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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Jun 9

The problem with the so-called "nonviolence" of the Civil Rights Era is that it is misnarrated. The retelling in the "American myth of progress" version of the Civil Rights movement was that it was completely nonviolent.

That is not true. Plus let's call it its full name "nonviolent direct action"

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Jun 9

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 2m

guess I do sound a tad optimistic downplaying the atrocities occurring

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 4m

you're right about that!

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12m

Every time one blooms, I have a dual feeling of elation and dread

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25m

well I guess it depends on how one defines "generation." As a set number of years, I tend to hover around 25.

But also, I look at it as a previous generation dying out while another is coming of age. So that could be another 40-50 years

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 32m

Wow, I've only seen Diane Keaton in two movies. She's so recognizable I thought it was a lot more than that

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 48m

“The push to downsize the fed workforce is disproportionately impactng Black women..’This is devastating 4 Black women, 4 Black families & 4 Black futures..
If any other grp from Feb to July or Aug had 320,000 ppl pushed out of the public & private sector, they would already be developing a plan.’”👇🏽

Black women’s unemployment ‘dire warning’ for the economy

www.politico.com

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 3h

It will take us an entire generation to undo all that's been done in the last 9 months

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 3h

one of the most consequential things just happened to us last night

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 16h

“Friday night massacre underway at CDC” according to NY Times reporter. Scientists, staff, “disease detectives” RIFed by the dozens.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 4h

Black people made jeans famous

Before that, denim was considered poor man worker's clothing

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 6h

those soft pink Jordan 5s are really tempting

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

Im ready for a HER album
Im ready for a Jazmine Sullivan album
Im ready for a Summer Walker album.

inject them into my veins

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

I hate Doug Wilson so much

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

YES!!

I watched 2 episodes so far

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

I grew up on 5 (racism)
I eased to 4 eventually

Now I will accept only 2 or 3.

Get that dry ass meat out my face.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1d

3 or 4 for me.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

a man in a black leather jacket is standing in front of a purple background

ALT: a man in a black leather jacket is standing in front of a purple background

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 21h

I love when I find random gems in the wild.

I didnt even know this book existed!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 22h

They're Pinky

They're Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,

BRAIN!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23h

Parking lots are such lawless places

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d

the author and executor

(RIFs means "reductions in force.")

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d

Schedule F.

Project 2025

NPR @npr.org · 1d

JUST IN: The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It’s not clear how many workers are affected.