Renée Graham 🏳️🌈
@rygraham.bsky.social
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Renée Graham 🏳️🌈
@rygraham.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Imagine what this nation could be if it uplifted Black women the way Black women uplift democracy.
Some countries have all the luck.
Top court upholds Sarkozy's conviction over campaign overspending
Top court upholds Sarkozy's conviction over campaign overspending
Sarkozy was found to be the beneficiary of illegal campaign financing in 2012 through a double-billing system to cover costs. It is the former French president's second definitive conviction.
www.lemonde.fr
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Some countries have all the luck.
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I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.
Some countries have all the luck.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Some countries have all the luck.
A helpful reminder: Don't experiment on Thanksgiving!
Don't Experiment on Thanksgiving Auntie Carmel
YouTube video by Dai T’shari
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November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A helpful reminder: Don't experiment on Thanksgiving!
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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This Thanksgiving, shoutout to Jennifer Coolfridge, Brookline’s community fridge providing free, 24/7 access to nourishing food.
It’s been essential for families affected by the SNAP freeze.
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It’s been essential for families affected by the SNAP freeze.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This Thanksgiving, shoutout to Jennifer Coolfridge, Brookline’s community fridge providing free, 24/7 access to nourishing food.
It’s been essential for families affected by the SNAP freeze.
🦃📦
It’s been essential for families affected by the SNAP freeze.
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CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed
GTFO with this mess.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
GTFO with this mess.
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RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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Outrageous.
Cambridge coffee shop accused of denying service to Black journalist over mistaken identity - The Boston Globe
Phillip Martin, a former reporter for GBH, said he was meeting someone at Caffè Nero when he tried to order a cup of tea but was denied.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Outrageous.
"At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some. . .were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering."
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some. . .were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering."
Perhaps Trump and his phony bone spurs would know this if he hadn't dodged the draft.
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Perhaps Trump and his phony bone spurs would know this if he hadn't dodged the draft.
Is perjury still a thing, or nah?
The Trump admin submitted a sworn declaration under oath that Costa Rica had changed its mind and would no longer take Mr. Abrego.
Costa Rica has now said publicly that that this is false, that they have not changed their position at all, and that they will still take him.
Costa Rica has now said publicly that that this is false, that they have not changed their position at all, and that they will still take him.
Unpacked:
In Aug., Govt said if Abrego pled guilty he could go to Costa Rica, where he's okay with going. Abrego said no to plea. Govt now wants to send him to Liberia. Why not Costa Rica? Govt told judge Thurs that Costa Rica wouldn’t take him anymore. @mariasacchetti exposed them.
In Aug., Govt said if Abrego pled guilty he could go to Costa Rica, where he's okay with going. Abrego said no to plea. Govt now wants to send him to Liberia. Why not Costa Rica? Govt told judge Thurs that Costa Rica wouldn’t take him anymore. @mariasacchetti exposed them.
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Is perjury still a thing, or nah?
Keep embarrassing yourself, MAGA. That's what you're good at.
House MAGAts: childlike, weak, and petty.
"TPUSA's declared it will broadcast the All-American Halftime Show opposite the NFL's 2026 Super Bowl LX concert came after the league tapped Puerto Rican native Bad Bunny for its prestigious Halftime Show.
radaronline.com/p/turning-po...
"TPUSA's declared it will broadcast the All-American Halftime Show opposite the NFL's 2026 Super Bowl LX concert came after the league tapped Puerto Rican native Bad Bunny for its prestigious Halftime Show.
radaronline.com/p/turning-po...
EXCLUSIVE: Super Bowl Showdown! Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA to Air Patriotic Rival Concert After Intense Backlash Over Bad Bunny Performing the Halftime Show
Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA schedules a rival patriotic concert following Bad Bunny halftime backlash.
radaronline.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Keep embarrassing yourself, MAGA. That's what you're good at.
When my mother was hospitalized near the end of her life, I would spend the length of visiting hours every day. Never saw a doctor once. But the nurses were absolutely everything.
