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Michelle @wmichellewho.blacksky.app · 6h

LA has to get Kendrick on mic or throwing 1st pitch for at least 1 game... (but not the National Anthem)

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Marcus D. Moore @marcusdmoore.com · 6h

You’ll never convince me that human beings are supposed to be working THIS hard, at this frequency, and for as long as we’ve become accustomed to. We are all so exhausted with no time to actually take care of ourselves or for each other. This shit hasn’t been normal for a while!

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 12h

We were wondering... what Bitch Media pieces are you all eager to see republished? QT with your faves that have been lost into the ether--maybe we can rescue them!

illustration of a computer with the logos of Bitch and The Flytrap onscreen.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6h

“I see just a massive opportunity on the horizon, and not just in Europe but all over the world, to start building a new, good internet outside the U.S. One that’s multilateral, one that’s pluralistic, one that is enshittification-resistant from the start. It’s going to be accelerated by Trump.”

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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 12h

I also get the feeling that if Sliwa knew dropping out would help Cuomo the most that he'd not do it just to spite Cuomo.

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 7h

IIRC Cuomo specifically had people sick with Covid sent back to old folks’ homes resulting in more deaths. He killed a lot of grandmas at any rate

The Cuomo hate transcends normal politics it’s about him killing grammie & grampie & sexually harassing like your aunt

It’s personal

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 16h

NEW — Chicago, along with eight other local governments, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration over new restrictions for federal emergency grant funding.

The lawsuit seeks to protect grant funding for emergency response efforts.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/city...

City sues Trump administration over new restrictions to federal emergency response grants • The TRiiBE

Chicago along with eight other local governments filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the Trump administration over new restrictions for federal emergency grant funding. The lawsuit seeks to prot...

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 11h

NEW — Art Beats + Lyrics (AB+L) took over Navy Pier’s Aon Grand Ballroom this past Friday.

The traveling show, which originated in Atlanta in 2004, showcased emerging and established Chicago artists in the visual arts and hip-hop communities.

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Art Beats + Lyrics brought Black visual arts to Chicago’s Navy Pier this year • The TRiiBE

Art Beats + Lyrics stopped in Chicago on Oct. 17, celebrating over 20 years of being on the road, combining different art disciplines, and creatively moving the culture forward.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

Another rejection... Trying five more apps tomorrow...

Someone make me independently wealthy please

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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MedWitch @andrearae.bsky.social · 17h

How we doing 🌶️🧠 fam

Turns out if you get good grades and act like you've got it all together they let you raw dog ADHD your whole life until motherhood or perimenopause send you into a full blown burnout

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 8h

Serena Williams doing ads for GLP-1s. We have strayed much too far from God’s light.

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Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 7h

Sunset in Richmond, VA

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 7h

University of Arizona President Garimella says NO to Trump's coercive compact since "principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding, and institutional independence are foundational and must be preserved." www.reuters.com/world/us/uni... via @reuters.com #BearDown

Lovely photo showing part of the University of Arizona in Tucson, with "A" Mountain in the background.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

BNP Paribas shares fell up to 10% after a US jury ruled the French bank aided Sudan’s government in committing genocide by violating American sanctions, raising fears of more legal claims aje.io/40amaz

BNP Paribas shares fall after US jury’s Sudan verdict

The French bank will pay more than $20m to three plaintiffs amid allegations of human rights abuses.

aje.io

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Very 🫘 @veryvaluable.bsky.social · 8h

And the trees! Those really hurt.

(Photo source unknown because I’d saved it on my phone)

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 26d

Love this - a way for the better funded bigger stations to show solidarity with the smaller at-risk stations

Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 26d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8h

Noem’s twin luxury jets cost taxpayers $170mil. What else could we have bought for that kind of cash?

💰The entire FY22 salary and benefits budget request for the Coast Guard (1)

💰Guaranteed loans for small businesses that are inaccessible during the shutdown. (2)

Kristi Noem defends $170M purchase of Gulfstream jets for DHS leaders

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended a contract to spend more than $170 million on new jets for the U.S. Coast Guard, including one that will be used for the secretary’s travel. The Dep…

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 8h

Maybe I’m just a weirdo who thinks that real estate is inherently a long term investment and so returns should be measured in decades and not the span it takes to potty train a toddler

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 8h

i guess there's something to say about security theater in the US mother fuckers.

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 8h

they don't even have a functioning picture of thieves to pass around yet? half the damn neighborhoods in US would have the entire heist filmed from the time the ladder pulled into the neighborhood through to when the thieves were four blocks out from museum.

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 11h

Just when I thought the gold was going to kill me, there's the possibility of something worse.

Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 11h

At some point Trump is gonna d*e and JD Vance is gonna cover the whole dang whitehouse in gray laminate

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Patrick Spauster @patrickspauster.com · 11h

Every year I write the same, slightly grimmer story
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1 in 7 New York public school students experienced homelessness last school year, a record high.

For @citylimitsnews.bsky.social I discuss the troubling rise
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 11h

Lupin works because the duality of invisibility and hypervisibility of Blackness; they both function on a continuum that’s meant as erasure of “the human.” But this exact same erasure is what Assane capitalizes on, as a tool in his heist toolkit.

Highlighted portion of article (Sophie Gilbert; The Atlantic) excerpt reads: “At the Louvre, dressed in a formless jumpsuit and clutching a box of cleaning products, Assane blends in among the other janitors—people of color like himself—vacuuming carpets and taking out the trash. But in the same scene, when he shifts into his next character, an entrepreneur attending an auction, Assane saunters into the museum resplendent in a purple suit, smiling broadly and nodding hello to all the wealthy white patrons around him. The con relies on his conspicuousness in some circles as much as it does on his ability to be unseen.”

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Michelle @wmichellewho.blacksky.app · 11h

'As a single mother taking care of two young children, she has persisted in creating opportunities for herself by following her passions and never taking no for an answer. “When I read a lot of James Baldwin’s work, he said, ‘Go with the blood beats,’ and that means do what excites you.”'

Photographer Coreen Simpson’s illustrious career capturing Toni Morrison and Muhammad Ali: ‘I’ve never gotten bored’

Star-studded work from Simpson, whose instincts also led to success in jewelry design, is assembled in a new photo book

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11h

The judge wrote that school libraries are “loci of intellectual freedom,” and emphasized that students must be free to “inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding.”

www.advocate.com/news/pentago...

Federal judge orders Pentagon to restore LGBTQ+ books, gender & diversity lessons in military schools

Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez to comply immediately.

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