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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 23h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17h

I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19h

Trump is pitting colleges that serve marginalized students against each other – handing HBCUs millions after stripping the money from MSIs minority-serving institutions. From Naomi Bethune: trib.al/voAxNTR

Competing for Crumbs

While adding funding for historically Black colleges and universities, Trump’s Education Department is simultaneously cutting funding to colleges that primarily serve minorities.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

He's always been like this! It's not a big mystery!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

Literally squealing rn!!!!!!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

Trump treating the federal government like those apartments he owned with his daddy: No Blacks Allowed!

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

yet another example of @theradr.bsky.social's delightful, always inviting writing and teaching. j'adore

cloud sukkah!

a holiday metaphor, talmudic spelunking

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

he a handsome lil moocher, I'll give him that

A silky black cat, curled up against a warm fold on a multicolored duvet. It's got a blue bird on a green background, and lots of flowers. Radamès appears to be pointing his front feet like he's doing Pilates in his sleep, and you can see his beans

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Baraa🕊❤️ @masaa55.bsky.social · 1d

Hello my friends,we are very happy that the war is over and we will finally live in safety&peace Please help me survive&get out of the Gaza Strip and get out with my family when the crossing reopens to treat my daughter Massa.The arrangements are very expensive.Please support me🙏😔
gofund.me/74c01145

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

it was but ... you're not wrong to be confused 😵‍💫

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ im so glad it helped and you enjoyed the (overheated) prose! the boston globe accused me of using too many semicolons; they are schmucks

✨️read gender nihilsm✨️ @teefofgod.bsky.social · 1d

wild faith helped me put a lot of my childhood (catholic, w/ elements of pentecostalism/charismatic renewal) into context.

also, culture warlords and wild faith stand out as being particularly enjoyable to read from a prose standpoint despite the subject matter.

@swordsjew.bsky.social

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.

New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

bit.ly/4h51JjF

Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?

Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

look what I got! currently stanning

A copy of the 2024 winter edition of The Schooner of

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

Are you sure you're not Jewish lol

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 1d

Very few journalists are financially independent like Marisa is. A lot more could be but it takes a shitload of courage on the reporting side and a shitload of shameless promotion on the marketing side and not many are up for the task.

We must back the ones who are with cash.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

It was supposed to be Armenia but State wasn't allowed to admit Dear Leader got his A-nations confused so now Eric's just several time zones over looking like Boo Boo The Fool

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 2d

when you say "Albany" wrong once and just roll with it and then you're in too deep

kos data: 🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid.

(Via: NBC New York)

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

Burr knows better but he's still counting on the "I just recently stopped being an idiot" shtick

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 8d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

I heard she's a big slut too. Always demanding ppl produce bodies

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

I love that I knew this was @isaacbutler.bsky.social before I even clicked through lol

Slate @slate.com · 1d

Daniel Day-Lewis is the poster child for Method acting. He in fact does its exact opposite.

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

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