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Just another black man, caught up in the mix, tryna make a dollar outta fifteen cents

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So Justin Trudeau is now saying the tariffs have been paused for 30 days as they implement a new border plan. Basically, after the markets freaked, Trump backed off of the threats while Mexico and Canada essentially promised to do things that they were already doing.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/02/2025
He’s siphoning off money from the Treasury for his cronies to steal. Real B613 shit.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Monstrous bastards www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.
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Randy @randytdc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Riley Leonard, 9 carries and a TD in that drive against this Ohio St Defense? That was a drop ya nuts opening sequence, wow.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Trump has exactly two talents: hitting the serotonin button of America’s worst people, and separating marks from their money. We’re going to see a metric ton of both over the next four years.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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T. Krown @mumbles-j.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
More hoeish than the women they attack in their lyrics
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/01/2025
Not to be alarmist, but please be prepared for many gov services to vanish or be horribly downgraded in the months to come. While continuing to push national and local electeds to hold the line, think about non-gov groups that are supporting folks in your community and consider how to support them.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Over the last five days, we’ve been witnessing remarkable, even miraculous mutual aid happening all over the city of Los Angeles—but esp. Altadena—, done by ordinary Angelenos, some also fire victims, who care deeply about their city and it’s ppl. We’ve shared those experiences here. Take a look—
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In LA's darkest moment, the light of tireless Angelenos providing aid, food shines bright | Opinion
Amid the destruction in LA, there are glimmers of hope. Angelenos everywhere have heard the call for aid and stepped up in remarkable ways.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The actuaries believe in climate change.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Call me crazy but if the money spent on AI was spent on the sevices the you wouldn't need AI. You don't need AI to fix potholes. You need a worker, asphalt and a shovel
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Josh Allen just ran power from shotgun I can't feel my face
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.
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Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I fear there is deep truth here.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/01/2025
"There is, unfortunately, no law of nature that says democracy can’t be brought down & wars can’t be started by a bunch of clowns if they have enough support from people, parties, & institutions who enable them. It’s all just a farce – until the goons & buffoons are in power. That’s where we are."
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Navigating the Nonsense and Propaganda of Clownish Authoritarianism
Ignoring what Trump says won’t work. Constant outrage is not a viable strategy either. We must find a more productive way to engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness
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SKG Murphy @bluelotusoftheeast.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"Trump isn’t legally allowed to own a firearm and he’s about to have the nuclear launch codes."
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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I'm a believer in smart policy, but all the finger-pointing in the LA firestorm about hydrant flows and LAFD budgets seems like arguing about the adequacy of Hiroshima's 1945 building code standards. It's a way to evade the big questions.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
so far, seems like the first few victims are black folks who've lived in altadena for several generations and were trying so hard to hold onto their homes that they were willing to fight off the flames by themselves. man, they are so familiar to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...
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Who Are the Victims of the Los Angeles Fires?
At least five people died in fires raging across Los Angeles. Several of them lived near each other in the ravaged Altadena neighborhood.
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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 10/01/2025
URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
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Professional Pic Slanga @upcycledpisces.blacksky.app · 10/01/2025
Introducing Drippy, Frosty's drug-dealing cousin from Texas ❄️🥶
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.
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5 dead, more than 2,000 structures burned as new fire hits Hollywood Hills
More than 2,000 structures have burned and at least five people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County. Red flag warnings remained in effect for Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County...
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
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The Cybertruck is one badass machine.
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Property taxes too please
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Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I'LL CUT THAT NUMBER IN HALF!
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Make money in tech, preserve wealth in real estate.
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Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
That's hit the nail right on the head.
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The real story is that 2 weeks before Trump retakes office, the most wealthy/powerful people on earth have decided to *publicly* embrace him because they have calculated that being in his good graces will help them more than any public backlash to *openly* joining his fascist movement will hurt.
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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Here’s to an accelerated demise; may they end up broke and busted for trying to force this nonsense on people.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This is worth another watch
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Chapter 5 “On Tyranny” @timothysnyder.bsky.social is for all to remember the obligations of professions. Doctors-Hippocratic Oath to refrain from causing harm or hurt, to prescribe only beneficial treatments. Lawyers-Oath to uphold the Constitution. Police, firemen too We need to hold them to this.
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Zande @kongozande.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Mercedes, Athena, and Willow after their matches. Made history tonight as the first Black women to wrestle in the Tokyo Dome. #njwd • #WrestleDynasty • #Blacksky
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
again going to my bench of favorite complaints: it is weird how openly predatory US culture is and it would be good to have a government that feels some semblance of responsibility for people's wellbeing
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Mike Kegil @mikekegil.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I stand by this.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Del. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands stands to protest that she and other delegates, representing D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico, are not given a vote.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Amazon has denied a leave of absence to an Alabama woman who was struck by the New Orleans attacker’s truck and shot in the foot during the attack. She worried she won’t have a job to return to when she recovers. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
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Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none
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This Space For Rent @bluestdeuce.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Whew NIL is hitting the SEC schools harder than integration
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
this is true and broadly I remain more convinced by narratives of Elon Musk that are about change rather than continuity Tesla was a genuinely incredible business achievement, and now it, and he, is *this*
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DaBean. @honeybadger10.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Not sure it’s a conspiracy theory when there’s clearly a coalition of bad actors doing a lot of criminal shit in broad daylight. And we don’t even know about half of it. And we are about to know even less because that coalition is growing.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"I picked the cotton, and I carried it to market, and I built the railroads, under someone else's whip, for nothing. For nothing." The great James Baldwin in his 1965 debate against William F. Buckley, Jr. at Cambridge Union.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
might be important to remember that Arizona State is basically dehydrated Indiana here
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Randy @randytdc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Texas about to run these boys out the stadium. WAY too much team speed and size for ASU to handle, stark contrast.
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The Thumb Thespian @bishopcognac.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Few things get women angrier, than when their man's food order is messed up. 🤣😭 *Driving away from the food spot* Me: "Shit man.. Smh" Wife: "What's wrong?" Me: "I told'em no mayo" Wife: "THOSE MUTHAFUCKAS! Let's go back!" Me: "It's cool babe.. I'll scrape it off or whatever" Wife:
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Olafimihan Oshin @olafimihanoshin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. This photo of him and former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo is simply amazing. Maybe my favorite political-esque photo ever 🙏🏾🇳🇬
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
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A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article)
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
“We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose…there is a growing disrespect for govt and for churches and for schools, the news media and other institutions…it is the truth and it is a warning.” —President Jimmy Carter, 1979
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Randy @randytdc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
RIP Jimmy Carter, truly was the last of the real ones. Don’t see a man of that kind of fundamental decency ever reaching the pinnacle of power again. And that’s a damning indictment of us.
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Terita @terita.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Sis wanted to give y’all $25k to buy a house. $6k to have a child. Tax rich people. She black though. So racism it is. Fuck all the way off asking that lady for shit. In this life or the next.
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Randy @randytdc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Canes got zero interest in playing defense again today I see. C’mon Cam, need a 50 burger to save us again on your way to the league
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/12/2024
This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eo…
Wayback Machine capture of MTV News.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
CHAPLIN: “Greed has poisoned men’s souls… those who can hear me: do not despair— the misery now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress… Only the unloved hate… you the people have the power.” Full: www.instagram.com/share/BBKyJv...
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