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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Virginia: 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.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Happy 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.”
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
People 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.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
KESSLER: “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...
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Hooray for Paddy Pumpkinhead!!! @paddydoublems.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
If 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!!!
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PBS @pbs.org · 07/08/2025
An update from us here at PBS 💙
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/08/2025
REMINDER: You can disable location services for Instagram and other social media apps on your phone in your phone's settings.
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Column | Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move
A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
300,000 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...
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From “Support Black women” to crickets | Shay Stewart-Bouley
For 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 ...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.
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Tengen’s 4th Wife 🦋 @asgardianqueen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Not Jason Lee stealing city funds chile…
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Officials 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...
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Georgia deputy who shot, killed exonerated Florida man now faces federal charges for repeated use of excessive force
A 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...
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NPR @npr.org · 07/08/2025
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.
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Federal 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.
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AtlantaDon💙🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺
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Neil-1936.bsky.social @neil-1936.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
When 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!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is too much. Too much. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 06/08/2025
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Home Depot and Lowe's share data from hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras with law enforcement
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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/08/2025
in 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
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
60 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 voters
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60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
Sixty 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.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I 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.
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Just to be clear, mRNA vaccines may cure pancreatic cancer. It is an amazing advancement in medicine. letswinpc.org/research/mrn...
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mRNA Vaccine Shows Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group
Dr. Vinod Balachandran reports notable antitumor response in about half to the patients in his mRNA vaccine clinical trial.
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Name 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
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Today 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.
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Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians
“I like to call it 'structured' racism.”
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Senator 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:
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Eleven 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.
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11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/08/2025
Customized 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)
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Personalized pricing has spread across many industries. Here's how consumers can avoid it
As AI powers individualized pricing across industries, businesses are increasingly charging based on what they think you can pay.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/08/2025
if 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)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/08/2025
The 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...
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You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name
EFF 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
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 02/08/2025
From 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.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/08/2025
The girls are making it work!
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 01/08/2025
This 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.
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This 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.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 01/08/2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports NPR and PBS, announced Friday that it will be shutting down. From @statesnewsroom.com
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close its doors after loss of funding | Colorado Newsline
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will be shutting down after an appropriations bill omitted funding for it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/08/2025
The 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.
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CPB says it is shutting down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump
The 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…
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Kelly Sutton (aka IglooChik)🐧 @igloochik.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This doesn't surprise me at all.
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Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns
Parents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their children
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/08/2025
New: 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.social‬
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Alaska 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...
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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
ICYMI: 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!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.

For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Virginia 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
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's time to grab the popcorn, folks 🍿
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Oklahoma Education Chief Accused Of Airing Porn During Meeting Now Claims GOP Governor Set Him Up
Time to grab the popcorn 🍿
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New 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...
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20 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.
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AG 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 info
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Welcome 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.
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I'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.
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Updates to the Uber/Lyft Settlement
YouTube video by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 16/07/2025
Target’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.
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Essence 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.
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