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Michael

@mjfromla.bsky.social

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Afropunk 1.0 Refugee "Jahluv" @michael_fromla on IG Jazz, Bicycles, Motorcycles (mostly choppers), Old Cars, 🦅🌎⚓veteran "Mejor solo que mal acompañado"

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 28d

My man did everything he's supposed to do... heartbreaking story.

This single father's struggle for housing pushed him out of Boston, Massachusetts

YouTube video by GBH News

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive. n.pr/4nJ98I5

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 6h

Keep that thought going Jack... just a little bit more...

Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 6h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 8h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 6h

Our sis is good, just taking time to take care of herself...

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

Hilda! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💖

Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

Save the date - November 13th - Pharoah Sanders birthday broadcast at WKCR 89.9FM in NYC or www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/ worldwide...

#WKCR #PharoahSanders #JazzSky

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

They were everywhere when I was in during the 80s - 90s...

White nationalists shouldn’t serve in the military

Opinion: Even a small number of extremists in the ranks can cause harm far disproportionate to their number.

www.militarytimes.com

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sitting on channel 4 until 10pm...

Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

Indoor tennis courts are a rarity here in Southern California. Has to be a necessity in places that have seasons/inclement weather...

Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

Bruh the WAPO is just fish wrap at this point...

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2d

Oct. 6, 1925: Xavier University, the only higher-learning institution in the U.S. that’s both Catholic and historically Black, is founded in New Orleans. It had originally been established as a school in 1915 by Katharine Drexel, a socialite turned nun.

Drexel was made only the U.S.-born saint in 2000

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 2d

The @urbanhistorya.bsky.social conference begins this week (on Thurs) in downtown Los Angeles. Conference info: www.urbanhistory.org/uha2025 #HistorySky #skystorians #UHA2025

Here are a few more panels discussing SoCal & #LosAngelesHistory: ⬇️

Description for the "Making the New Deal Visible in Los Angeles" panel.

Description for the roundtable titled "Indigenous Urban Landscapes of Southern California"

Description for the "Stories from Sunset Over Sunset: Urban Histories of Change through the Lens of Ed Ruscha" panel.

Description for the "Reimagining the Settler City: Spatial Surveillance and Inequality in Los Angeles" panel.

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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 2d

Sweeping the cobwebs from my post weekend brain. Time to get to work. Good Monday morning from the left coast...

#Wordle #BlackCrossword #Connections

Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 4d

Slow scoot today with my daughter to retrieve her IPad...

#BikeSky

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 5d

Dark days don’t scare us. They prepare us. Thank you @crockett.house.gov for reminding us, the systems that were built to break us are crumbling, and it’s our chance to build something new.