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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 14h

I hope you got what you wanted.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 18h

Why does Kash Patel always look like he's trying to hold in diarrhea?

Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 19h

Heartbreaking

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine being angry about fajitas, lol

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 22h

I have really enjoyed digging into thoughts about Janteloven and frameworks for academic librarianship, and the ways they might have commonalities despite the seemingly disparate places they inhabit in practice and intent. How do they intersect in places where both have an influence?

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 1d

I am convinced by the oodles of evidence in existence, that most cops are not very smart.

Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 1d

I uttered “what the actual fuck” after nearly every paragraph of this insanity www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/l...

LAPD officer lost rifle to MRI device during bungled raid, lawsuit alleges

Van Nuys medical imaging company alleges its constitutional rights were violated by officers who mistargeted the business for an illegal pot operation.

www.dailynews.com

Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 1d

Is someone actually arguing that this legend is somehow underrated?

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 1d

English bulldogs are so sweet but Lord knows, they are not smart. 🤣🤣🤣

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 1d

My idea of a good time these days is going to Mancini's Sleep World and lying on all the mattresses.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 1d

I am so sorry. ❤️

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 2d

I've never understood why characters tell their nemeses what they intend to do to defeat them.

Why give them time to prepare? Why give away the strategy?

I feel this same way about any conflict. Be smart, people.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 2d

If she treated her people better she might have had good lighting.

Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 2d

Of course he's a creep with a gf not even old enough to drink.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, we all know Black people with the last name 'Rinderknecht'

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 3d

Well, let's hope it all collapses.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 3d

Ouch!

Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 4d

ICE salaries and budgets are proof that we do have enough money to pay educators and social workers what they deserve. They just don't want to.

Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 4d

If they have $50k signing bonuses for ICE in 2025 then we have $60k bonuses for teachers in 2029.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 4d

I have one message for all the reactionaries losing it over Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl.

a cartoon of donald trump sitting at a desk with his mouth taped

Alt: a cartoon of donald trump sitting at a desk with his mouth taped

media.tenor.com

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 4d

Surprise! ICE are liars.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 4d

"Love thy neighbor as thyself" is a beautiful concept, but the problem is that too many people absolutely hate themselves.
With the way some folks act, I can't say I blame them!

The Golden Rule is a more precise instruction: "Treat others as you would like to be treated." Fewer caveats.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 5d

Any time someone starts with "I think we can all agree" you know you're about to be snowed with some BS trying to force your consent.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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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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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 6d

Someone tried to insult me by calling me Gen Z today and I have to say I really needed that ego boost! My kid isn't even young enough to be Gen Z!

Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 6d

We all know it will be an expansion of the carceral state to wrest Black communities back into forced labor.

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. Please don't drag me into a semantic debate when folks are being snatched out of their homes and sent to camps.

As much as these debates can matter, we have more pressing places to put our energy right now.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6d

I wish people would stop fighting about—in the scheme of the massive threat we are all facing—on relatively minor differences in ideology or style of expression of same. Focus.