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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 13h

WIC’s application limitations could be especially harmful for Black women living in food deserts like the Mississippi Delta, Cassandra Welchlin said.

She worries about children going hungry because they have difficulties learning and paying attention in school if they do not have access to food.

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

*rehabilitated by substack

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 17h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 17h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jailhouse Lawyers Speak @jaillawspeak.bsky.social · 17h

INNOCENT PPL ARE LEFT DYING IN AMERICAN PRISONS!

40 years later and all this innocent person is asking is that his body be freed after his death for a proper burial.

** This is the other part the public doesn't talk about.

Goal 5k. Community member will match what's raised

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

And the tone is very much, “he was a good guy until someone pushed him over the edge”. I grew up Evangelical and knew people who were missionaries. That is not evidence of their goodness and in many cases it is evidence of their need to impose their beliefs on others and punish deviance from them

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1d

People think that furloughing/shortchanging police and military personnel makes them disloyal, but in reality it makes them demand bribes from civilians during spurious enforcement actions

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 19h

yup and it conveniently erases the fact that women endure a LOT of private violence, which is dismissed as "not my business"

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 20h

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20h

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

definitely a troll

'Fact' is a nasty, four-letter word. We must
create a world where Truth wins over facts
Can you believe that the are actually people
who 2 + 2 is 4? That the Earth is roughly
round? Some of these people work at the
New York Times.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

yeah I'm glad I got the deluxe version when it was on sale. I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it despite it being annoying some times

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

I was thinking of revisiting it and playing the dlc 🤔

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

happy to help 😊

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

oooh good to know!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

change the settings of your mobile browser to desktop version and it'll play

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 2d

Kevin Pyles was arrested on felony charges related to violent threats he made towards a Phoenix synagogue. This briefly hit local news following his arrest but, thanks to court record requests and some digging, we were able to confirm Pyles’ affiliation with the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League.

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 2d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

leftcoastrightwatch.org

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

seriously!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

yes exactly lol

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

👀 ask him if he a single uncle who looks like him if you see him again

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

I'm talking about the face specifically. bodybuilder physique not required

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

it'll be worth the wait ;)