Folks, this is VERY important. This means that there will be a decrease of nurses in the field and their access to student loans will be severely restricted. There is already a serious shortage of nurses, this is only going to make it worse. Nurses are the backbone of healthcare.
Nursing has been excluded as a “professional degree” by the Trump administration as the Department of Education prepares to make massive cuts to providing students loans. Also excluded are NP’s, PA’s, PT’s. This comes when there as an extreme nursing shortage and $20K sign on bonuses for nurses. 😡
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When my mother was hospitalized near the end of her life, I would spend the length of visiting hours every day. Never saw a doctor once. But the nurses were absolutely everything.
62 years ago today:
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Boston Symphony Audience Learns of the Death of JFK
On November 22nd, 1963, at a performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
conductor Erich Leinsdorf delivers the news of President John F. Kennedy?s
assassination to a shocked audience. Leinsdorf the...
americanarchive.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
62 years ago today:
Every form of white male supremacy is the vilest. And that is exactly what they’re trafficking.
In this piece, @aselrod.bsky.social reminds us that Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson are trafficking in the vilest forms of male supremacy and are flourishing as huge stars on the right, so there's clearly a huge following for that sort of depravity:
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Every form of white male supremacy is the vilest. And that is exactly what they’re trafficking.
Since I didn't post this yet, now's as good a time as any: My recent @globeopinion.bsky.social column. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/o...
Note to Democrats: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not your friend - The Boston Globe
After criticizing Trump, the Republican representative got death threats — and an invitation from across the aisle.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Since I didn't post this yet, now's as good a time as any: My recent @globeopinion.bsky.social column. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/o...
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Georgia fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene self-purges after straying from the party line and criticizing the Supreme Leader
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, says she is resigning from Congress in January.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Georgia fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene self-purges after straying from the party line and criticizing the Supreme Leader
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BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she's resigning from office
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she's resigning from office
That Trump can be so quickly charmed always struck me as far more dangerous than the fact that, as Hillary Clinton once said, he could be baited by a tweet. Someone that hollow is too easily filled up.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
That Trump can be so quickly charmed always struck me as far more dangerous than the fact that, as Hillary Clinton once said, he could be baited by a tweet. Someone that hollow is too easily filled up.
After Republicans got crushed on Election Day and he caved on the Epstein files release to save face, Trump wants to use Mamdani’s visit as way to assert himself, as grist for the MAGA mill. But Mamdani ain’t the one.
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
After Republicans got crushed on Election Day and he caved on the Epstein files release to save face, Trump wants to use Mamdani’s visit as way to assert himself, as grist for the MAGA mill. But Mamdani ain’t the one.
Not drag queens, not trans women.
“Weisenburg and Thomas are also accused of coercing a minor to engage in sex acts on camera on Aug. 31, 2024.”
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Not drag queens, not trans women.
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USAID left a void in Mozambique after the Trump administration dismantled the agency. And it appears that ISIS has stepped into the vacuum.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the African nation to see firsthand how quickly things have changed.
Stream the full story at https://CNN.com/allaccess
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the African nation to see firsthand how quickly things have changed.
Stream the full story at https://CNN.com/allaccess
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
USAID left a void in Mozambique after the Trump administration dismantled the agency. And it appears that ISIS has stepped into the vacuum.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the African nation to see firsthand how quickly things have changed.
Stream the full story at https://CNN.com/allaccess
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the African nation to see firsthand how quickly things have changed.
Stream the full story at https://CNN.com/allaccess
Copy editors have saved my ass more times than I can count and some of the best journalists I know got their start as copy editors. They aren't an expendable luxury, but a necessity for every newsroom.
Stop laying off copy editors and then complaining about errors and lack of reader trust challenge
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Copy editors have saved my ass more times than I can count and some of the best journalists I know got their start as copy editors. They aren't an expendable luxury, but a necessity for every newsroom.