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Jesmyn Ward

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI". And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Segregation was never just separate facilities It was paying more & getting less in your neighborhood It was getting the Phd, but still not getting hired It was needing police for the police It was building up a newspaper & having it burned (Wells) It was building a school & having it shot up (JSU)
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Marine TRÉBAUL @beeasmarine.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
ok, so basically I would like this post to go viral. Please don't forget to Sign, Support (from 819 to 850+ donators), even a little amount (*)) and Share everywhere this 👉 www.change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘 (*) The only VITAL #petition, worldwide, in 6 languages (should be at millions of signature).
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/03/2025
EU tariffs will hit everything from American jeans and motorcycles to soybeans in Louisiana (Mike Johnson’s home state); beef and poultry in Kansas and Nebraska; and produce from Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia.
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Europe Hits Back at Trump’s Tariffs With Plan Targeting Red States
The European Union has responded with retaliatory tariffs of its own, with a special focus on products from Republican states.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 11/03/2025
“We feel like we're abandoning the community that we've built around this," MSU Coastal and Marine Extension Program Director Eric Sparks said after the abrupt cancelation of a USDA grant for coastal restoration work.
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Trump Follows Project 2025 Blueprint on Environment, Climate
Mississippi is already feeling impacts as the Trump administration slashes environmental protection funding and ends efforts to fight climate change.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM. The dumbest people alive are cheering for this. 🤦‍♀️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A cowardly statement.
the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil to make an example out of him because they’re gambling Dems won’t put their jobs and lives on the line to protect a Palestinian.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Musk is now claiming that DOGE has no legal authority to fire federal workers or cancel contracts. OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES? These people use words so carelessly.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“This bill is pointless, unnecessary and unbelievably cruel. Transgender Iowans are our friends, our neighbors and our coworkers. We deserve the same fundamental rights, dignity and respect as anyone else. This legislation will not improve the life of a single Iowan.”
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Wide-ranging GOP bill would remove gender identity protections from Iowa Civil Rights Act
A wide-ranging Republican bill would remove protections against discrimination for transgender people from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/02/2025
It’s actually just racist because the NYT is co-signing the idea that he got his job because he is Black and there’s no evidence for this
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
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MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid’s Show in Major Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Well now.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/02/2025
When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
With all the talk of “constitutional crisis”focused on separation of powers,there’s been too little focus on Trump’s dedication to dismantling what historian Eric Foner calls “the most impt addition to the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.” The 14th Amendment. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
The hand of a Black person lightly holds on side of a document called “Civil Rights” held on the other side by two white hands. One of the white hands has a bracelet w/a charm. Black people and women sharing civil rights.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Why aren’t they taking the fired federal workers who are sharing their heartbreaking stories—the ones that Musk says were being paid to do nothing—and making them famous? The cancer researcher on the verge of a breakthrough? The park ranger in Yosemite who won’t be there to conduct rescues and save lives? The air traffic controller who can speak to the connection between understaffing and recent plane crashes? Is it even safe to fly in Trump’s America?

The Democrats should be amplifying these folks—writing op-eds about them, refusing to go on camera without sharing their spotlight, pressuring their IG influencers to raise them up—but instead, we learn their stories from Reddit. As Moira Donegan wrote in The Guardian, “Why are the Democrats so spineless?”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/02/2025
“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”
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Trump Launches Mass Purge of Air Traffic Control Staff
The Trump administration has kicked off a firing spree of air traffic controllers, despite four deadly plane crashes on his watch.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Media are missing this if they don't include it. Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk. But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause. ⬇️Key para⬇️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The point here is Trump does not recognize order, laws, defined terms, accountability. It never mattered to him. And for that reason the Constitution is just a bunch of words to him as well. “I have an Article II that says I can do whatever I want.” That’s why these suits are so important.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
900 former Department of Justice prosecutors, including former special counsel Jack Smith, signed an open letter expressing concern about Trump’s Dept Of Justice & its politicization of prosecutions. www.axios.com/2025/02/18/d...
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Jack Smith among 900 former prosecutors alarmed by Trump's DOJ
They said they've "watched with alarm" as DOJ leadership has tested values they swore to uphold.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025
OHHH FAIR
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Bread and roses 🐞 🌻 @midnight5un.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I know someone who's a federal worker and 1) the "buyout" is just a deal that says "you're allowed to continue working remote until September, when you're guaranteed to be fired" every single major news outlet has grossly misrepresented the offer but I've read it myself.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For those keeping track, @nytimes.com ran the story today on the bottom of page A22.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/02/2025
The Trump administration doesn’t appear to have a clear idea of just how many federal staffers they’ve let go.
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DOJ Lawyers Admit Trump’s DOGE Purges Are Too Chaotic Even for Them
A judge was “incredulous” at their response.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18/02/2025
“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
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FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/02/2025
NEW: Trump’s FEMA administrator just sent out an email ordering all employees to stop sending things to the media without prior authorization. It was immediately sent to me by a FEMA employee without prior authorization to share with you.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Where are the CEOs of @deltaairline.bsky.social @americanair.bsky.social @unitedairlinesual.bsky.social @jetblue2.bsky.social ? They’re good with this. Where are the leaders of business?
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“We are alarmed how quickly the business community has given in to the current administration’s retaliatory threats. It is not ‘illegal’ for a company to create a business model based on what it believes to be important ethical and business standards.”
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Letters to the Editor: Our father helped create Target. Its rollback of DEI programs is a betrayal
Two members of the Dayton family, which founded the Target Corp., express dismay over the company's rollback of DEI programs.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
Knowledge is power…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2025
worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"DOGE has planned for the Trump administration to trim staff from dozens of offices across the executive branch, including those that protect employees’ civil rights and others that investigate complaints of employment discrimination in the federal workplace." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is just a detailed plan to re-segregate the federal workforce, even rolling back basic civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination. 🎁 link wapo.st/4jVWqEd
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Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025
Got some time on your hands? Make this tipline useless. I used to work for CFPB. Do me a solid and make sure to give this man hell
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
these are segregationists.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12/02/2025
Am I missing where in this article the newly appointed board is named person by person?
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New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president.
President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was departing the institution.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.
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