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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

still not over schmitt’s implosion…planted the story with axios about him being a vp contender, let all of the white wing influencers know he was bout to have his big boy moment, and now he's in the insanely loud and comically wrong hall of fame.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

good morning…the miserable pig-man (s/o @jamellebouie.net) strikes again. Angie Nixon had a message for him 🔥🔥

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is so fucking embarrassing and disgusting. he got us into a war we’re losing and he’s parading around stumbling through his words on his ‘initiatives’

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is so fucking embarrassing and disgusting. he got us into a war we’re losing and he’s parading around stumbling through his words on his ‘initiatives’

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hear me out: yes, Schmitt’s performance belongs in the “extremely loud and extremely wrong” hall of fame, but his idiocy is still a win for maga - Jack Smith affirmed that his team found “beyond reasonable doubt” that trump engaged in criminal activity on/around J6 but no one is talking about it

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

schmitt gave a nakedly white christian nationalist speech at a white christian nationalist convention last year. in case you’re unclear where we’re headed. and also unsure why vance would like him.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

omgoddess little Marco, we’d *never* want something like that to happen! 🙄🙄🙄

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

another nfl kicker exposed as a knuckle-dragging asshole -

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

must-read…online gambling and “prediction” sites are ruining lives and families, with the sites’ encouragement

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“In the midst of a state trial on behalf of over 6,000 Black workers at Tesla’s flagship factory in Fremont, CA, [Musk’s] attorneys argued that it’s acceptable to use the n-word in certain situations, insisting that it’s a “term of respect and endearment” in the Black community.” 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

vote blue no matter who!* * - unless it’s a Black woman, any Muslim, and/or someone who actually wants to help the people with radical ideas like health care, living wages, and clean air

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my AG is a Black woman, my Congressperson is a Black woman, and my mayor is a Taiwanese woman. I’m sure it’s totally just coincidence they all have spines and stand up for the people.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pablo and PTFO are doing such incredible work. this morning he and his team dropped a deep-dive into Tim Tebow and “life surge,” a scam bilking people out of thousands under the guise of Christianity

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

must read from Jen (have said it before, saying it again: as someone who has spent her entire adult life in journalism, it has been beyond disappointing to watch major media outlets ignore/downplay/whitewash all of this and thus play an active role in it continuing and getting worse)

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 23/09/2026

On this day in 1955, an all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted the two white men who murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till.

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Sep. 23, 1955 | All-White Jury Acquits White Men Who Murdered 14-Year-Old Emmett Till

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is why “white narcissists” (s/o Ashley thee Baroness) is more apt for these fools than supremacists. they aren’t better, they’re just whiny little bitches who refuse to accept that not everything is about them. @angryblacklady.blacksky.app was kind to call Bret a bedbug

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Good morning everyone 🌞. Today is the 21st of September.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are LIVE at contrarian.substack.com to cover all the festivities at Hands Around the Kennedy Center— join us !! Inspirational songs, speeches, a huge crowd, and lots of joy!

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The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack

Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is?

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

watching Colin Kaepernick on ‘higher learning’…when he found out his book would be sold at target, he pulled it from target. unlike a certain billionaire rapper who tried to drag Kap in a weak ass freestyle this summer 👀

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love Black women with all of my being.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my usual gas station went from $4.08/gallon for regular to $4.25 in less than a week…don’t worry though, dementia donnie and the douchebros say everything is going great

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my kids are all too old to be @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social fans but I will fight for that woman. she’s giving an absolute masterclass in how to be an accomplice - not an ally, an accomplice, there’s a difference - to people of all marginalized backgrounds and isn’t backing down at. all.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

pretty sure the wnba was fairly united for its first 29.5 years, aka until a couple of months ago. I wonder what happened??? 🧐🧐

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

to quote Ta-Nehisi the 🐐…was silence not an option? this statement is some weak-ass shit.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

obviously you love to read me 😜, but a $7/month @contrariannews.org subscription means you’re helping to fund the legal fight against Dementia Donnie’s illegal actions please consider it if you’re financially able 🙏🏽

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Justin McIsaac 📻🏌️‍♂️🏈🏀🏎️🇵🇸 @justinmcisaac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Man, fuck the Mannings. Peyton assaulted that trainer at Tennessee, Eli scammed the fans with that game worn jersey fraud, and this dipshit is laughing about AI vids of Holly Rowe getting slapped. Fuck their entire lineage.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“how to completely destroy your public legacy” by robert kraft, bill belichick, and tom brady…in bookstores just in time for the holiday season!

