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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 17d

EPIC REVIEW 🚨 “the Cowboy Carter tour – Beyoncé’s boldest show and one of the year’s defining works of American art.”

How James Baldwin Helps Us Understand Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter

We built this house … do we also have to rebuild it?

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 8h

Celebrating 31 Days of Halloween, so every day in October, I’m watching at least one horror movie. 👀

Day 13: The Last House On The Left

🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 8h

Happy 87th birthday to Pastor Shirley Caesar! 💝🎂

I Remember Mama

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 9h

Happy 57th birthday to Tisha Campbell! 🎂 🎁

Tisha Campbell performs live on Good Day LA

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 9h

Happy 45th birthday to Ashanti! 🎂 🎁

Ashanti - Still On It ft. Method Man, Paul Wall

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 14h

I’m excited to rewatch “The People Under The Stairs” during my ‘31 Days of Halloween’ horror movie celebration.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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sdy292.bsky.social @sdy292.bsky.social · 23h

$70 for a haircut is unsustainable.
And I don’t believe barbers are getting more business. They’re just doing less volume at a higher rate. Basically working less for the same bread. No hate. It’s a free market. But a working man can’t run $70/wk for a cut

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 16h

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 16h

Drop something DEVILISH 😈 🖤 👿

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Hotties HQ 💜 @hottieshq.bsky.social · 19h

*sigh* MBFN 😩

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18h

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 20h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 18h

Researched and broken into chapters and everything. 😂

I ain’t got the mental bandwidth, but I thought I can share it at least.

Btw, I like this movie more the 2nd time watching it.

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 18h

OK, this is taking “elevated horror” to the next level. A 7-HOUR review/guide or “thesis” 😉 to the movie “Midsommar.”

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 21h

In the famous lyrics by Prince, “I ain’t got no money.”

[woman singing opera throughout] @bictoriaaaa.bsky.social · 21h

i’m very broke lmfao

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Bunni😷🌍🗣️❤️✨☮️✊🏾 @bunnisays.bsky.social · 22h

I've been anticipating this moment since I learned about biometric data and the Internet Of things (IOT) in the late 2000s. Nearly every fear about the future I have comes true 🫣 I remember posting "one day suggestions would become commands" on FB.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 22h

Hard to get "the people" to fight fascism when "the people" support so many tenets of fascism. The folks looked up the definition and said "yeah...get THEM." You not articulate enough to convince them that they're also "them."

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Zay The 5’6 Giant @xaviersmith.blacksky.app · 23h

Inflation be hitting us too. Not to mention booth rent and everything else.

Everybody deserve a living wage until it’s us. It’s crazy. 🤧

The reason we even went back to work during the pandemic is because white folks was bitching about barber shops and beauty salons.

DEAD ASS.

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 23h

This has been happening with barbers for at least the last 5 years.

Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 23h

I haven't been in a barbershop in a while. This is what's happening?

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 1d

Essence: Mo’Nique Is Under 200 Pounds For The First Time And Says Her Husband Helped Make It Happen

Mo’Nique Is Under 200 Pounds For The First Time And Says Her Husband Helped Make It Happen | Essence

The comedian has been married to Hicks since 2006, and his tough love over the years pushed her towards a healthier lifestyle.

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ii glocks ii heaven @leatherette.bsky.social · 1d

And she ain’t wrong! Bitch, you sore? STRETCH. Eat a banana, drink some water and stretch.

✨Giver of Problems✨ @jforjae.bsky.social · 1d

Guess it’s Pilates today.

When your friends are Pilates instructors/owners. You’re never really resting. There’s a workout somewhere.

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mel1done.bsky.social @mel1done.bsky.social · 1d

America is not being represented with her best... a bunch of rapist, pedophiles and losers stole the government.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 1d

10/12: Dick Gregory was a prominent civil rights activist who dedicated his life to advocating for social & racial justice. He began his career as a trailblazing comedian, using his humor to satirize racial prejudice & other social issues, which provided him a platform for his political activism.

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Big Fat Bass @kingofdskreets.bsky.social · 1d

This is the video

🌷 MAKING MIDSOMMAR'S MAYQUEEN 🌷 Halloween art doll [relaxing]

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 1d

I’ve only seen the movie once, so this rewatch should be interesting, but it is hella creepy.

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