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𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 ★ @mjfinesselover.bsky.social · 4h

1995 — D’Angelo, Brown Sugar
1996 — Maxwell, Urban Hang Suite
1997 — Erykah Badu, Baduizm
1998 — Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Four years. Four timeless albums.
Neo Soul wasn’t just a genre — it was a revolution

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 2h

Muskan Sharma: The Indian woman who stood up to moral policing and won a pageant

Muskan Sharma, who won the Miss Rishikesh contest, said it made her feel like Miss Universe.

www.bbc.com

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 2h

The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated - Leo Tolstoy

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 2h

If you see this, QTP with a sword ⚔️

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Coffeebara @dorothysporesnack.bsky.social · 4h

Stop it. We have done this before and it ended BADLY. Listen and take the advice of Black people.

Stop giving the benefit of the doubt to white men who have done nothing to deserve it

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 10h

As to the "don't want another Fetterman" concerns about Platner: A few former Fetterman people are consultants for the campaign.. and they are aggressively FORMER Fetterman people, to judge by my conversations.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 3h

I sure do hope someone is busy at work on 10-20 think pieces about these being the same bros (sorry I refuse ro call them men) forever complaining about not being able to get laid.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 11h

NY Times Pitchbot with the perfect false equivalency

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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MovieJawn @moviejawn.com · 6h

“ROCKY HORROR offers something analog, shared laughter, shouted callbacks, and a theater full of people who came not to watch passively but to create together.”

Read more from @hsgray.bsky.social below.

50 years on, madness has not taken its toll on THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW — Moviejawn

by Heather Sloan Gray, Staff Writer The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still sashaying across midnight movie screens, still broadcasting from a glitter-streaked time warp fifty years after its debut.

www.moviejawn.com

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 5h

Lauren Hill to D’Angelo❤️🙏🏽

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 5h

Three words. Voter. Access. Network.

Matt @mattmurph24.bsky.social · 5h

Why the fuck is Graham Platner running as a Democrat? He's clearly an Independent.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 5h

Technically this is cheating but 🎧

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 5h

Gotta remember none of them will repudiate the comments and fix their hearts

This is who they are and they only sorry they got caught

The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 6h

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of today after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4ooiPf2

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.

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a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying `` i said good day ! ''

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying `` i said good day ! ''

media.tenor.com

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 18h

New #BloodSplatteredVlog!

This week The Horror Guru & Count Jackula review HIM!

A sports horror movie about an up-and-coming NFL player who is invited by his idol to an isolated compound in order to prove if he has what it takes to become the G.O.A.T.!

#Him #HimMovie #Horror

youtu.be/f3NC89pkwl0

Him (2025) A Football Horror Movie Review | Blood Splattered Vloog

YouTube video by The Horror Guru

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 6h

Late stage Chris Pratt 😂😂😂

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 6h

Hivemind. How was this?

When To Stream @whentostream.bsky.social · 4d

VICIOUS (2025)
Streaming Now
Paramount+, Digital – Sale Only (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.)
#ViciousMovie

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Global EV sales hit record 2.1 million in September, research firm says reut.rs/4oi8Asi

Global EV sales hit record 2.1 million in September, research firm says

Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose 26% in September from a year ago to a record 2.1 million units, driven by strong demand in China and a late U.S. tax-credit rush, market research firm Rho Motion said on Wednesday.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 6h

Amidst all the stuff about the male loneliness "epidemic" there's a serious conversation to be had about how much bigotry has been made out to be harmless until the bleeding starts. These people will not stop at harming the Other. They hate all of you. And they want to watch you suffer and die.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 7h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 7h

Me, seeing Sam Raimi slander:

an elderly man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: an elderly man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

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