact that they are quick to say so before anything else is telling. Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees, y’all.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i'm sorry ole miss y'all can't swag surf, man. that's not allowed.
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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...
bloomberg.com
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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Black people exist. We will continue to be here and fight for our self-determination and liberation. Our existence triggering you is a YOU problem.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And boy, are they hopping mad about it! But that was the trade-off for the antiblackness they craved. And it was pretty obvious that it would be too. Don't know why they are so surprised.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What white Hispanics did not expect was that they were at risk of becoming collateral damage if they did not have American citizenship. Whiteness offered no protection. Wealth offered no protection. Even though they were not targeted like black and brown Hispanics, they were still impacted.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Republican Party made the offer to white Hispanics that Black Americans would be put in our place if they rejected Harris. They 100% followed through on that to the best of their ability by targeting black employment and even attempting to restrict Black American culture.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
inquirer.com
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo, reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WNBA somehow fucked up alllll that good will and enthusiasm they built up over the last few years of putting an OUTSTANDING product on the floor with real stars only to hand the reins over to a transphobic loser who RIDES THE BENCH
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the hanging death of Tasia Fortune. The young mother’s death was ruled a homicide nearly a month after her body was found in a vacant home. bit.ly/4gaIGV7
capitalbnews.org
Tasia Fortune: Suspect Arrested in Hanging Death in Mississippi
Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Police have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the Black woman found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi
cnn.com
Mississippi police make arrest in Tasia Fortune case after medical examiner rules death a homicide | CNN
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medic...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is some incredible racism. AI is out here inventing forms of racism Hollywood never even considered before. This is going to make Citizen Vigilante look like Mary Poppins.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/09/2026
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College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle mo...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
“New York Life Insurance Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company and American International Group, known as AIG, were some of the businesses that listed previously disclosed ties to slaves and slaveholders.” (This is also my beef w/ the “2020 didn’t change anything concretely” talking point too.)
sacbee.com
California Legislature passes slavery disclosure bill, sends to Gavin Newsom
It is seen by some reparations advocates as a significant step, but others question it.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
“Jafari Sinclaire Allen, director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies, put it more bluntly. “Politics is the engine, not a factor,” he said. “They are not cutting at the fringe. They are striking the foundations.” www.binnews.com/content/2026...
binnews.com
‘Politics Is The Engine’: Black Studies Programs Being Cut At Colleges Across U.S. | BIN: Black Information Network
Colleges across the U.S. are cutting or scaling back Black Studies programs, with schools citing enrollment and budget pressures as scholars warn of growing political pressure on the field.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...
nytimes.com
Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)
“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
Every Fever game is a circus & the WNBA is the constant subject of some of the most horrific harassment I’ve seen an entire organized sport subjected to. And this door was opened by a few white women backstabbing their coworkers. Also, the article got the name of the Connecticut Sun incorrect.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.
prospect.org
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Patrick Claybon @patrickclaybon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a perfect world all of these weird losers would be out of sports but they speak to the most powerful political constituency to ever exist (weird losers)
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Angie Nixon’s victory didn’t come out of nowhere. It came because Black voters in the South are furious after the Supreme Court killed the Voting Rights Act. In almost every election since, Black voter turnout skyrocketed. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
‘People are p*****’: Black voters energized after Supreme Court guts Voting Rights
The Supreme Court loosened the rules allowing redistricting. Eric Garcia breaks down the numbers and they show that Black voters are protesting with their ballots — and their growing numbers could swi...
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/21/g...
npr.org
'Survival mode': Indiana residents endure a ninth day without power
Tens of thousands of people in Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines. Schools remain closed and businesses have been unable to reopen.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
The “aside from the racism” approach, where interlocutors believe they can suss out the bigotry at the heart of someone’s argument to then engage the “good faith” bit is exactly how Rufo and Hanania and keep laundering their work and why reactionary frames are adopted across the political spectrum.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
Fact that even in death the word of a white supremacist who has been as explicit as possible about his motivations and aims about the actions and character of a person he was attacking was widely accepted wholesale.
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
forever-wars.com
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
leilacancode.github.io
Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17/08/2026
Black people do not hang ourselves from trees.
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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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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16/08/2026
Several people in the area saw the body…. But not a single news station is reporting anything
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