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Mel the Scallion @girlmellymel.bsky.social · 23h

ISTG!!!!

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 1d

PRAY FOR DOLLY PARTON ❤️‍🩹

Freida Parton, sister of Dolly Parton, asks for prayers for Dolly’s health. She says with prayers she know Dolly is going to be just fine.

We all love you, Dolly! Praying 💛

people.com/dolly-parton-sister-was-up-all-night-praying-for-singer-amid-health-struggles-11826073

A happy Dolly Parton reads books aloud to happy kids

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

*PTSD flashbacks ensue* Why do college students always randomly get obsessed with making White Russians for a semester? Same thing happened with me. Whew, god. How I got over!!!

Stevie 'knows 8 kata now' Mattos @asmattering.bsky.social · 1d

i think about my white russian year and my teeth begin to hurt

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brrandin.bsky.social @brrandin.bsky.social · 23h

A broken heart can literally change the way your heart functions.

You can see it on echo and EKG

𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐦 💋💜 @jessijeannie.bsky.social · 1d

to die from a broken heart is a real thing.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 23h

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

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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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 23h

I promise you, I ALWAYS noticed

Merc with a 🫦 full of blood🩸 @mercuryal.bsky.social · Jun 25

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

Late Show Top Ten “Dolly Parton Pet Peeves” with Dolly in a gold and black dress with a boob window saying her number one Pet Peeve to the camera:

“1. NOBODY NOTICES I’VE GOT A GREAT ASS, TOO”

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Mel the Scallion @girlmellymel.bsky.social · 23h

Chile now why I went from thinking George Gershwin was white to biracial to now finding out he Jewish??

Porgy & Bess George Gershwin!!

Mel the Scallion @girlmellymel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s 86 days until January 1 I —???

Mel the Scallion @girlmellymel.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m often early, but rarely wrong”

Whewwwww if this ain’t me

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Mel the Scallion @girlmellymel.bsky.social · 3d

What is going on!!!

Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.social · 3d

Kimberly Hébert Gregory has sadly passed at the age of 52.

She was introduced to many through her work on ‘Vice Principals’ and ‘Craig of the Creek.’ She voiced, Nicole Williams, Craig’s mom. May she Rest in Peace.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 4d

Remember Sudan is also fighting genocide

indeedagem.blacksky.app @indeedagem.blacksky.app · 4d

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict.

www.reuters.com

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AuDHDeepdive 😁a n t i f a @audhdeepdive.bsky.social · Nov 10

The Paradox of Tolerance
disappears
if you look at tolerance,
not as a moral standard,
but as a social contract.
If someone does not abide by the terms
of the contract, then they are not covered by it.
In other words: The intolerant are not following the
rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.
Since they have broken the terms of the contract,
they are no longer covered by the contract,
and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.
inspired by 'Tolerance is not a moral precept" by Yonatan Zunger
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Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response
to the Paradox of Tolerance. I cannot tell you how many times my
students have had debates about this. This is the response. This does
indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classes now.
Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox
of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it
before.

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.bsky.social · 4d

Hoopla and Kanopy are both apps that let you stream movies and shows with your library card.

Libby & Hoopla also have books, comics, graphic novels and audiobooks.