Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Virginia: early voting for the redistricting amendment is happening now through April 18. Protect your voting power and help level the playing field ahead of the midterm elections by voting YES today or on Election Day, April 21. 173104523977
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Happy b’day, “Give Me the Night” — the iconic LP released by George Benson 45 yrs ago today “After a month in the studio,” he said, “I’d packed my bags when Quincy [Jones] called & said they had one more song for me. I wanted to go home but he insisted: “Man, it’s a good song. It won’t take long.” 1643857647
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025People should scream bloody murder about RFK blocking vaccines for kids. I mean it. Mothers and fathers should get hysterical. I'd rarely advise this as a strategy. But, I think it's appropriate for this. What could be more clear and stark? It's not hard to explain to reporters. 11533362
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025KESSLER: “Why I left the Washington Post… like being on the Titanic, drifting aimlessly as it sank with not enough lifeboats…” An editor asked him: “How do we appeal more to Fox News viewers”? 🤔 The fact-checker’s reply: “We have to tell the truth.” glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-i-left... 46894269
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialHooray for Paddy Pumpkinhead!!! @paddydoublems.bsky.social · 09/08/2025If you haven't already, get a PBS Passport membership. It's only $5 a month and you will be helping out your local PBS station. Tell your friends as well!!! 13714
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 08/08/2025REMINDER: You can disable location services for Instagram and other social media apps on your phone in your phone's settings.washingtonpost.comColumn | Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every moveA guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it. 22454210
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialShay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025300,000 Black women have left the labor market in a three month period this year, and it's estimated that the unemployment rate for Black women is as high as ten percent but none of this is getting much traction. So, I wrote about it on my blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/f...blackgirlinmaine.comFrom “Support Black women” to crickets | Shay Stewart-BouleyFor the better part of a decade, it was common to see hashtags and think-pieces admonishing people to support Black women and to trust Black women, but in the last few years, as the post George Floyd ... 9651421
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents. 905149664965
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialTengen’s 4th Wife 🦋 @asgardianqueen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Not Jason Lee stealing city funds chile… 012
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialJosh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Officials said Sergeant Buck William Aldridge, 42, is accused of using excessive force on arrestees on four separate occasions. The indictment also alleges Aldridge prepared multiple misleading reports to justify his use of force. www.news4jax.com/news/local/2...news4jax.comGeorgia deputy who shot, killed exonerated Florida man now faces federal charges for repeated use of excessive forceA Camden County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, who shot and killed a 53-year-old man during a traffic stop in 2023, has been indicted on federal civil rights violations, according to the United States Att... 2358
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 07/08/2025The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.n.prFederal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful'The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward. 12777202
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialAtlantaDon💙🏳️🌈💙🏳️🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺 600352819968
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialNeil-1936.bsky.social @neil-1936.bsky.social · 06/08/2025When Kennedy cancels research on vaccine development, and established weather forecasting satellites are closed down for no good reason, it can only be concluded that this administration is deliberately trying to indirectly kill Americans. Americans actually voted for this stupidity? Ridiculous! 45455143
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025This is too much. Too much. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...nytimes.comKennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts 2433197851
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 06/08/2025If you're loving our politics coverage and want more (thank you!), sign up for our Teen Vogue Take newsletter and get the latest news right to your inbox ⤵️teenvogue.comSign up to the Teen Vogue Take newsletterEverything you should know about news and politics, straight to your inbox. 6570189
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Home Depot and Lowe's share data from hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras with law enforcement404media.coHome Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With CopsHome improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records. 51544409
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/08/2025in retrospect i guess it was inevitable there would be attempts to frame any pushback against tech as the same "annoying hippie lib busybody" stereotype the left has been getting hit with for decades 722846531
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 06/08/202560 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination in elections. My latest @npr.org story is about the new threats facing the law’s remaining protections for minority votersnpr.org60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threatsSixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters. 8346131
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical. 231450483
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialRebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away. 34392864477
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialflipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Just to be clear, mRNA vaccines may cure pancreatic cancer. It is an amazing advancement in medicine. letswinpc.org/research/mrn...letswinpc.orgmRNA Vaccine Shows Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient GroupDr. Vinod Balachandran reports notable antitumor response in about half to the patients in his mRNA vaccine clinical trial. 20232109
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialName Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 05/08/2025“tell her it is the world that must change instead of demanding that she must change herself.” -Nikita Gill #quotes #poetry #poem #poems #booksky #whatimreading #nikitagill 0319
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.motherjones.comSugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians“I like to call it 'structured' racism.” 421835803
