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Stephanie Franklin

@sannfrank.bsky.social
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Stephanie/she/they Founder/Executive Director of Masakhane Center in Newark, NJ

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
The least helpful thing any professor or advisor has ever said to me is "come on, you know this" when I'm struggling to retrieve information under pressure. I KNOW I know it, the problem does not lie in whether I know it but in whether I can recite it on command like a trained seal.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 12/10/2026
A reminder on Indigenous Peoples' Day: Native people are incarcerated in state and federal prisons at more than 4x the rate of white people. This is the direct result of centuries of oppression and theft from Native people.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
First Indigenous Peoples Day where I can say: If you are not fully aware of how the US government has terrorized Indigenous people and our children from its inception, read my book.
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Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story by Ashley Fairbanks | Moon Palace Books
Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We don’t talk enough about one very common reason for choosing abortion: not wanting to be tied to that particular dude for the rest of your life.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happening TONIGHT!!! Hope to see you there! Register + schedule - www.bklynlibrary.org/uprising-dow...
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Uprising Downfall | Brooklyn Public Library
On October 10, come to Central Library for a late-night teach-in about political resilience and hope, featuring music, performances and refreshments. Join us for conversations, readings and debates lo...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10/10/2026
The Guardian reports on defendants who have formed a union while facing prosecution for protesting:
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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When members of the IRB that reviewed a study are resigning in protest because they recognize the unethical design of the study and the avoidable harm it will cause, maybe it is a sign to no proceed with said study. Great reporting in the guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Anthony Comstock: Morality crusader. Professional hater. Dildo hoarder. He collected porn, sex toys, and books. And he showed them to Congress to sell lawmakers on the Comstock Act, an 1873 law which conservatives could use to ban abortion nationwide. New Baby Boom! Lawyered Out now.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/10/2026
Our food system is so deeply broken and extractive.
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From the farm to your door: How our global food system exploits workers
Colonialism and land dispossession created a system based on exploitation. Climate change is making it worse.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/10/2026
“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
A lot of people are struggling right now. Including your queer and trans fam, and your artists friends, and the people who are both. The mental health pressures are real and the consequences are potentially devastating. Check on your people. Let them know how much you love having them around.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.
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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 07/10/2026
What about multigenerational living and caretaking repels you?
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”
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The Democrats’ “Woke” Panic and the Left’s Response
The victory of left-wing candidates in Democratic primary elections shows that voters want a different path. But party leaders don’t.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
The fact that the French establishment is targeting children with stun grenades 🤬
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/10/2026
Source:
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Governor Hochul Declares State Disaster Emergency in Response to Ongoing Measles Outbreak
Governor Hochul issued an Executive Order declaring a State Disaster Emergency in response to the growing number of measles cases across rural areas of New York and neighboring states.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/10/2026
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency due to the measles outbreak. This was avoidable.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 06/10/2026
a lot of parents are doll collectors. there is not really anything that pushes them to be anything else. all the institutions of society, all the laws, are built to provide structural support for that paradigm of parenting
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
every day I think about how misogynoir is stress and stress goes right into your blood pressure isn’t it cool how everyone has been handed a basic tool to slowly destroy you, physically, while also proclaiming their innocence and how their part in it isn’t that big of a deal?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Thousands of angry students have blockaded high schools around France in recent days to protest the state of education, leading to escalating violence and clashes with the riot police. Here’s what to know.
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What to Know About France’s High School Protests
Students angry over the state of the country’s education system have blockaded hundreds of schools. Thousands of protesters have been arrested and dozens of people injured.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 02/10/2026
Did you know?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Sorry to disappoint everyone but I actually think cruelty is rarely the primary goal. It is usually a tool in service of something else. When you conclude the cruelty is the point, what critical thinking are you choosing not to do?
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is there a defense fund? A defense committee? Anything else we can do to support this brave and beautiful human being?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve had enough. It’s time we abolished leaf blowers.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026
I don't want to spend my time fighting for the right way to punish the right guy for the right offense; I want the offense to end
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026
one future we could begin experimenting with right now is: when, as a way to deal with a problem, we are invited only to invent better ways to punish people, we can refuse
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I posted in my newsletter about an incarcerated comrade named Kenneth who is running a mobile library in prison. He needed a new cart and some readers generously donated. Here's the new cart! Thanks to those who supported him.
Two men in striped pants and white shirts stand by a cart with books, under a colorful “Perfection” sign on a white brick wall. One holds up two fingers in a peace sign, the other displays a book.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 30/09/2026
you gotta have deliberatley low-information days sometimes. recieve the amount of stimulus your ancestors would receive. no phone no tv no radio no books just vibes. brain vacation. just you and the homies picking flowers, makin soup.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HE LOVED RIDING ON HIS MOM’s BACK ACROSS THE RIVER 😭
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fucking finally. I’ve had two biopsies because of unusual perimonepausal bleeding. Both were benign thankfully. And both WERE SHEER AND UTTER FUCKING TORTURE. The doctor literally sucks out cells from your uterus WITHOUT ANESTHETIC. It is hell. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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UK doctors develop non-invasive test for womb cancer in women bleeding after menopause
Test using urine and vaginal fluid samples raises hopes thousands of lower-risk women could be spared internal ultrasounds and hysteroscopies
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
“The CEO of Mistral AI believes American tech giants are using [AI-apocalypse] rhetoric to control and close off the market to their advantage.” lol, I rest my case.
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Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The moment a person use the term "females" to refer to women or girls? I immediately know they ain't about shit.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I expect for some folks it will feel strange that this week is the 10th anniversary of the NMAAHC because it has become so central to us, but it’s important to remember things we need can be built, they can be built now, and that building them will garner backlash but their impact will be profound.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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