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Jaida Declouette
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#LGBTQ #BLM #MeToo No DMs if I don’t know you.
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adamrothman.bsky.social
People are being chased down by government thugs who demand to know "Where were you born?" Outrageous.
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The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown
Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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fourverts.bsky.social
www.chron.com/sports/texan...
Texans star uses 'Free Palestine' cleats to support voiceless
Houston's linebacker is taking a stand.
www.chron.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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gundamcalibarn.bsky.social
the president approves of children being raped, what are the odds
text from the quoted article reading “The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people ir federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.” with “youth detention facilities” highlighted
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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aljazeera.com
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
‘Stop killing us’: Huge crowds rally in Brazil, decrying rise in femicide
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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thebulwark.com
Can we talk about Steve Bannon helping Jeffrey Epstein behind the scenes a fraction as much as we talked about Hunter Biden's corruption?
Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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dytsras.bsky.social
Have you ever heard of Reginald F Lewis? Probably not, and I believe that's by design, as Black erasure is endemic in America.

Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.

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A photo of Reginald F Lewis sitting in a green space while holding a drink and puffing a cigar
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Great thread! Ebony and Jet magazines chronicled his every move when he was at the height of his career. 🧵
dytsras.bsky.social Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h
Have you ever heard of Reginald F Lewis? Probably not, and I believe that's by design, as Black erasure is endemic in America.

Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.

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A photo of Reginald F Lewis sitting in a green space while holding a drink and puffing a cigar
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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bannedrandy.bsky.social
The dude that built our cabinet was telling me that he didn’t teach his son “lefty loosey, righty tighty”. He taught him that the left liberates and the right oppresses. 😂😂😂
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
I spoke in Warren County, Indiana tonight. The organizer of the event said they usually have around 30 folks who come to their holiday supper. Tonight there were 150 people there.

Things are changing. Especially in red states.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Note: "Deportation Judges," not immigration judges. No need to apply if you don't get the agenda.
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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cheryl2877.bsky.social
#Pinks

Yet trumps birthday become a free entry day? Unreal ⬇️
Please explain to me how only removing Juneteenth and Martin Luther King days from the free days at national parks is not racist. Thank You.
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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salvagni.org
Every day there are numerous headlines that can and should point prosecutors toward charges in the American Nuremberg Trials.

It's just Idi Amin and Pol Pot levels of flaming shit every fucking day.
matthewhaybrown.bsky.social Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 11h
The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades
Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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kendrawrites.com
The irony is it won't work.

He'll always feel hollow inside.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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cwebbonline.com
Here’s what he’s missing:

We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.

The GOP.
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
OH THAT IS INTERESTING
Interestingly, those with household incomes of $100,000 or more were the most likely (40%) to say they’ve intentionally taken an item without scanning it. Just 17% of those making less than $30,000 said the same.
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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der-commissar.bsky.social
Webcomic of a bike rider avoiding obstacles on the road: WHY IS THAT BIKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD? (AND YES, IT'S LEGAL) MAKING A LEFT TURN PASSING AVOIDING OBSTACLES AVOIDING THE DOOR ZONE JERK SLIPPERY BIKES CAN LEAVE THE BIKE LANE HOWEVER CARS MUST STAY OUT! (IT'S A TRAVEL LANE NOT PARKING) DEEP PUDDLE MYTHICAL SEA-MONSTER SLIGHTLY LESS GRAND CANYON FORMER HEAD LIGHT MINI-TOURISTS @bikeyface.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
Iconic cartoon showing a single driver in a wide car taking up most of the street space. With many people crammed into the bus, bike and pedestrian space left over. Someone later added a voice box with the driver saying “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking all the space!”
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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jordankurella.com
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

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the cover of THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS is off to the left of this image. the rest of it is text on a dark blue background. it says: AWARDS ELIGIBILITY The Death of Mountains from Lethe Press ELIGIBLE FOR: the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and other novella etcetera LISTEN: if you want to think of this book during awards season? great! thank you very much! are there too many things to think about right now? of course there are. way too many things. i am making this graphic while also internally screaming and procrastinating dinner. so. i get it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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salvagni.org
NBC and every other corporate media just out here in 2025 giving these motherfuckers the benefit of the doubt every day in every headline
December 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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indivisible.org
(next to a photo of Trump at a campaign event) HOW IT STARTED “I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” August, 2024 (next to a photo of Trump covering his face with his hand at the White House) HOW IT’S GOING “I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” November, 2025
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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charleskeener.bsky.social
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol wouldn't it be kind of nuts banning affirmative action and DEI in college admissions has a reverse uno effect on white students?

I'm laughing in "Black women told you so" but alas.

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December 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol I guess this is also the part where people find out that due to declining enrollment of men, colleges are anecdotally engaging in affirmative action...

For men.

www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/m...
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol a study finds that 43% of white students in one of Harvard's incoming class did not get based on merit.

They did get in based on legacy status, dean's list, being related to faculty and staff, or athletic affiliation.

www.nber.org/papers/w26316
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler & Tyler Ransom Share X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 26316 DOI 10.3386/w26316 Issue Date September 2019 The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each. Our model of admissions shows that roughly three quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the share of white admits falling and all other groups rising or remaining unchanged.
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM