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Twitter refugee. Photography enthusiast.
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Let’s talk about voting. Not who you vote for but how to vote. In the general election the spoiled ballots in my precinct came from people under 35.

The county election board will usually have a sample ballot. My county also emails a sample to registered voters.
Floridians are voting in Congressional districts 1 and 6 TODAY.
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Let’s talk about voting. Not who you vote for but how to vote. In the general election the spoiled ballots in my precinct came from people under 35.

The county election board will usually have a sample ballot. My county also emails a sample to registered voters.
January 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Exclusive here from Bloomberg News, which asked 84 of the biggest listed US companies to share their demographics data with us. We found that Black workers are losing share, all but erasing the progress they made after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Corporate America Hired More Black Workers. Then It Stopped.
Black workers are losing share in corporate America as the conservative push for anti-DEI policies gathers steam ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
www.bloomberg.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Best thing you’ll read today

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Oldest Black Rodeo Is Back
Boley, Oklahoma, rides again.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5
January 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is so good.
Before everyone arrives from that other app, I want to make a confession:

I'm planning a robbery

I already have a target, a crew & a blueprint, I just need 1 more thing:

Will you help me recreate the greatest Black on Black crime in US history?

A story

An announcement

A (final) thread
January 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Escapees would show up at Union forts, where they would be sent to what was essentially a refugee camp. They began working for the army, building homes and helping others escape.

There was only 1 person more pissed than the confederates:

Abraham Lincoln
November 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
McDonald's is the latest company to roll back diversity goals
The company rolled out a series of diversity initiatives in 2021 after a spate of sexual harrassment lawsuits and a lawsuit alleging discrimination by a group of Black former owners of McDonald’s fran...
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
January 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM