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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 5h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 6d

I’m looking at what Black women artists did in their thirties.

Lucille Clifton published Good Times at 32.

Toni Morrison published The Bluest Eye at 39.

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ashfin.bsky.social @ashfin.bsky.social · 5d

Needed this!

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 6d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13d

more grist for the "what if there was a guy who was Large and Good" genre mill

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18d

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29d

NCCU is an HBCU. (Disclosure: my alma mater.)

Intel ends relationship after U.S. takes stake in the company.

This is the point.

abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...

Intel Drops Funding HBCU Legal Pipeline - Above the Law

Surprise surprise.

abovethelaw.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Sep 2

This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates.

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The unemployment rate for Black college graduates 25 years and older reached 5.3% in July, according to seasonally adjusted figures from Haver Analytics, based on Labor Department data. That was up from 3.9% in May and 2.7% in February. (Unlike the figures for overall unemployment, the Labor Department doesn’t adjust these figures for the typical seasonal swings that occur from month to month.)

The July rate was 1.7 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for white workers with only a high-school diploma—the biggest gap since Labor Department records for this metric began 1992.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

www.advocate.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 27

There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · Aug 28

A dissertation quilt. Alumna Frances Howell sewed together the colors, shapes, and stories of Black women navigating infertility and egg freezing

A Quilt of Stories: Visualizing Black Women’s Egg-Freezing Journeys

Alumna Frances Howell fashions a colorful dissertation project to raise awareness of infertility among Black women and documents their experiences with egg freezing.

www.gc.cuny.edu

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ashfin.bsky.social @ashfin.bsky.social · Aug 22

I heard the phrase - “the man who feeds you can starve you,” and have been moving accordingly since.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

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ashfin.bsky.social @ashfin.bsky.social · Aug 13

My son is currently covering his Bluey stuffy in kisses. And although he’s up past his bedtime it’s so damn sweet!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Aug 11

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Enjoying Professor T [PBS/Prime] a British remake of a Belgian crime drama. Autistic criminologist w OCD consults w detectives, led by an old flame.

Saturated gloominess of Pushing Daisies + hallucinations a la Ally McBeal + Sherlock w an overbearing mother & childhood trauma.

Into it. 👍🏾👍🏾

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 9

lol wanna bet?

A Washington Post story titled "Tommy Chatrooms Billy is impossible to disagree with"

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 9

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 8

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 8

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS: PragerU, a nonprofit organization that specializes in creating right-leaning educational short videos for adults and children. . It may already be in countless classrooms. www.vox.com/today-explai...

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms.

How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.

www.vox.com

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sudan is starving. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sudan civil war: Besieged el-Fasher city residents face starvation, UN warns - BBC News

El-Fasher, encircled by RSF paramilitary fighters, has not had food deliveries for over a year.

www.bbc.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 8

With all the news about the return of Confederate monuments, I wanted to share my Confederate Monuments Syllabus page. It includes op-eds going back to 2017, interviews, lectures, teaching resources, primary sources, and a bibliography. #sschat #historyteacher 🗃️ cwmemory.com/civilwarmemo...

Confederate Monuments Syllabus

A Crowdsourcing Project About Confederate Monuments and Civil War Memory The horrific murders committed by Dylann Roof of nine churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 catapulted the debate a...

cwmemory.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 7

www.readtpa.com/p/the-sydney...

The Present Age
The Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad "Backlash" Is Mostly
Fake
How a handful of TikTok comments became a national controversy about eugenics, Democrats, and denim.
PARKER MOLLOY
AUG 01, 2025

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