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Walter IV

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton. More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob. Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for “riots.” #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...
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Sept. 30, 1919: Elaine Massacre
Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates…
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Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/09... naw add some more zeros!
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NYC ‘stole’ properties from Black and Brown homeowners in third-party seizures — but now it has to cough up $60M.
Last week, New York City reached a historic $60 million class action settlement after decades of executing unlawful property seizures.
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Azi Paybarah @azipaybarah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the day of the primary, Marty O’Donnell’s campaign homepage featured a picture of him with Trump. But by August, the Trump image on the campaign homepage was replaced with a video ad that does not mention Trump. #NV03 san.com/wp-content/u...
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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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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Walter IV @walteriv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gen X is so tough, millions of parents watched Alex Haley’s Roots with their white children in 1977 and those gen X kids survived.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
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Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congrats to Zahn McClarnon! Zahn McClarnon will receive the 2026 Visionary Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival, honoring more than three decades of work as an actor and his growing role as a producer and director. redpopnews.com/zahn-mcclarn...
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Zahn McClarnon to Receive 2026 Visionary Award at Santa Fe International Film Festival
Zahn McClarnon will receive the 2026 Visionary Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival, honoring more than three decades of work as an actor and his growing role as a producer and director...
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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A tale of power and abuse shot from the angle of Toto. Instead of being mesmerized by the floating visage of the Wizard of Oz, Toto saw the shuffling feet at the bottom of the curtain which, once tugged away, revealed levers and gears operated by an ordinary man desperate to project his power."
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers @majorlinux.com · 26/09/2026
NAZA - official trailer buff.ly/WPrwwVU
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Walter IV @walteriv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF
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Black Diaspora News @blackdiasporanews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Birthday to En Vogue singer Cindy Herron 🎙️🎶🎊 #cindyherron #envogue #celebritynews #celebritybirthdays
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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RockGarage4 @rockgarage4.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On this day, September 25, 1964 - The Temptations began recording 'My Girl' at Hitsville USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan. Written and produced by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, the song became their first US No.1 and the first of fifteen US Top Ten hits. youtu.be/C_CSjcm-z1w?...
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 23/09/2026
The cost of security for Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a high-profile figure in the Trump administration whose father and uncle were assassinated in the 1960s, grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026, people familiar with the matter said.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wait, who exactly engaged in this "talk of a political realignment," NYT?
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents shed light on the agency's role in the Greensboro Massacre. Two Klansman, including one who was a former FBI informant, separately warned the agency about the potential for violence. (paywalled) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Bombshell memo on horrific race massacre exposes complicit FBI: 'They lied like crazy'
GREENSBORO, N.C. — In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.”Earlier that month,...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why does it keep feeling like Propublica is the only one trying?
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Simply 🤯 story! In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for."
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“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … ...
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Albumism @albumism.com · 19/09/2026
Happy Birthday Nile Rodgers! Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/NRodgersHBD
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No platforming lies No sanewashing No “access journalism”
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS." Imagine a Democratic administration was hiding the number of fatalities in a needless, endless war.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18/09/2026
Tone Capone, "I Got 5 On It" producer, dead at 59
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Tone Capone, "I Got 5 On It" producer, dead at 59
"I Got 5 On It" entered the canon of west coast hip-hop, hitting the Billboard top ten and resurfacing in Jordan Peele's 2019 horror film "Us."
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
177 years ago today, Harriet Tubman made her first escape from a plantation in Maryland with her two brothers.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When he speaks for the U.S., he's generally not talking about the government. He's saying he will prohibit U.S. businesses from exporting American products, while preventing Americans from buying European products. This isn't a slap at the EU. It's an attack on American businesses and consumers.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WSJ editorial board FOIAs emails showing Sen. Katie Britt’s office privately seeking Trump tariff exemptions for Alabama — while she’s publicly praising the tariffs. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
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Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks
How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
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Carron J. Phillips @carronjphillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Consider this column a penalty flag thrown on Kansas’s glaring double standards — as two PWIs in the heartland of America turned a football game into the “Who Treats Black People Better Bowl,” disguised as “The Border War.” carronjphillips.substack.com/p/a-college-...
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Walter IV @walteriv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have it in good authority The Holy Cows are no longer available for the midwestern leg.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stephen Root is at the top of my list of actors for whom their involvement means I will absolutely watch. Phenomenal.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump administration secreted a US diplomat out of the UK to avoid him from being investigated for child porn. news.sky.com/story/us-off...
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US officials 'secretly flew diplomat out of UK' after indecent image allegations
UK ministers are understood to be in contact with the US embassy over the incident, which is reported to be connected to an investigation in the US.
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Walter IV @walteriv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just landed in Dallas for a Monday conference. #wtf
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On this day in 1874, Kiowa and Comanche people led by Kiowa chief Ǥûib̶à:gàui (Lone Wolf) engage American forces at the Battle of Sweetwater Creek, during the Red River War, assisting a large group of women and children in escaping on the other side of a ridge. anticolonialhistory.com/event/105/
Quanah Parker 1890 Daniel P. Sink of Vernon Texas, Public Domain
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 10/09/2026
I went long on why Walter Thompson-Hernández’s IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME, starring Danielle Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson, is such an outstanding film. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social
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If I Go Will They Miss Me review: A gorgeous Black coming-of-age fable
Its keen mix of magical-realist visual language offers an eloquent vision of Blackness.
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Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy for Big Foe!
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First in WaPo this morning: @votevets.org is launching a new campaign to mobilize veterans against Trump's planned triumphal arch. Trump officials are planning 20/hr per day of construction to build 250-ft-tall arch near Arlington National Cemetery.
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