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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power

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Bookworm. I ♥: scifi/fantasy, little bit of everything movies & books. Sci & hist junkie. BE WARNED: New followers w/o posts/bios, just promoting yourself? Sorry, Blocked. No auto-followbacks. I re-post a lot, but not outrage news. Sometimes w/ OPINIONS.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · Jan 23

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO.

"On January 22, 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau... numbers showed that the Hispanic population of the United States had increased by 4.7 percent since the last count, officially making Hispanics the largest minority group in the country."

A young Hispanic girl with a determined expression crouches against a green sidewalk metal lamp post. In her 2 hands she holds a sign that says in all-caps, "IT'S OUR AMERICAN DREAM TOO!"

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 52m

#tdih 1792, U.S. White House cornerstone laid.

FEDERAL GOV'T used ENSLAVED LABOR for "all aspects of construction, including carpentry, masonry, carting, plastering, glazing, painting & the grueling work of sawing logs and stones.” #theft

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www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wh...

Oct. 13, 1792: White House Cornerstone Laid

The White House cornerstone was laid. Among those who constructed the building were African Americans, both free and enslaved.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1h

Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter www.openculture.com/2025/10/mark...

Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter

My Penguin Classics copy of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi sits alone atop an overfull shelf. There is a bookmark on page 204, exactly halfway through, torn from an in-flight duty-free catalog--...

www.openculture.com

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 56m

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Dad Influence @dadinfluence.bsky.social · 7h

This is what happens in a regular Alabama prison, can you imagine what they are doing in these ICE facilities.

Stomach churning

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 8h

I watched The Alabama Solution on HBO tonight. An amazing piece of documentary filmmaking that needs to be seen far and wide.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

www.theguardian.com

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 7h

They're recasting several characters from what I read. Not the old old olds like Stewart and McKellen. I'm excited to see Cumming again, hopefully more than just a zip in and out.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 7h

I say this all the time. Take away tomatoes, potatoes, corn, and chocolate and a lot of cuisines would be screwed. With what would England have screwed the Irish for more than 100 years?

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 8h

Somebody has already modified LEGO's replica retro Game Boy so that it can actually play real Game Boy games.

Fan-Modded LEGO Game Boy Lets You Plays Actual Games

nerdist.com

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 9h

Happy thanksgiving!

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 10h

Woman of privilege Malintzin takes much blame for what a lot of men around her were up to.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13h

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

Traitor, survivor or influencer? Mexico rethinks story of conquistador translator Malinche

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 10h

a man in a suit is covering his face with his hand .

Alt: De Niro looking threatening and gesturing with his hand by first pointing to his first 2 fingers at his eyes and then pointing his first finger at you. As in, I'm watching you.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 14h

He's on break.

A cat is tucked in under a blanket on a desk in front of two monitors.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 10h

He should try making expressions that aren't constipated.

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Señor Beto @albthere.bsky.social · 14h

“No wonder people in this country are pissed off when we can’t do something that is so clearly in the best interest of the majority of Americans.”

–Sen. Tina Smith (D)
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Republicans Aren't Just Gutting Health Care. They're Taking Your Sick Leave, Too

Republican-controlled legislatures have rolled back state level sick leave policies, leaving gaps in access amid the party's attacks on health care.

www.rollingstone.com

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 13h

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 15h

lol Joke's on them!

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 15h

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Ignacio GHOULup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 16h

"Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism"

"Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian."

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

newrepublic.com

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⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮 @purestinnosense.bsky.social · 16h

Kinda wild we wear crosses for Jesus, when you think about it. Kinda like wearing a bullet for Kennedy or a FBI jacket for MLK

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 16h

She needs to take a selfie with some horrible lint trap pointing at it and looking into the camera scornfully and frame that up on one of the laundromat walls. 😆

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 16h

Came here to say all of this. 👊🏼

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 16h

It's never been a numbers game, it's always a who's-in-power game. The same supremacsts have power as 190 years ago, still shilling those inaccurate mythologies.

Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 17h

Featured story: The long game that research historians played depended on the impractical approach of waiting out the natural death of the traditional narrative, a creation story of frontier exceptionalism that was baked into the Texan identity.

How Scholars Lost the Culture War over Texas History

And how they could still start winning it.

www.texasobserver.org

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 20h

You have to admit, it’s kinda hilarious that these guys are all like, “remember, when we’re discussing all the noncing to do it in code, really obvious and really creepy code”

A screenshot from a bbc news story

“The Duke of York was in contact with the US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein longer than he had previously admitted, emails published in court documents appear to show.
"Keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon!!!!" said an email sent to Epstein from a "member of the British Royal Family", believed to be Prince Andrew.”

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 17h

Unsolicited chick pic.

Chick standing on very green grass cut very short. More out of focus greenery in the background.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 18h

Or you could have an evolved phone that turns off all calls except the 3 people who matter (and who don't send random texts in the middle of the night).

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 @disentingcat.bsky.social · 19h

flexii_finesse:
People who sleep with their phone on silent or dnd really don't give AF about nobody's life
mjalti:
look if you decide to have a problem after midnight, that's between you & God th
trustmeimageographer:
I spent two minutes staring at this wondering how I could set my phone to Dungeons and Dragons

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Evan S. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @winstonsmith2024.bsky.social · 18h

What we are seeing today is the birth of a modern twist on the eugenics movement. Rich and powerful white people will have the resources and ability to protect themselves from infectious diseases, while the poor and ethnic minorities will not.

It's literally a culling operation.

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