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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 13h

The NY state apple harvest season is in full gear. Workers are out in the apple orchards on a daily basis climbing up and down ladders to fill these huge 900 lb bins so we can enjoy this sweet fruit. #WeFeedYou

A bin partly filled with apples and two more bins empty and one more at the end partially filled

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"I refuse to accept a world where people are punished for seeking safety or silenced for speaking the truth. I refuse a system that values profit over people and power over love." - Natasha Cloud

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 23h

Act now and call on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and all other arbitrarily detained Palestinian health workers.

Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

www.amnesty.org

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 1d

“The deal with Broadcom would use as much power as 8 million US households…

A 2024 Department of Energy report on data center energy usage found that data centers are expected to consume about ***6.7% to 12%*** of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.”

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 1d

The Data Rescue Project Tracker is tracking what data sources are being removed or altered.

The Data Rescue Tracker

The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help re...

www.datarescueproject.org

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Tasha Williams @riseupwoman.bsky.social · 1d

for example,

the USDA’s research division banned more than 100 words from their publications, including “indigenous,” “black,” and “safe drinking water.”

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 1d

No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 1d

No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 1d

Write to Congress: All CDC Employees must be reinstated

Write to Congress: CDC Employees must be Reinstated

**Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d

"There are ways for ... everybody to do something, and we have to do it because no one else is going to do it."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 3d

Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Last Daze 😵‍💫 @coolpix-jpg.bsky.social · 3d

This is the logical outcome of systemically dismantling both public health and population-level social conscience under Biden, who, even from the campaign trail flanked Trump from the right to push for a sooner "back-to-normal" polices, obfuscating the serious risk of repeated SARS-COV2 infections.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 3d

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Taylor Cassidy Shows the Fun Side of Black History

I’m not on social media, but even I couldn’t stop watching Cassidy’s Fast Black History TikToks.

sojo.net

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

Today I took questions from more than a dozen South Asian news outlets and spoke about our agenda to make this city affordable for each and every New Yorker.

Zohran sits at a long conference table, back to the camera, with more than a dozen journalists, some with cameras, facing him.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 3d

"We don't know the name of the people or the location of the places where Assata [Shakur] hid, but we do know that sustaining the underground network involved faith, risk, audacity, and ingenuity. There is a lesson here about ... shield[ing] others from the onslaught of the state."

Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

The recent passing of Assata Shakur unleashed more than a sense of loss. It sparked a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for the rest of us.

“You Whisper to Us”: Racial Justice Activists and Artists Honor Assata’s Legacy

Assata Shakur's passing unleashed a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for us all.

truthout.org

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

The recent passing of Assata Shakur unleashed more than a sense of loss. It sparked a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for the rest of us.

“You Whisper to Us”: Racial Justice Activists and Artists Honor Assata’s Legacy

Assata Shakur's passing unleashed a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for us all.

truthout.org

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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