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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 1d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 1d

Netflix needs to pick up this show

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 2d

I've never watched #LoveisBlind but my loctician had it on so I watched 3 episodes. And all of these people need to be in therapy and not on TV. The producers are more focused on creating drama than couples.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 2d

*increasingly violent

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve thought about this a lot. We’re back in the 19th century: “Show me your walking papers.”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 6d

Birds of a feather...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7d

Under the most conservative estimates, according to NPR, Israel has killed a Palestinian every fifteen minutes this year.

EVERY. FIFTEEN. MINUTES.

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 7d

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 7d

Viewers are going to stop contributing if they continue bending the knee to this administration

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 8d

Not yesterday. Not today. Not tomorrow.

Author Alexis “AC” K. @acknight3.bsky.social · 9d

I have no interest in finding common ground with people who would hang me from a tree given the chance…

a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car with her mouth open .

ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car with her mouth open .

media.tenor.com

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 9d

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 10d

Quite a satellite image this morning! 🛰️🌀

Clouds extend 1000 miles from #Imelda's center all the way into central Pennsylvania.

#Humberto continues to churn in the Atlantic.

Visible satellite image of the East Coast and Atlantic showing the two tropical system.

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 10d

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 10d

Actually conversation between my sister and I this morning

KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 10d

Only in America can you say, “Did you hear about the mass shooting this morning?” and someone can reply, “Which one?”

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 10d

Today's moment of zen

tru @thetrudz.photo · 10d

Photographs of Black surfers at Huntington Beach. (📷 Allen J. Schaben) www.latimes.com/california/s...

“Professional surfer Cherif Fall, of Senegal, goes airborne on a big wave during a men’s surfing competition at the fourth annual “A Great Day in the Stoke,” a celebration of Black surf culture in Huntington Beach, on Saturday.”

Man on surfboard, wearing red and black, surrounded by ocean and waves.

“Friends celebrate with Nascimento, center, as she takes first place.”

Three Black women hugging and celebrating.

“Sidy Camara, of Senegal, celebrates winning first place in the men’s shortboard final.”

Young men carry one man on their shoulders as the crowd cheers them on.

“Ismailia Samb, left, and Fall, both of Senegal, congratulate each other after competing in big waves.”

Two men hi-five while on their surfboards in the ocean.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 10d

Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 11d

Love that for you

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 12d

🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤

🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 13d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 13d

I agree👇👇

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 15d

The call is coming from inside the house.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 15d

Apple TV+ has indefinitely delayed the release of their new TV show ‘THE SAVANT’, starring Jessica Chastain.

The series follows an undercover investigator who infiltrates hate groups online to detect & prevent domestic extremists before they act.

(Source: Deadline)

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