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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 22/09/2026

OH. AND ANOTHER THANG: Barbara Chase-Riboud and Annette Gordon Reed BEEN had Jefferson's number. Saw the DNA heds and I honestly shrugged because congratulations, Black women were telling the truth the whole time????

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Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Epic Vision

With a monumental new exhibition in Paris, the influential artist looks back on a creative life spent thinking big

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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New, fun, one-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Emancipation Proclamation Narrated by Thavolia Glymph #WeAreAmerica250 #Lincoln #Slavery #WholeSoulIsInIt youtu.be/AwXEUgQnBYo?...

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Emancipation Proclamation, Narrated by Thavolia Glymph

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Over the ‘strongest possible’ objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.” www.propublica.org/article/doj-...

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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections

A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...

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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026

Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.

Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s Lake Ontario.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.

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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ashley Moody redirected $10 million in taxpayer funds meant for sick children for her own gain. She must resign.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

USS LINCOLN SAILOR: “Heartbreaking… I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12-hour days knowing my dad is somewhere possibly being treated like a criminal.” Joshua Aviles’ father was grabbed by ICE. DHS did not dispute he has no criminal record. (From CBS)

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

♥️

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton on trans rights. God I loved her.

When looking at the issue of anti-trans legislation, Parton said that “I try to get into the human element of it.” Pointing out that she has people in her life who identify as queer and trans, the 77-year-old star said it was important to hear what they’re saying.

“I know and love them all, and I do not judge. And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are,” she said. “I know how important this is to them. That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."

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Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton spent 80 years proving you could have big hair, a bigger heart, a brilliant mind and absolutely no patience for anyone who underestimated you. She gave us unforgettable songs, free books for millions of children, and enough wit, rhinestones and kindness to light up Tennessee.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When I see someone characterize cis men disrupting and harassing women’s basketball players as “protecting” women’s sports, I think about how last year at a women’s soccer game some young men behind me paid for tickets just to heckle the women on the field. It’s all blatantly misogynistic.

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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/08/2026

Every young person deserves a civics education, and our animated series Know Your Rights University makes the lessons fun. 🎓🗽 Get to know the KYR-U crew and our interactive learning resources this back-to-school season.

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ACLU's Know Your Rights University! | American Civil Liberties Union

Know Your Rights University (KYR-U) is an animated series that teaches kids lessons about civics, constitutional rights, and free expression! KYR-U makes learning fun, and comes at a time when being a...

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When the order came to abandon ship, Doris Miller didn't. He stayed and pulled men out of burning water. He was 24 when he was killed. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pretty strong WTF here. I noted the sudden retirement of the publisher in my newsletter yesterday -- now, to FIRE someone who is already leaving, PLUS the editor, is quite a thing

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death

Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/08/2026

Not that TAH will be dislodged from his lucrative lane of rage-baiting boomers (watch for the book-length version coming soon) but it is good to have this on the record by Andrew Baker analyzing the events at Bates with integrity and political perspective. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

“Harper is appalled by one of the sample courses…: “Mathematics for Social Justice.” It was pitched by a tenured mathematics professor .. who later won a major national award for teaching excellence. She was better positioned …to assess the feasibility and curricular value of the class”👇🏽

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Honestly this is the right way to look at things

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tom is absolutely right about this.

Tom Nichols: I think [Donald Trump] genuinely resents people with honor and discipline, in part because they baffle him but also trigger some sort of internal shame

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One of Sagal’s Laws of Human Behavior: the difficulty of admitting an error rises proportionately with the severity of that error.

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NPR @npr.org · 12/08/2026

Dr. Raj Panjabi founded Last Mile Health to bring healthcare to people living in remote areas. The group is the 2026 recipient of the Conrad H. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. n.pr/4i2Q4Eu

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His wedding guests gave $6k to fund a health startup. Now it's won a $3 million prize

Dr. Raj Panjabi founded Last Mile Health to bring healthcare to people living in remote areas. The group is the 2026 recipient of the Conrad H. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Listen. I recall the dentist who told me he didn’t like to do extractions on Black people because — and I remember this well — Black people’s bones are too strong because we are closer to apes.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.

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Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics

Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Whitney M Young Jr is often overlooked when we're talking big names of the Civil Rights Movement. He was head of the National Urban League and the ultimate "change from the inside" man. The other side to the younger militant Black activists. When they were in the streets, he was in the boardrooms

A cover of Time Magazine with Whitney Young Jr, the head of the National Urban League gracing the front

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 22/07/2026

You want me to be afraid of Zohran Mamdani and his hot weird wife? I refuse

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My life feels incredibly easy by comparison to this cancer survivor sixtysomething who weighs as much as a 10-year-old and is single-handedly feeding three teen boys. Like, how

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

😕 says it all, really (From @justinjpearson.bsky.social )

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 19/07/2026

A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/07/2026

Dems chasing a mythical Great White Hope and refusing to take the South seriously even when Black women like Stacey Abrams delivered proof of concept and because IT IS THE RIGHT AND JUST THING TO DO are two sides of the same problem www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

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Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they’ve been let down by nearly all corners of the party: would be-presidential hopefuls who have flocked to early and swing states but don’t bring their megaphones elsewhere; congressional leadership focused on majority-making battlegrounds while safe Black seats are drawn out; and years of chronic underfunding that has allowed local party apparatus to wither away.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/07/2026

The looming deportation of Haitian immigrants in Springfield will hurt them, the people they work for and who rely on them, and the city itself. @jimswift.bsky.social writes from Springfield, plus @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on the ICE shooting cover-up in today's Morning Shots:

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A Season of Death and Fear

From nervous Haitians in Ohio to a grieving family in Texas, the real-world effects of Trump’s assault on immigrants.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission

The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/07/2026

In a major attack on elections, President Trump fired all remaining commissioners on a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. The dismissals leave the agency without leadership months before the midterm elections.

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