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Skylar Baker-Jordan

@skylarjordan.bsky.social

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Journalist. Half my heart is in Appalachia. The other half is in England. Write about both professionally, study both academically, at home in both personally. Just finished cancer treatments, so looking for a new adventure! Oh, and I love #EastEnders

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 34m

I am looking forward to the Amandaland Christmas special far more than I anticipated

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 1h

The Voting Rights Act is what made us a true democracy to begin with. Without it, democracy is dead

Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 9h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 1h

Caroline being all sweet and sucking up to Richard... genuine or is she game playing? #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 1h

I really like the dynamic between Jenny, Cam, Zelah, and Feyisola. Their banter in the garden tonight was 💯 #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 1h

Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin were literal children but they had it coming while these grown ass chuds are just misguided youth? Do me a favour JD 🙄

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 3h

When Elsa's not talking about Marcus I like her a lot more. "I just didn't like it," she tells Richard about his story, but she says it in such a sweet and innocent way that you can't be mad at her lol. This episode is the best Elsa has come off all series. A shame she's about to ruin it #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 3h

Sam. Humble as ever 🙄 #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 3h

Richard would be wise not to let Caroline anywhere near him. "Massage." Yeah, right. Mate, she's gonna strangle you (and he looks like he knows it too) #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 3h

But Richard's story isn't even original! #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 3h

Elsa's impromptu songs ain't half-bad, and Tate's apple trick was impressive #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 4h

This talent show is so cringe but so wholesome at the same time. Honestly, I'm loving it #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 4h

Every time Ancestry DNA updates my results I get more and more English 🤣

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 4h

Tate saying haggis is a three legged rat and Sam believing it 🤣 #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 4h

I do agree with Caroline on the dogs. Anyone who talks about putting dogs down around me or being mean to dogs immediately goes into my bad books. I know Teja was joking but I'm looking at my very good boy quite protectively because of her lol #bbuk

Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 4h

Caroline asking if Elsa had sex was wayyyy too personal omg #bbuk

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 6h

The journalist in me wants to bring my phone, but honestly I don't have a job right now and freelancing has dried up so I'm not sure it is worth it. I'll probably attend this simply as a concerned American. I've got a cute red, white, and blue outfit I can wear

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 10h

At a raid on the drop-off line at a local elementary school, hundreds of parents had ICE surrounded within three minutes. ICE gave up and fled.

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 6h

If you're attending a #NoKings protest, @parkroseperma.bsky.social has some excellent videos with tips for protesting, including the risk of bringing your phone and why there will be NO civil disobedience. She also has some good advice on deescalating. Worth watching! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GhE...

Will there be civil disobedience on No Kings Day 2, October 18?

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 11h

RE: domestic politics distorting your view, it's possible. I've checked myself on that a couple times. I've arrived at "I don't trust the competence of the Trump team, so my expectations are low that this ceasefire holds but my hopes are high."

As for the rest... you're right. This isn't near over

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