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Sean Padilla @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 8m

One of the all-time great bass lines

Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 13m

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Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (Official Video)

YouTube video by Strut Records

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Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (Official Video)

YouTube video by Strut Records

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FL RN ✡️🎗️ @beu4ic.bsky.social · 50m

Outstanding piece-please take the time to read it. So many points to quote, this one seems helpful for White America to understand exactly how we got here:

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 26m

“The exhaustion comes when white questioners refuse to listen to the people who have already lived under the boot of authoritarianism. Listening means treating Black and Indigenous analysis as expertise—not as perspective that should give way to white people’s flagging analysis.”

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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A nother Martin 💙🌵 @ouijoy.bsky.social · 46m

This! A thousand times this.

“White ignorance doesn’t persist because there’s a lack of information—it persists because there’s a refusal to engage with it”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 33m

Had us all scared.

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Browned Butter @brownedbutter.blacksky.app · 33m

Should have been in the family group chat smh

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 1h

I used to think he was saying "juices flowing down your viiiiine"

Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 1h

🎶Send chii-ii-ILLLS up and down your spine...

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 1h

This definitely made an impact. Pony was ubiquitous.

Albumism @albumism.com · 1h

Ginuwine released his debut album 'Ginuwine... The Bachelor' 29 years ago on October 8, 1996 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/GinuwineGTB

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Snack Queen @auntiebaecc.blacksky.app · 2h

My shirt today.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 2h

Diana Ross was serving looks in "Mahogany"

Happy 50th Anniversary 🎉

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Mr Autumn Man @hartsunknown.blacksky.app · 1h

I know it was falling out the sky for Billy Dee after this movie.

A man with a mustache and short afro hairstyle wearing a white turtleneck and dark jacket, looking thoughtfully to the side. He has a campaign button pinned to his jacket. The background is softly blurred with colorful patterns.

A man and woman stand together at a party or social event. The man wears a dark velvet jacket and brown shirt, while the woman has a sleek black bob haircut and a shimmering outfit, holding a drink in her hand.

A man speaks at a podium with microphones, wearing a shearling-collared brown coat. The sign on the podium reads “For Congress Brian Walker 3rd Congressional District.” A cityscape appears behind him.

A black-and-white photo of a man and woman walking arm in arm down a city street. The man wears a light blazer over a turtleneck, and the woman wears a fur-trimmed coat and wide-brimmed hat, smiling as they talk.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h

I lot of great NOAA scientists I know have left or are going to leave soon. This is bad news for all of us.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1h

#OTD Oct 8, 1953: Birmingham, AL, Police Commissioner Bull Connor announced that a planned All-Star baseball game, organized by Jackie Robinson, would not be permitted to play in the city, because “there is a city ordinance that forbids mixed athletics."

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 1h

LRP lol I just bought some of those for the first time in years last week. They tasted better than I expected. Only thing is you used to get like 10 pieces in the box and now it's like 4 or 6 🫤

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 4h

I don’t know why McDonald’s puts the cheese on the bottom of a filet o fish. Maybe it keeps the bun from getting too soggy. I do it at home because if it ain’t broke…

Also, don’t go to The Golden Arches to get your Lent Burger. It’s same pollock in the box. Seriously.

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The Yaptain 🫡 aka Uncle Ray-Ray @blu-ray381.blacksky.app · 2h

To be honest, there was nothing out here on Earth like Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" before and there still isn't one here like it today.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2h

Chicago Ald. Gregory Mitchell oversees the 7th Ward, which is home to the South Shore apartment building at the center of last week’s ICE raid.

He didn’t sign the letter.

Mitchell has not yet publicly issued a statement on the raid.

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So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 2h

"Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with."

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3h

Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑

"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."

Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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2 rapture 2 furious @inot2.bsky.social · 2h

Saying shit like “sometimes you gotta go through the pain to experience the joy *heavy breathing*”, like shut tf up damn

ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 9h

Bro, this nigga Diddy always start talking on EVERY FUCKING SONG when you least expect it. Like why are you even on here?!

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 9h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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