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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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Sabriga Turgon @sabriga.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
For people saying that the three-judge panel here "ignored" SCOTUS or the like, that's just not so. The Callais ruling was about whether discriminatory effects were sufficient proof under the VRA; here there was a finding of discriminatory intent (under VRA and the 14th Amendment).
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 13/04/2026
In addition to being the most segregated big city in America, Chicago may also be the worst big city for Black economic mobility, according to data analysis by WBEZ's Alden Loury. "Lack of social and economic interaction are among the factors driving inequitable economic mobility," Loury writes.
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Segregation, racism stifle economic mobility for many in the Black community
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now. Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“There’s so many other Black women who I know and I’m friends with that have been targeted, lost their jobs,” Franklin says." @natalieymoore.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social r hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?
Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.
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The Leadership Conference @civilrightsorg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In the words of Sterling K. Brown: "They can't erase us because there is no country without us." 📽️:NAACP
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.
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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
US vetoes most Ethiopian athletes for the World Crosscountry Championships in Florida by denying their visas. Ethiopia will be unable to record a team result in either the U20 men’s or U20 women’s races, ending its 44-year medal streak. I’m sure the Olympics and World Cup are going to be fine. 😡
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U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships - Canadian Running Magazine
According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/01/2026
"The GOP now fuses myths of white male victimhood with censorship that erases decades of academic scholarship detailing how Black Americans—not white men—face systemic discrimination in America." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...
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Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/01/2026
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This piece on Cassandras and anti-alarmists by @polphilpod.bsky.social is well done, and I bet some Bluesky users will see themselves in.
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The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/12/2025
I've said it before, I'll say it again--these sons of bitches on the Court piss me off w this 'presume the legislature acted in good faith and wasn't being racist' thing why on Earth would I presume that?! what on Earth does it take to overcome that presumption?! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...
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How the Supreme Court Built a Jurisprudence of White Fragility
The Supreme Court's jurisprudence of white fragility is far more concerned with allegations of racism than racism itself.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The period known as Redemption is little known to most Americans — I’d argue intentionally — but it’s the period after the fall of Reconstruction where Black people are stripped of their rights, democracy falls in the South and the system of racial apartheid is entrenched.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"The Court’s order reimposing Texas’s racial gerrymander is best explained not by legal principle, but partisan preference and political power. The Republican justices ruled as they did because they want to help their allies." The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.
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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
May I ask for 50 reposts? New York Magazine is a big deal! Thank you Bluesky!
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/11/2025
One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 31/10/2025
If your immediate response is “Whatever - my insurance comes through my employer,” know that when these healthy folk drop out, the rates go up for employer-based care, too.
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kimpagenev.bsky.social @kimpagenev.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights
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Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social
View from the sky of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for the No Kings protest
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Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Watch Live: #NoKings Chicago in Grant Park www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-king...
Thousands of people gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for No Kings
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/10/2025
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
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White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 05/10/2025
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This week, I talk to @dreanyc123.bsky.social about the role of criminalization in authoritarianism and fascism—and why we need more outlaws, and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.
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The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism
“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 02/09/2025
Listen to this podcast with Bryan Stevenson on the moves the U.S. is making to censor the Smithsonian and institutions like it that are trying to tell the truth about the history of America.
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Trump, the Smithsonian, and the battle over U.S. history | CBC Radio
From the Smithsonian to the classroom, President Trump is targeting cultural and educational institutions to promote a ‘patriotic’ version of history. We speak to a leading civil rights figure and historian about why that matters for the present.
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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#OTD in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified. White women gained the constitutional right to vote, but women of color wouldn’t be able to exercise the same right until the passage of the VRA in 1965.
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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10/07/2025
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The US is becoming to akin to apartheid-era South Africa, where racialized groups needed a "passbook" to travel from one part of the country to the other. Who brings a passsport with them when they are traveling domestically?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I will never be able to get over "The High Court didn't use nationwide injunctions to enforce the law against their [checks notes] KING, so we cannot use them today." These people are such unserious chucklefucks who also happen to be deadly.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
An issue like homelessness is where the new, "empathy is bad" GOP talking point becomes especially salient. Rather than seeing the problem as one of housing unaffordability and a lack of treatment programs for addiction and mental health issues, conservatives just see homelessness as "a bad choice."
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 21/06/2025
Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.
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Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/06/2025
Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
extremely grim question. I think my preliminary short answer is yes my medium answer is, they didn't just kill the Equal Protection Clause, they killed it and buried it in Pet Sematary so it came back all wrong and twisted, fighting against everything it is supposed to fight for
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/06/2025
dustin on Twitter: “look at the resources they're willing to commit to terrorize people but not feed or house people”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New, from me: The Trump administration is already making it easier for partisan political appointees to fire career civil servants. A new policy will also allow them to politicize who is hired into the civil service. The spoils system returns! 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...
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The Politicization of Federal Hiring
A new Trump policy undermines the goal of a nonpartisan public service
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 30/05/2025
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NEW: Reagan appointed federal judge William Young takes a torch to Trump's anti-DEI crusade. "Does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity and exclusion?” More from @kyledcheney and me in West Wing Playbook, on newsstands now www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Most of my friends think I'm wasting my time and, I probably am. But I had to try. Here is an open letter, and an honest plea, to Clarence Thomas, in hopes that he might do the right thing this decision season. He hates me as much as I hate him. But I had to try.
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An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas
As the Trump administration tries to remake society along apartheid lines, your vote to stop the assault, however unlikely, is absolutely essential.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2025
me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical the trump administration:
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