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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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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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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Shut it all down. We should be in the streets.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

chris rock hasn't been For the Culture basically ever and got his first consequence for being a raggedy asshole and the white people who have upheld him as a pinnacle of Blackness lost their minds at the thought of consequences for him being shitty and i think those two things are linked.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

The Bluesky philosophy absolutely is that once a Black person reaches a certain number of followers, people are allowed to talk to us any old way and we are supposed to take it and the medical and psychological consequences of swallowing it because we have a lot of followers

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

"[The problem is] people don't think that Black women are rational." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A sister stood at the end of a long book signing line to tell me that my curls are popping today and some people just really get it, ya know?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My goddaughter got her license and promptly used it to drive her friends to…the museum. A gorgeous nerd, we have made! ❤️😂

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

My kids had a "If the adults fucked up? Call mom. If we fucked up, call dad" rule for themselves. My parenting was far from perfect. It was effective and we have good relationships. But chances are excellent we will all be getting C's and D's in some categories on our parenting report cards

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

I was a terrorist. Like, pretty sure there are still people calling me that bitch about meetings from 15 years ago. Because fundamentally no part of public education is working to provide great outcomes without pressure. Oldest has a degree, a job, and a family. Youngest is still in college.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

So I said I was tired of the discourse about NHJ and I am. But I am also astonished at the number of people who are certain their choice is better. Because the parenting report card isn't in yet and baby, some of your kids will be asking why you made them go to a racist school based on test scores

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.

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sweetgeek.bsky.social @sweetgeek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fred Hammond's I Will Say is so gorgeous.

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Antonia Hylton @ahylton26.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our exclusive interview on The Assignment with a legal observer in Maine who was able to unmask 2 ICE agents.

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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 26/09/2026

By volunteering, you can help voters navigate the process, answer questions, and ensure community members can cast their ballots with confidence. When we show up for one another, we help make sure every voice has a chance to be heard. Become a poll monitor 👉🏿 www.powerthepolls.org/bvm

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes i google Ally McBeal — that 90s legal drama where all the bathrooms were unisex and nobody cared except to think it was so cosmopolitan and cool — just to make sure i didn’t make all that up.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So, it turns out that now CNN and CBS News are under the control of the Ellison family, they are considering asking Elon Musk to join them. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We should make a push for mass cancellation of Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, HBO Max, Amazon Prime and Apple. They have all increased their prices as people are struggling to pay rent, groceries and gas. Guarantee you they'll respond to a massive boycott. All they care about is $$$

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

lol increasingly learning that many accusations are admissions.

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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 22/09/2026

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I guess my question while reading this was: why the insistence that individual proximity would have addressed systemic gaps?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

lol I can AT LEAST guarantee Sydney Sweeney will have another problematic ad within the year. It is HER brand strategy. 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

lol imo the play is to put the racist/sexist thing out to speak to one consumer, but then to backtrack to speak to another. Rinse and repeat.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

It's very clear that companies are generating racist and sexist controversy as a brand strategy, e.g., Sydney Sweeney, Converse.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My father died, I was fired from my job for speaking out against Charlie Kirk, lost a teaching gig because I critiqued Israel. And yet, I’ve managed to not publicly crashout and ruthlessly attack other free speech voices. The amount of personal restraint people expect of Black women is wild.

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jess @jessamess.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

I think asking a Black woman who has lost teaching opportunities, her job, and her father all in the past year alone to have grace when none is being given to her is not a great look.

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Currently Engaged in Racckiteering @racckiteering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I feel like the word "negligence" isn't being used even 1% as much as it should be

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Played the OG “Sparkle” for the fam last night, complete with my Upward Bound talent show rendition from 96. Some people truly don’t appreciate how blessed they are. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Alli @wildmagedesigns.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This is what I need folks outside the US to remember when they blast Americans “not doing anything” online. There’s lots of excellent people resisting in every way they can but our opposition wants violence. They want any reason to turn on us. Economic resistance is slow but it’s the best way rn.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.” The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/10/2025

TLDR: I was today years old when I learned that during recessions, wage discrimination gets worse for all Black workers, ESPECIALLY Black professionals. AND white men are crowded out of riskier jobs and even if they find themselves in those types jobs, they make more than everyone else. 🤷🏿‍♀️ #blacksky

Examining the Differential Impact of Recessions and Recovery across Race and Gender for Working- versus Professional-Class Workers
Ofronama Biu ofronama@newschool.edu, Christopher Famighetti, and Darrick HamiltonView all authors and affiliations
Volume 695, Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162211027926

Contents
Abstract
We investigate how wages and occupation sorting vary by race, gender, and class during recessions. We performed repeated Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions of the Black-White wage gap from 1988 to 2020. Black professional-class workers’ wages are more unstable and take a more substantial hit during recessions. Black workers see a lower return to their labor market characteristics during recessions, and this is pronounced for the professional class. Using an occupational crowding methodology, we find that Black women are overrepresented in essential work and roles with high physical proximity to others and receive the lowest wages. White men are crowded out of riskier work but, within these categories, dominate higher-paying roles. Black workers earn less in professional riskier work than in working-class roles, while the reverse is true for White workers. We find that class status does not protect Black workers to the same extent as White workers, especially during recessions.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/10/2025

A must read for ANYONE who wants to understand why Black women are experiencing a uniquely bad labor market and why the 300,000 number isn't telling the full story. Dr. Valerie Wilson gets deep into the data around job losses and why paying attention to Black women matters. #blacksky

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What’s behind rising unemployment for Black workers?

For the last five years, I’ve given the same answer in response to questions about any one-month increase in the Black unemployment rate. Given the relatively small sample size used to calculate the n...

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 20/09/2025

Please share

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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 15/08/2025

You guys!!!! Remember the young Black men trying things? Here they are braiding hair and installing wigs!!!!!

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sweetgeek.bsky.social @sweetgeek.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

My best friend has been my hairdresser since age 16. She understands things about me that I would not have the energy to explain to literally anyone else... She gets me on a cellular level and she gave me the prettiest, most functional, perfect, 90s LOB... She's literally a blessing...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

UPDATE: The Smithsonian's American History Museum has restored information about Trump's two impeachments to its display on U.S. presidential impeachments.

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PBS @pbs.org · 07/08/2025

An update from us here at PBS 💙

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LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I have to run this back. 🤭🤭🤭🤭 Because Toni didn’t play.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Things that will happen when he's gone: * we're going to learn about shit he did that's so heinous, it makes the stuff we know about look tame * his many minions will claim to have "always opposed" him and demand sympathy for their suffering at his hands * dancing in the streets, worldwide

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Why are so many lawyers monsters? Because our field treats depravity and inhumanity as professionalism. "Your friend had a heart attack next to you during the bar? Too bad. Get back to work, immediately." This is why we have the worst addiction & mental health outcomes of almost any profession

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Ralph Lauren has done a collection inspired by a Black community on Martha’s Vineyard called Oak Bluffs. They’ve partnered with/are supporting Morehouse and Spelman, and Cottagers Inc., Black women homeowners preserving Oak Bluffs’ history. The website is excellent, and there’s a film too.

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