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chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

We're all tired but considering the exhausting business of being black in this society, it's much much worse. It was exhausting when a black man was president, but imagine it when the entire government is bent to the will of unrepentant racists.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 1h

"Ignorance isn’t always innocent. A lot of the time, it’s strategic. ... White ignorance doesn’t persist bc there’s a lack of information—it persists bc there’s a refusal to engage... once you admit you knew & did nothing... you’d have to admit you were fine with it. You have to admit complicity."

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

thank you!

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FL RN ✡️🎗️ @beu4ic.bsky.social · 1h

Outstanding piece-please take the time to read it. So many points to quote, this one seems helpful for White America to understand exactly how we got here:

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

random selfie time

A selfie. I'm smiling like a fool behind my podcast mic. I am not wearing glasses which is why I look like I am 75% forehead

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

thank you!

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 11h

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

Right!

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

Skrmetti and Chiles are both cases we want to use to stick it to queer kids. - SCOTUS, basically

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17h

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

Josie and Pussycats meme of Black girl covering the mouth of white girl with her hand

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h

Somebody ate their wheaties is such a 1980s joke lmao. One thing you're always gonna get on my timeline is GenX coded references

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h

alright then, chuck! somebody ate their wheaties

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h

Even if Democrats end up back in the White House they will start babbling about unity and moving forward and no one will go to jail for any of this shit. So yeah. She doesn't fear any consequences because Democrats have given her no reason to

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

i legit can't stop listening to this. it's so funny

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 23h

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 23h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

raging my way downtown

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1d

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

ADF are liars.

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just like in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine—the mifepristone case—ADF used anonymous complaints of harm they found on an anti-abortion forum online.

Again, it's a fucking joke.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

The only thing you really need to remember about Chiles v. Salazar is that ADF couldn't find any children harmed by not being able to find counselors who will practice conversion therapy—

so they rely on anonymous complaints on Reddit.

It's a fucking joke.

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