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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social · 16h

Hey Orange and Durham County, this family could use our help.

Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 16h

ICE has taken the law-abiding manager of our local movie theater, husband of an American citizen and father to two more, living here legally if not for a first marriage that ended in divorce.

Share/please read the story attached to the call for funding support.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-reuni...

Donate to URGENT: Family Torn Apart by ICE - Help Bring Shama Home, organized by Dani Christian

On October 9th, Mohamed Shama went to his routine immigration … Dani Christian needs your support for URGENT: Family Torn Apart by ICE - Help Bring Shama Home

www.gofundme.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

People are going to post D'Angelo doing Sometimes in Snows in April as his Prince cover, but this one's better

She's Always In My Hair (Radio Edit)

YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic

www.youtube.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely one of the most incandescent talents of his generation. made music for all time. a heavy loss.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 1d

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 2d

A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting.

“I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”

Man with wire-frame glasses, blue overalls, and a gray zip-up hoodie waves a tube of denture cream before the dais of the county commissioners at an August meeting in St. Clair County, Michigan.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3d

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the last living witness of his cousin Emmett Till's abduction, will be the convocation speaker at the conclusion of Tougaloo College’s Founders’ Week on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Emmett Till Center to Honor His Legacy With Events Across State

The Emmett Till Interpretative Center will continue its “Remembering Emmett” series with events across Mississippi in October and November.

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 4d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 4d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 5d

“We calculated that current tariffs, including those just announced, will add roughly $30 billion to the costs of investment in residential structures.”

Janneke Ratcliffe @jannekeratcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

New from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, read about tariffs impacting home construction and renovation costs. taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/recen...

Recent Tariffs Threaten Residential Construction

Using TPC’s tariff model, we calculated that current tariffs, including those just announced, will add roughly $30 billion to the costs of investment in residential structures.

taxpolicycenter.org

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6d

Perry asks whether the “petty acts of vandalism” including "slashed tires" and "keyed cars” is significant enough to impede the execution of federal laws even if it does not make it as “quick and easy” as they would like.

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly as someone born in 1973 I am so down for this.

“Oh I’m sorry, I’m not allowed. I can only receive phone calls and sit in the sun.”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 6d

Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 7d

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 7d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social · 8d

Come on, Dolly. 🦋

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Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social · 8d

Change is happening, one protected lane, one policy, and one safer intersection at a time. And for once, the data is on our side.

momentummag.com/americas-saf...

List of America’s Safest Cities for Cyclists Proves Safety has Nothing to do with Luck

The safest cities for cyclists earned the lowest fatality scores and highest infrastructure ratings among nearly 300 U.S. cities analyzed.

momentummag.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

A coalition of solar energy companies, labor unions, nonprofit groups and homeowners sued the EPA on Monday over its termination of $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes.

Groups Sue E.P.A. Over $7 Billion in ‘Solar for All’ Grants

The lawsuit accused the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally revoking the money without congressional approval.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15d

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe it’s that I didn’t sleep last night. Maybe it’s that my dad died & everything is at the surface. But being in a crowd cheering the brilliance of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social tonight at Hill Hall made me well up w/hope and joy at the end of a terrible day for America. Blessed be the truth tellers.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 16d

PG&E unveils $73 billion spending plan to meet surging data-center energy demand

I'm once again asking, why should ratepayers subsidize the AI build out?
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

PG&E unveils $73 billion spending plan to meet surging data-center energy demand

U.S.-based utility PG&E Corp said on Monday it plans to spend $73 billion by 2030 for transmission upgrades to meet the data center-led surge in electricity demand.

www.reuters.com

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Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social · 16d

😂 so relatable, so sorry.

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Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social · 16d

Thought for five long minutes I was the victim of credit card fraud until I remembered I had to buy tires last month. 😭

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