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PortiaMcGonagal

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I am a lifelong politics geek. Just a grown Black girl, living in a racist world. ♍ No DMS, Crypto, FBR

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 4m
They are nothing but forced birth then fend for yourself.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 6m
So, they have to stay insular because no one in actual DC likes them; they throw over-the-top parties but complain about lawyers' bills that result from their own actions; and people are afraid to speak honestly about them. www.rawstory.com/stephen-and-...
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Insiders spill on the Millers' 'over-the-top' MAGA bashes – and reveal an ugly truth
Stephen and Katie Miller’s parties have become some of the hottest invitations in Donald Trump’s Washington, but not every guest who says yes is a fan.Vanity Fair talked to regulars at parties hosted ...
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Grumpy Auntie 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩵 🟦💙 @1technodiva.bsky.social · 16m
The figure for undergraduate women in America experiencing sexual assault is about 25%. For comparison, Cornell was around 35%. Literally, American women, our daughters, are sent to higher ed with a one in four chance of being assaulted.
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Dr. AJ is using her earned title, deal with it @resistsaj.bsky.social · 21m
And in military academies too!
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Sue @sueinsf.bsky.social · 57m
Gee, the guy that CHOSE to start a war, bombed a girls' school, kidnapped Venezuelan leader to steal oil, has threatened Cuba, Canada & Greenland, is at war against his own citizens with lawless armed thugs DIDN'T get Peace Prize??? Color me shocked! 🙄
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 52m
Why do people work triple overtime to claim that bad things are restricted to whatever they dislike? Now I'm seeing campus rapes as being a thing at "elite schools". Like they don't happen at damn near every college and university? They also don't only happen in fraternities. They happen in dorms
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Teri @1912fenway.bsky.social · 1h
This is the kind of statement you get when you put a bully who never left the schoolyard into a position of power.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1h
"And after they are hired, some faculty of color say they feel that their qualifications and scholarship are subjected to greater scrutiny, or that they do not feel valued by their colleagues and schools. theconversation.com/why-faculty-...
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Why faculty diversity at universities still lags far behind the changing demographics of college students
College faculties have become more diverse since the 1970s, but college faculty of color still often find that they feel marginalized among their peers.
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Your Mom @mountains206.bsky.social · 1h
I still can’t get over learning that white people attending lynchings would send lynching post cards in the mail, such that the USPS had to ban mailing such material.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1h
And, as was predictable...through an attorney: "Today the Nobel Committee shamed itself beyond repair and demeaned the once great Nobel Peace Prize by giving it to the UN's Navi Pillay," www.alternet.org/trump-nobel-...
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Trump amplifies furious attack on Nobel Prize winner after humiliating snub
President Donald Trump responds to his latest Nobel Peace Prize snub by amplifying an attack that accuses the Norwegian Nobel Committee of disgracing itself by selecting South African human rights law...
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sundene 🇳🇴 📎 @sundene.bsky.social · 1h
So basically, they just want us to read the Bible and the Left Behind series, or something like the Left Behind series - equally tepid and propagandized.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
OK it was already going to be a ketchup-chucking day, but now, it's going to be even more explosive. “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” she told her applauding admirers." www.rawstory.com/trump-nobel-...
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New Nobel Peace Prize winner nails Trump in initial comments: 'Clap a little bit more'
President Donald Trump was once again denied the Nobel Peace Prize, but the winner made sure to mention him in her initial remarks.And not in a flattering way, reported The Daily Beast.The Norwegian N...
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Holy Piano @orneryaf.bsky.social · 2h
Absent Intelligence
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Peter Collinson @petercollinson.bsky.social · 2h
Thrown off the Trump gravy train because she's even more nakedly rapacious and self-centered than any of them. It wasn't like she didn't arrive waving several red flags like pennants at a ball game...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h
Artificial Intelligence.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
Congrats! thegrio.com/2026/10/08/s...
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Serena Williams honored with new signature Barbie doll
Serena Williams has teamed up with Mattel for a new signature Barbie doll inspired by her championship victory at the 2005 Australian Open.
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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 2h
People forget what a disgusting, carnival atmosphere public hangings were. In 1936, thousands showed up in Owensboro, Kentucky for the last public execution of Rainey Bethea, a Black man charged with rape. We can’t allow Trump and Hegseth to take us back there. www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
The book was so hard to read; there was no way I could watch the movie. And the reality was far worse still. www.theroot.com/the-real-nic...
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Initiative Preserves the Stories of Black Boys Who Died in State Custody
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Aprile529 @aprile529.bsky.social · 2h
If she was showing pics of men's appendages to her assistant, you know she's got a ton of pics of things the Trumps did during the years she was glued to them. It's no wonder they are ignoring the Greece thing, when she spills, she is going to spill big!!! With pictures!!
