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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 11h

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social

From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 20h

The Ten Demands for Justice provide a roadmap toward abolition.

We passed them around at protests across the country

And local activists hand-delivered them to their city councils —

Pointless with a council comprised of white supremacists.

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 21h

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 15h

I endorse this message!

#MomSky

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 21h

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 21h

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 2d

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

Nearly 100 submissions from reproductive rights advocates around the world paint a clear picture of censorship in action: abortion content is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...

#StopCensoringAbortion: What We Learned and Where We Go From Here

When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather data and lift up stories of censorship, and hold

www.eff.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

One thing that's happening in Portland that Fox News won't tell you is that aggressive, drunk, right wingers have shown up at the ICE facility trying to start fights and the protesters there have not taken the bait. Therefore the story has become "look how Antifa-friendly the Portland police are!"

Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 5d

This dude -Thomas Allen - returned again last night & kept on being a jerk & ended up getting himself arrested.

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Gerald Griggs @attorneygriggs.bsky.social · 5d

Without prejudice” means the case could technically be refiled in the future. But in reality, that would depend on whether a new prosecutor is willing to pick it up, rebuild the team, and continue pursuing charges in one of the most politically charged cases in state history.

#Georgia #Trump

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Mystic @thatgirlmystic.bsky.social · 1d

Not our problem.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

No Kings, No Masters

A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

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DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social · 2d

Not mentioned in this excellent piece, the role of white American feminists in this propaganda. More about that here: criticalzionismstudies.org/white-femini...

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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 11d

For the third year, California killed a bill to help incarcerated domestic violence survivors. “There are a ton of states that are far more conservative than California that passed more extensive legislation through Republican run legislatures."

For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors - Bolts

Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across the political spectrum that have adopted such reforms.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 6d

Ending cash bail prevents criminalized survivors of gender-based violence from being held unnecessarily. Kudos to the anti-violence advocates in Illinois advocating for maintaining Illinois' bail reform law. 19thnews.org/2025/10/cash...

Trump says ending cash bail endangers women. Advocates say it protects them.

Recent reforms now require safety risk assessments when considering pretrial release from jail. These can benefit women on multiple levels, from those accused of crimes to survivors of gender-based vi...

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 3d

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d

“The idea that law enforcement would be masked and and therefore unaccountable to the people they are serving is really anathema to American values,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @TechnologyReview.com. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d

"The ability for law enforcement in some states to get access to data and digital surveillance data from other states is going to be a massive problem," EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Reason.com. reason.com/2025/10/06/...

Texas and Florida have become national models for using the police state to wage culture war battles

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

reason.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 15d

David Barton, the widely ridiculed and perpetually corrected "amateur historian" who has mainstreamed the idea that church-state separation is a myth, will be advising the Texas State Board of Education on social studies curriculum.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 14d

Ezra Klein baldly called Luigi Mangione’s alleged crime left wing violence on The Bulwark podcast. That Atlantic story the other day talking about a rise in left wing violence did the same. I’m genuinely confused by this. Mangione’s politics seemed to me incoherent to say the least.

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 13d

Today's statement about "Fighting Back Against Antifa Violence" from the DHS contains a false conspiracy theory about our member crew Rose City Antifa.

RCA has not doxed any ICE agents, a fact confirmed by going to the URL DHS conveniently censored from their photo.

RCA did not put up this flyer.

Screenshot of a DHS report with the following text, followed by a censored photo of a flyer soliciting tips about ICE agents with Rose City Antifa's email listed.
"Rose City Antifa also illegally doxed ICE officers, publishing their private information and home address online and on public flyers. Individuals associated with Antifa also sent death threats to ICE agents and DHS personnel."

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