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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Jan 27

If you *actually* want to get to know me and my story, listen to this conversation with @grza.bsky.social.

The rest is just hearsay.

www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-16...

Episode 167 - This is Awkword

I sit down with the MC, journalist, and political activist know as Awkword. We talk about the intersection of politics and hip-hop, the impact of Charlottesville, and how redemption can work.

www.didnothingwrongpod.com

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 3h

Kid Rock. Never Forget.

Kid Rock / Pimp Of The Nation (1990)

YouTube video by 313classiccs

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 6h

They’ve long had it out for Portland.

This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA

And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.

youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...

medium.com/@philmandelb...

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

“Fre’Drisha Dixon can still recall the laughter that once spilled across… the now-shuttered Clyde Woodworth Elementary School in Inglewood. Just as clearly, she can conjure up the loud banging of the bulldozers that plowed through the school’s classrooms last year.”

@lapublicpress.bsky.social

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social

From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

capitalbnews.org

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump/MAGA Project 2025 plan:

Destroy the Affordable Care Act

Defund Medicaid

Eliminate the federal workforce

And give tax breaks to billionaires

They don’t care if 17 million people lose insurance

Or if millions more will see their premiums double

And that thousands of Americans will die

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, it's not like mainstream media can get any wor...

Nevermind.

www.mediaite.com/online/nyt-i...

NYT Issues Correction After Bari Weiss Uses ‘Antifa’ Account Run By Alt-Right Trolls to Prove Left is Intolerant

New York Times writer Bari Weiss has been duped (again).

www.mediaite.com

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 4d

CONGRESS is out of session until mid Oct

During:

*A Govt SD
*Govt Violence

W/O voting on:

*Apprs
*ACA Tax Creds
*2017 Tax Creds
*Farm Bill
*Debt Ceiling

And not swearing in Rep. Grijalva of Az

All to protect human garbage that don’t give a shit about you or I.🖕🏻
#SheShed

Release the Epstein Files
@jen.sheshed.rock
Signed, Epstein's Mom

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 4d

The GOP Speaker sent Congress home -
even though most Republicans want to keep ACA tax credits:

✅ 59% GOP
✅ 57% MAGA
✅ 70% non-MAGA

Rural + self-employed Americans rely on ACA coverage.

Republicans want affordable care.

Trump’s team doesn’t care.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 4d

Are you an artist?
Do you know an artist?
Today's episode of #DoSomething explores how to use your art as social or political activism in additionally fulfilling and meaningful ways.

Don't forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe!

rhutabhayga.substack.com/p/do-somethi...

Do Something - guest Barry Shapiro

Artist and activist

rhutabhayga.substack.com

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 4d

Last week I talked to @kenklippenstein.bsky.social, who is very good at this reporting thing, about the recent political assassinations and how the Trump White House is weaponizing them. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

The meme-ification of political violence

It's less ideology than the internet — what the media and Trump don't understand about the current wave of shootings.

www.msnbc.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Diario Público @publico.es · 9d

OPINIÓN | “Es necesario que exista precariedad, miedo y ansiedad para poder echarle la culpa a otros e incrementar las herramientas represivas del Estado”, por @miquelramos.bsky.social

No son estadísticas, es ideología

La derecha recurre al debate migratorio para evitar atender otros asuntos.

www.publico.es

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 14d

Ezra Klein baldly called Luigi Mangione’s alleged crime left wing violence on The Bulwark podcast. That Atlantic story the other day talking about a rise in left wing violence did the same. I’m genuinely confused by this. Mangione’s politics seemed to me incoherent to say the least.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 16d

David Barton, the widely ridiculed and perpetually corrected "amateur historian" who has mainstreamed the idea that church-state separation is a myth, will be advising the Texas State Board of Education on social studies curriculum.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 21d

Man charged with threatening Mamdani seems to have echoed Trump

www.dailykos.com

Man charged with threatening Mamdani seems to have echoed Trump

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 4d

You are my hero!

You see the peril in our country.

You know democracy is in danger.

You post about it daily.

The good news is that YOU can save us, and volunteering for elections is the most effective use of your time—far more effective than posting.

And Prop 50 is the most important race rn. 🧵

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3d

Family waits, worries after SoCal activist with Gaza flotilla is sent to Israeli prison. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Family waits, worries after SoCal activist with Gaza flotilla is sent to Israeli prison

Israeli naval forces intercepted aid vessels headed to Gaza, taking into custody Southern California native David Adler, among other passengers and crew.

www.latimes.com

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 4d

For Monday of Banned Books Week, we explore the Comstock Acts, enacted in 1873 and 1909. While we tend to think of this federal law today in terms of efforts to restrict access to birth control and abortion medications, they originally targeted literature as well. (Thread)

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What Are the Origins of the Comstock Act?
In 1873 - at the behest of anti-vice crusader, Anthony Comstock - Congress enacted a law banning the interstate mailing and receiving of
"obscene, lewd, or lascivious" writings, or "any article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or procuring an abortion." In 1909, Congress enacted a similar law banning the use of express company or common carrier (such as FedEx or UPS) to mail
"any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use." These laws came to be known collectively as the Comstock Act. The scope of what constituted obscene or lewd material was far broader at the time, and in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Comstock Act was used to prosecute a wide array of violations.

How the Comstock Act became inactive for books
• Passed in 1873: The original Comstock Act made it illegal to send "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" materials through the U.S. mail, which was interpreted to cover a broad range of publications, including anatomy books and classic literature.
• Obscenity standard narrowed: Over decades, court rulings progressively narrowed the scope of what is considered legally obscene, limiting the act's reach. Key Supreme Court decisions, including Roth v. United States (1957) and Miller v.
California (1973), established a more precise definition of obscenity, making it much harder to prosecute the mailing of books.
• Free speech protections: Subsequent First Amendment challenges further protected free speech rights, rendering the Comstock Act obsolete for censoring non-obscene publications.
As a result, the mailing of most magazines and books is now considered common and legal.
• Modern focus is different: Today, enforcement of the Comstock Act's obscenity provisions is focused almost exclusively on child and violent pornography.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4d

“The idea that law enforcement would be masked and and therefore unaccountable to the people they are serving is really anathema to American values,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @TechnologyReview.com. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 3d

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday on CNN Stephen Miller said Trump has plenary authority. If you watch the video, you can tell it was a slip of the tongue — he instantly froze up after realizing he’d said the quiet part out loud.

Just to be clear, Trump does not have plenary power — yet.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Trump aide freezes on live TV after controversial claim about president

A Trump administration official faces criticism after allegedly claiming US President Donald Trump has "plenary authority" while on a live interview with CNN.

www.abc.net.au

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