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ESSENTIAL reading and frightful :

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

in case continuing to platform aaron rodgers, letting pat mcafee be part of every show and firing ryan clark (possibly) for being too Black weren’t evidence enough of espn’s leanings… but “stick to sports” and all that.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

he has done A LOT of heinous shit but this is right near the tippy-top of that incredibly long list…

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

it remains…let’s say interesting…that the Tiger Woods generation for golf - Black kids that took up the game after seeing his success - never really materialized but there most definitely is one with Venus, Serena, and tennis. Black excellence on grand slam courts all over the world.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For baseball’s Black and Latino players, it’s always 1926 somewhere | Howard Bryant From home-run celebrations to tilted caps, players embracing joy continue to collide with an old guard devoted to Dust Bowl grimness www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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For baseball’s Black and Latino players, it’s always 1926 somewhere

From home-run celebrations to tilted caps, players embracing joy continue to collide with an old guard devoted to Dust Bowl grimness

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My latest piece @thenation.com "We Can’t Let the Kaepernick Era Be Erased From History." *Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. It didn’t go far enough, and the backlash has been brutal** www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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We Can’t Let the Kaepernick Era Be Erased From History

Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. In reality, it didn’t go far enough, and the backlash to it has been brutal.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I always thought Belichick to UNC was a dumb idea but gah-DAMN! as someone he wouldn’t have spit on were she on fire in front of him, it’s admittedly a little glorious to see

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Billy Porter Sips Tea

ALT: Billy Porter Sips Tea

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s absolutely unbelievable to me that, in 2026, with so many women working in sports media, we keep getting show shows that are entirely made up of men.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

dec 1, 2023. got an email from someone i didn’t know telling me i had to be on a zoom at noon. shortly after get a slack dm telling me to be there. myself and others told by a bean-counting dork in a monotone that would have made belichick proud, that we were gone. I got off the call and bawled.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/09/2026

To be clear, "once all the immigrants are gone" these folks tacitly expected Black people to go back into the fields

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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spoke to three moms who lost all of the food in their fridge and freezer during the blackout in Gary Indiana. They all had their replacement SNAP benefits denied. Experts told me they are concerned about how the state is operating the program after the disaster. 19thnews.org/2026/09/gary...

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Families lost weeks of food they couldn't afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.

As the city of Gary recovers from a devastating power outage, advocates say Indiana has a simple fix at its fingertips that could get parents the help they need.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 04/09/2026

"Target’s costume — and the pose of the child wearing it for the store’s website — was a near-carbon copy of a 19th-century illustration of Thomas Dartmouth Rice, called the “father of minstrelsy,” dressed as the character he called Jim Crow." @shalisemyoung.bsky.social

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Target Gets a Lesson in Why DEI Matters

Any Black person in the chain of command would have struck down a horribly offensive Halloween costume immediately.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 03/09/2026

The fact that Target’s Halloween costume resembling racist minstrel performers was even considered to be sold is instructive of why DEI matters. Any Black person in the chain of command for non-character costumes would have struck it down immediately. @shalisemyoung.bsky.social goes deeper:

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Target Gets a Lesson in Why DEI Matters

Any Black person in the chain of command would have struck down a horribly offensive Halloween costume immediately.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 03/09/2026

Target folded like a house of cards when Trump signed his glorified press release calling for the end of DEI. Over a year later, the company’s sales have declined and their stock price has dropped.

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Target Gets a Lesson in Why DEI Matters

Any Black person in the chain of command would have struck down a horribly offensive Halloween costume immediately.

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