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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1h

I cannot stop watching this.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 14h

sherman, for the love of god!

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 14h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2h

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 2h

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 2h

If you’re in Chicago —

One way to help is support these small Latino businesses.

Many communities are experiencing massive slowdowns because people are scared to leave their houses, and so people aren’t shopping, eating out, going to the carnecerias and panaderias.

Support our small businesses.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 10d

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 10d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 22d

This is one of the best conversations about AI to watch and share with those not as tech-savvy.

Will AI Take My Job? with Karen Hao

YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj

youtu.be

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1h

Fuck the AI cult

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

It was a common practice post-Reconstruction to refuse to seat politicians elected by newly enfranchised Black men, especially on the local level. White ex-Confederates were MORE upset about having local Black officials because, as they would say, those people actually impacted the daily life.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 2h

Every. Time. Doesn’t matter why someone posted it. Just share. Perfect way to start a Friday.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 7h

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

youtu.be

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2h

Sherman is ungovernable and I am HERE FOR IT

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 14h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 16h

This review made me very wary. Spoilers in the review. blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

blackgirlwatching.substack.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

The racial divide in commentary I've seen on One Battle After Another ........

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 21h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 21h

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 21h

I got "The Killer" and given the current context, I am fine with it.😂

red and black background with the words The Killer written in white across the middle.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Also ,

@unbreaking.org has a timeline that has tracked this from Day One

unbreaking.org/issues/equal...

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 23h

This regime hates Black people. They won't employ us-no matter our expertise because we don't have the credential of whiteness. They see us as criminal. “They’re not going to be good in 10 years, in five years, in 20 years, in two years they’re going to be criminals. They were born to be criminals”

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 23h

Goodness look up who you’re talking to and what they are an expert on before you go spouting off. You’re embarrassing yourself.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

So what’s happening is twofold: 1) Insurance companies are raising rates across the board. 2) Pandemic-era subsidies for ACA are expiring and GOP has refused to renew them. So Dems shutdown the government. Until they expire (end of year) or are renewed, consumers don’t know what insurance will cost.

States stand ready to respond
With open enrollment just a few weeks away
— Nov. 1 everywhere except Idaho where it's Oct. 15 — health insurers have locked in their rates for 2026. But Godfread explains there's still an opportunity to give consumers the subsidized rates it Congress acts quickly.
"Most states, if not all states, had their [insurance] carriers file two sets of rates — one with subsidies, one without," he says.
"And so if they do a clean extension of these subsidies, I think most states will be ready to go on that."
The key, again, is getting it done before open enrollment begins, he says, so that consumers see a rate they can afford when they log in to shop for a plan. "I don't see consumers taking multiple bites of this apple."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1. Rates should have been published in August. Mike Johnson hopes you don’t know that. But my mom is an independent insurance agent. Has been for 20+ years. So she does know that.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Longhorns have an open letter they can sign here

bit.ly/nodealtexas

A flyer reading “Keep Texas Free” with a picture of a state of Bevo on the strip

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

I couldn't imagine a more perfectly poetic example of saying the quiet part out loud than "we took the freedom of speech away"

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1d

It's why color-evasive is so much more accurate. They evade explicit discussions of race in order to hoard power while using whiteness as the main credential for positions they are completely unqualified for.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Color blind and merit based bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

Last night, I received notification of the 19th death of a detained person in ICE custody since Trump took office.

ICE is detaining people, mostly in private, for-profit prisons that put profit over health. And now they have furloughed the safety inspectors. This is unacceptable.

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