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Senator Mike Gianaris (@sengianaris.bsky.social) and I worked together to deliver for our public transit system, including historic new funding for better service and a groundbreaking fare free bus pilot. That's why I didn't mind lending him our video team to deliver this important message: 443645682
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.gothamist.com11 more NYC libraries will soon open on SundaysA $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide. 276231314093
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/08/2025 15373801391
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/08/2025Customized pricing – where each customer receives a different price for the same product – is a holy grail for businesses because it boosts profits. With customized pricing, free-spending people pay more while the price-sensitive pay less. (via @us.theconversation.com)buff.lyPersonalized pricing has spread across many industries. Here's how consumers can avoid itAs AI powers individualized pricing across industries, businesses are increasingly charging based on what they think you can pay. 2119285
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/08/2025if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation) 285121221744
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules 270130243828
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/08/2025The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgYou Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your NameEFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political retaliation or mass surveillance. Going to a drag 4247107
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialSenator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 02/08/2025From the mountains of Western Maryland to Baltimore to the Eastern Shore, Maryland relies on public broadcasting. Let’s call it for what it is: Republicans didn’t like the truth being reported, so they silenced those who speak it. 1419780
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/08/2025The girls are making it work! 0354
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialVerite News @veritenews.org · 01/08/2025This aspiring Louisiana pilot can’t fly with sickle cell disease. So he’s editing his genes. Daniel Cressy will be the first patient in Louisiana to complete the gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease.veritenews.orgThis aspiring Louisiana pilot can’t fly with sickle cell disease. So he’s editing his genes.Daniel Cressy will be the first patient in Louisiana to complete the gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease. 1238
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 01/08/2025The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports NPR and PBS, announced Friday that it will be shutting down. From @statesnewsroom.comcoloradonewsline.comCorporation for Public Broadcasting to close its doors after loss of funding | Colorado NewslineThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will be shutting down after an appropriations bill omitted funding for it. 41012
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/08/2025The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress.buff.lyCPB says it is shutting down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by TrumpThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled… 51259143
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialKelly Sutton (aka IglooChik)🐧 @igloochik.bsky.social · 01/08/2025This doesn't surprise me at all.theguardian.comFar-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warnsParents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their children 052
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 01/08/2025New: Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that. By @emilyschwing.bsky.socialpropublica.orgAlaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-th... 31944491690
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialLegal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 01/08/2025ICYMI: Don’t just take our word for it – John Oliver recently advocated for the removal of gang databases on @lastweektonight.com, using our lawsuit as a reference. Gang databases don’t protect our communities – they harm them through racial profiling and wrongful discrimination! 05015
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding: 25534041837
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew 9313081910095
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/07/2025It's time to grab the popcorn, folks 🍿comicsands.comOklahoma Education Chief Accused Of Airing Porn During Meeting Now Claims GOP Governor Set Him UpTime to grab the popcorn 🍿 81989202132
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialCapital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025New Orleanians are more vulnerable to “deaths of despair” than 99% of the U.S., as Black residents navigate hopelessness after Hurricane Katrina. capitalbnews.org/hurricane-ka...capitalbnews.org20 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Residents Are Most Vulnerable to 'Die of Despair'Today, Louisiana residents are the nation's most vulnerable to 'deaths of despair' as Black New Orleanians navigate hopelessness after Hurricane Katrina. 820694
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialAG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 01/08/2025🚗 If you believe you're eligible for restitution but don't receive any outreach, contact Rust Consulting at www.UberLyftMASSAGOSettlement.com or (888) 562-1052 🚗 Eligible drivers do not need to file a claim, hire an attorney or take any additional action apart from updating their contact infouberlyftmassagosettlement.comHomeWelcome to the class action settlement. This site may include Frequently Asked Questions, Claim Form, Notice, Settlement Agreement, Complaint, Important Dates and Other Documents in regards to the settlement. 111
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialAG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I'm excited to announce next steps for drivers in our landmark settlement with Uber and Lyft. Historic new benefits have already begun going into effect, and now, 70% of drivers who drove between July 2020-2024 will be receiving a restitution check. Look out for contact from Rust Consulting.youtube.comUpdates to the Uber/Lyft SettlementYouTube video by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell 1289
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialSEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 16/07/2025Target’s gone quiet. On the shelves and in the streets. Once a cultural staple, now hiding the logo at Essence Fest and losing its spark with shoppers. The brand that once stood out is now fading into the background and people are noticing. 1193
Reposted by @maskon28.bsky.socialNaima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Essence burning their legacy down before our eyes in real time is a reminder that Black ownership isn't automatically the best answer. Somebody who doesn't come from publishing bought a legacy publication... for the festival attached to it. 419546