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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The way people react to this foundation-shaking has contributed to the difficulty Colonial Williamsburg has had in hiring and retaining Black interpreters. “You can ask any of the Black interpreters here—every week, somebody is going to remind you of who you are,” she told me. Not long ago, Canaday was taunted by a group of teenage boys wearing MAGA hats. In what seemed like an attempt to goad her, they asked her how she felt about the hats. “It’s on your head; it’s not on mine,” she responded. When they realized they could not provoke her, the boys lost interest and moved on.

For Canaday, the provocations and insults she’s heard from visitors are reminiscent of her experiences being called the N-word while she was growing up in Williamsburg. Her mother would try to comfort her by telling her that eventually these people would all die off and things would get better. But Canaday doesn’t see it that way. “People die, but the idea doesn’t,” she said.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 10/06/2026

@henrich.senate.gov lays it plain: Bessent is wrong—and he thinks the American people will just buy it. Families are paying hundreds more at the pump and the grocery store while we get lies instead of real solutions. We deserve better!

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

no one should respect these clowns, Pelley justified

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

👇🏽#Outlander fans take a look!

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Congressman John Lewis: "This is not just the struggle for one day, for one week, for one year. This is the struggle of a lifetime, of many lifetimes. Each one of us in every generation must do our part." #momsky #sheshed#voterizer

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/05/2026

There are some hard truths here, and every Democrat needs to watch this segment. African Americans are being targeted because we are the most consistent Democratic voting bloc. The GOP knows this. Every Democrat must start speaking with one voice about court reform. 🧵

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We have something to say about the Faith storyline and more. Check it out #Outlandet

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool

is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar

is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Good news! We’re ending this week with a day of discussion & collaboration about how we “navigate this nadir” & use the 14th Amendment as a guide for re-founding our country. Again. All day Friday at @howardlawschool.bsky.social. Learn more here: 14thamendmentctr.org/news/second-...

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

She went to a Harlem mosque in 1962 to invite Malcolm X to her LI high school. He agreed There is no documentation for this session other than a photo, and no recording was made. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

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Harborfields High School alum recalls Malcom X's 1962 visit

Malcom X arrived at Harborfields High School on a cold January day in 1962. There is little documentation for this session.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, which we've been paying for about a year now. This is good news for the American people - and it's the latest proof that this president, no matter what he says, can be stopped.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

genuinely stunning image

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The American Academy of Pediatrics & several other medical groups can move forward w/ a lawsuit challenging RFKjr's vaccine policies. A federal judge rejected arguments from Trump regime lawyers who say the medical organizations can't show the policies cause harm www.msn.com/en-us/health...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This message hits hard.

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.
In my
view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My retirement party from Newsday with Good friends and colleagues.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/12/2025

NEW: GOP lawyer Eric Neff, a new DOJ attorney helping to push for state voter records, previously represented a top conspiracy theorist involved in Trump's 2020 election subversion — a tie underscoring the alarming shift in the DOJ from defending to attacking voting rights.

democracydocket.com

DOJ’s New Voting Lawyer Has Web of Ties to Election-Conspiracy Theorists

Read more here.

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My retirement dinner either Newsday and former Newsday colleagues.

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’ve retired from Newsday after 32years!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Me with Newsday editor in chief Rochell Bishop Sleets at my retirement send off. 32 years at Newsday comes to a close tomorrow.

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Olivia @newsollie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It’s one more day until I retire from Newsday after 32 years. They gave me a wonderful send off this afternoon. It’s been 42 years in journalism overall. Now I’ll be a different kind of laborer in the vineyard!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.

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