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Keidra

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Born to be Synclaire, forced to be Maxine. Zine stuff at @wildramppublishing.bsky.social. Random fangirling throughout. https://linktr.ee/KeidraC Profile ID: Black woman with red twists

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Keidra @kdc.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting things going on over in Wild Ramp-ville!

Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 13d

VERY excited to announce my new podcast, "Rough Draft" with the fab @caboosezine.bsky.social! We're yapping about zines, pop culture, fandom, and life in short, 15-20 minute bursts. Join us!

roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com

A promotional graphic for the podcast Rough Draft with Keidra & Liz. The background is black with torn-paper–style aqua blue accents at the top and bottom edges.

At the top, in small white text, it says:
“Listen now!”

Below that, in large bold text with a glowing blue effect, the title reads:
“Rough Draft with Keidra & Liz”

Centered underneath, in smaller white text:
“a semi-unprocessed podcast about how we process culture”

Below this tagline is a stylized neon-blue image of a typewriter tilted at an angle.

At the bottom of the image, white text reads:
“roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com”

The overall design has a DIY zine-like aesthetic with tilted white dividing lines separating the other text sections.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 5h

Masked Federal Secret Police enter Walgreens in Chicago with guns drawn and arrest Black US citizen for "running"

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 1h

It’s telling that the cover of the album isn’t a picture of D’Angelo himself. It’s a scanned frame of 16mm footage filmed at the Afropunk Festival in 2014 that pictures the crowd raising their hands in protest at the killing of Michael Brown.

tru @thetrudz.photo · 8h

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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Kelly @dancingvalentine.bsky.social · 2h

In light of D’Angelo’s passing, today feels like the right time to revisit his genius. My BFF’s @faithp.bsky.social book honoring Voodoo is a heartfelt tribute to his artistry.
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/dangelos-...

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 3h

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️
I hope he knew. I hope he truly knew how highly he held him. Rest in Power.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 4h

"D’Angelo also chafed at the description of his music as simply neo-soul. “I never claimed I do neo-soul,” he said in a Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014. “When I first came out, I used to always say: ‘I do Black music. I make Black music.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

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Keidra @kdc.bsky.social · 2h

This is important to remember

tru @thetrudz.photo · 4h

There’s an idea that when someone dies before retirement age from a health issue, they must’ve neglected their health, so “everyone get checked.” I want to gently push back on the idea of it being all self-neglect & remind 1) some illnesses are incurable 2) bigoted healthcare system is shit 3) cost.

Keidra @kdc.bsky.social · 2h

Today was a lot. I forgot to eat for most of it.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7h

old enough to remember when these same people made a WHOLE HUGE THING about government censoring social media

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8h

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 6h

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 6h

I've never understood some men's obsession with having children (especially male children) as a form of leaving a legacy. Especially since those same men rarely want to help raise those kids. An individual person isn't a monument to your DNA. You didn't actually accomplish anything but reproduce.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4h

can not underscore enough how much this is just a random neighborhood

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 7h

Chaos at 105th Street and Avenue N. A couple bricks and possibly an egg got thrown at a squad of federal agents who were standing in the intersection. Two cars — a white SUV and a red one — got trucked out after a chase and a crash, per neighbors. At least three detained from this confrontation.

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Keidra @kdc.bsky.social · 2h

💔💔💔

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RIP D’Angelo (ne’ Michael Archer) 🪽 @faithp.bsky.social · 3h

D’Angelo-related media appearances: I’ll be paying my respect to D’ while mourning in real time:

Tonight: BBC News during the 8pm ET newscast.
Tomorrow (Wed.): NPR’s Morning Edition (prerecorded), around 45 minutes to the hour each hour. #musicsky #RIPDAngelo

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 2h

ICE spotted near Kenwood Academy today.

Dear Kenwood Parents and Guardians,
The safety of our students is my top priority, which is why I am writing to address a situation that occurred near our school this morning. We have received reports of federal law enforcement activity in the neighborhood near our school building today.
We immediately shared these reports with the CPS
Office of Safety and Security, and this team reached out to the Chicago Police Department (CPD) for more information. All members of our school community are safe. Today's school day proceeded smoothly and as planned.
I want to emphasize that school is the best and safest place for our students. Our staff is well-versed in the proper protocols for keeping our students and school community safe in case federal law enforcement representatives attempt to enter school property or interact with students or staff. As a reminder, our school and CPS WILL NOT coordinate with federal representatives, and we WILL NOT allow ICE agents or any other federal representatives access to our school unless they produce a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge. I also want to remind you that CPS created a resource packet (English I Spanish) that includes guidance on the following topics:

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 3h

Getting tacos for dinner precisely because the occupying force isn’t legally allowed to

ICE/CBP AGENTS DO NOT
HAVE CONSENT TO ENTER THIS BUSINESS/ RESTAURANT UNLESS THEY HAVE A VALID JUDICIAL
WARRANT
STAFF ARE
NOT
AUTHORIZED
TO CONSENT ACCESS TO THIS BUSINESS/RESTAURANT
STOP
V infoCillinoisworkersinaction.org
T37-9466
www.illinoisworkersinaction.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 3h

📢 Update from the first day of veto session!

If you’re looking for ways to get plugged in, we’re canvassing every day downtown! Sign up for a shift that works for you ➡️ mobilize.us/s/W7IiV4

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Dayna Lynn Nuckolls @thepeoplesoracle.com · 5h

Black people deserve to live into old age.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 7h

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 6h

My favorite, always caught my by surprise at the end of Voodoo youtu.be/P6qz5iiM68c?...

Africa

YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic

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Keidra @kdc.bsky.social · 4h

Things have been so rotten and the only thing lifting my spirits is watching dance covers of XG's "Gala"

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