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Lisa Margonelli @lisamargonelli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The protest connected Eddie Berenice Johnson and Marcus and began Johnson’s career. wacohistory.org/items/show/199
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Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson is a champion of minority and women’s rights representing Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Not only that, she fights to support the sciences and women in STEM...
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you! We certainly took it to heart — not a single kid in the family who has gone to college in the years since have gone to business school. I studied art history myself.
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My grandmother worked at the Main Street store for years and Mr. Marcus always talked to my dad when he was a kid. He always emphasized to my dad that business was something you learn on the job so if you go to college, do something in the liberal arts or fine arts to expand your mind.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
also, the Cowboys curse is truly one for the ages
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's crazy seeing the MTV Video Music Awards with Madonna opening and Snoop hosting on CBS on a Sunday night
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Give it, give it all, give it now."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's funny to me when people pretend they don't understand what long-time residents in particular cities mean when they use the term "transplant." Of course you do. They mean HOSTILE and DISRESPECTFUL people who move into cities and expect those cities to cater TO THEM and their personal bullshit.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state’s Voter Suspense list ahead of the fall’s contentious midterm elections. Texans still have time to check if they’re registered to vote before the October 5 deadline. Here’s how.
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More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended
Some voters dropped from Texas voting rolls may not be aware until they show up to cast a ballot. More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state's Voter
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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you for this ambitious thread. I lack all ambition. It’s very generous.
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🧜🏽‍♀️ 𝑟𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑒 🌚✨ @babypink.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
they should invent a reddit that’s only accessible to people who are as good at watching my shows as i am
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
this is just so sad
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
pardon??????
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My goodness please *listen* to this extremely wholesome story
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We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Denise Oliver-Velez, a Powerful Voice of the Left, Dies at 78 (Gift Article)
She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later joined the Black Panthers.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXYF...
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1982 Spain: Lucia - El (10th place at Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate) with SUBTITLES
YouTube video by ESC Stuff
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
idea: sequel to that heist movie where they used the 2010 world cup final watch parties/celebrations in madrid as distraction
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Spain winning it with an extra time goal again is insane
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Happy for this guy.
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Leandro Paredes with a red card after the final whistle
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Spain beats Argentina 1-0 in extra time on Ferran Torres' 106th-minute goal to win its second World Cup title.
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Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 15/07/2026
Argentina defeats England 2-1 at the World Cup, advancing to the final.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
People have studied this for decades, and the findings are pretty consistent: Immigration is unrelated or even negatively related to crime and cities w/lots of immigrants are likely safer than yours. From Robert Sampson, The Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012).
Among the public, policy makers, and many academics, a common expectation is that the concentration of immigrants and the influx of foreigners drive up disorder and crime because of the assumed propensities of these groups to commit crimes and settle in poor, presumably disorganized communities. This belief is so pervasive that, as shown in chapter 6, the neighborhood concentration of Latinos strongly predicts perceptions of disorder no matter what the actual amount of disorder or the rate of reported crimes. Yet increases in immigration are correlated with less crime, and immigrants appear to be less violent than those born in America, particularly when they live in neighborhoods with high numbers of other immigrants.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
a truly masterful performance by Spain. actually what peak performance looks like
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Spain being charged up by the power of being the first flag of Texas
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Spain doing this to France *without* Pedri on the field is wild
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There was a period of time when NBC would put out these miniseries based on public domain epics with the most stacked cast you’ve ever seen and then schools would show them to 7th graders for the next 20 years and it was kinda paradise
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.
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Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
I met with, first of all, a woman named Angelina David, who is the clinical manager in Panyijiar for the International Rescue Committee clinics. She was overseeing the clinics that were shut down and could tell me exactly what happened. It was a complete shutdown, and a scramble, because there were medicines and other things on the shelves they didn’t want looted, so they had to get out to these places—and they’re very far away. You have to travel, in some cases, seven or eight hours in order to get to the extent of what’s there.

I then went and visited some of those facilities, and I connected, with her help, to the subcounty chiefs—they’re called the payam administrators—who keep their own records of deaths. So one of the things I found was that their own records showed that they are measuring an over-all tenfold increase in child and adult deaths.

Wait. A tenfold increase?

Yes.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Same with Haaland's push/Anderson's dive that took away the tying Norway goal. It's not that any of these VAR calls, in a vacuum, are wrong. It's that there are <dozens of similar things> that are left uncalled & the bias always tilts toward the higher-ranked team, especially when that team is 🇦🇷
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First Touch @firsttouch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Erling Haaland was the final Norwegian player to leave the stadium and staying to meet fans, sign autographs, and take photos ❤️ His humility and connection with supporters made him one of the biggest fan favorites in the United States during this World Cup 🫶🇳🇴 (Via TheMozKnowz/tw)
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prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is what gives me some light about all the techbros trying to outrun death. There’s no such thing. It comes for us all, however unevenly. So let us live this life in a way that means people actually feel we used our time well when we go.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone
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Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone. (Gift Article)
Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.
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Henry from New York @notgonnahavefun.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’ve delivered Meals on Wheels to hundred of people, almost all of the people live alone, mostly seniors and people with disabilities. Several times people said I was the only one they would get to see that day. I know getting a letter would make a big difference in their life.
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
as someone who grew up with all the don't share drinks or you will die rhetoric and the big celebs being outed after death, the speed of progress made scientifically and culturally never fails to astound me
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
and here I thought we were talking about Mitch only to see it's an entirely other senator
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There are dozens of equally blatant or worse dives every single game. These are *never* called.
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
tuchel has to be freaking out watching embolo get sent off for a second yellow
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Not to make this all about America, but things like this, the Tartan Army, the Cape Verde story, Bosnia-Herzegovina and others are good illustrations of how you can be proud to be where you're from and confident in your identity while being kind and gracious and without being a complete dingleberry
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Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
they gave it their all but it's ok bc I'm certain England is not making it past Argentina in the semi-final
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Normalize unreposting stuff/deleting comments once you learn more!!!
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