Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797553039
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"joking," loosely, because the president would very much decide how the federal government responds to a possible, imminent, or actual nuclear strike on a county of some 10 million people. for the record i have never made a joke like that about some nowhere town no one's ever heard of 4107757
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 764156836
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Remorseful first-time Trump voter" in 2024, spreading conspiracy theories about the exact same innocent community he's now being centered above: 350266
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"First time Trump voter" five days after the January 6th Coup attempt: 261521326
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialCNN @cnn.com · 06/10/2026New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a statewide disaster emergency over a measles outbreak, the first such declaration by a US state since cases began surging in 2025. cnn.it/4zb7qEA 1115882
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/QewniBVtrib.alTrump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape InvestigationThe Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools. 58676398
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...nytimes.comThe Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 (Gift Article)He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. 16626
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of course I agree with Kevin as we limp along at CUNY hobbled by decades of under-funding. It hasn't been costless. I am not feeling sanguine given the Dems even in blue states have decided public higher ed = vocational training. But will I stop pushing the Dems on it? No. 638957
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all. Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month. 930986
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialdirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed. 6528224
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026Sixth Seventh Eighth 3 grades that are foundational to the next leg of educational development And these are the very grades them kids be in them schools running amok And if you don’t lock in they gone miss out 1517
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026MEMPHIS @mayorpaulyoung defends not pushing back harder against Musk’s xAI (which the community has overwhelmingly been against), saying data centers are “the biggest thing happening in the global economy” (With @angelarye.bsky.social ) 2816443
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All. 461581376
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialZito @zeets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is all an effort to disappear responsibility. If it’s the AI’s fault then no person or entity beyond the computer can be blamed for it. The US killed 123 schoolchildren. 314337
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/09/2026the snapback in Hollywood to WHIIIIIIIIIIIITE white is so loud 😳 I swear, 10 years ago there were Black people at the Emmys! In numbers! And now that pan over the audience is RNC Convention Cream It is weird and jarring and shameful, if not at all surprising. Bodies back at WASP waif, too. smh 1283398
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026In addition to suing schools which admit too many Black students or has any student services to assist Black students we’re going to see a ton of academics using the introduction of AI in higher ed as a standard to dismiss Black scholarship from students and teachers alike. 16112
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026delusional and the MSM keeps platforming this person and using words like "pugnacious???" to describe someone who covered up the killing of a 17 year old by Chicago cops among so much other foul shit. 15812181
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/08/2026It would be nice if a single Democratic leader issued a statement defending their Black women colleagues after Laura Loomer called Angie Nixon, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, former Rep. Cori Bush, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson "ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black BITCHES" 11437111
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026🧪 NEW STUDY: the drinking public is mostly unaware that alcohol is a carcinogen bc of a disconnect btwn the strength of the scientific evidence and strength of the PSA messaging. But stronger messaging works to change behaviors. On a personal note: Glad I evicted alcohol from my life altogether. 14921
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/08/2026New York, here’s how you can save a life: 1. Go to nyc.gov/naloxone to get free overdose-reversal medication, also known as Narcan®. 2. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance use, call 988 for confidential recovery resources.nyc.govNaloxone - NYC Health 7655901642
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026Why are they trying to kill, incarcerate, or deport nearly the entire population as clearly proven in the posts this is linked to? Trump is a white supremacist nationalist & his real goal in office, he states plain & puts into policy, is to create a white ethnostate. Marginalized whites unwelcome. 0186
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/08/2026Fresh fruit requires storage and even with storage will go bad 41395
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/08/2026You can always kinda tell people who have never had to make groceries last for a month 932859
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich 44603834
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students hiring Kenyans to write their papers & dissertations? I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics to the mainstream. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comInside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK studentsHighly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own 14773386
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This conversation between @devawo.bsky.social and @perrybaconjr.bsky.social is worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7e...youtube.comWhy AOC’s “Woke” Comments Landed With a ThudYouTube video by The New Republic 510026
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 17/08/2026the entire west bet it all on a fucking genocide. they all backed it. went all in and it led to this. it aint coming back! insane stuff 350942
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialDeramin @deramin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025ProPublica got so angry continually reporting on this injustice that they created a Claim File Helper to "customize a letter requesting the notes and documents your insurer used when deciding to deny you coverage." projects.propublica.org/claimfile/projects.propublica.orgFind Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your ClaimYou likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f... 410664
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026hot take: one big reason ethnic cleansing isn't catching on as a term for ICE operations is it would lead more people to ask a very uncomfortable question—whether the democrats who helped build the dangerous security apparatus should also be held accountable for this crime against humanity 13796187
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/08/2026If you remember his nba career it immediately got derailed because he wouldn’t fly and had mental health problems and I remember sympathetic news stories about his struggles and it’s wild to see someone asking for unique care and consideration do these trolls for attention to belittle other people 2163878
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/08/2026Lawmakers across the globe seem to think age gating the internet will "protect the kids." We're explaining why mandatory age verification will do more harm than good at 1:30 pm PT today at #DEFCON on Creator Stage 7. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgEFF at BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON 👨💻It's time. Time for tinkerers, security researchers, hackers, and fellow nerds to gather together in signature black hoodies and utilikilts to beat the heat in Las Vegas for the summer security 513344
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialBen Temchine @abuasher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026All I would add is what I’ve learned working in labor unions. It was a choice to let organized labor get suffocated by regulation, laws and court decisions. The Democrats chose SV over labor. And they have been killed for it. Their elite doesn’t come from locals anymore, it comes from college dems. 27612
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one. 14990431763
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026Instead of taking on the power of policing directly we keep reaching for clever workarounds that are then used by the police to concentrate more power. 39830
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026The technological solution to racist policing being abused by the police until it becomes publicly untenable is a particular type of dark irony. 114446
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 05/08/2026NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.404media.coCops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads. 22323179
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 04/08/2026African states pressured by US to leave the ICClemonde.frAfrican states pressured by US to leave the ICCThe Trump administration declared all-out war on the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, in mid-July, despite the fact that the US has never been a member. 23543
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/07/2026this is what they took from you 914671795
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/07/2026This is not snark but most of us have not read the turner diaries. Most of us do not steep ourselves in the extreme parts of white supremacy. Again not a critique. But yes, people who know this stuff PLEASE point it out. 631777
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/07/2026It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.ballsandstrikes.substack.comI Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump JudgesFour months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost. 10556421340
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialStrictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I have to remind myself that folks voted for & sat out for this... 38834
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026All of them should have bet on Black during that NBA strike moment. They — and we — might be having different conversations today. 🤷🏾♀️ 320213
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Like a lot of aging men, he also misunderstood his value. It was always an aspirational patriarchy. And well that just doesn’t fit the white patriarchical agenda anymore. The backlash doesn’t need Black cool anymore. 222315
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Also, the materiality cannot be overstated. Black people are struggling financially. And not in the broke kind of way but in the existential “they are trying to send us back to plantation kind of way”. The hustle has been thoroughly knocked, my man. 229842
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026He tied himself so tightly to the Obama mystique that its collapse took his audience with it —- and he didn’t ever build a real base. (See: Obama coalition writ large.) 117016
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane 12847631241
Reposted by @junkrootkit.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20368812224829
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