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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 2d

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.

"Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 2d

The reasoning does not "remain unclear." Starbucks' own website says that they are closing stores all over the country as part of a restructuring, and Fox and Sinclair know it. The goal is to misinform viewers so that they blame Baltimore for these closures.

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 2d

We are helping to raise money for a trans person whose life is in danger because they are trans. They need to move immediately. Please Cashapp us at #baltimorepeacemvmt and put “safety move” in the note. We’ll send it directly to them. –Baltimore Peace Movement (www.baltimorepeacemovement.com)

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 4d

The discourse on both sides of the Gifted and Talented conversation is annoying. I want to give a little context as someone who works on education stuff

“Exceptional Student Education” is the term more commonly used now for students who perform much higher or lower… 1/

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 4d

Well then, next year in a free Palestine.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 4d

And now I have to wait a year to atone for that joke.

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 4d

Insert joke about Chappelle continuing to fach up?

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this didn't get a lot of attention. Perhaps/hopefully that's because it's now well established that the Met is an unethical organization.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...

The Met Opera Turns to Saudi Arabia to Help Solve Its Financial Woes

www.nytimes.com

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 5d

If any adults in Baltimore are looking for a Covid shot without restrictions based on age or underlying conditions, James Pharmacy in Federal Hill is (at least for now) offering them.

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Fiona Apple Bot @fionaapplebot.bsky.social · 6d

But you’re not benefiting, and yet I’m sitting
Singing again, sing, sing again

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 7d

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Have you seen this petition yet?

Petition Baltimore Mayor's Office To Protect Our Green Spaces From JHU's DSAI Complex

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 9d

Lorne Michaels says this is also how people identify the best/their favorite era of Saturday Night Live.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 9d

There is also ample survey data that people of any age identify the time period when things were best, e.g. the Good Ol Days, as whenever they were 10-15 years old.

They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.

Analysis | America’s best decade, according to data

When pollsters asked Americans when America had the best economy, most moral society or best music, one variable best predicted their answers. It wasn’t race, gender or politics.

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 11d

The contraption on the pillar to the left of the Royal Farms entrance booms out a police-helicopter-like message, ostensibly to deter loitering. (This seems to have replaced their previous approach of playing classical music.) Staggeringly dystopian.

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Former Squeegee Boy @ezewriter.bsky.social · 11d

Just turned in my first manuscript. I’m about to be a published author. I can’t believe I’m typing those words

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 12d

Donate to Support a safe new beginning for the Wang-Dougall Family., organized by Alyson Granaderos

To know Jen & Siobhán is to understand that selfless acts of … Alyson Granaderos needs your support for Support a safe new beginning for the Wang-Dougall Family.

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 13d

And I wore my Cedric Mullins shirt. 🧡

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 13d

The first and only O's game we were able to get to this year, and it was beautiful. 🧡

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O’s walk it off on a Dylan Beavers home run to end the home season

Leave it to Beavers: the rookie walked us off in the O’s home finale with his fourth home run of the season.

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 13d

"The book's exploration of key terms like 'debt,' 'police,' and 'union' offers readers a new framework for understanding the university's transformation into an instrument of capital accumulation..."

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

University Keywords

How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 13d

I should read this. I was way into Janáček in grad school, and I don't think I read her memoir at the time.

Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 13d

Curious (unhappily so) to know more about Janáček :/

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 14d

David Smith, chairman of MD-based Sinclair Broadcasting, now owns the Baltimore Sun, in addition to Fox 45 locally and other local TV news outlets across the country.

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