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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Gordon Parks photo of Malcolm X with a camera taking a photo

a man wearing a suit stands on a bench, leaning back to take a picture with a camera. a woman is seated on the bench behind him as 2 young biys stand between them. a man in a suit, wearing a hat, and holding a briefcase stands in the foreground.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl in flight with a green and blue background.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 12h

Rhiannon Giddens Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (Official Video) #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfm...

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Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (Official Video)

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 21h

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 13h

Woohoo! How long 'til it's done?

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 13h

I'm confused. You mean that picture on your profile isn't you?

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you. That touches on so much of the horrible things that colonizers did to the people who were here before. That picture at the end of the three boys was heartbreaking.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

#ResistanceRoots Helen Hunt Jackson was born on this day in 1830 in Amherst, Mass. At age 49, she became a Native American advocate after hearing Ponca Chief Standing Bear speak about his tribe’s forcible removal from their ancestral lands. She spent the rest of her life fighting for justice. /1

Helen Hunt Jackson, ca. 1875-1884 (date varies significantly across sources). Before she walked into the lecture hall where Ponca Chief Standing Bear spoke, Jackson had no interest in humanitarian causes or political activism. Hearing his firsthand account of the government’s brutal forced relocation of his people transformed her from an apolitical writer into a lifelong reformer. Within days, she began leveraging her literary network to circulate petitions and raise money to help the Ponca tribe fight for their land. She wrote scathing letters to the editors of prominent newspapers in which she attacked federal officials. This explosive reaction altered the course of her life’s path toward fighting for Native American rights. Shrugging off her previous disdain for politics, she wrote to a friend: “I have become what I have said a thousand times was the most odious thing in the world — a woman with a cause.” Photo credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe without the 25 minute useless video, it would have been tolerable. Thanks for the recap!

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 17h

HAHAHA. Love that cap. SUCK HARDER CHARMAINE!

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lsst @mugginstoo.bsky.social · 17h

Thursday October 15 2026. Recap of QRTRV World News Daily. Romana Didulo's #cult members streamed this at 7pm EDT today. #GrifterQueen #CULT #ParasiticScammer

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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 18h

At least four people, including three children, have been shot and killed in a mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. While details are still emerging, one thing remains clear: This country is failing its children.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 22h

Late evening in Kyiv. Darkness is dotted with pale light from windows. Power outage. A familiar voice outside assured everyone that the air raid alert was over. When did it begin? These days, the attacks seem continuous. I see no need to complain or grumble. I write. You read. I write.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 21h

Repubs tried to gerrymander themselves a new seat, but gave Vincente Gonzalez a slight hometown advantage despite more Repub voters. This race is a now tossup. To help keep this seat Blue, visit his website, where you'll find ways to donate and volunteer. vicentegonzalez.com

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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026)

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Stephanie @sfor4th.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don’t need to tell you how important the Senate is…but I do need to tell you about Charles: he kills himself researching races we can flip & those we must fund. Donate, phone bank or door knock as much as possible. It’s fun and supremely urgent! LFG 💪

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl pair at sunrise. The female is only visible from her eyes up, the male is standing guard next to the burrow.

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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A pig frog sitting in the marsh, its legs visible below the surface of the water.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A different crop of the image for a Ross Verlag postcard, c 1928-29. Of note: the photo is tagged on the card as “United Artists” but Lillian’s most recent UA film at the time was Orphans of the Storm released in 1921.

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“If I could just take you through Ukraine to Kyiv. To Odesa. To Kharkiv. You meet these people. The people. They’re us.” - Sean Penn

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A demonstrator as a blood-covered Lady Justice attends a Defend the Vote rally at the Lincoln Memorial. More in alt-text. Image credit: Aaron Schwartz, AFP/Getty.

