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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 10h

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ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 1d

Cardi B, another New Yorker who grew up without a chance to learn to swim.

Here she is saying she wants her kids to learn. youtu.be/6WhHi41hHqc?...

CARDI B: The TRUTH Behind The End of My Relationship…

YouTube video by Jay Shetty Podcast

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 3d

The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr. organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 3d

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Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 4d

Billionaire who owns Time Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 6d

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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 7d

“We can no longer rely on the rule of law alone,” Bryan Stevenson says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you

Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 8d

Zohran Mamdani likes staff to meet in-person, constantly pushing them for new ideas. He appears to need little sleep. And he’s talking to scores of officials who worked for previous mayors about how to manage City Hall.

How the 33-year-old may govern New York: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Mamdani’s Success or Failure Would Mean a Lot. So How Would He Govern?

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18d

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 19d

“I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either,” Former F.B.I. Director James Comey says

James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 19d

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 20d

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 25d

“If the aim of one faction is to dominate all the others…then discussion is less useful than a willingness to defend liberal society in the face of tyranny and despotism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... @jamellebouie.net

Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 27d

Obama weighs in on the firing of Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27d

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · Sep 6

There is no American democracy without Black people www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · Aug 23

“Unworthy of wealth” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...

Lisa Cook, Who Broke Ground at the Fed, Faces Attack by Trump

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · Aug 13

In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time.

Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too.

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