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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15h

OH COME ON!!

Graham Platner: “Nothing pisses me off more than getting a fundraising text from Democrats talking about how they’re fighting fascism…”

Graham Platner: “But I’m not a wealthy guy, and we’re still short of our $50,000 goal and what we need to win. If I’m going to be able to defeat Susan Collins and flip this Senate seat blue, I need folks like you to chip in now to my campaign.

Please, will you split a donation right now between my campaign and No Dem Left Behind to help me defeat Susan Collins…”

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 14h

Vogue has a story out about Natives and dentalium in the fashion world. I don't subscribe to Vogue, but here's the link.
www.vogue.com/article/indi...
(some of you know of my dentalium mania)

In the Native Fashion World, Dentalium Shells Are Worth More Than Diamonds

“By wearing them, we are passing down the importance of value and what it means to be wealthy in our traditional ways.”

www.vogue.com

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 14h

i mean...it's a lot of that and a lot of the 'ole racism/misogyny mambo.

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Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social · 17h

How are most Americans making sense of the WH using the shutdown to fire federal employees even while spending billions of $$s bailing out the govt in Argentina??

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 15h

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes | Anissa Durham | @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

For years doctors relied on a race-based medical calculation that kept Black patients from accessing life-saving kidney transplants.
wordinblack.com/2025/10/is-t...

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes

A race-based calculation kept Black patients from kidney transplants.

wordinblack.com

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Stabby Spice @stabbyspice.bsky.social · 20h

Fellow white people, this isn't hard. Not everything has to be for us.

Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

If a post says “Black sky” or “Black people” only and you aren’t Black there’s zero reason to respond other than being purposely antagonistic. It’s not cute or funny. It’s disrespectful and tone deaf. Learn to respect boundaries and mind your business!!!

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 1d

It is a public site, and I publicly said I only wanted Black opinions, and here you come with your lily white skin. Again, KNOWINGLY UNWANTED. You're not going to convince me I'm wrong here. I don't mind being a bitch.

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 15h

Once I sent an email and i literally said, 'please don't respond.' and guess what happened? 'i know you said don't respond but...'
And when I said that they were being actively harmful, they got upset. cool.

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 15h

Porter has more problems than that interview, beloved.
As far as why Harris lost: factor in racism and misogyny.

Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

Ooof. Yeah, I used to say that we can have sober nights, but he loved a cocktail. It was his undoing, to be real with you.
You couldn't tell him anything. RIP, my man and everything yet...he could have taken better care, y'know? I know I sound harsh.

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

Girl. I'm not okay. Their poor son. Mom AND Dad.
Lifting that family hard. (also, he was so nice to me at an event that he was like a cousin in my head)

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

lissen...

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

Do you have no discernment at all? Stop and think for a fraction of a second. Holy lord. Classic 'so you hate waffles' response.

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Creole Vaquero @spaceprogkid.bsky.social · 19h

Damn, D’Angelo.

Like, FUCK, bro.

Rest in power.

youtu.be/5aDIqM0n0Eg?...

Lauryn Hill - Nothing Even Matters feat. D'Angelo

YouTube video by nfltrackstarnydc

youtu.be

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Monstro Elisasue @danceswfliez.bsky.social · 19h

and when white women go missing, Indigenous and Black women are more helpful than the police because we know how these systems work and how horrible it is to experience such things

🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 22h

People need to continue dressing up in costumes. Kinda hard to justify to young kids seeing a panda or a unicorn being beat up that the panda or unicorn deserves it:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mhairi Forrest🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the people dressed in costumes is so effective. They can't get the footage they want.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 19h

The man who firebombed the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison, prosecutors said.

abcnews.go.com/US/arson-pen...

Man pleads guilty to arson attack at Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro's home, gets 25 to 50 years

The man who firebombed the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to 25 to 50 years, prosecutors said.

abcnews.go.com

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

One of the nicest men I've met in the industry -albeit briefly.
Lifting his son and family for realsies.

Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

my kid and i were just saying that. lifting that family for real.

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

The same thing with my late friend. He fell on the ice playing hockey on a pond (no headgear) when he was about 9, and that was all she wrote. Unfortunately, he was also a drinker, so that didn't help.

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 19h

we are literally all we've got and gotta say: it's enough. we are enough. together.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 21h

When the Speaker of the House says this may be the longest shut down ever, this is also an admission he won’t be doing shit about stopping the shut down.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social · 20h

Are you Black?

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21h

This is a good point

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 21h

the same people who warned you about john fetterman are warning you about that dude in Maine. if you want to get duped into another fetterman, by all means continue attacking Janet Mills.

if you'd like a reliable vote for democracy, democratic values, and Mainers, go with a proven track record.

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