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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 7h

Swearing loudly at that stupid and intrusive AI prompt in Google Docs is my new normal.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 19h

Toss it in the same fire with "Lake America," "Gulf of America," and "Secretary of War."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. Our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj

Mother Jones magazine cover linking the Roberts Supreme Court to a revival of Jim Crow: a black judicial robe hangs next to a white KKK hooded robe with a hand reaching toward it; headline "The Southern Strategy" and subhead "Jim Crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's a bottomless pit of malice and evil.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Besides his horrible tenure as Mayor, let's not overlook the 2010 election debacle Rahm helped engineer He did everything he could to shit on Dem base during those years he was Obama's chief of staff Takes a special skill to set the tone and agenda that went from 2008 landslide to 2010 wipeout

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Peter Abraham @peteabeglobe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Globe Spotlight team uncovers the story behind a New Jersey man buying up nursing homes in Massachusetts and cutting services and staffing, leaving the patients to suffer: apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/spot...

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Outside chains like RegalCare transformed Mass. nursing homes. Quality fell.

RegalCare and other nursing home chains have rapidly expanded in Massachusetts. The Globe Spotlight Team found widespread problems and little state intervention.

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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My life is what's possible when government works: I grew up on SNAP, in public housing and studied at Boston Public Schools. So, when I sued Trump for weaponizing SNAP benefits against our immigrant community, it was personal. You deserve government that delivers for everyone without discrimination.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As of April, "the Brookings Institution put the total number of affected children at about 205,000 — 71% of whom are US citizens. Most of those cases involve the loss of one parent... but researchers believe that [in] more than 35,000 of the cases... a child has been left with no parent at all."

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Note to men: If your first reaction to hearing about the gang rape of a woman by seven men at Cornell in 2024 is to say, "Not all men," or some such stupidity, then you're telling everyone — especially women — that you are part of the problem.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What gets me is if Obama had done to Fox what Trump has done to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, the right never would have shut up about it. But, as usual, in lieu of facts, they're just making stuff up — with an assist from Jake Tapper.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you from the kid who got rejected for Pre-K because I wouldn't turn 4 in time for the first day of school.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stanford used "AI" to remove a Latino student from a photo and replace him with an "AI-generated" Black woman. The two other students in the photo were made thinner. There are so many aspects of what happened that are egregious. sfstandard.com/2026/09/22/s...

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Stanford University replaced a Latino man with an AI-generated Black woman in a photo

University slammed for AI-generated race swap in photo in back-to-school banner.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from the Defense Department. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.

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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More needs to be said about this nation’s commander in chief fawning over and entertaining in the White House a foreign leader who is sending weapons to a country currently at war against the US.

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Daryle Lamont Jenkins @dlj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

According to a AP poll, Mayor Mamdani is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Netanyahu.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026

Breaking News: A sheriff in California was ordered by the state Supreme Court to return about 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact. nyti.ms/4hejTBu

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco walking between SUVs parked in the street. A headline reads: "Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules." Photo by Noah Berger/Associated Press

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Trump administration is defying a court order. Again.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What starts with nonwhite immigrants won't end there.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In an Oct. 2024 special report, The Economist called the American economy "The envy of the world," and said that it "has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue." Trump has driven that economy into a ditch.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can't afford gas, groceries, or health care, meanwhile Trump is busy looking for things to slap his name on.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sounds like hope born from a dream come true.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This administration is committed to killing as many people as possible.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There’s a man wearing a MAGA cap sitting near me in the airport, so I put on my Knicks cap to ward off the evil spirits. #KnicksinFive

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To the passage of time, our own fickle memories, and especially President Trump, George W. Bush owes a massive debt of gratitude for suppressing the once-potent stench of his two terms as president. My latest OUTTAKES newsletter. Subscribe: globe.com/outtakes

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George W. Bush, all is not forgiven - The Boston Globe

Nearly two decades after leaving office, Bush seems to be regarded more as America’s goofy 80-year-old uncle than a man who inflicted indelible damage on this nation and the world.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/09/2026

🚨NEWS: U.N.-backed investigators say they found “reasonable grounds” to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including one on a school in Minab. apnews.com/article/un-h...

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two weeks ago, my local gas station was $3.99/gal for regular. Today, it's $4.25. Thanks, Trump.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What Robert Kraft did to Macklemore looks a whole lot like what NFL owners did to Colin Kaepernick.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.

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NPR @npr.org · 14/09/2026

Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit. n.pr/4hqselp

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This city led the way on reparations for Black people. Trump is trying to stop it

Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Other facts that Trump has falsely branded as hoaxes. Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Climate change and global warming. His impeachments. His defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The Jan. 6 insurrection. The Epstein files. Affordability. The COVID-19 pandemic.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Arguably, Bob Mackie's greatest creation: From "Went with the Wind," a spoof of "Gone With the Wind" on "The Carol Burnett Show.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Absolutely nothing in this nation's history has prepared us for this level of unchecked and unvarnished corruption.

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