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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

GQ Profile Of D'Angelo Explores The Perils Of Being Sexy

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 1d

3 classic albums. No skips. Love songs. Liberation songs. Sensual songs. Fun songs. Black ass music. 51 is too young. D'Angelo can't be gone.

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 1d

What the actual fuck…

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

D'Angelo has passed away at the age of 51.

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 1d

I started CC this year and will transfer as a junior next Fall with no debt (God willing). I’m honestly glad I waited this long to start college.

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 1d

They wrote a book together called Racecraft… I will be reading 🌝

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 1d

I don’t think it gets any simpler than the statement that race is the byproduct of racism, I hope this one day becomes the easiest way of thinking about it.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 2d

Kwame Ture, head in hands, looking disappointed.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans announce plans to vote on a new U.S. House map as a nationwide redistricting battle unfolds.

North Carolina GOP announce plans to vote on new House map amid nationwide redistricting battle

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say they will vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S.

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nat she/they @natpalm99.bsky.social · 3d

me and some friends walked some kids home from broadview and we were chatting and they had lots to say (mostly tried to not talk about BV they wanted to stay) but this stuck out to me

kid: yeah i hear helicopters when i leave school now
me: how’s that feel
kid: it’s scary

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 3d

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 4d

This is the best account ever.

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 4d

ironic detachment as a concept is problematic, biphobic, and anti-theist.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 4d

Taylor Swift has done more good for WASPs than Leon Trotsky. Full stop.

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 4d

The most pro-Christian Administration

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 4d

But… America bad…

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 5d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 6d

May this type of love never find me 🙏🏽

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6d

No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 6d

Me n him will never part 🤞🏽

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TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 7d

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 7d

Watch PinkPantheress cover Charli XCX's "Apple" in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

PinkPantheress Covers Charli XCX's "Apple" In The BBC Live Lounge: Watch

With her recent mixtape Fancy That, PinkPantheress made one of the best albums of the year so far, even if she isn’t calling it an album. This week’s she’s releasing a remix companion album called Fan...

www.stereogum.com

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aaron @metalcloudz.blacksky.app · 7d

The Birkenstock clogs are so cool tho 😭

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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