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Skeet Jones

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VA STAND UP! My heart literally beats the Grindin beat. Plus Ultra. ✊🏾 BEHOLD! 🔰ΩΨΦ. ΦΜΑ. #AllBlackLivesMatter He/Him

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Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · Mar 2

How Good and How Pleasant it is...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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🥀L8te_Bloomer_JJ! @l8tebloomer25.bsky.social · 1d

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Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 22h

Oh this is heat.

Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 1d

Mother sauce 101.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23h

Weakness, not strength: it’s undergrad students only, and that was already below 15% for most of these schools.

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15% - BusinessToday

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at regulating academic admissions and funding, and it is set to have significant repercussions for colleges and universities across the United States.

www.businesstoday.in

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Hojo Hope? @honesthoel.bsky.social · 23h

If I’m at a house party and they playing Drake, I’m stealing all their meat out the fridge

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Fu’ad Harir @fuadharir.bsky.social · 2d

COCO GAUFF WINS IN WUHAN! 🇨🇳🏆

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Roland-Garros @rolandgarros.com · 1d

Your new Wuhan champion Coco Gauff 😁🏆

#WuhanOpen

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Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Qwhite interesting.

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 1d

This is what I want to know, because in centuries of Black American history, what has been done to us is rarely, if ever, referred to as that.

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1d

Y'all are SUDDENLY such STRIDENT opponents of GENOCIDE...???! Alright, then where's our reparations.....????????

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Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

I see what you're doing.

Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Every Thing

Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing. You two know everything about me!

Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

😡 what are you keeping from me?!?

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Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it's overrated.

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Gotta make a grocery run but I don’t want to get out of bed.

Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Say it louder.

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1d

Y'all are still STANDING FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM but hollering at the BLACK LADY?????

Your people are currently, right this very moment, launching campaigns of harassment against BAD BUNNY for performing at a FOOTBALL GAME. White people. Please. WHAT THE FUCK??!?!??!?!

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Rent’em Spoons 🥄 🥄 @taastee.blacksky.app · 1d

Sick of yall arguing with yte ppl😐

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Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

😳 oh my

Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Take a nap!

Skeet Jones @quecified.bsky.social · 1d

Look at me being a dummy.