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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21h

reminds me of this photo i took last weekend when i was back home.

stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 22h

you really had to be there. what a time. when hezekiah transitioned from colorblock choir robes to dressing like gospel's bad boy records ceo on the album covers? peak! youtu.be/Rfi64Idrp88?...

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Power Belongs to God

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had to book a flight-for-two for feb. '27 and i was shopping different airports bc they all seemed... high. went to southwest, against my better judgment. do you know them folks wanted a band for me & my child to fly from nc to mi??? like $1K, USD *seat selection and bags not included, of course*

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I decided to try listening to a new narrative podcast this morning and the narrator is talking to me in second person. TIL I reeeeally don’t like that in a podcast. 🥴

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i've been streaming this series with my nana in the room. at first she wasn't interested, bc she finds shows difficult to follow these days, but now she's very much locked in. lol

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

aw. i'm 3 episodes deep into "a different world" and i love it. it really is meant to pass the torch to these young people. it's an ADW for a streaming generation. i can see it making HBCUs look as attractive to Gen Z/Alpha as the original did for Gen X.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

not me realizing in the control room during a high-profile interview with a guest i consider to be a legend... that i have my dress on backward. y'all.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will say, as someone born in 1979, who was latchkey from age 8, never had homework checked, flamed out academically from 6th-11th grade & got myself on track just long enough to be admitted to college… some attitudes re:the role of the schools in children’s’ education are generational & familial.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i have a whole other tangent about public schools, resources, neighborhood, segregation (racial, economic, intellectual). but that’s… for another day, perhaps.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it’s a precarious thing to publish writing about parenting (&, thus, your children). especially when they’re teens. they can engage the text and consent to or veto certain content. but they don’t yet understand the longterm implications of publication. and neither does the parent, tbh.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

neagley feels a little like the 1984 Helen slater version of supergirl. which i loved. even though it was like… a spinoff from the very best Superman franchise and it suffered both from that and from the need to feminize the character/storyline.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

they did just right premiering this the day reacher ended. that’s good programatic planning. we don’t see that much anymore.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

reacher been wearin this “get cracked in Philadelphia” (which I think he did?) t-shirt for like 3 episodes now. not mad at it one bit.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

as someone who has watched the first two "why did i get married"s like... 10 times each? this third one is... off to a painful start. 11 minutes in and it's just been... greetings. just watching people hug and (re)introduce themselves.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

my daughter, just now: “is the air on? i feel like the house is breathing on me.”

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i'm introducing my daughter to "raising helen," which up until like last month, was completely unavailable anywhere. not streaming and no on vhs or dvd. now it's on prime. i've always wanted to show her this, and now it's a hayden panettiere tribute watch.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think “tyrant” should’ve been called “hangman,” and i think bey should’ve let dolly parton write the whole song. the hangman part is the best part.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i thought i could but i really truly can’t deal with the Dolly Parton thing right now, like…

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Diane Keaton Crying Laughing at Laptop

ALT: Diane Keaton Crying Laughing at Laptop

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i was in virtual therapy when the alert came through and i totally lost my train of thought. weirdly, that was not the ideal place for me to be when i heard that news.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i’m so glad this exists. especially today.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i have to watch the 1995 adaptation of "sabrina" at least once a year but i've never seen the original. and that's on the cultural significance of generational adaptations.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

2019 was the last truly good year, tbh.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

has some ethnomusicologist published research on the composition of this song? youtu.be/lG6yCVOtu_M?...

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Clark Sisters -- Ha Ya

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

nearly six years after working there, i still love the '1A' theme song on WAMU. it used to give me chills and an adrenaline jolt like someone had just fired a starter pistol. i rarely hear it anymore, but whenever i do, the body remembers.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

so season 4 of reacher is my favorite since season 1, and it’s heartening to be reminded that a series can bounce back after lackluster seasons.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

we *do* know we don't have much time left, right? hits especially hard if you got a kid.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

and i say again: diarra kilpatrick, you are one of one.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

one of my absolute favorite things about reacher is the immediacy with which he he gets all up in folks’ business. he never cares, and that makes him care so much, for *exactly* as long as it takes to hook up with someone and sort shit out. it’s my favorite kind of formulaic formula.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

hol' up. why ain't nobody tell me a new season of "reacher" is premiering?!

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i've started the second season of "diarra from detroit," and diarra kilpatrick, the woman you are...

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Diarra Brickland Says 'I'M Perfect'

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've said this myriad times before, but we need a new, good film on Ida B. Wells. In addition to the fact that her story is so interesting, I need a break from the long monotony of white journalists centered in film.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

you know what? don’t pmo, ok?

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

all that stuff is to my generation what conversate and irregardless were to my elders.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

to be fair, i’m a huge curmudgeon when it comes to evolution of terminology. i hate “she got casted in the role.” i hate, “i resonate with that.”

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

my daughter started saying “search it up” maybe 3 years ago and i realized then that it’s generational and i also hate it.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

i still think about it. a year later, he’d open “a time to kill” *and* “the long kiss goodnight.” bro was on an historic run in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. he was also amazing in the underrated “changing lanes” in 2002.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ve lived in nc for 6+ years now. i think i can confidently say that i am near-invisible to the men here. i can’t tell if if it’s age, attitude, aesthetic or the romance gods (ghosts?) of the state rejecting (protecting?) me. but i do not turn heads here. not complaining!. just observing.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m happy to report that I’m liking her performance and the show (ride or die) much better as it progresses.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I thought she was good in the Apple+ series, Truth Be Told. I think that’s because it was a more subdued (or… grounded?) performance than I’m used to seeing her give.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

y’all. is Octavia Spencer a good actress or nah?

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