Washington DC, US. A demonstrator dressed as a blood-covered Lady Justice attends a Defend the Vote rally at the Lincoln Memorial. A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so hastily, and tested so little, that a single scanning glitch could lead to entire batches of ballots being turned away, a whistleblower has told Congress. Image credit: Aaron Schwartz, AFP/Getty.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I see they treated him well afterward...in hiding and escaping to St. Louis->DC.I'm glad he was able to call attention to it. I'm from the state, spent 4 years in Southern Missouri in the Ozarks...never heard of this or him.I appreciate your research and especially the people in your daily stories.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 15/10/2026

Slava Ukrani 🇺🇦

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lsst @mugginstoo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Wednesday October 14 2026. Recap of QRTRV World News Daily. Romana Didulo's #cult members streamed this at 7pm EDT today. #GrifterQueen #CULT #ParasiticScammer Credit for the graphics for tonight goes to @mom2364.bsky.social

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#ResistanceRoots Owen Whitfield was born on this day in 1892 in Jonestown, Miss. He was a preacher, union organizer and civil rights activist who led the 1939 Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration, maintaining interracial solidarity by shifting the focus from race to class exploitation. /1

Press photo of Owen Whitfield during the 1939 Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration. Whitfield was a visionary who fused economic justice, labor organizing and civil rights decades before the modern Civil Rights Movement. At a time when the Jim Crow system used racial division to keep wages low and labor weak, Whitfield engineered an unbreakable, multi-racial alliance. By proving that Black and white sharecroppers shared the same economic enemy, he shattered the Southern playbook of “strikebreaking by race.” He also revolutionized the role of the Black church in social movements. Today, Whitfield is remembered not just as a labor leader, but as a brilliant strategist who weaponized the visual power of protest to turn a hidden rural crisis into an unavoidable national reckoning. He established a model for cross-racial coalition building that remains a masterclass in labor organizing.

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Christian nationalist pastors and Heritage Foundation officials are escalating calls for political mobilization ahead of the midterms, promoting election fraud claims, conspiracy theories and attacks on vulnerable communities and political opponents to advance an exclusionary vision of democracy.

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Ten Things They Said Out Loud About the Elections

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AskQuestionsFirst @askquestionsfirst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

National democrats are putting money into Oregons governor race instead of others. They don't do that if they think the candidate is going to win. I'm not a Kotek fan but Drazan, besides being a republican is bat-shit crazy. We can't split the west coast. Get off your butts and KEEP OREGON BLUE💙

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For the Grandmother of Juneteenth, Dr. Opal Lee, there was one thing she wanted for her 100th birthday: to hear her “forever First Lady,” Michelle Obama, speak. On October 7, before a sold-out audience at the Fort Worth Convention Center, she got her wish. www.essence.com/culture/dr-o...

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Dr. Opal Lee at 100: 'Freedom Is Everybody’s Business' - Essence

As the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” celebrates her centennial and the National Juneteenth Museum takes shape in Fort Worth, the lifelong activist reflects on her journey to make Juneteenth a federal ho...

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The dimwits are all drooling!

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Wednesday Caption Contest 🚁

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/10/2026

Cindy Cohn - then a young pro bono lawyer working with EFF, and later EFF’s legal director and executive director - won the case that determined code is constitutionally protected speech, allowing the modern internet. Hear Ep. 2 of our "Privacy’s Defenders" podcast: “No Privacy Without Encryption.”

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Privacy's Defenders Podcast: No Privacy Without Encryption

Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group who sued ...

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's spooky season and I've got 31 days of creepy adventures for you! For day fourteen, I'm at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Behind me is Eternal Silence. Local folklore claims that if you stare directly into hood and look into its eyes, you will immediately receive a vision of your own death.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hahahaha. I like the drooling dimwits. :)

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Aimlmcgrml🌊💙 @aimlmcgrml.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oregon Peeps…PLEASE vote for Tina Kotek to stay as our governor. We don’t need Christine Drazan, a Republican, as governor especially one who completely supports 47 and his ideologies and policies. The race has never been closer… #VoteBlue!!!

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have a large flock of Crested Guans that live in my garden. These are such funny birds. Once upon a time, they were hunted extensively and were extremely shy. But they realized that @casabentbill.bsky.social is a safe place and they just hang out, eating fruits, and playing tag. #birds

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Keep the faith, Mississippi, and vote on November 3rd!

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