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@thewaywithanoa.bsky.social
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mom, comms/narrative strategist navigating the matrix, lawyer, host of “The Way with Anoa” podcast, and avid sci-fi fan.

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Freeborn Black Woman First of Her Name @thewaywithanoa.bsky.social · 3h
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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More demoralized than angry. When public health leadership moves away from evidence, the damage to trust can take years to repair. Institutional trustworthiness matters. #DrUcheBlackstock
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have never tried to raise money for a political candidate running for Congress outside my home state. But I am publicly endorsing & supporting @angieforfl. A great event in D.C. last night for soon-to-be Senator @angieforfl. Great to run into old friend @jbrownedianis & new friend @isaiahrmartin!
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Vox @vox.com · 18/09/2026
Good news — you can make tiny adjustments to your tech to take some AI out of your everyday routine. @adamclarkestes.com gives a few tips on how to de-AI your life. www.vox.com/advice/50324...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 18/09/2026
An analysis of government inspections and a survey of customers find that incorrect prices are frequent in the stores of Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger. It said they're usually in the store's favor. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/18/r...
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Report accuses Ohio-based grocery giant Kroger of frequent overpricing • Ohio Capital Journal
A new report says that grocery giant Kroger often incorrectly prices items in ways that make them more expensive at the register.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026
Oxfam International's executive director urges world leaders to take "decisive action" on multiple crises. "The world is torn apart by the inequality emergency, the climate crisis [and] the wars all around."
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“Inequality Emergency”: Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza
As world leaders prepare to head to New York for the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, Democracy Now! speaks with Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International. “We live in ...
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CNN @cnn.com · 27/08/2026
President Donald Trump has disclosed making another 1,000-plus stock transactions in June, continuing an unprecedented pace of trading activity while in office that has drawn scrutiny over his ability to personally profit off of the presidency. cnn.it/3Sf8GXH
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Legitimately crying real tears. RIP to one of my absolute faves. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thru our #SOS campaign, we @freepress.bsky.social are fighting w/ dozens of partners around the US for protections against surveillance, AI extraction & data privacy violations. I'm honored @cbsnews.com interviewed me & covered digital civil rights laws we need in GA: www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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4 Savannah officers arrested over Flock Safety misuse. What does oversight look like in Georgia?
Flock Safety is rolling out new safeguards as police misuse cases fuel a national debate over privacy, public safety and who should police a growing surveillance network.
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
JD Vance was bankrolled by a billionaire to become VP, where he turns everything into displays of extravagant wealth. This week his own security detail said he tried to fly his kid to a golf lesson on a $24,000-an-hour military helicopter. But yeah. Just a diamond in the rough from Appalachia.
Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The time is now to fight the surveillance state. Join our Solidarity Over Surveillance webinar next Wed, June 3 w/ experts @eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social, @chadmarlow.bsky.social of @aclu.org, & @attorneynora.bsky.social Details here: bit.ly/fpsossocial
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My first legal job was with the Georgia AG office prosecuting white collar & public official crimes. Preventing IRS inquiry into Trump is the biggest news of illegal activity. @froomkin.bsky.social has a great piece on media failure to cover this for what it is: presswatchers.org/2026/05/news...
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News headlines adopted Trump’s deceptive framing of his new $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund | Press Watch
Weaponization was not a Biden thing. It's a Trump thing.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Vought is the connective tissue linking different elements of the MAGA coalition... into a machine for advancing the interests of a small minority of oligarchs." Really hard to overstate how important this point is. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democra...
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
This post is a part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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Freeborn Black Woman First of Her Name @thewaywithanoa.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Waiting for these Georgia results. I don't know if my nerves can take it lol.
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Oopsie Vinny Thomas
ALT: Oopsie Vinny Thomas
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A geofence warrant lets police sweep up data on every phone in a defined area during a defined window. Is that constitutional? The Supreme Court will decide in Chatrie v. United States. Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque talks with NACDL's Michael Price, who represents the plaintiff.
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What's at Stake in Chatrie v. United States
Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque spoke to Michael Price, litigation director at NACDL and one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff in the case.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/05/2026
“I think a lot of people that we considered when we were operational for three years were very deserving of clemency,” says a North Carolina lawmaker and former judge who served on the state’s now-disbanded Juvenile Sentence Review Board.
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North Carolina Governor Denies Nearly All Juvenile Lifers Seeking Clemency - Bolts
After the state’s previous governor created a board to consider clemency for people sentenced to lengthy prison terms as minors, a new administration closes their pathway to freedom.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For the Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke with scholar and former European Commission official Paul Nemitz, who is one of the authors of a new book titled The Open Future and Its Enemies: How We Can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship.
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How to Confront the Threat of AI Dictatorship
A conversation with Paul Nemitz, one of the authors of The Open Future and Its Enemies: How We Can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship.
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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 16/05/2026
The Georgia Supreme Court race is not a primary. It is Election Day for those nonpartisan races. Make sure you’re voting for Miracle Rankins and Jen Jordan (and Will Wooten and Fatima for appeals court) on Tuesday.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Democratic shakedown USA happening now.
