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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 58m

Have you tried an amino acid smoothing treatment? I‘m on the fence too and someone recommended this to me.

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 6h

Oh look they’re trying to make shit on a shingle palatable.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 9h

The bar is about to go from “my distant white relatives enabled slavery but I would never” to…..”I sat back and watched Latinos get kidnapped and put into slavery despite having the power to stop it”.

I’m taking to all of you.

All white people.

I know those of you that follow me have been

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 13h

Can't even watch the news to be informed if they let people come on air and lie, unchecked.

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 10h

They know what they’re doing. Stop giving them cover.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 15h

The niche of my law practice is representing women, minorities and whistleblowers in vindicating their civil rights in employment.

Having done this work for years now, I have come to understand something that I feel like sharing this morning:

White people and Black people have a VERY different

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 15h

No one thought he could win once
No one thought he could win twice
No one believed he’d get away with it
No one believed he’d be on the ballot
No one accepted the grim reality
No one accepted he’d destroy humanity
No one was prepared for this
No one is stopping it

WE are the last line of defense

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 10h

This is the rhetoric we’re tired of. If the behavior is “illegal and unconstitutional” as you note, there are remedies for that much stiffer than being questioned by people they don’t respect. Real actions should require real consequences not a quick admonishment and a cushy pundit paycheck.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 10h

So someone said to themselves “yeah, lets paint a 30 foot mural of a white dude choking out a black dude“ And we’re supposed to believe their intentions were altruistic. FOH.

Capital B Atlanta @capitalbatl.bsky.social · 13h

A new mural commemorating the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre in South Atlanta is drawing criticism from residents and historians, who say the artwork was developed with limited community input and misrepresents the historical trauma it seeks to address.

Atlanta Community Frustrated over Race Massacre Mural - Capital B News - Atlanta

South Atlanta neighbors voiced concern over violent imagery, historical inaccuracy, and lack of community input with the mural.

atlanta.capitalbnews.org

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Balsalmic Niggarette 🥗 @balsalmicnygarette.blacksky.app · 1d

If you gotta ask for a date, he don’t like you like that. Block him. No fault of yours, just incompatibility.

If you gotta ask for him to spend $ on you, he don’t like you that. They gone offer that up first. Block him.

If he only offers peen, he don’t like you like that. & thats okay.

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 1d

Every damn time its the same outcome.

Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 1d

Angelina Jolie went and fucked that lady’s husband, married him, and now look at all the hell he’s giving her.

There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

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Spookyanna 🎃 @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 1d

Related book recommendation for anyone interested:

Rooted in the Earth - Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave

It’s a good read that counters the idea that “a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the Black experience.”

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave

Book cover shows a Black person’s hand brushing over tall grass

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 1d

Posting this for anyone- myself included- who gets questioned for doing “white people stuff.” No, it’s our stuff. How do you think our ancestors survived, not just in the colonial diaspora, but in our ancestral homelands?
Being in nature is returning to our native roots also. 🍄 🌱

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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Genevieve @genevieveonbsky.bsky.social · 2d

The jig is up. We are tired. They think everyone is stupid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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