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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 2h

3 classic albums. No skips. Love songs. Liberation songs. Sensual songs. Fun songs. Black ass music. 51 is too young. D'Angelo can't be gone.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2h

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Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 2h

fuck cancer

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youtu.be/rejA6QRtrAI?...

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Betray My Heart (Audio)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 2h

Did Phil post confirmation yet????????

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 2h

WHAT????? Noooooooooooooooooooo

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

RIP to D’Angelo, his beautiful catalog, and his abs in the Brown Sugar video

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 4h

High key appreciate the silent majority of black folk who recognize the okie doke with this dumb and dangerous regime

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 4h

Yup they wanted boogaloo bait but they got frogs and unicorns, priests and grandmas. Naked cyclists and line dancing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

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--

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 6h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 6h

Press fails seemed to proliferate since 2000 to be fair...

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 8h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 7h

bari weiss is proof you can do whatever you want in america if you’re an unapologetic bigot, racist and liar. as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps telling us, democracies need to establish costs for being a lying liar.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 19h

1. Maintaining our right to public protest is essential for defeating dictatorship.
2. There are more of us than there are of them.
3. You don't have to RSVP.
4. Do more after Saturday.
5. Maybe wear a costume.

Trump Determined to Remind Us Why We Say 'No Kings'

We have frogs everywhere—a few reminders for this Saturday's monumental event.

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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 7h

Four People Charged for Teaching Black People to Read in Wheeling, West Virginia
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Oct. 14, 1834 | Four People Charged for Teaching Black People to Read in Wheeling, West Virginia

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 7h

Janet Mills has done a wonderful job as Governor. I'm from Maine and she embodies the best kind of Mainer- tough, kind, generous, and neighborly. As much as I like her, she is 77, and needs to enjoy retirement. We need fresh ideas and fresh faces in the Senate, not near Octogenarians.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 6h

"If she wins next year, Ms. Mills would be 79 at her swearing in the following January, which would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in American history."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 6h

It's ridiculous that we don't have high speed rail

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 8h

The damned recliners shouldn't pay Westjet; they should pay the person behind.
Airline Announces Plan To Start Charging Passengers To Recline Their Seats
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Airline Announces Plan To Start Charging Passengers To Recline Their Seats

Customers are voicing their complaints about airlines demanding more money for basic comfort.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2d

Obsessed with photographer Thea Traff’s stark, color-blocky images that run alongside my restaurant review this week. Also, tbh, very pleased by my opening graf www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

THE FOOD SCENE
HOW FRENCH SHOULD A
RESTAURANT BE?
Chateau Royale, from the team behind Libertine, pulls out all of the Gallic stops without, for the most part, feeling ostentatious or conceited.
By Helen Rosner
October 12, 2025
Chateau Royale both plays its Frenchness straight and wears it lightly.
Photographs by Thea Traff for The New Yorker

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 2d

“Andrew emailed Epstein on 28 February 2011, the day after the well-known photograph of the duke, Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell was made public. He told Epstein to “keep in close touch” and expressed a wish to “play some more soon”.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011. The email will pile further pressure on Duke of York and the royal family as he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the paedophile financier by that point. Continue reading...

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Giving … without condition… without pretense… without expectation

Helps your heart

And we need our hearts helped

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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