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📡 “Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States.” — W.E.B. Du Bois 🔱 #FreePalestine #NoTechForGenocide #REPARATIONS✊🏿

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · Sep 5

Before the Nakba, there were books in Jaffa. Music in Haifa. Students in Jerusalem. Orchards in Galilee. Cafés in Ramallah. They didn’t erase emptiness—they erased abundance. Every face is testimony. Every archive, refusal.

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 1h

Missouri isn’t red—it’s donor-captured: dark money overrides voter will, turning the state into a blueprint for national minority rule. Transparency is self-defense. #HidingInPlainSight

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 1d

My first book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, came out this March with Rutgers University Press. Since then I've given talks in Boston, Urbana-Champaign, Charlotte and most recently Memphis. /1

Hardback copy of my book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport.

The cover is peach in color, with four different depictions of Black women playing various sports with different hair types.

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 1h

Time for the Colonel to suit up!

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 2h

Trump unveils plans for an “Independence Arch” near the Lincoln Memorial—modeled on Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, self-described as “for me.” Funded by donor cash, it sparks debate over ego, heritage, and federal control in D.C.’s symbolic core.
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tRUmp with the LDE.

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 2h

China weaponizes rare earth export controls to counter G7 tariffs, framing it as “rejuvenation,” not revenge. India pursues strategic autonomy. Both explore BRICS de-dollarization—but real decoupling remains slow. Economic statecraft, not cannons, defines the new rivalry. #BRICS

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 3h

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 3h

Empire writes checks for princes and presidents.
For you? A premium hike and a sermon on “markets.”
tRUmpomics: welfare for wealth, austerity for the rest.

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 3h

Israel calls it a “cease-fire,” but blocks the bulldozers needed to recover the hostages’ bodies. Hamas says they’re under rubble from IDF strikes. Rafah’s open for people, not equipment. The truce holds on paper — not in practice. #Gaza #Ceasefire #ReceiptsFirst

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At least three Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza amid ceasefire

Israel continues to restrict aid entering Gaza, says Hamas hasn't met its end of deal to release all bodies of captives.

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 4h

After reading those leaked texts, I’m making jambalaya tonight — seasoned heavy with receipts. Watermelon for dessert. Banana daiquiri on ice. Taste of what they fear most: joy that survived them. #CookedInContext

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23h

Speaker Johnson now says that Congresswoman elect Adelita Grijalva cannot be sworn it yet because “she won the election after the House was out of session.”

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 4h

“Final vote” ≈ final signature to force the vote.
If the gavel blocks a seat to block a petition,
that’s not procedure—it’s obstruction in a tie.

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 4h

Madak, a smokable opium-tobacco blend from 17th–18th c. Asia, shifted use from oral to inhaled—spreading addiction. Its popularity drove British opium exports to China, sparking the Opium Wars and turning opium into a global crisis.

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 4h

Thatcher warned about “other people’s money.”
Neoliberalism solved it—by routing it to billionaires.
Public wealth for public goods > subsidies for Mars kings.
#FundBusesNotMars

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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 6h

Thought this was an interesting case on evolving speech norms, and the challenges of writing policy that covers emojis. This is something we struggled with at Twitter with racial abuse against footballers. In that when is a monkey or a banana emoji acceptable, and when is it intolerant speech.

Oversight Board @oversightboard.bsky.social · 11h

How should Meta address evolving forms of hate speech used to avoid detection by its automated systems? The Oversight Board is reviewing two new cases on the use of monkey emojis to target Black people on Facebook and Instagram.

Find out more: www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 4h

Hate learned new glyphs. Our filters must learn new eyes.

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 4h

Dark money drowned McCaskill in smears, lifted Hawley, then gutted Clean Missouri—burying transparency to protect grift. Corruption didn’t hide; it legislated. #DarkMoneyMO

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 6h

Early visitors to Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin amused themselves by washing clothes and boiling eggs in the geothermal waters.

This post is educational, not instructive.

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 5h

Missouri ousted McCaskill—despite her stance against Akin’s “legitimate rape” myth—for Hawley, a Trump-endorsed “family values” candidate shadowed by scandal. Hypocrisy didn’t sink him; it powered him. Voters chose loyalty over consistency, proving in today’s politics, obedience trumps sin.

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 5h

Missouri voters passed bold reforms—marijuana, wages, ethics—then elected conservatives poised to gut them. Blue ballots, red gavel: progress sabotaged by its own electorate. #MissouriParadox

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 11h

Why do I always have to help Democratic leaders defeat their GOP frenemies just to secure a crumb for us... but they NEVER want to use their huge platform and immense power to help us defeat fascism once and for all? Why do they pick Wall Street, K street, Silicon Valley, MIC, Israel, etc. over us?

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 11h

"Stop calling us Nazis!!! 😡"

Meanwhile:

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donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 5h

They scream “don’t call us Nazis” while decorating the office like a Reich revival. Fascism doesn’t knock—it redecorates the flag first. #PatriotMaskOff

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING:

Venmo/Paypal down for some. [source: Forbes]

donaldsmushroom 🍄 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 5h

They pick empire because empire pays. But don’t mistake crumbs for charity — they’re hush money. We fight not to be “helped,” but to end the deal they made with our silence.
#PeopleOverEmpire

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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 8h

Whatever you do, don't share this. They'd hate that... 😂

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