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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 20h

Black Americans:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 13h

Jernt, Deadlock cast of 92 Rumble, and food from the taqueria... I'll take it

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 17h

So I finally got the chance to get into Volume 1 of Absolute Wonder Woman (collecting the whole run, just woefully behind), and god damn @kellythompson.bsky.social understands heroism on a level not often seen in comics. I get why people say this is their fave Big 2 series right now

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 23h

And the same people who slandered college students for speaking out against a genocide as antisemitic will be silent about this stuff. Cowardice.

Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 1d

Camp on a Vertigo title... Just take my fucking money

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 1d

The cat's out of the bag: DC Vertigo sampler given out at NYCC reveals...

The Nice House by the Sea by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno

Bleeding Hearts by Deniz Camp and Stipan Morian

End of Life by Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh

The Peril of Brutal Dark by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 3d

It is fascinating to me how many fellow elder millennials have either memory holed the surveillance of early 2000s activism or simply have no idea. Let alone post 2010 movements.

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 2d

New rule, if you don't know who Cedric Robinson is, you don't get to pontificate about the asymmetry of media funding. For the love of God

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 2d

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2d

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 2d

Well yeah but we decided that anti-Blackness is no longer disqualifying. In fact if you do it right you get to become a saint

Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 2d

See how he always calls Black Dems "low IQ"?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 2d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 2d

Probably not a coincidence that you can compare these comments to those made by that Marvel editor a few weeks ago, and then make a similiar comparison of the quality of comics coming out of those 2 companies right now 🤔🤨🧐

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 2d

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 2d

If it were up to some of the idiots on here I would still be a slave because "We're never going to win pushing for abolition". Fucking sociopathic cowards everywhere

Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 2d

If you can't understand that Black/trans/undocumented people have basic humanity that can't/shouldn't be bargained with for short-term political gain, SHUTTING THE FUCK UP IS FREE!

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 2d

What if I told you you did not need to reveal an intense lack of empathy and lack of understanding regarding political solidarity on Al Gore's internet? Would you reconsider this asinine ass take? Do you think this post makes you come across as a serious person? It does not :(

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 3d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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