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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 24/09/2026

There's no trans woman in the WNBA. Still, Sophie Cunningham, Enes Kanter Freedom, and Caitlin Clark’s "fans" act like it's collapsing. @portianoir.bsky.social joins @angryblacklady.blacksky.app to dig into why—and where Imani's own theory fell short.

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The Athletes Up In Arms Over A Nonexistent Trans WNBA Player

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Spanny DeVito has been through way more than any puppy should, much less a rescue from a puppy mill.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026

New episode of B*tch, Listen is out. Roe was never enough. Reproductive justice advocates have been saying that for decades. So why did the reproductive rights movement build itself around Roe? I've been wrestling with that question for years. Watch below. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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If ‘Roe’ Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything?

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And even after Dobbs, there were still politicians and organizations out there vowing to “restore Roe,” like what are they even DOING? (Listen+subscribe):

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026

Yesterday, the Trump DOJ gutted the main legal tool Black workers use to prove racial discrimination in the workplace. So, RIP disparate impact liability: 1971-2026*. Cause of death: hurt white feelings.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I love our sweet baby boy so much. 🥹🐶🖤

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/02/2026

The ACLU is challenging Kansas's anti-trans law which inclues a bathroom bill and that drivers license bullshit. That's a good thing because they should be suing to vindicate the rights of their clients. But...

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Anti-transgender law in Kansas challenged in court by ACLU

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging a new anti-transgender law in Kansas that includes a bathroom bill and a ban on gender marker changes.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

I spoke with @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social about how true crime decides which stories to tell—and whose lives are treated as worth national attention. Part 2 of my two-episode series on true crime & disability drops Feb 26. If you haven’t heard part 1 with @vilissathompson.bsky.social, start there.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Our baby boy 🐶❤️‍🩹

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/02/2026

I wrote this piece last year about John Roberts creaming his twinkie over eviscerating the Voting Rights Act.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Spaniel Day Lewis is home! 🖤

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026

Shoutout to me being a hover parent and noticing right away that his breathing was erratic, which turned out to be his body responding to the mass. They're sending the mass to pathology, & from there, we will know if it's cancer. Thank you all!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026

We want to thank everyone for all the help and support so far, and we have an update! Spaniel Day Lewis came through surgery successfully; they were able to get the entire mass. The doctors said it was HUGE, and that it was truly caught just in time.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The vet clinic does take direct donations if you feel more comfortable with that option! He’s at Four Seasons Veterinary Clinic in Loveland, CO. The phone number is 970-800-1106! They were so lovely to give us low end and high end estimates 🖤

An itemized estimate for Spaniel Day Lewis’s treatment

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The vet’s office we are at with Dexter now is so lovely, and people have been very kind so far. Our vet called ahead and had his records sent over, so reception was ready for us. We’re waiting to be seen now, and will keep you updated along the way. 🐶🖤 He’s also made a friend. 🙂‍↕️

It’s a Black woman wearing a purple sweatshirt and grey sweats. She’s petting the cutest cocker spaniel to ever cocker spaniel

It’s a chonky bulldog meeting sweet Dexter

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Truly, any help is appreciated. Any and all of it 🖤

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

I think it’s really important when you get something wrong that you fix it. We are in an age of parasocial journalism where everyone is talking into tiny microphones. People have their faves and they trust what those faves say. If you get something wrong, fix it. It makes you more credible.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

When disabled people are killed by family members or caregivers, true crime often reframes the violence as “mercy” or caregiver stress, shifting sympathy away from the victim. Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains this narrative on B*tch, Listen. 🎧 New • Jan. 29, 2026

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

if you google third amendment, my article is the top news article. look ma, no hands

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026

Next week on B*tch, Listen: @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains that true crime has a disability problem. Disabled victims are erased—and their deaths reframed as mercy.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Use the anger you’re feeling now to get caught up and keep fighting it.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Today would have been my daddy’s 74th birthday. I’m missing him like crazy, and the grief is hitting extra hard. @angryblacklady.blacksky.app made me gluten free brownies to help with the heavy day. I miss my papa something fierce.

It’s me and my late daddy. He’s wearing a black and white striped polo. I’m in a green shirt. We’re smiling at the camera

It’s an old photo of my dad holding a newborn me. He’s smiling like the proud papa he was

Gluten free brownies made for me by the loml

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Mushy on main: I’m so forever and always grateful for @angryblacklady.blacksky.app.

Two Black women are cuddled up with a super rad dog. One is wearing a green top with a yellow necklace, the taller of the two wearing a black tshirt

It’s a picture of love

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

You will really want to listen to/watch this episode!

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Look how cute my baby boy is 🥹

A Black woman is wearing a blue shirt with yellow writing and black glasses. She’s holding the cutest doggo ever who got freshly groomed

Just the cutest little floof sitting on a beige comforter being adorable

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Rep. Diana DeGette @degette.house.gov · 21/01/2026

ICE should be dismantled immediately. I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens. Read my statement:

Purple-toned, high-contrast graphic showing two figures side by side. On the left, a woman, Kristi Noem, speaking into a microphone, partially visible. On the right, a masked ICE agent in tactical gear with an “ICE” patch visible on the chest. White overlaid text reads: The Trump administration has weaponized ICE and Border Patrol, turning those agencies into masked, hostile police forces that are terrorizing the American people.
ICE has become a rogue agency that has gone far beyond its original mandate. It should be immediately dismantled.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026

This dumb motherfucker is trying to fight a two front Arctic war

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 16/01/2026

Some people rather eat a bicycle tire between two fleece jackets and call it a burger than credit Black people for anything even when they stand on top of Black shoulders and squeeze out every ounce of semantics, style and even the scholarship on it from Black ppl to shape their own.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m super excited for Bluesky to maybe extend the character limit to like 400.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12/01/2026

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Imani got me a new Dutch oven to be a gluten free one, so I made chicken and potato soup tonight. Yes, we have a second kitchen, but Imani is the primary cook, and usually when I cook, it’s upstairs. Tonight, I used the downstairs kitchen, the start of making it my gluten free cooking space!

A cutting board with potatoes, celery, garlic, and carrots with an onion, chicken, and kitchen utensils.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

It's always "listen to Black women" until it becomes time to actually listen to Black women.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/01/2026

Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen... Truth is the greatest love

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

She was deeply loved by her wife who is presumably going to raise the six-year-old boy you just categorized as an orphan for some reason. And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“Say her name” isn’t used for white victims of shootings, because 99.9% of the time, their names will be said often and loudly. Rarely is a white victim a hidden victim. They usually aren’t brushed under the media rug. RIP Renee Nicole Good.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

When I see “Set aside race so we can address bigger issues”, what’s being said is that race and the racism that comes with it aren’t big enough issues to be considered. And that often tells me everything I need to know about the person making that statement.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I love this woman. And this chicken.

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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

ADHD hack that may work: putting a reminders widget on my phone Home Screen. Maybe having it right there will work for setting reminders I need. I will report back. 🫡

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