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Olivia Benson: Why Don't You Take A Seat, Tell Us How We Got Here
ALT: Olivia Benson: Why Don't You Take A Seat, Tell Us How We Got Here
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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 2h
Excellent news. Trump’s planned arch is an abomination that would disrespect the solemn resting place of our fallen veteran heroes. It must be stopped.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
Beyond ridiculous.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
"As we enter the midterms, the Root honors the Black lesbian trailblazers who reshaped American politics—from Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith to Laphonza Butler." www.theroot.com/black-lesbia...
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Black Lesbian Trailblazers Who Refused to Stay in the Margins – The Root
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
Jon Ossoff didn’t just show up to debate Mike Collins. He owned the stage. Calm, confident, prepared, and in complete control. Collins, on the other hand, looked like he regretted showing up.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
In the role of "Mama" who got thrown from the Trump Jr. gravy train... Her retirement plan married someone Daddy picked. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump donor accuses Kimberly Guilfoyle of asking him to pay her $100K credit card bill: 'It was all quid pro quo'
Asked whether he thought Guilfoyle was asking for the payment in exchange for something, Deters told ABC News "absolutely."
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Cat9 @cat9.bsky.social · 3h
As a child growing up in a white trash neighborhood in the 1950s, I heard stories of public lynchings from white men drinking beer on their porch stoops and cackling at the murder of black men through public lynchings back in "the good ole days." Hegsbreath reminds me of those sick SOBs.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
"Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion." abcnews.com/US/nobel-pea...
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Nobel Peace Prize goes to Navanethem Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 was awarded Friday to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3h
"The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump’s planned monument." apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump's memorial arch faces new lawsuit from Arlington County, Virginia
The Arlington County Board in Virginia has filed a lawsuit opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump’s p...
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NPR @npr.org · 3h
If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes. n.pr/4AXBftW
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Why mailing a ballot close to Election Day may get it rejected for a late postmark
If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 08/10/2026
Is there an Intelligence Community equivalent of stolen valor?
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3h
S26 Episode 1 of #LawandOrder is pulling zero punches on AI, and making the point I agree with: It's not the systems acting as designed. It's the designers creating them without regard to the consequences. Or, the plot of Terminator II.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3h
Consistent with Trump and MAGA, the "Again" part is to return to everything we allegedly learned and were supposed to move on from. And these executions included extrajudicial lynchings that white families brought their children to, along with picnics. apnews.com/article/fort...
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Public executions in the US were once a community spectacle and then they stopped
For about nine decades, executions in the U.S. have been private affairs. The stunning Pentagon announcement Thursday that the first military execution in more than 65 years will be livestreamed could...
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3h
I know what will be worse.
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 15h
Early voting is open in Illinois! Vote, like your health care depends on it. Vote, like your Social Security depends on it. Vote, like your grocery bill depends on it. Make your plan today!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
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Which Witch R U 🏳️‍🌈 @which-witch-ru.bsky.social · 19h
EXACTLY. Primaries are where we get to be picky, but generals are where we UNITE regardless if the primary winner was our choice. We’ve lost Roe, SCOTUS, LGBTQ rights & the VRA. People are being lynched & disappeared off the streets. If you can’t check a box to right this, you aren’t “progressive.”
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16h
Primaries are over. The candidates are the candidates. We are in serious danger with President Dr. Strangelove Lame Duck. His people are going to push him to do even more evil. And if you think your purity will spare you? Please. #VOTE
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 19h
LOL he's really trying to get Black people out there fighting in the streets 3 weeks before the election. Black Americans, Somalian Americans...stay in the house and chill for the next month. Learn a new recipe. Clean your house out for the fall. Rake some leaves. Sip on some cider. Watch Thriller
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Las Vegas Aces @lvaces.bsky.social · 19h
Legendary Company 🙌 A'ja Wilson joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell and Michael Jordan as the only players from the WNBA or NBA to win five or more Most Valuable player awards.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 17h
Exactly this. I will NEVER forgive this country for re-electing that orange demon. Folks chose THIS if they did anything other than vote for KH in 2024.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h
The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country”
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h
There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 17h
This, exactly!
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Elliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.social · 18h
this country is suffering a moral sickness, and it is coming straight from its Christian community
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 18h
A bunch of violence loving, predominantly white, men, who would also have joined in with the #Cornell57, are the ones who’ll watch this. That it’s being live-streamed is yet another example of this regime’s sick mentality.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/10/2026
The SAVE Act did not pass and there is no federal requirement that you need a birth certificate or passport to vote. brennancenter.org/everything-you-need-vote
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 23h
Bluesky is a magical place where randos become livid if you use the available features to prevent them from parking in your mentions to peddle pro-Hamas propaganda.
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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Begs the question, where did all those databases go for the #NoKings protest registration? Professional protesters told y’all don’t do that.
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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Pro-Palestine Colonizers wanted Mamdani to pretty much give in to Hamas and condemn all Israelis to death. Now, they're mad. It wasn't about Palestine. It was about the eradication of Jews.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 18h
His (unfortunate) namesake probably took it, whether at Trump’s urging, or before he could gold leaf it. /s
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