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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 6h
I get the argument for removing Big Money from elections. And I even agree. But ponder this: How do conservatives spend billions on peddling bullshit, Yet ONE group, Black ppl, consistently NEVER falls for it? Maybe it’s not Big Money. Maybe…it’s your own bias, bigotry, ignorance, or self-hate.
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Marques Brownlee: Something To Think About
Alt: Marques Brownlee: Something To Think About
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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 4h
Something interesting is happening on IG. I'm finally seeing a bunch of young Black ppl see the anti-Black racism in the so-called "Pro-Palestinian" movement. Calling MVP Kamala Harris "a dog" & doubling, quadrupling down on it along with other anti-Black statements seems to be waking them up.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self-defense; founded by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland California. October 15, 1966. Let's revisit their ten-point plan and how it holds up today
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Just saw BlackRock ceo warning that data center moratorium would trigger a massive recession, which is fear mongering. And also hahahahahahhahahahaaaa.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s racist. If I wasn’t clear.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There’s this thing people do where they’re surprised that a rapper has read a book or knows any music theory or something else “intelligent”. Anyway, I hate it. Thank you.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15/10/2026
Famed soprano Martina Arroyo has died. She was 90. With her luminous voice and ease on stage, the Harlem native broke barriers as one of the first major Black opera stars in the 1960s and 1970s.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
Actor Keegan Allen was beaten & robbed at gunpoint in West Hollywood, then immediately took to social to blame Karen Bass. I’m sorry this happened to him, but W. Hollywood is its own city, patrolled by the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Karen Bass isn’t the mayor of WeHo. Wrong city. Wrong mayor.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Genuinely think history will judge Putin to be one of the worst American presidents ever
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 09/10/2026
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A 'Gut Punch': Black Women Fired by DOGE Work to Overcome Shame and Self-Blame
This story is a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, and was edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilileni Hauwanga When Sharon Davis opened her email at 5 a....
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earth pod @earthpod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"For many, the word “plantation” doesn’t evoke memories of a brutal racist system but rather nostalgic imagery of the gentlemanly South." many who? many what? many white?
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Souplantation (Sweet Tomatoes): Remembering the Unfortunately Named Buffet Chain
With those trays laid endless possibilities.(Gareth123458, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) OPINION By Tin Terashima YOUR JOURNEY ALWAYS BEGAN with grabbing an oddly moist tray before shuffling…
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Niche Neega @strange.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Are Black people the only ones that know how to say excuse me???
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KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both had an amazing job plan focused on moving to clean energy and fixing the infrastructure but white people voted for tariffs and deportations.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Marshall has mis-timed the market. We are still 6-14 months out from the amnesia cycle of this white reconstruction. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/emi...
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Eminem Fans Slam ‘Spineless’ Collab With MAGA Star
The rapper teamed up with Donald Trump’s buddy for a new song.
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Stephen P @stephenp12.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hard work pays off…. #blackpotter #blacksky
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Renée in L.A. 🐦‍⬛ @reneepatrice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reminder that this young man didn't drown. And after he died, someone deleted things from his phone before authorities arrived. My instincts tell me to look hard at the boy whose mom is a judge. This isn't right and everyone knows it. www.live5news.com/2026/09/24/n...
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Nolan Wells’ autopsy found no water in lungs; data was deleted from his phone the day he disappeared, experts say
Shocking new details were revealed during a press conference sharing the results of the state’s autopsy and findings from Nolan Wells’ cellphone.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you know one thing about me consider making it this: I trust a Black woman named Pontheolla Abernathy with my life, you hear me? That’s a woman who could lead me anywhere. (I have to visit this Inn.) www.southernliving.com/clevedale-hi...
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This 113-Year-Old Inn Is A South Carolina Treasure—And So Is The Couple Who Runs It
What do you get when you add 38 years of marriage, a former broadcaster, a former priest, a 440-acre property, a 113-year old inn, and one life-changing road trip? Paul and Pontheolla Abernathy, that’...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The manager was right — some longtime shoppers closed their accounts in protest — but Marcus stuck with his decision. At the time of the flagship's closure, the Main Street store had been open for 112 years.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These victories were achieved through the efforts of Civil Rights activists, along with support from Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus, who was an early advocate for desegregation. The Neiman Marcus Dallas store manager purportedly warned Marcus that he would destroy his business this way.
