Black Intellect
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Aspie Dad, Political Scientist, Writer, Policy Analyst, News Curator, Whovian, Star Citizen & Trekker in the Bronx from Camden, NJ.
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The real division in the US is between those who support a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual America that centers fair socioeconomic opportunity for all & those who want a theocratic Christian evangelical white ethnostate that centers economic elites
The real division in the US is between those who support a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual America that centers fair socioeconomic opportunity for all & those who want a theocratic Christian evangelical white ethnostate that centers economic elites
Israeli soldiers shoot dead surrendering Palestinians | DW News - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nlV...
Israeli soldiers shoot dead surrendering Palestinians | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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November 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Israeli soldiers shoot dead surrendering Palestinians | DW News - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nlV...
Wisconsin Supreme Court says 3-judge panels must decide congressional redistricting cases - www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Wisconsin Supreme Court says 3-judge panels must decide congressional redistricting cases
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered that a pair of three-judge panels hear two lawsuits that argue the battleground state's congressional maps must be redrawn because they unconstitutionally favor...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Wisconsin Supreme Court says 3-judge panels must decide congressional redistricting cases - www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Can US health care solve its cost crisis by copying Europe? www.dw.com/en/us-health...
Can US health care solve its cost crisis by copying Europe? – DW – 11/27/2025
The US spends more per capita on health than any other country and health care is vastly more expensive for citizens than anywhere else. Can it learn anything from European systems?
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November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Can US health care solve its cost crisis by copying Europe? www.dw.com/en/us-health...
After 14 days in ICE lockup, this N.J. woman is giving back to those who helped her|
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November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
After 14 days in ICE lockup, this N.J. woman is giving back to those who helped her|
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles | www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles
Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative nature
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles | www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media | www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media
Trio given leave to stay in their abandoned convent near Salzburg until further notice, church officials say
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media | www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jacob Zuma’s daughter resigns amid claims South Africans tricked to fight for Russia | www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jacob Zuma’s daughter resigns amid claims South Africans tricked to fight for Russia
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla quits as MP after being accused of recruiting 17 men who are trapped in war-torn Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Jacob Zuma’s daughter resigns amid claims South Africans tricked to fight for Russia | www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder | www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder | www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
Social media users flee X, flock to TikTok and Reddit according to Pew Research www.axios.com/2025/11/28/p...
Social media users flee X, flock to TikTok and Reddit
The same fragmentation that reshaped news is now reshaping social media.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Social media users flee X, flock to TikTok and Reddit according to Pew Research www.axios.com/2025/11/28/p...
Mother of autistic Houston teen speaks out after he was held for nearly 50 days in federal custody –
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Mother of autistic Houston teen speaks out after he was held for nearly 50 days in federal custody | Houston Public Media
Emmanuel Gonzalez-Garcia had been reported missing on Oct. 5 after selling fruit with his mother. He ended up in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement as an unaccompanied immigrant minor.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Mother of autistic Houston teen speaks out after he was held for nearly 50 days in federal custody –
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What were the Afghan "Zero Units" that sources say the National Guard shooting suspect worked for?
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What were the Afghan "Zero Units" that sources say the National Guard shooting suspect worked for?
The "Zero Units" were considered by the U.S. and its international partners to be among Afghanistan's most trusted domestic forces.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
What were the Afghan "Zero Units" that sources say the National Guard shooting suspect worked for?
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The DOT says it wants to make trucking safer, but some see an 'immigration raid'
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The DOT says it wants to make trucking safer, but some see an 'immigration raid'
The Department of Transportation wants tougher rules for commercial driver's licenses after a deadly crash involving a trucker from India. Critics say it's an immigration crackdown by another name.
www.npr.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The DOT says it wants to make trucking safer, but some see an 'immigration raid'
www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
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Recycled lead used in U.S. auto batteries linked to poisoning in African communities - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwS...
Recycled lead used in U.S. auto batteries linked to poisoning in African communities
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Recycled lead used in U.S. auto batteries linked to poisoning in African communities - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwS...
New polling in Tennessee's special election: Political Power Ranker - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukuc...
New polling in Tennessee's special election: Political Power Ranker
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November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
New polling in Tennessee's special election: Political Power Ranker - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukuc...
Workers walk off Nashville Boring Co. tunnel project over safety, pay - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DraP...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Workers walk off Nashville Boring Co. tunnel project over safety, pay - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DraP...
Meet the Pitmasters Bringing Ethiopian Spice to Texas BBQ - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWyA...
Meet the Pitmasters Bringing Ethiopian Spice to Texas BBQ
YouTube video by PBS Food
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November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Meet the Pitmasters Bringing Ethiopian Spice to Texas BBQ - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWyA...
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NEW STORY // Affordable Housing Expands in Seattle’s Central District and South End
Story by Andrew Engelson via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/26/a...
Story by Andrew Engelson via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/26/a...
Affordable Housing Expands in Seattle’s Central District and South End » The Urbanist
# A handful of new affordable housing complexes in the Central District and South End are providing some welcome relief to apartment-seekers amidst a housing affordability crunch. Leaders from Low Inc...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
NEW STORY // Affordable Housing Expands in Seattle’s Central District and South End
Story by Andrew Engelson via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/26/a...
Story by Andrew Engelson via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/26/a...
Spotsylvania superintendent shows his degrees, passport after challenge by board member | NBC DC - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p2y...
Spotsylvania superintendent shows his degrees, passport after challenge by board member | NBC DC
YouTube video by NBC4 Washington
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November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Spotsylvania superintendent shows his degrees, passport after challenge by board member | NBC DC - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p2y...
Growing Up in Melancholy: A Black Intellectual Story by I. Augustus Durham. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRP...
Growing Up in Melancholy: A Black Intellectual Story by I. Augustus Durham.
YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Growing Up in Melancholy: A Black Intellectual Story by I. Augustus Durham. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRP...
Debates restart over Canada’s fighter jet purchase amid rising U.S./Canada trade tensions - www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVv...
Debates restart over Canada’s fighter jet purchase amid rising trade tensions
YouTube video by CBC News
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November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Debates restart over Canada’s fighter jet purchase amid rising U.S./Canada trade tensions - www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVv...
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is one of the world's wealthiest women.
MacKenzie Scott's college roommate once loaned her $1K. Now it's the billionaire's turn to invest
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is one of the world’s wealthiest women. As a Princeton University sophomore, however, she faced dropping out until her roommate got her father to loan Scott $1,000.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is one of the world's wealthiest women.
RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern - www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oI3...
RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern
YouTube video by WPRI
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern - www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oI3...