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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 9h

Slavery often is discussed more as a what than a who. A new marker in Mississippi follows a West African prince from capture to slave to freedom to a return to Africa.

Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 15h

Natchez honors ‘Prince Among Slaves’

Natchez has unveiled a historical marker honoring an African prince sold into slavery and freed 40 years later.

Natchez honors ‘Prince Among Slaves’

Natchez has unveiled a historical marker honoring an African prince sold into slavery and freed 40 years later.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez V @AOC
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Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn't have come in fifth.
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_• 17h
We're being destroyed from within

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15h

A judge has cleared Nebraska to move ahead with converting a state prison into a migrant detention center, with officials expecting to house the first detainees by week’s end.

Judge Lets Nebraska Move Forward With Plan to Convert Prison Into Migrant Jail

State and federal officials have said they expect to house the first detainees by the end of this week.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/i... [gift link]

Illinois residents to see 78% average cost increase for Affordable Care Act exchange plans if subsidies expire

Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans, if Congress allows subsidies to expire

www.chicagotribune.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

They are putting out random statements signed by many of the people who got the country here in the first place while the fascists consolidate their power at a speed yet unseen. Incredible.

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Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone who follows NY politics, the fact that state Democratic leaders Kathy Hochul, Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Carl Heastie are about to appear on stage at Zohran Mamdani’s big Forest Hills rally (which is also being headlined by AOC and Bernie Sanders) is tectonic.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

I love how some people think it is so implausible that all the major political donors from both parties are child rapists when there are headlines like this in major news outlets and no one bats an eye.

Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself With Young People’s Blood

The Silicon Valley billionaire reportedly sees blood transfusions as the pathway to radical life extension.

www.vanityfair.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to report that Milei has had a successful evening.

elpais.com/argentina/20...

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland elects an independent, socialist woman to the position of president.

Irish Media: ‘Today, we ask what went wrong with the system, what her opponents have to say about it, and how it can be fixed for next time.’

#SpeirGorm #Áras2025

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2d

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?”

No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

More importantly IMO, him delivering depends on US. We have to continue and deepen our organizing. We have to push him and also uplift him when he does stand up to deliver on his promises. This is not Door Dash.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

When Albany starts to claim that they can't tax the rich, will you be DEMAGOGUED or will you demand that they tax the rich? Organized people can win demands and unorganized individuals cannot.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1d

Folks who knit/crochet: Boston Food Not Bombs is seeking donations of hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as yarn that they can use to make hats:

www.instagram.com/p/DQSEViuj1s7

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 1d

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 1d

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

As a closing argument, Cuomo reminds New York City voters that he palpably hates New York City

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 2d

More incentive

EX NEW YORK POST

Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

Life expectancy in Cuba is now higher than in the US, despite widespread poverty, chronic shortages of medical supplies and food, and a per capita GDP that is less than 10% that of the US––in large part because of continuous US economic warfare on Cuba since 1958. Health capitalism doesn’t work.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"Zohran knows the cost of living is crushing working people. But here’s what makes him different: he doesn’t throw up his hands and say, 'that’s just how it is.' He believes something radical—that government can actually work for us." - @seiupres.bsky.social

April Varett on stage at the rally with union workers behind her.

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Boo McScreamy @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

It's like someone deciding they want to work for a company and, with zero experience, applying to be CEO.

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FrankenRuss @massivruss.bsky.social · 1d

Thank for naming Arlie Hochschild. She *titled her book* “The Second Shift”.

Sad that Low is expounding on the sociology of work, but doesn’t know the basic literature.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The secret assumption of the liberal feminist bargain—that women would enter the public sphere and become full citizens & fiscally independent adults—is that men would necessarily have to compensate for women’s decreased time in the home by increasing their own share of domestic work. They didn’t.

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