A Black man protesting in front of a department store in San Diego, California. He's wearing a suit and holding a sign that says "We March Protesting the Indignity and Humility of Jim Crow." There are some people behind him. Stanley Marcus smoking a pipe. He's wearing a striped suit.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.
The Zodiac Room restaurant on the sixth floor of Neiman Marcus in Dallas. The photo shows a bunch of tables covered in white tablecloth and leather covered seats.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For instance, they had to try on clothes over their clothes, put on protective covers when trying on hats, or weren't allowed to make returns once they brought the clothes home. These policies stemmed from racist fears that white customers would refuse merchandise previously worn by Black shoppers.
Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

By Gordon Parks

Promised gift of The Gordon Parks FoundationJoanne Wilson, one of the Thorntons’ daughters, is shown standing with her niece in front of a department store in downtown Mobile. The pair is impeccably dressed in light, summery frocks. The jarring neon of the “Colored Entrance” sign looming above them clashes with the two young women’s elegant appearance, transforming a casual afternoon outing into an example of overt discrimination. Notice the fallen strap of Wilson’s slip. Though this detail might appear discordant with the rest of the picture, its inclusion may have been strategic: it allowed Parks to emphasize the humanity of his subjects.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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The Old Magoo @theoldmagoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm in a "f**k you to anyone who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris" kinda mood today.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My entire fucking career. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Overselling wildlife trade bans will not bolster conservation or pandemic preparedness
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will be among the most significant global health crises of several generations. The causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is almo...
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu spent about half his childhood in the US. He went to high school in the Philadelphia area and college at Harvard/MIT. After graduating, he worked with a young Mitt Romney at Boston Consulting Group. He *is* a white American Republican.
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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
White-owned media HAS. ALWAYS. promoted & normalized anti-Blackness & white supremacist ideology.👇🏽 “In an apparent battle for readers, The [Washington] Post, along with the Star, the Washington Times & the Washington Herald, played up rumors of white women being sexually assaulted by black men.”😶👇🏽
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The D.C. race war of 1919 — and the forgotten story of one African American girl accused of murder
One hundred years ago, in the midst of a white riot, black Washingtonians fought back. Soon, a police officer was dead and a teenager named Carrie Johnson was headed to trial.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What started as one teenager’s idea is now pulling millions of kilograms of plastic out of the world’s oceans. I've been donating to this amazing org. since it's inception. Hope you will too. theoceancleanup.com/donate/ #Innovation #PlasticPlanet #OceanCleanUp #EnvironmentalSolutions
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2026
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
america is complete shit with root rot, but i am never ever going to let anyone from europe point to us as some kind of uniquely racist, war-crazed, entity. girl, the colony may have become the teacher, but we learned from the very best.
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ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
All they had to do was vote for Kamala.
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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🗣️ YALL👇🏾🔥🤎
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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But as usual, legacy outlets don’t take action until they’re personally attacked. The house has been on fire but now that the flames are licking their garden NOW it’s a problem
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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Maybe should’ve taken a stand when President Depends was berating Black press corps members
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
If this is at all true, smart firms/managers ought to be hiring now, even if they think they can do stuff with one mid-career guy and a Claude subscription
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The question then becomes: how much more expensive will mid-career employees be if you have to bid them away from firms that are producing them in a few years, and does that exceed what you save by using AI as an excuse not to hire now?
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
black americans trying to warn them:
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Pocahontas: These White Men Are Dangerous
ALT: Pocahontas: These White Men Are Dangerous
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
"white empiricism" is a shorthand for the broader ways in which white supremacist patriarchy assigns the property of "scientist" and "rational thinker" only to thinkers who embody white supremacist patriarchy in some legible way or who at least openly align with it
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Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 45, No 2
AbstractIn this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is not one corner of the planet that has not been influenced by Black American culture. Don't believe me? Think of any language on earth and I bet you can find someone making hiphop and rapping in that language.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are only a handful of people alive who should upstage me, can upstage me, and who I want to upstage me. This is one of them. 😉✊🏿❤️
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