@jltown.bsky.social
Founder of SA Feminist Film Festival. Feminist and fighter for equity. Working hard against fascism. Enjoy reading and contemporary art. Will travel at the drop of a hat. Love being a grandma
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Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
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Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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The US military conducted strikes against two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 5 people, according to US Southern Command.
At least 104 people have now been killed in similar US strikes, and Thursday’s attack marks the third this week. https://cnn.it/48X0HCI
At least 104 people have now been killed in similar US strikes, and Thursday’s attack marks the third this week. https://cnn.it/48X0HCI
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The US military conducted strikes against two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 5 people, according to US Southern Command.
At least 104 people have now been killed in similar US strikes, and Thursday’s attack marks the third this week. https://cnn.it/48X0HCI
At least 104 people have now been killed in similar US strikes, and Thursday’s attack marks the third this week. https://cnn.it/48X0HCI
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STILL OPEN!!
Associate Professor - Black and Latino Studies @blsbaruch.bsky.social - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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cuny.jobs
December 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
STILL OPEN!!
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Even though it likely won't pass, I need us all to understand how it feels to watch this garbage pass.
Also, this bill is built on the bones of the anti-abortion bills to punish providers.
Also, this bill is built on the bones of the anti-abortion bills to punish providers.
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Even though it likely won't pass, I need us all to understand how it feels to watch this garbage pass.
Also, this bill is built on the bones of the anti-abortion bills to punish providers.
Also, this bill is built on the bones of the anti-abortion bills to punish providers.
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Hey losers leave trans folks alone
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hey losers leave trans folks alone
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I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
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“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic
It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.
The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.
slate.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic
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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in the shattered Gaza Strip, according to sources and documents reviewed by the Guardian.
With three-quarters of Gaza’s structures damaged or destroyed by two years of Israeli strikes, the rebuilding effort to come – estimated at $70bn by the United Nations – could be a rich prize for companies that specialize in construction, demolition, transportation and logistics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
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The courage of the Black students who led school integration in America remains unfathomable to me. What honor Jo Ann Allen Boyce brought upon us, and what a remarkable life she led.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The courage of the Black students who led school integration in America remains unfathomable to me. What honor Jo Ann Allen Boyce brought upon us, and what a remarkable life she led.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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They want banks to be able to go back to openly discriminating against women and POC. They want women to need to have a man to cosign a credit card or a bank loan like before this rule was passed.
US consumer watchdog to narrow civil rights era lending law, sources say
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose in the coming days narrowing a key part of civil-rights era fair-lending regulations as Republican President Donald Trump's administratio...
www.reuters.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They want banks to be able to go back to openly discriminating against women and POC. They want women to need to have a man to cosign a credit card or a bank loan like before this rule was passed.
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There’s more to this story. My first thought when the story broke—custody battle. Leavitt’s brother has a new, Mar-a-Lago aesthetic approved spouse, has taken his and Bruna’s son to the WH to meet Trump. The smearing of Bruna as absentee and a criminal, reeks of weaponizing ICE against his ex-…
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
There’s more to this story. My first thought when the story broke—custody battle. Leavitt’s brother has a new, Mar-a-Lago aesthetic approved spouse, has taken his and Bruna’s son to the WH to meet Trump. The smearing of Bruna as absentee and a criminal, reeks of weaponizing ICE against his ex-…
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It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December, 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December, 2025
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A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
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Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
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Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
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After 83 people have lost their lives in dubiously legal boat strikes in the Caribbean, some prominent Republican senators seem to finally be ready to part ways with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth....
Republican Senators Question Hegseth’s Future as Outrage Grows
A growing number of top Republicans are refusing to publicly support Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after that second strike to kill survivors.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
After 83 people have lost their lives in dubiously legal boat strikes in the Caribbean, some prominent Republican senators seem to finally be ready to part ways with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth....
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Weird how voluntarily being Trump's bitch never works out like you hope it will.
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Weird how voluntarily being Trump's bitch never works out like you hope it will.
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"AOC of TN laughs at tRuMp'S last- minute tele-rally for Matt Van Epps.
I see their tele-rally and raise them 10K doors that we're probably gonna knock this weekend."
🗳️ 12/2: Send Aften to Congress!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
I see their tele-rally and raise them 10K doors that we're probably gonna knock this weekend."
🗳️ 12/2: Send Aften to Congress!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"AOC of TN laughs at tRuMp'S last- minute tele-rally for Matt Van Epps.
I see their tele-rally and raise them 10K doors that we're probably gonna knock this weekend."
🗳️ 12/2: Send Aften to Congress!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
I see their tele-rally and raise them 10K doors that we're probably gonna knock this weekend."
🗳️ 12/2: Send Aften to Congress!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
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Yes. This ain’t hard. This should be Journalism 101 stuff. Freshman year.
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Yes. This ain’t hard. This should be Journalism 101 stuff. Freshman year.
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
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Stop what you’re doing and read this excellent piece. All of it.
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
📌"I have typed before, and will until my last breath, that Black voters are America’s TRUE patriots, and the only voting bloc that overwhelmingly and consistently gets it right.
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
WHITE COWER
Like it or not, Donald Trump's vulgar presidency is very much a black-and-white issue ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Stop what you’re doing and read this excellent piece. All of it.
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
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During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
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This is the cruelty of MAGA and Trump supporters. It should never be forgotten.
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
ICE deports Austin college student, en route to surprise her family for holiday
19-year-old Any Lucia Lopez Belloza dreamed of helping her father start a tailor shop when she graduated from college. This Thanksgiving, ICE deported her as she flew home to surprise her family.
www.statesman.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is the cruelty of MAGA and Trump supporters. It should never be forgotten.
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...