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Derek Tyler Attico @dattico.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congratulations to @chanda.blacksky.app on the success of her new book “The Edge of Space Time.” and her NY Times interview! If you haven’t read this book yet — why not?! Pick it up and you won’t be disappointed!! #science #poetry
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join Hammer & Hope at the Black Zine Fair this Saturday, May 9, at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. We’ll be selling limited edition booklets, hoodies, T-shirts, tote bags, and more. See you there! ✊🏿
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So here's what lots of folks are thinking about: the midterms are coming. SCOTUS has authorized racial gerrymandering. Trump wants to drive up civil unrest so he can legitimize invoking military presence near polling locations. It's a bad scenario if you play it out. But we ALL have agency to act.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Emails reveal DOJ officials planned to share voter rolls with DHS much earlier than they admitted
The emails focus attention again on the tangle of conflicting statements made by DOJ lawyers — in letters to states, court filings, and public comments — about what the agency planned for the data.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Govt & private brokers swapping sensitive info on voters, drivers, biometric data is problematic. When govt buys this data, it violates Fourth Am. search & seizure limits & First Am. privacy & anonymity rights. Also the basis for 2016 election manipulation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Emails reveal DOJ officials planned to share voter rolls with DHS much earlier than they admitted
The emails focus attention again on the tangle of conflicting statements made by DOJ lawyers — in letters to states, court filings, and public comments — about what the agency planned for the data.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/04/2026
Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya is reportedly delaying the publication of new findings within the health agency showcasing the strong effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. The report found hospitalization rates drop by 55% amongst vaccinated adults.
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Report: CDC Head Blocks Release of Findings Showing Strong COVID Vax Effectiveness
The report detailed how adults receiving COVID-19 vaccines saw hospitalization rates drop by 55 percent.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/04/2026
Ed Blum truly loves nothing more than denying Black kids a college education Gets him out of bed in the morning Puts some pep in his step ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Ed Blum Is Trying to Keep Black Kids Out of School Again
The latest target of America’s most aggrieved white guy: a Congressional Black Caucus scholarship program for Black students in their districts.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 08/04/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling that could weaken or even eliminate a key part of the Voting Rights Act that’s critical to challenging racial discrimination in election maps. Here’s how this could upend Mississippi:
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Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout
Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their victory.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 07/04/2026
Federal immigration agents based in the New York City field office arrested three times as many people in early 2026 compared to the same time period in 2025: gothamist.visitlink.me/fCl2vP
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
very few sounds sweeter to my ears than a Southern drawl saying “It’s giving war crime. You can’t do that.”
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/04/2026
"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
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Freeborn Black Woman First of Her Name @thewaywithanoa.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Still thinking about all the folks back in 2023 who didn't want to talk about Project 2025 in hopes it would just blow over.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/04/2026
hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/04/2026
Trump is holding an entire nation hostage. But, somehow, the rest of the world continues on. The markets chug along. Congress continues to be in recess, with dissent confined largely to social media. It is hard not to feel like we have failed some critical test of the bounds of our own humanity.
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Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump threatened.
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monique @thejournalista.com · 04/04/2026
@thewaywithanoa.bsky.social writes, "We need to clearly map the landscape we are currently operating within and name the harm, because Trump is not alone."
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Trump’s Election Order Is A Sign Of Open Rebellion Against The Country
We need to clearly map the landscape we are currently operating within and name the harm, because Trump is not alone.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026
Sometime soon we’re going to see some kind of weird conflict between the right wing Catholics on SCOTUS and the right wing Protestants elsewhere
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2026
It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money
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Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2026
"Cyndie Hutchings, another activist, said opposition to data centers has the potential to swing elections ... 'They tell me that they are lifelong Republican voters, but this has changed the way they’re looking at everything.'" Oh.
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Democrats see Georgia's failure to curb data centers as an electoral gift
Georgia lawmakers have ended their legislative session without addressing concerns over data centers.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
On today's episode, we go deep on the Christian influencers pushing for War with Iran. Plus, @akelalacy.bsky.social and I discuss how the war is shaping the midterms. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/t...
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Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home
Investigative Journalist Sara Posner on how the Christian right’s end times views are shaping U.S. foreign and domestic policies.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
States are dogged in their introduction & advancement of bad bills to target free speech, press, access to information. Here’s an excellent piece on a bill I’m disturbed by in GA, where we’re actively fighting for open govt & records: georgiarecorder.com/2026/03/27/g...
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Georgia taxpayers paid for greater visibility into policing. Now lawmakers want to block their view • Georgia Recorder
What started as an attempt to curb the reputational harm of mugshots posted online has morphed into fast-moving legislation that would limit Georgians’ oversight of police activities. Senate Bill 482 ...
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Freeborn Black Woman First of Her Name @thewaywithanoa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Question for fans of Paradise who have also watched Fringe... am I the only one seeing parallels between Sinatra and Walter and Peter and Dylan?
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
well i dunno who i trust more on this, the most prestigious medical association on earth or four dipshits who asked claude to sum up some cherry picked papers
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
Resharing this request from a fellow fan: Please respectfully let Paramount know how you feel about the way they're handling this and other Trek series. The head of original series production is Jane Wiseman, at jane.wiseman@paramount.com.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
Been meaning to share! Did you know about the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference at Spelman? It’s organized by students every year & when I was a student I helped organize it! If you’re around Atlanta this weekend it’s an amazing gathering, & they’ll show the new documentary on Bambara.
The Toni Cade Bambara
Scholar-Activism Conference
Radical Activisms & Irrestible Revolutions
March 27 - 28, 2026
Women's Research & Resource Center
Camille Olivia Hanks COsby, Ed.D. Academic Center
This gathering will bring students/youth, scholar-activists, cultural workers, creatives community organizers together in the spirit of Toni Cade Bambara's radical Black feminist commitment to the transnational struggle for social justice and Black liberation.
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Featuring: Roundtables, Presentations, Films, Panels, Workshops,
Performances, Skill-Shares,
& YOU!
WOMEN'S
Fl Spelman College
For more information, email womenscenter@spelman.edu or call (404) 270-5625
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Freeborn Black Woman First of Her Name @thewaywithanoa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
That's us! Health insurance costs a little more than the mortgage. And everything keeps going up.
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