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Laurren Blake
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Black Feminist. All opinions are my own.
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“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”
In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk’s supercomputer is making them ill
Colossus, an xAI supercomputer, is blamed for worsening air pollution in a historic black community
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is one of those that people look at you like you’re crazy for bringing up because they’ve never heard of it.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The block button be right there and ya’ll always fail to use it.
October 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Being a Browns fan is my personal hell like whyyyy #dawgpound
September 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Friends. Followers. People of Bluesky.

Please check your knowledge of Black and Native history before declaring the US has never
June 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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"At the same time, his administration has elevated candidates with scant qualifications to positions of power across the federal bureaucracy...That this is all being done in the name of “merit-based opportunity,” as Trump’s executive order put it, is patently absurd."

slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s DEI Crackdown Is a Smokescreen for Something Much More Sinister
It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.
slate.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s crazy how seconds can totally change your whole week or even your life.
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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White people are being weird in the comments everywhere, but that’s to be expected.

I’m sharing because me, my editor, & my comrade @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social are all included in this knockout list: www.huffpost.com/entry/empowe...
Critical Race Theory Will Continue To Be Attacked — So Read These 8 Empowering Books By Black Authors
Here are my favorite books by Black authors that dropped in 2024.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Books are expensive but you know what’s free?

✨library✨cards✨
November 24, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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Recordings of the "The Anti-Zioinst Idea: History, Theory, & Politics" are now available www.theantizionistidea.com/recordings
November 20, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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Public library attacks are coming to your local library. Get a card & use it, or you might just lose it.
November 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM