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Auntie Fa

@waterlife.bsky.social
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Water is life. I’m always looking and listening and thinking and planning for water and people.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Don't they have enough?? All these little weeny billionaires do is suck up our resources and leave us with nothing." ICYMI - South Park calls out billionaires for data centers and resource extraction👇
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So happy to be outside Texas, so I can log in. So disappointed in my old state and US law /courts allowing states to inhibit my federal rights. 😣
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Trump says ceasefire 'is over' after US and Iran trade strikes overnight - live updates
Speaking at a Nato summit in Turkey, the US president calls Iranian leaders "scum" and says negotiators can continue to talk - but they are "wasting their time".
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Similar yet different reports —- gothamist.com/news/fdny-ev... www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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This factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work
A GE Appliances plant in rural northwest Georgia was short hundreds of workers amid COVID-19. A flexible work option where some workers can sign up for shifts through an app has eased the pain.
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Penelope: weaponised by men as the gold standard for wives since BCE. I hopped inside her marriage to Odysseus in a series of letters in my Women’s Prize shortlisted book, A Thousand Ships (2019). Here’s just the beginning… #TheOdyssey #AThousandShips #Penelope
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
NBC: “An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican national Tuesday morning in Houston during an attempted traffic stop to conduct an immigration arrest…” They say he “weaponized his vehicle” (which is their standard line every time) www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Funny how the newly self-minted Republican morality police don’t have too much to day about this guy they’ve nominated in Texas
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Graham Platner Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Did you mean to say Stone Blind cuteness, Build a Bear? 😉🐍
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
part of the issue is that most mainstream commentators are so poorly read that they think any mention of race or gender is “identity politics.” hell, not just mainstream commentators either, as i have experienced in trying to talk about racism as a question of political economy
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Odyssey! I have read, translated and compressed it into a handy half hour podcast for you. Here’s your quick guide on BBC Sounds. Infidelity and monsters aplenty… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Series 8, Homer: The Odyssey
Natalie retells Homer's epic story of homecoming, adventure and passion.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@wbur.org caught up with Ted Landsmark, the Black lawyer who was assaulted and threatened by a flagpole wielding white man protesting against school integration in Boston in 1976. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Crowd Size Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers
Women make up a miniscule 3% of construction workers in Kenya. But a nonprofit group is offering them a way to get into the game ... and to get ahead.
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
¡This land is your land! one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5881...
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🔊 Listen Now: Celebrating Elizabeth Blair: NPR honors retiring arts correspondent with this 'Encore'
Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 8:05
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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🔊 Listen Now: Opinion: America is still a work in progress
Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 2:36
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Be Independent today & everyday open.spotify.com/playlist/2Lp...
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American Anthem
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cartoon by Robert Ariail
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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🔊 Listen Now: Medicaid funding restored for Planned Parenthood healthcare services
Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 3:03
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Russia looks to students to make up for mounting losses in Ukraine
Moscow's campaign for students to sign army contracts comes as the Kremlin seeks to sustain its war effort for a fifth year.
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Oregon ER doctors win a 'David and Goliath' battle against a national company
In a test of a new state law, doctors in Eugene went up against a national physician staffing firm seeking to replace them. Their success is getting attention across the U.S. as other states consider ...
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Russia’s triumphant tone shifts as Ukraine deploys ‘asymmetrical tactics’
Putin wobbles as Russia's top brass stays mum on Kyiv's long-range strikes, which analysts say look set to continue.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2026
good observation here pointed lack of well-paying jobs for working people is the other side of the cville housing crisis.
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Analysis: C'ville least affordable housing market in Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- A new analysis ranks Charlottesville as Virginia’s least affordable housing market, highlighting the widening gap between regional home prices and local wages.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2026
new video up with more thoughts on trump v barbara youtu.be/kjvAnWSBz4E
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told the True Story of Birthright Citizenship
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Declaration
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2026
would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I am at peace. Cabo Verde lifted the entire diaspora and made us proud.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
💔 Vonda McDaniel was a real one. Always fighting for workers and her Nashville neighbors. Rest in Power. 💪🏾 www.instagram.com/p/DaSi6HYBhH...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ex Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb: “We are seeing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2026
finally got around to reading @winterjessica.bsky.social review of j.d. vance's new book and it is devastating
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J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir
J. D. Vance’s second memoir, “Communion,” tells the story of his decision to become Catholic, but it’s strangely disdainful of the faith he has joined.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2026
"“Communion,” far more than “Hillbilly Elegy,” is the work of an inveterate opportunist, one who appears torn between the urge to camouflage his careerism—Vance’s true religion—and an equally strong desire to be admired for how well and how profitably he plays the game."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2026
worth saying is that this was the sentiment behind trump's election year rhetoric about "black jobs"
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Auntie Fa @waterlife.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... Governor wants not just rainbows covered up but steers too 😬
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Austin covers ‘TEXAS’ mural at UT campus with gravel and oil overnight
Guadalupe Street’s ‘TEXAS’ mural is gone after Abbott directive.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026
to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)
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Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Me, me, me... Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026
the case for filibuster reform amounts to "this isn't in the constitution and we shouldn't pretend like it is."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Play silly games, cough up $2million.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ICYMI — this happened too. $5 million. www.nydailynews.com/2026/06/29/s...
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My Medea and all the women of this story are 99p on Kindle today! Grab your chance if you’re a Kindle reader, or just like a backup version alongside your indie bookshop copy 📗 Think you know the quest for the Golden Fleece? Think again. No Friend to This House 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Friend-This-...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
Wow. What an asshole.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/07/2026
It legit breaks my heart that the United States is no longer a welcoming country. Even with the World Cup, we’re watching other countries show the kind of warmth and humanity we used to claim as our own.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
lastly, funny how it is the court that determines whether something constitutes history and tradition. a century of established practice vindicated by a century of presidents, congresses and electoral majorities? means nothing because six harvard and yale grads read some bad scholarship
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
It is striking isn’t it? A Lost Cause justice invents a jurisprudential theory meant to keep Reconstruction from ever happening again, which is then recovered, rehabilitated and developed into a new version, “the unitary executive,” that is being deployed to roll back the Second Reconstruction.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
the president can negotiate with congress. the president can offer proposals and suggestions. but the only direct control the president has over lawmaking is his ability to veto! once something is signed into law, he is constitutionally obligated to "faithfully execute" it!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Pathetic. And what @JDVance describes as “rigging the election” here is what they’re now doing with Twitter, cbs, etc… it’s always projection. And un-American.
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