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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 2d

Annual reminder that Taylor Sheridan ain't shit featuring @johnniejae.bsky.social

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 6d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 2d

Added to my wishlist. Appreciate you.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4d

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 4d

Louder for those in the back.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 6d

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.

You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Front cover of a newspaper called "The Friday Paper". The cover image is a drawing of the central Johannesburg skyline showing skycrapers and beanth the skyscapers are horizontal layers of pastel-coloured rock.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Laurie Lipton @laurielipton.bsky.social · 7d

"POSTING MEMES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD WHILE THE WORLD ENDS 2025", 21.9"x34.5, charcoal & graphite on paper

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10d

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 10d

Also reason why it took so long to build the Green Line. Can't have those folks from Anacostia being a quick ride to upper NW.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

So Trump is defunding the police.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 11d

"And Klein just. Didn’t. Get. It. His argument was, 'But we have to win.' And I’m like, 'Who the fuck is we, Ezra?' Because I’m not now and will never be on the side that negotiates away basic human rights. Even if that means I’m in a party of one." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

We Are Not Happy But We Are Not Surprised

I watched the entire Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation so you don't have to. But it's definitely worth the watch.

michaelianblack.substack.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 11d

Which brave press pass haver is going to send Pete Hegseth into a debilitating identity crisis by reminding him that he is a secretary?

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday, I finished watching Andor. Highly recommend for the very reasons why MLK talked about the long arc of justice.

I haven't finished watching the Klein/Coates convo, but my initial take is that THC was extremely patient with Klein insisting that things *must* get better.

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 12d

Also worth noting: Pula is the reason for the blue in their flag. And the black and white lines were specifically chosen to highlight Black and white people working side by side (in direct opposition to Apartheid SA).

Marc Riera @mrcasals.bsky.social · 12d

"It rains so little in Botswana that the country’s people revere precipitation. The Setswana word for rain – pula – also means wealth or blessing, and lends its name to the country’s currency."

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 15d

All Protocol Observed.

Welcome to Issue 215 of The Continent.

Egypt’s bid to stamp out dissent has created a screen-to-prison pipeline. Children lured through gaming are jailed without trial — on terror charges.

Read it here: bit.ly/TC_215

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Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 12d

David Cross didn't hold back...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15d

Unless I’m missing something, all but one of these incidents were meant to avenge Kirk, not harm his defenders.

Online threats of violence lead to arrests after Charlie Kirk's killing

The killing of Charlie Kirk has been followed by a string of arrests across the U.S. over alleged threats of violence in response to the assassination of the conservative activist.

apnews.com

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 15d

Just chiming in to add 'iFi or Fosi?'

Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 15d

cc: @swiftonsecurity.com

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 15d

The prevalence of college profs (and medicine in particular) of "consulting" is a huge issue. Getting paid to write articles supporting this or that intervention.

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