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Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

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🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 2h

Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more. The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear. www.theverge.com/news/802486/...

Many of the internet’s largest services rely on AWS.

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 2h

According to an FAQ page, pricing for rare handles starts at $2,500 and could go “over seven figures, depending on demand and uniqueness.” lifehacker.com/tech/x-handl...

X Will Start Selling ‘Inactive’ Usernames Soon

X subscribers will soon be able to request or even pay for usernames from inactive accounts, thanks to a new feature called the X handle marketplace

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 2h

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“Something’s, he’s not right in the head, and I don’t know if that’s his psychology or if it’s just his age, but there’s something not right there, and anyone that’s been around him will tell you that,” Fuentes charged. www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes... @njdoc.bsky.social

'He's not sharp': Trump ripped as 'not right in the head' by far-right influencer

White nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes, who infamously once dined with President Donald Trump and Kanye West (Ye) at Mar-a-Lago, blasted the president last week as a “weird guy” who is “not right i...

Oct. 2, 1937: Parsley Massacre

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 18d

#tdih 1937 Parsley Massacre

U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, blaming immigration for country's problems (sound familiar?) and inspired by Hitler, tightened border patrols & ordered execution of more than 20,000 Haitians. 💔

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Under the orders of U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, the execution of more than 20,000 Haitians began in what is now known as the Parsley Massacre at Massacre River.

Oct. 3, 1935: Ethiopia Invaded by Italy

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 17d

#tdih 1935 Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia with poisonous gas, bombs, concentration camps.

"From Kingston to Johannesburg, from Detroit to Ghana, Port-of-Spain to Paris, Black communities rallied in defense of Ethiopia." #PanAfrican #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️
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Ethiopia was invaded by Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini.

Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 15d

"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized & disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The perpetual interventionism and global hegemony exercised by the U.S. government today urgently need to be questioned and dismantled. Such a monumental task requires a citizenr...

Oct. 10, 1871: Octavius Catto Killed on Election Day in Philadelphia

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 10d

Octavius V. Catto: teacher, scholar, & civil rights leader in Phila., Penn.

On day that Catto could finally vote (due to 15th Amendment he'd fought for), he was murdered by one of white vigilantes attacking Black voters on #tdih 1871. 💔

#TeachReconstruction ⬇️
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Black educator, baseball player, and civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto was murdered by a white supremacist on election day.

Film. By Paul Puglisi. 2017. 89 minutes. Documentary on the symbol of Columbus in the United States and the campaign for Indigenous Peoples' Day.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · 7d

"It is a story of racist violence and unspeakable cruelty. But it is also the strange story of how this mission of colonial conquest was appropriated as a day of Italian pride, a defiant yet sad assertion that “We’re American, too.”"
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Oct. 14, 1916: Paul Robeson Excluded from Rutgers Football Team

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 7d

ℐ𝔱’𝓈 𝒏𝑒𝘷𝑒𝙧 𝓒𝔬𝐥𝖚𝚖𝖇𝐮𝐬…

It’s the T͢a͢í͢n͢o͢ people of the Caribbean over the genocidal colonizers…

It’s the hypocrisy of “you will not replace us” while on stolen land…

It’s the history repeating…

It’s justice for the indigenous…all day every day.

#StandTall

#IndigenousPeople
#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

#tdih 1916 An opposing team refused to play against an African American.

Instead of standing by full team, Rutgers pulled Paul Robeson from the game.

After 1956 HUAC testimony, they removed his name from 1918 College Football All-American roster.

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As a sophomore, Paul Robeson was excluded from the Rutgers Football team because another team refused to play against a Black player.

Oct. 17, 1837: Petition to Repeal Black Codes in Ohio

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

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Colored Convention @ccp-org.bsky.social attendees wrote a petition to state of Ohio to revoke its racist laws.

They printed it in a newspaper so it could be cut out and pasted onto larger pages that people could sign.

#PeoplesHistory #Organizing

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The first general convention of African American Ohioans met in Columbus and pledged to continue raising their voices in order to repeal the Black Codes.

Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

We all feel it: Our once-happy digital spaces have become increasingly less user-friendly and more toxic, cluttered with extras nobody asked for and hardly anybody wants. There’s even a word for it: “enshittification arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.

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Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah

ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

Images shared on social media showed that one of the two large windows at the front of a 737 MAX aircraft was significantly cracked. Related images also reveal a pilot’s arm that has been cut multiple times by what appear to be small shards of glass. arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data.”…

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors. The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives grist.org/politics/aft...

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

Mainstream Media Miss the Global Significance of Counterrevolution in Sudan. This is a war against civilians and against a truly pro-democracy revolution, says Professor Khalid Mustafa Medani. truthout.org/articles/mai...

Mainstream Media Miss the Global Significance of Counterrevolution in Sudan

This is a war against civilians and against a truly pro-democracy revolution, says Professor Khalid Mustafa Medani.

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s Department of Labor Is Trying to Slash Protections for Home Health Workers truthout.org/articles/tru...

Trump’s Department of Labor Is Trying to Slash Protections for Home Health Workers

Families and workers are waiting to hear whether a rule killing minimum wage and overtime protections will take effect.

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ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

Trump Lied? Can it be?

Shocking photo shows severe White House demolition despite Trump's pledge to contrary www.rawstory.com/trump-white-...

Shocking photo shows severe White House demolition despite Trump's pledge to contrary

President Donald Trump promised that his plans for a massive, $200 million ballroom addition to the White House would not "interfere" with the current structure. But The Washington Post has obtained s...

New leaked MAGA chat reveals Trump nominee's racist texts: 'I do have a Nazi streak'

ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

A month later, he reportedly used an Italian slur for Black people and commented on multiple holidays:

“No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” then added: “Every single one needs to be eviscerated.” www.rawstory.com/republicans-...

A leaked MAGA chat is revealing that a Trump administration nominee for a whistleblower agency has reportedly used a racist epithet in texts, called for MLK Jr. Day to be "tossed into the seventh circ...

'Watched her die a painful death': Veteran caught in Santos dog scam furious about release

ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 3h

Veteran Rich Osthoff was defrauded by ex-Rep. George Santos who, he claimed, set up a GoFundMe for his dying dog — and then pocketed the cash. Watching President Donald Trump free the disgraced congressman Friday has left him furious. www.rawstory.com/george-santo...

Veteran Rich Osthoff was defrauded by ex-Rep. George Santos who, he claimed, set up a GoFundMe for his dying dog — and then pocketed the cash. Watching President Donald Trump free the disgraced congre...

'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' party

ZulaQi @zulaqi.bsky.social · 8h

@njdoc.bsky.social 'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' party www.rawstory.com/trump-corrupt/

Announcing, “I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice,” a senior strategist who has spent more than a decade advising and fundraising for Republicans has walked away from the GOP, compl...