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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 1d

But he was already brutalized. He was already arrested, stripped, humiliated and tortured. No amount of money will ever take him back in time to be at his daughter’s third birthday party.

I know you know this, my point is that the law is failing us. It’s not protecting us or making us whole.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 2d

Just a Pye in the Pocket.

Pyewacket, a 4 week old black kitten, cozily nestled in the plush pocket of a fleece hoodie with a fluffy pouch designed to hold kittens.

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 2d

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a tan suit stands in front of a microphone with the letters snl on the bottom

Alt: From an snl sketch, a man is on a game show, he leans in to the microphone and says ‘pass’

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 4d

Agreed, I’m not familiar with Tennessee politics or this district, but personally I’m looking for an ambitious NEW rep that will come in swinging (metaphorically). Someone agile and adaptable, ready and willing to take on this administration. “Keep goin’” no man, we want off this ride. 👎🏽

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Girl, That’s Scary @girlthatsscary.blacksky.app · 4d

Argue with the government the way you argue with Black ppl in their mentions.

Maybe we’ll get some shit done✨

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 6d

That’s the only liberals they get to speak for us, Klein, Yglesias and other weak minded wimps that would throw us all under the bus if a groyper threatened to take their lunch money. Cowards, so many cowards.

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 6d

So tired of liberals repeating GOP talking points again and again. These same liberals have been screaming about progressive word policing & ‘LatinX’ for years. STFU, trans ppl are being targeted, ppl are getting renditioned for their speech! Who’s the real problem? Stop carrying water for Nazis.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7d

America should listen to Black people

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 7d

Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings | @blackpressusa.bsky.social
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Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when it dares to speak of the nation’s truths. Attiah, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was terminated after more than a decade at the paper for posts she wrote on social media addressing violence and the dangers of white extremism.

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 9d

Same -A CA attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.

California court and came with a blistering opinion stating that 21 of 23 quotes from cases cited in the attorney’s opening brief were made up.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 10d

This is also what the whole A.I. push is about. Fury at WOMEN, especially BLACK WOMEN leapfrogging over their asses in earnings and education, publishing books and shit. Getting ahead. So NOW, being intelligent is frowned upon, it's useless, just let the A.I. write your papers, it's fine!

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 10d

🤢 Is this Satan’s Halloween candy bowl? If those are my choices, I’ll never eat candy again. 🥺

The Bean Goblin 👹 @oniwar.bsky.social · 10d

Are you #TeamAlmondJoy or #TeamCandyCorn 😂

a man wearing a shirt that says ' the next thing ' on it is talking to another man

ALT: a man wearing a shirt that says ' the next thing ' on it is talking to another man

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Arepa Auntie @breadbae.blacksky.app · 12d

She got bigger cajones than Schumer and Jeffries’s combined.
She calling the spade the spade. And I’m here for it.
Congress has been scared to say the R word for far too long. If only the rest of her white congresspeople said this

B R A N D O N @sirbrandonthomas.com · 12d

Oh, Rep. Ann Johnson (D-TX) ate this right on up!

I think imma call her L'DonnaKaren because she's clearly demanding to speak to the GOP's manager, chile!

When she said "Don't shake your head!" I went UP!

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 13d

This is what I have been saying. Media literacy, open doors, shared viewing, show your children you trust them and that you can be trusted with their info. Teach them people lie on the internet, how to spot lies, how to find ref./sources, how to protect their info, privacy, scams. TALK TO THEM!

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13d

If your kid is smart and well adjusted they will outsmart you at technology and that will be the case forever. I think the best thing you can do as a parent is support your kids and talk to them and be a safe person for them to share concerns with. That will matter way more than screen time

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Black Ghost 👻 @zillaw.bsky.social · 13d

It was like reading a conversation between a toddler and a professor. Coates patiently attempted to gently guide Klein toward understanding he could never achieve. Klein is rat with a computer. His mind cannot comprehend its purpose or its use. Stepping on the keys typing nothing, with zero to say.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 21d

To be more specific: Ezra Klein not only said nice things about Charlie Kirk but *made up nice things* to praise him for. Kirk was an open white supremacist who spread “great replacement” conspiracies and claimed that the end of Jim Crow via the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake. Klein is out.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 13d

So exhausting..

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Brat doll @princesskitaaa.blacksky.app · 15d

I keep saying she should be the one to do a whole woman rap collab album
Meg x Lady London
Meg x Monaleo
Meg x Baby Tate
Meg x Doechii
Meg x Queen Latifah
Meg x Kaliii
Meg x Princess Nokia
Meg x Latto
Meg x Flo Milli
Meg x Rico Nastyy
Meg x Kash Doll

Harlot Quinn @theunbrokensoul.bsky.social · 15d

Lord if you don’t do nothing else for me

PLEASE get Meg and Monaleo in the booth together for a full album

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15d

there's nothing dems can do to convince the reactionary centrists who dominate the media that they aren't the caricature painted by republicans

you can debate whether the centrists believe this or are pretending to

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 15d

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration.

But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

What happens is Trump then wins, which is taken as truly shocking, and the Democratic Party begins to take on the opposite positions of Trump in many ways. Trump is the most anti-immigrant President of our lifetime— not just in his desire to build a wall but emotionally anti-immigrant. The Democratic Party becomes much more pro-immigrant. If you're going to build a wall, we're going to debate legalizing, decriminalizing, illegal border crossing.

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