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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4h

We are in stagnation because our media is refusing to look like us , our marketing is fighting to stay white and

Well

The first place to truly move to realism could make so much money

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12h

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 8h

If I get any madder I’m gonna explode. I spent my life protecting these documents only to have this fucking two bit con man shit next to them and show them to uncleared civilians. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump

A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.

www.msnbc.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

One small thing people can do is refuse to consume shitty art that isn’t made by people

Interact with art made by real artists

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11h

every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 5h

Where’s that “pet to threat” article? 🙃

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jan 28

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’

Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?

www.theguardian.com

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塑料巫醫 Plastic Shaman @psiop.kawaii.social · 5h

this is my theory as to why America (which invented trans continental railways) can't have mass transit at any speed (let alone high)

When they couldn't make black people ride a separate car, they decided that every can was for black people. The death of mass transit coincides with civil rights.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 22h

ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 1d

America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 3h

This, if anything, is what's going to ultimately push the right to figure some shit out.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12h

Exclusive: Hundreds of travel businesses, including casinos, hotels and convention bureaus, are asking Congress to end the shutdown, citing worries about the holiday travel season.

Travel Industry Sounds Alarm Over Government Shutdown

Hundreds of travel businesses, including casinos, hotels and convention bureaus, are asking Congress to end the shutdown, citing worries about the holiday travel season.

on.wsj.com

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Jamie S. Bowen - Harris Democrat they/he/she @jamiesbowen.bsky.social · 1d

there would soon be no farms or farmers to produce food for them, to eat.

Yeah, ok, some of that is my opinion, but, the reality is, the main goal of the SNAP program was and still to this day is, to give farmers money for their produce without making it look like the hand out it is. Period.

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Jamie S. Bowen - Harris Democrat they/he/she @jamiesbowen.bsky.social · 1d

No, the motivation for creating the food stamps program which later became the SNAP program had absolutely nothing to do with millions of starving people, it had to do with the fact that The Great Depression was so bad andso many farmers had lost their farms that rich white people were afraid that

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Jamie S. Bowen - Harris Democrat they/he/she @jamiesbowen.bsky.social · 1d

As of this morning, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (AKA: SNAP, Food Stamps or EBT) recipients STILL have not received their benefits. Meaning, they are unable to buy food. Because I h been both a SNAP recipient and a state caseworker who processed SNAP applications, I thought I should do

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3h

The Republican governors threatening action against NY if Mandan wins are quite strange. I’ve never seen such desperation from people who have absolutely nothing to do with NY and have no jurisdiction.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6h

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.

The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.

They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

have any fascists not endorsed cuomo yet there is still time on the clock

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The FumbleZomBee @fumblebee.bsky.social · 3h

(I lived there in 2014. Hamas tried to stand down and Israel wouldn’t let em. Fuck Hamas but also Israel chose it.

And in following months they cut fuel to Gaza as winter set.)

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The FumbleZomBee @fumblebee.bsky.social · 3h

I say this as a center-left Jew.

Having lived there and having sung dire warnings a decade ago. It’s a non-ideological position to notice up close that I just saw a dress rehearsal.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3h

Since I was one of the very few voices warning about allying with people like John Hagee, which led directly to this shitshow, I'll take all the schadenfreude and then some

Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 4h

Sure wish I could take even a bit of schadenfreude in watching right wing Jews panic over the increasing mainstreaming of open Nazis like Fuentes

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow.

—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10h

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 11h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 3h

Pssssst… voting for Zohran on the
@workingfamilies.org ballot line counts toward his total *and* sends a message that you want to raise taxes on the rich. It’s a two-for-one.

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 6d

If you’re canceling and want to preserve your playlists/songs, you can use SongShift. It will help transfer to platforms like Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora, Soundcloud, Deezer, Audiomack, Discogs, Hype Machine, Napster, Qobuz, and YouTube.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.

But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

the bleakest moment in this article is the point where a heritage staffer, horrified by fuentes, discovers that "a growing number" of heritage interns are groypers

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5h

My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.

Exclusive | Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’

“I’m disgusted by this,” said one Heritage staffer.

nypost.com

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 7h

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4h

They started this bullshit when they came for Black women in The Nation

And folks called me a Troublemaker for walking into a room with a log

A lot of people shocked and stunned now ?

Comfortably believed or spread every terrible rumor about me and every Black women

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 11h

They're shutting down every enclave of independent and critical thought in big media.

From Vogue's announcement of its takeover:

"Teen Vogue will focus its content on career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people."

In other words, teaching compliance

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 11h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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