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Musician, conductor, retired professor, budding jazz pianist, Knubian, Warrior Woman

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LynneM @lynnem5.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm attending Higher Heights's event, “2025 Higher Heights Summer Training Series” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/higherheight...
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Wow. Very interesting NYer cover choice — the censored painting that caused Sherald to pull her show from the Smithsonian www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 22/07/2025
A deaf man swept up in an L.A. ICE raid couldn’t speak, couldn’t hear — and couldn’t ask for help. His family had no idea where he was. This is how it happened
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Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas
Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....
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LynneM @lynnem5.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
twitter.com/latimerai/st... Latimer, Black AI, teams with Grammarly @karenhunter.bsky.social @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social @africanacarr.bsky.social
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latimer.ai on X: "Exited to partner w/ @Grammarly: https://t.co/MYPHBUeakV https://t.co/RAnAJb1rAs" / X
Exited to partner w/ @Grammarly: https://t.co/MYPHBUeakV https://t.co/RAnAJb1rAs
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LynneM @lynnem5.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I'm attending Higher Heights's event, “Sunday Brunch with Higher Heights” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/higherheight...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/07/2025
We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.
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Steve Nelson @beachdabber.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it? But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/06/2025
The Supreme Court unanimously revived a lawsuit from a pair of Atlanta residents seeking to hold the federal government accountable after FBI agents mistakenly battered down their front door and held them at gunpoint during a predawn raid of the wrong house.
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Supreme Court revives lawsuit over FBI raid of the wrong house
Lower courts had dismissed the case brought by Hilliard Toi Cliatt and Curtrina Martin, whose home in Atlanta was wrongly raided by the FBI.
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Ducksoup @goose55.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 04/06/2025
To preserve our oceans, the waterways and the vibrant ecosystems they support, we need NOAA. We must defend government scientists and researchers against the Trump Administration's full-blown assault on science, government and environmental laws.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
You can either cut out the billionaire tax cuts or gut Social Security and Medicare but you have to do one or the other to get a deficit neutral bill. Why isn’t MAGA demanding the GOP prioritize their new working class base over their real masters, the billionaires??
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Informed Citizens @johnrwilder.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Yikes
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 04/06/2025
Everybody in DR Horton needs to be in fucking JAIL.
Complaints mount through the nation against D.R.
Horton: 'House from hell'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The CBO estimates that Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is stuffed with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, will explode the deficit by $2.4T and kick 10.9M people off their health insurance. This has always been the GOP strategy: socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
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Blasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts" Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fresh words ✨ allyfromnola.medium.com/job-corps-he...
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Job Corps Helped Black Youth. Now It’s On the Chopping Block
An essay examining the racial impact of this abrupt policy shift
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/06/2025
Yikes! 🤢 Trump’s Bedminster golf club recently got slapped with 18 health violations and the lowest health grade in the entire county — scoring a 32 out of 100. Critical food safety risks, no soap at sinks, a household microwave in the kitchen, and more. 🔗 www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Department of Homeland Security is NOT making our country safer. They're ignoring immigration laws. They're handcuffing moms, zip tying children and disappearing them without hearings or due process. They're weaponizing DHS to purge people from the population. They're hiding their faces.⬇️
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 04/06/2025
“One Big Beautiful Bill”? Try one big, bold-faced lie. They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise. $2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what? Tax cuts for the rich.
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https://abcnews.link/fpgSJAo
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
More information on this despicable case here: thehill.com/homenews/sta...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Perfect.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 03/06/2025
I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Officially Announces Candidacy for Ranking Member of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett officially announced that she is running to serve as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler is demanding a congressional investigation after an aide at his Manhattan office was handcuffed and detained by Department of Homeland Security officers in an outrageous incident last week.
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Democratic Congress member demands investigation after staffer handcuffed by DHS
The incident, which occurred on May 28, began after the staffer saw federal agents detaining migrants outside a courtroom.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Dispatch from 26 Federal plaza where plain clothes federal agents detained at least 7 people leaving immigration court, plus a priest attempting to observe the arrests. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...
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Migrants, and a Pastor, Arrested Inside Manhattan Immigration Courthouse
Dozens of masked agents in plainclothes searched for targets exiting the elevators.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The era of tiptoeing is over. The Republicans have destroyed our economy in record time. I’m going to Congress to be ruthless so we can clean up the mess they’ve made. And when we win, we aren’t just going back to the status quo. It’s time for America to be BETTER than ever!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
NPR just sued Trump over his unconstitutional executive order gutting federal funding for public media. Kudos to them for standing up for the First Amendment. It reminds me of when Mr. Rogers stood up to Nixon's attempts to gut public broadcasting 56 years ago.
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Must Watch: Mr. Rogers Testifies Before Congress (1969)
Trump is urging GOP lawmakers to defund PBS "immediately". He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public bro
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/05/2025
In an effort to attract more conservative faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity, Rose Horowitch writes.
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The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun
In an effort to attract more right-leaning faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"According to the Texas Department of Health Services, the agency received exemption requests for nearly 153,000 students in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, up from 136,000 the previous year and nearly double the 77,000 requested in 2019."
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Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
At the Commencement for students graduating from University of Maryland School of Law I spent some time talking with law graduates about the significance of the oath they will take when they are admitted to the bar, and its importance to upholding the rule of law. Especially now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/05/2025
Ed Martin’s nomination for D.C. U.S. Attorney was too extreme for GOP senators, but he will now hold multiple roles at the DOJ that enable him to target Trump's political enemies, spread disinformation and undermine future elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Ed Martin Was Too Extreme for GOP Senators. Now He’s Targeting Trump’s Enemies at the DOJ
Read more here.
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LynneM @lynnem5.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/esglaude...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This hits hard.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 25/05/2025
George Floyd should be alive today. He should be raising his daughter, living his life. 5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags. His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.” Let’s stop failing her, and him. Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/05/2025
(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you.

The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right."

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 26/05/2025
If we talked about AI as the plagiarism machine that it is I think people would be less willing to fall for the grift
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
did you know in Germany, the UK, Canada etc. it costs $0 for an MRI? did you know that in the US even WITH insurance, depending on your plan, an MRI can still cost you up to $1500?
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