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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 22h

That’s another sad part of this.

Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 1d

This young person just posted that her Pell grant went from $7k to $700 as of yesterday due to the federal cuts.

What is a student support to do with this?

Buy the books and teach themselves?

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 1d

The emotional armor you have to put on just to log onto social media.

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 2d

That’s David Duchovny.

You’re thinking of that guy who played in Dallas Buyers Club.

A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 2d

You're thinking of Dufresne.

A duvet is a cryptically horny actor who plays an FBI agent on X Files.

Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking of Strangé.

A duvet is the dude who escaped from prison in Shawhank Redemption

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 2d

Hilarious!

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

I'm excited to be back in the world talking to readers about my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US with the Dayton Metro Library on Nov 6 at 6pm ET.

This event aligns with Shirley Chisholm becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress in Nov 1968.

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 4d

For certain about to go down this rabbit hole.

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 4d

Hilarious whoever wrote in the lisp with the meme. I’m dying 🤣

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 4d

So existential, lol. A good friend shared with me recently that if they were hungry as kids and there wasn’t any food in the house, they were told to “go to sleep cause there ain’t nothing to eat.”

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 14d

🙏🏾

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 22d

I guess I’m feeling all the feels about the collective outrage we’re experiencing.
With all the horrific things that have happened already, why did it take so long for us to be this responsive?

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 23d

There are elders in our culture who help guide us to live better. Taking the wisdom gained from the past and learning from it. To live more wisely. To not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Where are your wise elders guiding you to make the world better? Why are you void of this?

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 23d

What’s so interesting to me here is you have those with temporal, superficial positions of power who lead with hate and greed and division, void of any sense of humanity, morality or ethics.

And it makes you wonder, where is their wisdom sourced? What cultural legacy do you have to be proud of?

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 23d

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24d

Charlie Kirk was a hateful man who was funded by right-wing billionaire snowflakes who are terrified of people of color, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people, whom they know can run circles around them and expose their mediocrity.

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 24d

Corporate media conglomerates have been bought and only push a single narrative.

Social media influencers posts and likes are suppressed and scrubbed.

Life under authoritarian rule is talking in code, holding secret meetings, hiding your affiliations.

No longer free to be your true self.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24d

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 27d

Joy is killin it now that she’s free from the confines of a corporate network! We appreciate your voice, Joy, thank you 💯

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27d

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 29d

She had some of the best one-liners. The writing for the show was simply stellar 👌🏾

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · Sep 12

Lol, it’s so subjective and depends on the day. I’ll tear that chili up when I’m craving comfort food. That beef stew will hit on a rainy day with a good movie ☺️

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · Sep 12

These all look good. However, the only correct answer is gumbo ☺️

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · Sep 10

That’s so true. They forget they have a good amount of subscribers who’ve already lived through our twenties.

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · Sep 10

You’re so right. And I know we can all move in self interest at times. But when it comes to impacting our collective living in this world and basic human rights, then I just don’t get it. These decisions affect all of us on some level.

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