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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social

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7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · Aug 20

No. 2, let’s fix this educational gap on #slavery right now:

Where my Early African American scholars who specialize and/or have a book focused on #slavery ?

Let’s get a roll call—respond to this post w/ your book or article & I’ll quote you.

I’ll 📌 this.

PS Non-scholars, remain silent. 😊🙏🏾

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

@sarahburnes.bsky.social reached out after seeing one of my tweets and ended up publishing my book.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 34m

Hey, that was something great that happened to me, too!

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

@sarahburnes.bsky.social reached out after seeing one of my tweets and ended up publishing my book.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22m

His wit’s as thick as Tewksbury mustard

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Benjy Sarlin @benjysarlin.bsky.social · 4h

In related news, let me know if you or someone you know has any interesting work opportunities!

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 58m

And by “people” he means “you childless dried-up hags who didn’t perform your God-sanctioned duty to reproduce.”

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 1h

Wrote a medium length text to my French tutor in French (without Google Translate) and only got one word wrong! 😊🙌🏾

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 14h

Nite, nite.

Love.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 14h

If you worked on something today, congratulate yourself: Childcare, answering emails, physical therapy, writing, watering plants.

Anything you did, go ‘head & remind yourself you survived another day & that’s a gracious plenty, given what’s happening.

Let’s not take our survival for granted.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

At some point one of the Gestapo is going to pull the trigger in a crowd and America will be forced into a place it may not be able to ever fully recover from.

The fascists are going to end up killing a lot of people before this is all said and done.

Laura N. Rodríguez Presa
@LAURA_N_ROD
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A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.
Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. We feel good about one to two weeks,” said Ali Hard, policy director for the National WIC Association. “After that, we are very worried.”

@apnews.com #WIC
apnews.com/article/wic-...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 15h

Couldn't have heppened to a more deserving guy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jeremy Cavaterra @cavaterra.bsky.social · 19h

Leontyne Price was 33 years old when she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961. ❤️

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PMB-CA 💙 🇺🇦 🍊💩 🚀💩 A Right-Brained Leftist @pmb-ca.bsky.social · 21h

Not black but Chilean, Isabel Allende wrote House of the Spirits when she was 39

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 23h

Chile, it’s Dante’s seventh level of Hell!

The amount of minutia I have to gather: Books, office supplies, business, travel, etc. And every year, there’s something I missed that could have saved me money.

I’m so tired already—AND I have a looming book deadline.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Reporter: Is it the WH’s position that furloughed workers should be paid their back pay?

Trump: It depends on who we’re talking about. We're going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 23h

My Uncle Alvester used to say, “raise your kids or the chaingang gone raise them for you.”

Looking at these people in the government, I now know exactly what he meant.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 23h

Proceeds to get in the gutter.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Bondi: I'm not going to get in the gutter with you.. I'm not going to be lectured to you about integrity by someone who lied about being in the military just to be elected as senator.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 23h

We know why.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Hawley: We learned that the FBI tapped my phone… who knows why

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 23h

Late filing taxes is horrible every year.

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 1d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

ELWOOD, Ill. (AP) — Texas National Guard troops have arrived at an Army Reserve center south of Chicago ahead of expected deployment.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 1d

I think now is the time to revisit the comments of @crockett.house.gov regarding this alleged bribe. I don’t want to misquote her but her take was based on legal analysis.

Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Homan, head of ICE, accepted $50k from undercover FBI agents last year, reportedly a bribe in a sting operation. All cash, in a paper bag. Pam Bondi, reading from a script, insists Homan did nothing wrong—yet she refuses to answer any questions about what happened to that cash? Really?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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