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KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is a useful idiot, corrupt and easy to manipulate just like MVP said. They knew President Harris would have put an end to the grift!

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Tia @tiabia.bsky.social · 1h

EYE AM CRYING 😂😂😂😂😂

it's still free range @shebjammin.blacksky.app · 2h

Decided to try a style I've been wanting to try for a while on my hair today. Made it 3/4 of the way through before looking in the mirror and realizing ima look like Frederick Douglass tomorrow when this shit dries. My life is a joke

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it's still free range @shebjammin.blacksky.app · 2h

Decided to try a style I've been wanting to try for a while on my hair today. Made it 3/4 of the way through before looking in the mirror and realizing ima look like Frederick Douglass tomorrow when this shit dries. My life is a joke

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 5h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Tia @tiabia.bsky.social · 3h

Yep!

Bernie stans just couldn’t swallow that his ass fairly lost the primary in 2016.

KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 4h

People keep wanting to vote for these candidates that they like with no concern for their complete lack of experience or competence. It is exactly what got us Trump in the first place. The best candidate for political office may not be the one that you personally like.

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KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 4h

People keep wanting to vote for these candidates that they like with no concern for their complete lack of experience or competence. It is exactly what got us Trump in the first place. The best candidate for political office may not be the one that you personally like.

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Hokie Brad @hokiebrad.bsky.social · 12h

56% of white women voted for Trump post Roe. Start there.

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Kristie Felice (she/her) @lovehorrorqueen.bsky.social · 9h

The ignorance continues. The Black horror subgenre exists because it’s so little of it. It’s why we talk about it so much, hoping studios and producers will dispel barriers for Black filmmakers, writers, creators so more of our stories are made. And all Black horror isn’t an allegory for white ppl.

Me responding to a tweet that said: “The black horror genre really is just a different allegory for white people over and over.” I responded with: “Reducing Black horror to “white allegories” misses the entire point. Also: Eve’s Bayou, Sweetheart, Bad Hair, Demon Knight, Abby, Night’s End, Vampire in Brooklyn, Spell, The Alchemist Cookbook, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, Blacula, Bitch Ass, Def by Temptation, The Boy Behind the Door )

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Cocoa Chaos @seauxcocoa.bsky.social · 10h

Let's not fight over Diane Keaton today frens. As @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app says meat $30 a lb. We need to riot or something

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 21h

The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.:

—Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks

—Bribes from ABC & CBS

—TikTok sale to Ellison

—Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base

—Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 12h

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12h

The only Christopher we recognize is Wallace.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 12h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12h

[narrator's voice]

It does not in fact beg the question.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think he believes in Heaven or Hell. He just gives God lip service here and there since Christian Nationalists give him a lot of money and power.

It's just not his thing (not that there's anything wrong with that). If you recall, he forgot to use a Bible at his inauguration.

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Tia @tiabia.bsky.social · 21h

1. House Party
2. Boomerang
3. Boyz N the Hood

Bonus: Strictly Business

Spiritual GAYngsta @rockzillasworld.bsky.social · 1d

You can only pick THREE, whatcha picking?

I’m picking Friday, Set it off, & Juice!

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Tia @tiabia.bsky.social · 1d

At least he aware of that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Tia @tiabia.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds about right. What’s the point of being a police officer if you can’t murder people without being scared of being punished and held accountable, smh…terrible ass people.

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Tia @tiabia.bsky.social · 1d

Threatening people with a good time.

New York Post @nypost.com · 1d

NYPD cops will flee the force if Mamdani is elected, Ray Kelly warns

"He is a problem. He is antisemitic. He is someone who has a lot of crazy ideas," Kelly told Cats, describing the NYPD as a "target" for Mamdani.

nypost.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

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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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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