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Dee Still the tea cake lady @mzdeedei.bsky.social · 19h

This pic deserves to be hung up in the Louvre!

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

this is a life well lived.
this is what it’s all about.

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“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 6h

2009 -2016 Twitter >>>>>>>>>>

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 8h

I only use Google search engine for the shopping tab when I need to know where a specific product is sold. Other than that, I have switched to a different search engine

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 8h

Because it’s out of hand and not a single person needs to use AI that bad and so often!!

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Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 11h

Racism stifles creativity.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 8h

REAL!!!!!

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Aaron, a known dragoon @zerograviga.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday at work because I hate my job and I feel trapped and not getting any progress on my job search 🤗

Rico, house father of WAWG & salt shaker CEO 🧂🤸🏾‍♂️✨ @epereza22.blacksky.app · 10h

When was the last time you cried?

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

Ethnostates are bad

Sheila @sheilagreenfield.bsky.social · 10h

Some Palestinians and all Jews are indigenous to the Levant, and that's why there should be 2 states.

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x @slightwright.bsky.social · 10h

Dolly Parton:

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 11h

HELLO!!!! I am on @npr.org today with the brilliant Dr. Ofronama Biu and @bmluse.bsky.social on It's Been a Minute.

We talk about why our economy needs Black women, how #TheDoubleTax explains the current moment, and what steps need to happen next. Get the book: annagifty.com!

#blacksky #booksky

Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women. : It's Been a Minute

Black women’s unemployment rate is hovering at 6.7% — higher than the rate for white workers. Is it a sign the broader economy could sour? These economists say yes.Black women are the 'canary in the ...

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Happy Halluino! 🎃 @aluino.blacksky.app · 11h

You’ll see a Black person asking for at LEAST a share and maybe 5 dollars so they can get help making rent, and you ignore it.

But you’ll gladly share a white person asking money for a new computer because their older one runs the game at 60fps and not 120fps. 😅

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Happy Halluino! 🎃 @aluino.blacksky.app · 11h

For as many people wanting access to Black business, you guys sure don’t contribute to any Black businesses.

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 10h

To the guillotine

Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 10h

All the AI lovers TO THE BACK!

a woman in a fur coat is dancing in a hallway

Alt: a woman in a fur coat is dancing in a hallway

media.tenor.com

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 10h

Babyface for sure.

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Our Man Tho 🇻🇮 🇵🇷 @hitdogsholler.bsky.social · 10h

Babyface's musical choreography and genius was always so much more than r&b/pop music. He is an EXCELLENT composer, lyricist and songwriter.

This is not to take anything away from Mariah, but his skill is superior

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Spooky Luke 🎃 - STREAM DEEP LOVE! @lukemj.bsky.social · 10h

Project 2025 is already 50% completed

Our Man Tho 🇻🇮 🇵🇷 @hitdogsholler.bsky.social · 10h

Brace yourselves because it's coming and it's bringing hell with it.

(Hell being making interracial marriages/adoptions illegal, birthright citizenship gone, et al)

DT @dthom1117.bsky.social · 12h

Conversion therapy will be legal. First step to reversing gay marriage.

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone have a trustworthy email platform that they recommend?

I want to un-Google my life as much as I can.

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x @slightwright.bsky.social · 11h

Theatrics. Didn’t move the needle.

Hakeem ain’t said shit, barely raised his voice.

The government still shut down. They both got AIPAC funds.

Whoopty doo.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol

(video via Rachel Schilke)

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 13h

why havent we been talking about this? we should talk more about it.

I mean, what's with republicans and (checks notes) gay nazi porn?

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Just a boy @thetxtreasure.bsky.social · 10h

Everything exhausts me

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10h

Henry Ford, Charlie Coughlin, Hiram Evans, William Dudley, and Donald Trump all in a room saying that antifascists are the real enemy, and the rest of us have to listen to the media talk about it like it's not the end of the American Dream and the start of another nightmare.

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TheyCallMeStacey @atraceofstace.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s also a list of their advertisers I collected from Monday night’s news, in case you want to take it a step further:
Crest
Chewy Pharmacy
Gain
Magic Eraser
Airborne
Bristol Myers Squibb
Oral-B
Amazon
Afrin
Ancestry

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