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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 3h

Vote vote vote vote 💃🏾

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Encyclopedia Brown @laconicicon.bsky.social · 11h

Folk in Georgia: please go vote today. Ya’ll have a very important election for Public Service Commission. Not a sexy post but they shape how much you pay for energy.

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Black Joy 🇧🇸 🇺🇸 @blackjoy.blacksky.app · 12h

Good morning #BlackSky! If you haven't done so already, please VOTE today. Don't be swayed by fear-and-smear, doom-and-gloom rhetoric... your participation in the process is vital and valid.

Your vote carries the same weight that a billionaire's vote does.

Use it to make your voice heard.

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 12h

There’s a Black owned product that my mom used to get at Target that she was very pleased to tell me she found online and started ordering directly. She’s 74 and used to practically live in Target. So when you’ve lost older, loyal, creature-of-habit Black women, baby, it’s over over

Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h

Ending Target will be some of Black people’s finest work

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Skeet Laureate 💫 @blkginger.bsky.social · 12h

Eat breffis, you gon need the stamina for the shenanigans that are gonna come down the tl today

Pace yourselves, we got all day 😂

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 12h

Good lord, I'm gonna need to pace myself today.

Gonna start with breakfast 🥞

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 13h

New mute words just dropped

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 13h

TLDR: the late Devah Pager finds that stores that engage in discrimination were more likely to close in six years than those who didn't.

Do with that what you will. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Out
of Business?
Devah Pager
Harvard University
Abstract: Economic theory has long maintained that employers pay a price for engaging in racial
discrimination. According to Gary Becker’s seminal work on this topic and the rich literature that
followed, racial preferences unrelated to productivity are costly and, in a competitive market, should
drive discriminatory employers out of business. Though a dominant theoretical proposition in the
field of economics, this argument has never before been subjected to direct empirical scrutiny. This
research pairs an experimental audit study of racial discrimination in employment with an employer
database capturing information on establishment survival, examining the relationship between
observed discrimination and firm longevity. Results suggest that employers who engage in hiring
discrimination are less likely to remain in business six years later.
Keywords: discrimination; firm survival; Gary Becker; audit study

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kash @thisiskashmir.com · 1d

Hey sweet thang,

This is your reminder that every living thing in the world slows down during these next months. You’re not lazy cuz you’re doing less. It’s okay that the early darkness makes you tired (it’s supposed to).

Humans the only ones who keep fighting against the natural patterns of life.

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 20h

It's anti-Black to ignore the boycott. Also, this article is from May 2025 and recently updated. The willful ignorance is on her and is also anti-Black.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer. A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising qz.com/tgt-wmt-earn...

Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer

A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising

qz.com

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Buttondown beehiiv ghost all have pay options

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A Cloud In The Sky☁️ @acloudinthesky.bsky.social · 1d

Slow down a bit. You’ll reach your goals, but take a break and look back at all you’ve accomplished so far. I’m proud of you♥️

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 1d

There's a belief in US society that if people need help they only "deserve" certain foods.

But we're sharing, not helping. Buying & making what we enjoy and sharing, opening our pantries and gifting. Sending dollars. It's a heart to heart, spirit to spirit, body to body act and message.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 4d

A friend mentioned that her friend had to get off all the dating apps recently because they were flooded with ICE assholes looking to get laid on their big fun trip to LA. As if dating weren’t already hard 🫠

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 3d

I think they do get paid that way. They keep doing it on a pay cycle interval 💲💲💵

Cute Notman 「🇸 🇭 🇮」 @shi.wtf · 3d

CTO of bluesky doesnt understand the torment nexus tweet?
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Paul you _do_ know you dont get paid by getting yelled at for your ragebait on this site, like verified people do on twitter, right? you dont have to do this.

istg this website is halfway decent *despite* the people in charge

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Juicy Fruit aka I Am Abundant AF @iamabundantaf.blacksky.app · 4d

Raise your hands if you have ever been diagnosed with fibroids 🙋🏾‍♀️

Ok, now…

Thank your father!

That’s right!

The list of things tied to fathers just keeps growing:
- Miscarriage,
- pre-eclampsia,
- genetic disorders & now
- fibroids

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMVUSdDL/

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 3d

Kids in my neighborhood are loved 🎃

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nai THEE black barbie 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 4d

I second this!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

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roastedtato @roastedtato.bsky.social · 4d

Hide your Aunties and Abuelitas, Zohran Suave coming through.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 5d

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5d

This is a plea to Massachusetts residents, particularly Cambridge residents and Harvard grads.

I've spend the last 3 years looking at old maps of western Jamaica while researching the history of absentee sugar planters who lived in Massachusetts while enslaving thousands of people in Jamaica.

Paul Chin • 陈保罗 @paulch.in · 6d

#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING.

supportjamaica.gov.jm

🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 5d

Looking for a new political party for the next time I vote. Where it at?

It's leadership better look like

an ad for a black lady sketch show shows a group of women in a courtroom

Alt: An ad for HBO's Black Lady Sketch Show shows courtroom sketch. There's a group of Black women in various courtroom roles clapping, dancing, and carrying on in celebration.

media.tenor.com

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 5d

Discover feed: why do they post all these brutalized animal pics?

It feels a way and I'm gonna have to start blocking those folks because wtf

They're getting something out of those photos and better keep me out of it

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🦉 Who? @ccjackson.bsky.social · 5d

Gonna need a demographic breakdown on who these people were cuz all I know is it wasn't us.

I wonder who had the biggest voting demographic in the US in 2000?

Adjectives seem to be missing whenever voter fuckups are discussed

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

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