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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Aug 17

*Runs out to buy a few bottles from the state store before it becomes scarce*

Whiskey Maker Honoring an Enslaved Distiller Is in a Fiscal Bind

www.nytimes.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 9

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 8

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Jul 23

In the Times, Jessica Grose finds that many of the claims about boys’ supposed backslide in education in Richard Reeves’ blockbuster masculinity-crisis book “Of Boys and Men” are empirically unfounded:

Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Girls have been getting better grades than boys since before women had the right to vote.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · Jul 19

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.

Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7

#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 20

I don’t have commentary for this… it is just horror.

A Palestinian doctor in Gaza shared the following urgent message with Drop Site:

“Today is the first day that hospitals run by the Ministry of Health in Gaza have stopped providing meals to medical staff.”

Meals for patients and medical teams have now been cut. He warns this means many patients are facing “certain death.”

Patients will no longer receiving proper nutrition, leaving them unable to recover or resist illness.

“Second, and even more dangerous, is that healthcare workers themselves are now exhausted and will be unable to continue treating patients.”

He echoed the Health Ministry in describing the situation as “catastrophic,” and urged soup kitchens and food aid initiatives to immediately redirect their efforts toward hospitals.

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Apr 23

😂

farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Apr 23

This feels like Wray and Nephew slander.

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Apr 23

And this is why I tell folks that this man doesn't have a mandate. Things can turn on a dime. We need to keep pushing.

farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 23

This part.

Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · Feb 23

“Democrats are the minority. There’s not much they can do”

Sure sure orrrrrrr

You can recall the amount of hell raising shit and obstruction the GOP did when THEY WERE THE MINORITY PARTY.

farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 23

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · Feb 16

please let us rest.

Heather @heathermikloski.bsky.social · Feb 16

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/m...

As a White Man, Can I Date Women of Color to Advance My Antiracism? (Gift Article)

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on interracial dating as a sociopolitical strategy.

www.nytimes.com

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 16

Amen!

Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social · Feb 16

After seeing the consequences of their years of biased coverage about trans people @nytimes.com is trying to erase their role in bringing us to this perilous moment. That’s why I wrote this Letter to the Editor to keep accountability squarely where it belongs and to call for an unvarnished apology
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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 16

I was about to check it out but then I saw the byline. We should all collectively commit to ignoring Ross Douthat. We lose brain cells reading his columns. Save yourselves.

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 16

I'm not an organizer at all but it feels like the perfect moment for mass outreach to disappointed Trump voters, to find the persuadable ones and help them see that he was never on their side. Ppl are losing jobs & subsidies & benefits, they're mad. It feels like an opportunity. Am I crazy?

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 15

a group of sesame street stuffed animals are standing next to each other .

Alt: a group of sesame street stuffed animals are standing together yelling "Happy Birthday!!!"

media.tenor.com

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Feb 15

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 15

I was already planning to boycott Target, but realizing they had the nerve to cut back on DEI after placing ads podcasts with Black hosts for BHM 2025 has really upped my commitment to the situation, cuz how DARE do that my faves at @thisistheread.com?!?!?!

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Feb 12

If Musk's DOGE wants to save an easy $400 million, they could just cancel this planned government contract for "armored" vehicles from Tesla:

The Trump Administration Might Just Spend $400 Million on 'Armored' Teslas

Donald Trump's administration expects to spend $400 million on 'armored' vehicles made by Elon Musk's Tesla.

www.rollingstone.com

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 13

I feel like everyone who owes taxes needs to withhold them come April...

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Feb 13

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

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farrahparkes.bsky.social @farrahparkes.bsky.social · Feb 12

Both the #NYT #Strands and #Connections writers were really stretching it today.

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transsexual anarchy CEO 🔆🥦 STREAM DOOMSDAY CULTURE ($973/$1,800) @livinginjeopardy.blackskycomra.de · Feb 12

this has been published for over a week. somehow we are all just finding out about this. when an entire administration begins to target a marginalized community to erasure at a voluptuous degree, stories like this go under the radar.

SHAME on mainstream media for not making this story known.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 12

“My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won.

It solely marks the end of our association.

You are not the land of the free.”

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