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12z Euro ensembles. Jamaica is in there somewhere.
Factor to consider re public transit: the pandemic is not in fact over, affecting both operators & riders. #LongCOVID is real.
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A wild part of this story: PA gov Shapiro approved SEPTA's request to use its capital budget to pay for operations for 2 years. But SEPTA has had 5 railcar fires this year. The National Transportation Safety Board recently found that 60% of its fleet requires extensive retrofits or replacement.
3 of America's biggest public transit systems — in Chicago, Philadelphia, and California's Bay Area — are currently facing down budget crises. Without new funding, the result could be a "death spiral" of service cuts and falling ridership.

Here's @emilypont.bsky.social with the full story:
3 of America’s Biggest Public Transit Systems Are Teetering on the Brink
Riders in Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area are staring down budget crises, with deep service cuts not far behind.
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Despite having high breast cancer mortality rates, just 2% of cancer clinical trial participants are Black women. Why? History is full of atrocities done to Black people in the name of medical research. Read more: wordinblack.com/2025/08/blac...
Indivisible & other #NoKings organizations are blind to #pandemic with new or repeat #COVID & #HUGE growing nos of #LongCOVID people among US. Airborne variants of novel coronavirus waft about unremarked in our public air. Inhale. Do you know COVID can leave you with fuzzy thinking & less empathy?
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The #NoKings rallies that took place over the past weekend were meant to send a clear message to the federal government. Such demonstrations are opportunities for people to learn more about actions they can take to resist authoritarianism and get civically engaged year-round.
Millions are marching on Oct 18 for #NoKingsDay, a nationwide protest against authoritarianism. In our latest Q&A, @statevoices.bsky.social CEO Alexis Anderson-Reed describes how their network across 32 states is turning resistance into real civic power. #noking wordinblack.com/2025/10/no-k...
'No Kings' Is the Message. Collective Action Is the Plan
State Voices CEO Alexis Anderson-Reed says people have the power.
wordinblack.com
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If Congress doesn’t pass a budget by Nov. 1, millions of people who put food on the table through SNAP — a disproportionate number of whom are Black — may have a lean Thanksgiving.
wordinblack.com/2025/10/usda...
USDA Warns States About November SNAP Benefits
The government shutdown could ruin Thanksgiving for millions of Americans.
wordinblack.com
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Black transplant recipients share how receiving organs changed their lives in "On Borrowed Time," a series by Word In Black's Anissa Durham that examines systems that help or hurt Black patients: wordinblack.com/call-that-sa...
@jessehagopian.bsky.social please write a letter based on & incorporating your @truthout.org column on #LongCOVID to Quakers in the Southeastern US seymquakers.org & to @thirdactorg.bsky.social & to the Gray Panthers. I am informing these organizations I am a member of that this pandemic isn’t over.
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Is it blood libel when they call themselves vampires?

..." the 401st Brigade, the company known as “Vampire Empire”, under the command of Major Sean Glass, was directly responsible for killing the Rajab family and subsequently tampering with the crime scene."

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Al Jazeera documentary reveals new evidence in Hind Rajab family’s killing
Al Jazeera documentary uncovers new evidence in killings of Hind Rajab, her family and rescue team in Gaza City.
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@jessehagopian.bsky.social nothing is more important to young people than solid information about airborne viruses, especially the novel coronavirus & it’s variants giving them #COVID & #LongCOVID. The 15th of EVERY month should be Long COVID Awareness Day, & the last day each month COVID Grief Day.
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#tdih 1968 We all recognize iconic photo of Black Power salute by Tommie Smith & John Carlos at Olympics.

But, what were their demands?

What happened before & after?

How did they organize?

What was Peter Norman's role?

#TeachOutsideTextbook Read ⬇️ 🧵
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Oct. 16, 1968: Olympics Black Power Salute
Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a symbolic protest while the U.S. national anthem was played in the Olympics.
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Today, my new book, "Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education," officially enters the world ✨ 📖 Happy Birthday 🎂🥳

After years of writing, reflecting, and pushing through challenges, I’m thrilled to share it with you all. Many thanks to all who order!!

iamaneducator.com/2025/01/14/h...
Happy Birthday “Teach Truth”–Help Me Celebrate My Book Release Day!
Today is the birthday my new book Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education–the official release day!! Like a proud parent, I’m overjoyed to finally see it out in the world. Writing …
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Jeff Bezos sucks and needs to pay 70% tax on every dollar he makes over $1M. Man child can't even keep the lights on.
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps reut.rs/4hm9Jgj
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 7d
Bestselling author Mel Robbins shared the No. 1 way she says you can introduce more fun into your life on a recent podcast episode.

And it's easier than you might think.
Mel Robbins: 'Life just isn’t fun anymore'—here's a simple way to 'feel alive again'
On the October 6 episode of "The Mel Robbins Podcast," the author takes on the topic of fun and why we all need to have more of it.
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Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says PM Netanyahu must “return to intense fighting” in Gaza to dismantle Hamas.
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the box for my sewing kit broke, time to go buy some danish butter cookies
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There’s a BBQ place we always stop at on the way home but they now have a giant billboard size sign praising the president as the best ever and right about everything so we aren’t stopping there anymore. It was good BBQ ☹️
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It’s “Colombia” YOU ABSOLUTE DUMBASS
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Kristi Noem dismisses a question about "shocking" images of ICE kidnapping and brutalizing people, including children: "Our law enforcement officers are doing everything appropriately and correct."