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Andy Solages

@sological.bsky.social
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Tout moun se moun. Vi moun se mezi a pou tout bagay. Here for comics, Africana, Haiti, the Black Atlantic, buildings, constructive politics, fungi, trees, oceans, climate, space, Hip-Hop, and appreciating historians, writers, artists, scientists, etc.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18h
🧵 1/ The Ebola outbreak in the DRC, with >8,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,000 deaths, remains uncontrolled. There are treatment units but not enough health care workers to staff them. Those who are there face risk of infection, exhaustion, and trauma, some while not even being paid.
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Congo Is Running Short of Health Workers as Ebola Remains Out of Control, WHO Says
One treatment center requires about 300 health professionals, said WHO representative
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h
if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3h
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
We need just one more member of Congress to call for a vote on the Dream and Promise Act — 217 of them have already done so. If passed, this legislation would provide a pathway to citizenship that Dreamers have been fighting for since 2012. Demand action to protect our communities from ICE.
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Pathway to Citizenship Now
ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take action now
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11h
Zohran quoting @prisonculture.bsky.social on Theo Von’s show may be the thing my brain finally rejects as a step too far. This, we refuse to process.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23h
The CDC is now the CDC in name only. Along with staff cuts, RFK Jr has made it difficult for scientists to do their jobs, including response to outbreaks such as measles and Ebola. Twenty political appointees now direct staff to spend time and $$ on dubious hypotheses. 🧪 archive.today/r38pw
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 4h
Why am I listening to Jill Scott sing "Don't Play" like I'm not about to start work? Nowhere for this energy to go.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h
Congo's Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths, authorities said, as they struggle to contain the spread of the virus.
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Congo's Ebola outbreak records more than 4,000 deaths as authorities struggle to contain the virus
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths, authorities said as they struggle to contain the spread of the virus.
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 15h
That blue will lose if he's the Dem's who
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 15h
Just read "Muppets Take the Marvel Universe" aloud with my takes on each character's voice. That was fun.
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 18h
Some popular fiction (e.g., Terminator movies, The Matrix) make machines the threat, but in real-life, it's always been the Luthors.
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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 18h
"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility." - @lilymasonphd.bsky.social
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h
Today, it's official: New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions with just the click of a button!
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A little law gives hope that government can suck less and make people’s lives better
New York City wants to make it easier for you to cancel subscriptions.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky
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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have seen the chart saying that people in the U.S. don't invite anyone over to dinner anymore. I would like to say that this may be empirically true. What is also true is that when people invite people over it's often the case that people flake out. So it creates a negative feedback loop.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
You're never going to figure out how to write a power fantasy for women or people from marginalized groups if you don't take the time to study their marginalization and how they are uniquely limited and denied by the mainstream.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It can be fun at Meta's brain-scrambling app, but the vile side (besides Meta itself) gave people like Feminista Jones good reasons to leave.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah personalized infinite music was already solved it's called "the entire corpus of music that already exists"
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 30/09/2026
TPS holders are our friends, co-workers, union family and vital members of our communities. Ending TPS protections is a gut-punch that will upend families and hurt our economy. As @seiupres.bsky.social said, workers won't be divided by this admin's anti-worker, anti-immigrant actions.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration continue deporting people to third countries for now while justices weigh policy.
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Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume while justices weigh Trump policy
The Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s administration to continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also lot of gold in the quote-tweets, so many of them apply well beyond comics. bsky.app/profile/gail...
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unless you're really trying to do pure realism - & even as I respect that, god bless/help you if you are, it's thankless in so many ways - this also holds for any narrative medium I can think of. (With exceptions that we all have to assess on our own.)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Rehearsing the end - Chicago Reader
A Chicago collective of death doulas wants to make dying and grieving something we do together again.
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.patreon.com/posts/170893...
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Professor Cinephile: Prior to the Affirmative Action charter, 90% of Black college students attended HBCUs. Today, 90% of Black college students attend PWIs. T
Prior to the Affirmative Action charter, 90% of Black college students attended HBCUs. Today, 90% of Black college students attend PWIs. T
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/09/2026
Evidently facing consequences for their actions was a step too far. trib.al/IOrDane
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January 6 Rioters Claim They Were “Punished,” Demand Restitution
Rioters who attacked the Capitol now want compensation from taxpayers.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 28/09/2026
“Through his music, his wit and his unmatched contribution to culture, he carried the spirit and stories of our people across the world.”
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A legend is dead at 91: Mighty Sparrow shaped Caribbean politics, culture with calypso
“Through his music, his wit and his unmatched contribution to culture, he carried the spirit and stories of our people across the world.”
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Big Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
It's bullshit she had to say this.....
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not in Rolling Stone: What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim Not to Have Seen The A Different World Reboot.
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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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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children:
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Justin Hunte's Culture United crew made me curious about AZ Chike's album. It's not cracking the 2026 top tier with Rapsody, Jill Scott, and Vince Staples, but sounds promising. I'll listen and let it breathe over the next few days.
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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That P*t*r Th**l clip going around about 'evil is good' made me hunt this Toni Morrison observation.
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Toni Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding Meaning
YouTube video by CTFORUM
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/09/2026
Nonviolence trainers are teaching voters and volunteers how to manage fear and assess risk. buff.ly/Sdi5G9A
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Staying Grounded in the Face of Voter Intimidation
Nonviolence trainers are teaching voters and volunteers how to manage fear and assess risk.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
If you were in camp “focus on the important things” when they were restoring Confederate monuments and base names here but can recognize the danger there you may want to interrogate some things.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
Two separate mass shootings in different townships in South Africa leave at least 27 people dead, police said. The shootings come just days after a mass shooting at a house party near Durban killed 11 people.
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Separate mass shootings in South Africa townships leave at least 27 people dead
Two separate mass shootings near South Africa’s two biggest cities killed at least 27 people. The South African Police Service says 17 people were killed Saturday night when suspects armed with AK-47 rifles and pistols opened fire at a bar in Wedela township, southwest of Johannesburg.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026
Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Andy Solages @sological.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whenever people bring up the Box, I always think of the only music video show I saw before college: Video Music Box (with Ralph McDaniels). No cable, but VMB took care of us. And originated videos including Wu's "Protect Ya Neck" and all the videos Uncle Ralph's Classic Concepts made for rappers.
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