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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 16h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

Rebecca Kennison @rrkennison.bsky.social · 15h

Since Janet Mills announced her run for Senate earlier today, I have gotten six text messages asking for money. One every hour, each from a different number. Someone needs to tell her campaign to STOP SPAMMING US ALL! This sort of "marketing" makes me want to throw my phone at the wall, not give $$.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 18h

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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Rebecca Kennison @rrkennison.bsky.social · 16h

The @dscc.bsky.social needs to let Mainers decide who they want their candidate to be. After the primaries they should support that candidate. Period.

It’s as if corporate Dems have learned nothing from the NYC mayoral race. Support the people’s choice, darn it! It’s not that hard.

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Phoenix Rising @gototown.bsky.social · 18h

Why do people like Janet Mills always want to do whatever it takes to save democracy except step aside and let the next generation lead? Hungry ghosts never quit.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

NO. It's fundamentally inappropriate for the @dscc.bsky.social to form a fundraising committee with Janet Mills. What happened to staying OUT of the primaries?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Rebecca Kennison @rrkennison.bsky.social · 16h

“Israel has told the United Nations it will only allow 300 aid trucks — half the agreed number — into the Gaza Strip from Wednesday and that no fuel or gas will be allowed into the enclave except for specific needs related to humanitarian infrastructure.”

Collective punishment is still a war crime.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland.
I am

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d

I started the DH Slack 10 years ago today 🎉 3.8k legit DHer/DH-interested folks joined; we became a regular venue for asking questions & sharing opportunities+research; usually have several hundred folks active/week (more during DH conferences); 160k+ posts. Anyone curious about DH can join:

Digital Humanities Slack!

tinyurl.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

Uni administrators and trustees: We need viewpoint diversity.

Professor, outside of class: Working class should organize to overthrow capitalism

Uni administrators and trustees: No, not THAT kind of viewpoint diversity

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable:

Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut.

Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

"At first I thought it was a little bit of a conspiracy theory... but at this point..."

Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US.

#Newsnight

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

jokes aside, racism and other forms of bigotry are actually further mystified by pretending that these forms of discrimination did/do not exist. you start making anti-Black racism sound more natural and primordial as opposed to the outcome of political processes

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

You can easily say that descendants of Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants to America today face radically less levels of systemic discrimination than their ancestors did in the 1800’s without being like “and actually that discrimination never even existed”. Erasing that history is genuinely insane

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