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@lockthewriter.blacksky.app

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Founder, Wake & Think Collective; pan-diaspora media engine & self-sustaining home for Black creatives + activists feeding liberation through ancestral wisdom, news & community care. Stay woke, build together. https://linktr.ee/wakeandthink

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 22h

If you are in California I strongly urge you to vote for prop 50. It is not the perfect solution but it’s the only solution we have rn to stop the spread of fascism. It will be our duty as citizens to make sure it does revert back in 2030 though.

California must remain the American standard

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 1m

I was taught at a leadership conference in middle school to nod because it gives the impression you’re listening to what someone is saying. I never trust someone who is constantly nodding since.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 9m

I cannot BELIEVE enduring all that she is enduring that she ADMITTED SHE VOTED FOR THIS. Live on the CALL, brother. My God.

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 47m

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON CALLED OUT ON AIR:

'my kids could die if you don't stop playing games with our healthcare'

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 17m

January 6th was not taken serious enough.

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 1h

This man has never told a truth. Just yearly routine check up

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 13h

Wait… Did we decide to shorten the year? Is that what's been happening? No wonder time feels like it's moving so fast…! …Oh… We didn't?

Huh. Well then this seems weird.

"Trump … 'routine yearly' medical check-up … his second in 6 months"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 13h

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 2h

They gonna blame everything but their prices when attendance drops next year

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 2h

I miss studbudz

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 2h

So looking into it further. States could start their own cryptocurrency and never give the Feds anything

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 3h

Proof that Elon Musk is a hack. He thought he was doing something. They just wanted everything wrecked. So they let him pretend.

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kash @thisiskashmir.com · 12h

When my nigga said they was on they way to the 3/5ths mafia concert I lost it

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 13h

There was a time that this news would of made me so happy

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 14h

He thought shit was sweet in college football and now is about to get fired mid season

Matt Baker @mattbakercfb.bsky.social · 14h

On the other site.

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 15h

Bless you

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 15h

I have to ask I even clicked on the hashtag. What’s QTNA? Lol😭

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 16h

I know she’s sick of us asking 😂

Black Vibes @blackvibes.bsky.social · 16h

Kelly Rowland clears up 23-year-old question: Why was she texting with Excel in the ‘Dilemma’ video with Nelly?

Rowland featured in Nelly’s 2002 hit “Dilemma” and "received" a text message in the video that has become part of pop culture history.

thegrio.com

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 16h

What store you get it from. I’m adding it to my grocery list

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 16h

Should we be openly celebrating hoodoo heritage month?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

This is important.

Immigration Coalition @immigcoalition.bsky.social · 1d

Urgent: Help free Wagner, a beloved community member + asylum seeker, detained by plain-clothed ICE agents outside his Manhattan hearing on 10/6. Despite his lawyer’s objections + his family’s cries, he’s now held at Delaney Hall.

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Image of Wagner and his family on black ground with call to action text. That text will be on following slides.

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 16h

I didn’t know this existed 😭

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 16h

I don’t care what it says. This is on his head like the birth certificate for Obama. He will forever have to prove with goal post that’s constantly be moved that he is fit for president

Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 21h

Don’t forget to meditate today

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 21h

I’m shocked he lasted this long in Atlanta.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 22h

I thought we all were acting like we'd been thinking about "plenary authority" for months?

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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Loc @lockthewriter.blacksky.app · 22h

The we ain’t that close subtle jab got me laughing

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