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jessica

@jessduit.bsky.social
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they never take the country out me. writer, strategist, homeschool subject matter expert, children's rights advocate. views are mine. fka hullojess.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long ago the four lokos lived in harmony
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 8h
Originating with enslaved Africans, the banjo is now being reclaimed by Black musicians in contemporary music
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How Black banjo players are changing Americana music
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h
The elites want crumbs for you while they get to vacation overseas with their alleged mistresses.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h
As monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect them
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As monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect them
Claudia Galeno-Sánchez has turned her garden into a sanctuary for the insects by planting native milkweed and wildflowers
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11h
Oh good, an entire cohort of children are having "wire mother" experiments done on them
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Incredible how "would be great if kids could walk/bike to school independently" somehow turns into a discussion about needing a car to move furniture.
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of my favorite tweets of all time
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/11/2024
i think the biggest ideological divide in america is between people who think everybody deserves dignity, and people who think dignity is a zero-sum game
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
For @us.theguardian.com, I spoke to Native WNBA fans about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. “For a tribe that fought long and hard to be granted tribal sovereignty, the [sale] decision being taken out of their hands can feel like a violation of that sovereignty.”
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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026
Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...
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The Joke Thief
The AI Powered Joke Thief (or Fine, Somebody Wants This)
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/10/2026
Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents out of any state in the country and U.S. Census data reports over 36% of Mississippi residents identify as Black. Despite this, three of Mississippi’s four congressional districts are majority-white. buff.ly/oxAULFs
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Mississippians Condemn Redistricting Efforts During Gulfport Hearing
Mississippians on the Gulf Coast were mostly negative on any redistricting proposals that may come from the Mississippi Legislature.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” - Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They say they hate “woke,” but they really hate Black people, and any meaningful lingo we produce to critique and challenge white supremacy
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026
Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All Republicans have to offer voters in the midterms is failure, lies, corruption, cover ups, fear mongering, name calling, enrichment of oligarchs, christian nationalism, racism, data centers everywhere, flock cameras, higher prices, new wars and fake bribes. Hell of a platform.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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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
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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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We live in a center left country with a democracy problem
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW from me: The resurgence of measles in the US is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they haven't seen in decades. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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jessica @jessduit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NO WAY
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026
I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
This morning I want to help debunk a headline I keep seeing about Black Women's unemployment: By the end of 2025, 600,000 Black women were not out of the workforce. That number signifies who got DISPLACED. The end-of-year number is actually between 217,000 and 250,000 cc @epi.org and IWPR.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Police said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’
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Judge sets $5m bond for third suspect in killing of Black woman hung from tree in Mississippi
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
why would you let meta of all companies run your life via an AI agent what is wrong with people
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
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Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump regime is aggressively pushing Black women out of stable working & middle class jobs.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026
I’ve seen several stories of young women describing rape and sexual assault on college campuses in the last week which strikes me not as a rise in assaults but, given the violence of some of the examples, I fear we’re back in an era of headlines about group assaults, for the Tate/Clavicular era
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