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“And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white." – James Baldwin
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“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
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At just 16 years old, Sylvan Hills High School junior Paris Wilburd has already achieved what other dedicated cowboys and cowgirls have only dreamed of. She hopes to one day be the first Black woman to compete in the National Finals Rodeo.
Saddle up: A Q&A with Paris Wilburd, cowgirl champion - Arkansas Times
At just 16 years old, Sylvan Hills High School junior Paris Wilburd has already achieved what other dedicated cowboys and cowgirls have only dreamed of. She hopes to one day be the first Black woman t...
arktimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
At just 16 years old, Sylvan Hills High School junior Paris Wilburd has already achieved what other dedicated cowboys and cowgirls have only dreamed of. She hopes to one day be the first Black woman to compete in the National Finals Rodeo.
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Cleo Hearn, who died Nov. 9 at 86, was a Texas rodeo legend.
A Black cowboy who learned to ride during the Jim Crow era, he founded Cowboys of Color Rodeo, bucking stereotypes and encouraging generations of young riders to join in the western tradition.
A Black cowboy who learned to ride during the Jim Crow era, he founded Cowboys of Color Rodeo, bucking stereotypes and encouraging generations of young riders to join in the western tradition.
Roping and riding, Cleo Hearn blazed a trail for cowboys of color
Mr. Hearn, who has died at 86, was a rodeo legend. He bucked stereotypes while organizing events around the country, including an all-Black rodeo in New York.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Cleo Hearn, who died Nov. 9 at 86, was a Texas rodeo legend.
A Black cowboy who learned to ride during the Jim Crow era, he founded Cowboys of Color Rodeo, bucking stereotypes and encouraging generations of young riders to join in the western tradition.
A Black cowboy who learned to ride during the Jim Crow era, he founded Cowboys of Color Rodeo, bucking stereotypes and encouraging generations of young riders to join in the western tradition.
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Care work is the quiet engine of this country, and our politics have never risen to meet the people who hold us through childhood, disability, illness, and aging.
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Care work is the quiet engine of this country, and our politics have never risen to meet the people who hold us through childhood, disability, illness, and aging.
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If you are a White House pool reporter and you don’t stick up for your fellow colleagues after Trump calls them “Piggy” or “Stupid” you are tacitly condoning his behavior and just as culpable at Trump.
Shame on you.
Walk out.
Speak up.
Don’t give him an audience.
Courage is contagious.
Shame on you.
Walk out.
Speak up.
Don’t give him an audience.
Courage is contagious.
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If you are a White House pool reporter and you don’t stick up for your fellow colleagues after Trump calls them “Piggy” or “Stupid” you are tacitly condoning his behavior and just as culpable at Trump.
Shame on you.
Walk out.
Speak up.
Don’t give him an audience.
Courage is contagious.
Shame on you.
Walk out.
Speak up.
Don’t give him an audience.
Courage is contagious.
So, this is where we are now. FFS.
Alexa, play “Let It Burn” by Usher.
Alexa, play “Let It Burn” by Usher.
Now only did White House pool reporters not stick up for their colleague who Trump repeatedly called “stupid” but you can hear them thanking Trump a few minutes later after he ended the Q&A. Sad stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So, this is where we are now. FFS.
Alexa, play “Let It Burn” by Usher.
Alexa, play “Let It Burn” by Usher.
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The Trump Administration is withholding funding for housing assistance programs, which could cause 170,000 Americans to lose their homes this winter.
That’s unacceptable. I’m demanding it be fixed & that hundreds of thousands of families aren’t needlessly evicted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
That’s unacceptable. I’m demanding it be fixed & that hundreds of thousands of families aren’t needlessly evicted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration policy change makes deep cuts to homeless permanent housing program
More than half of the 2026 funding for the program will be shifted from permanent housing to transitional housing with work and service requirements.
www.politico.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The Trump Administration is withholding funding for housing assistance programs, which could cause 170,000 Americans to lose their homes this winter.
That’s unacceptable. I’m demanding it be fixed & that hundreds of thousands of families aren’t needlessly evicted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
That’s unacceptable. I’m demanding it be fixed & that hundreds of thousands of families aren’t needlessly evicted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“For the Wampanoags, Thanksgiving is considered a day of mourning, not a day of celebration. Because while the Wampanoags did help the Pilgrims survive, their support was followed by years of a slow, unfolding genocide of their people and the [theft] of their land.”
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later
The Wampanoag tribe, which helped the starving Pilgrims survive, has long been misrepresented in the American story. As the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving nears, the tribe points out that...
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“For the Wampanoags, Thanksgiving is considered a day of mourning, not a day of celebration. Because while the Wampanoags did help the Pilgrims survive, their support was followed by years of a slow, unfolding genocide of their people and the [theft] of their land.”
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Wage growth among all workers is declining significantly, with low-wage workers hit especially hard.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Wage growth among all workers is declining significantly, with low-wage workers hit especially hard.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u... #Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre
At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u... #Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u... #Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre
At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u... #Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
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WE'VE BEEN PAUSED FOR 16 YEARS ALREADY
This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
WE'VE BEEN PAUSED FOR 16 YEARS ALREADY
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Really great journalism here about the systematic health disparities faced by Black Americans
UMMC Assistant Professor Dr. Justin Turner told the Youth Media Project that Black Americans still struggle to trust the health-care system. He pointed to historical abuses, like the Tuskegee experiments, as a major reason.
Read more at: www.jxnpulse.com/2025/11/from...
Read more at: www.jxnpulse.com/2025/11/from...
Racist Doctors’ Long Abuse of Black Americans - JXN Pulse
Reforming individual mindset and health-care practices can allow Black Americans to lead healthier lives despite the history of medical malpractice.
www.jxnpulse.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Really great journalism here about the systematic health disparities faced by Black Americans
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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BREAKING: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
BREAKING: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.