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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A group of authors, editors, illustrators, and agents have responded to the crisis in Minneapolis by organizing an auction to raise money for organizations in MN. The auction starts today! Items include signed books, original art, and more. #booksky #minnesota www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

User @backintimeag:
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/01/2026

People never really understand how surreal being black is

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This kicks off on Wednesday. So many amazing opportunities here, with plans to do some good. Let’s get to work. 💪🏽 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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Publishing for Minnesota

Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/01/2026

TikTok is under right wing billionaire control now. Plan your exit strategy.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

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Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026

Minneapolis.

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Laila Sabreen @lailasabreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights. I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique. Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨ www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

An orange-pink flier that reads “I’ve donated to the we the people summer fundraiser” + “August 18th through 27th to benefit #Kidlit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights”

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Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

WELCOME VIRGO SEASON! ECLIPSES ARE NIGH! GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER! ORGANIZE! GLOBAL STRIKE EVERY THURSDAY! BOYCOTT! NON COMPLIANCE AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! IT’S NOT COMPLICATED! NO TO APARTHEID! FREE PALESTINE! LET AID IN! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! END THE OCCUPATION! DO SOMETHING W YOUR LIFE AND BE OF SERVICE!

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

✨Please share and bookmark!✨ In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... + A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025

lol and 2020 may have helped prominent Black authors finally get their due, but overall, not much shifted. Pre-orders are a way to signal demand for a book. When you pre-order a book, you're telling the publisher "print more copies". #blacksky

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Publishing Pledged to Diversify. Change Has Been Slow. (Published 2024)

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025

lol let me tell you something about the publishing industry: It's very white. Like VEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRY white.

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Opinion | Just How White Is the Book Industry? (Published 2020)

New data shows the extent of the race problem in the publishing world.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025

lol pre-ordering Black authored books ensures that more Black authors get published and get better deals. In this essay, I will-

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 31/07/2025

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

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Aaron H. Aceves @aaronhaceves.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Readers, writers today is the last day to bid on some really cool items from the Lit for Queer Liberation auction! All proceeds go to the Queer Liberation Network, a charity my friend Garrett founded and I serve on the board of www.32auctions.com/LitforQueerL...

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NPR @npr.org · 12/07/2025

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

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Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Let’s try this again with a working link: There are moments where you don’t know what to say. You just want to scream. If you need somewhere positive to put some energy on, I’m trying to make this the biggest fundraiser! 75/1000 item goal met! Donate an item or three here: bit.ly/WeThePeopleF...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

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Laila Sabreen @lailasabreen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Happy Juneteenth to Black Texans and their descendants! I’m glad I was able to shoutout some of our history in my YA novel, YOU TRULY ASSUMED!✨ Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta

Cover of YOU TRULY ASSUMED by Laila Sabreen. Features three Black Muslim teens in front of a tangerine orange background and surrounded by olive branches that have both olives and white flowers on them. The blurb from Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars, reads: “Powerful…a must-read for everyone.”

A page from YOU TRULY ASSUMED that touches on Juneteenth. The specific paragraph in which Juneteenth is mentioned reads: “Nana’s parents bought the house after they moved to Inglethorne from Texas during the Second Great Migration, and the house has been in the family ever since. The house smells like fresh biscuits, the earthy incense that Nana always burns, and a lot of love. Music plays from the TV, which is sent to a Chanel that plays R&B songs that they call oldies but goodies.”

The main character, Farah, reflects on Juneteenth in the pharaoh that reads: “Even though I haven’t been to Texas since I was little, Nana always cooks a big dinner every Juneteenth to celebrate. It’s a time to reconnect with my roots and also eat really good fried fish, mac and cheese, and 7Up cake. I can’t remember a time when I’ve missed Juneteenth dinner.”

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Laila Sabreen @lailasabreen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Happy Juneteenth to Black Texans and their descendants! I’m glad I was able to shoutout some of our history in my YA novel, YOU TRULY ASSUMED!✨ Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Today is a great day to watch this drama if you haven’t already. “A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.”

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jasmine👻 @jazzybean.blacksky.app · 19/06/2025

HAPPY JUNETEENTH MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ❤️🖤💚

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Before we begin, some housekeeping: Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...

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National Bail Fund Network — Community Justice Exchange

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Not in LA? Can't safely protest? 👇

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