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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 36m

at my kids’ school even the spanish teacher isn’t immune…students say “seis siete” 😆😆

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12h

Middle school teachers should be paid a heck of a lot more.

The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers

‘Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’

www.wsj.com

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 3h

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 3h

chef’s kiss youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 3h

in other news, the sun rose in the east today. well, somewhere. we’re on our third straight day of rain :/

anywho, these fckbois are all pathetic. they say anything with a keyboard and piss their pants if/when confronted.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4h

I love the first guy’s windup 😆

BlueCrew community 💙💙 @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 22h

Chicagoans at the Chicago marathon 😂
#BlueCrew don’t hold back, drop a punch too! 👊👊💥

#BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #Chicago

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h

The Supreme Court will hear a case TOMORROW that could gut a central voting rights protection that safeguards against racial gerrymandering.

We’ll be covering it live at 10 AM ET. Follow us on Bluesky @democracydocket.com for real-time updates.
https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 8h

this was a great piece
Weiss’ sense of self-importance is breathtaking

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 10h

it was clear this was coming -

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

I say it all of the time because it's true. On the whole, we aren't brave as individuals. But there's strength in numbers.

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

agreed. her skeet about k I r k was really telling. but what we’re seeing now helps explain why the times I’d see her in press boxes she couldn’t be bothered to say more than hello

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I hope the ancestors haunt the shit out of the Black men involved in this every time they close their eyes.

they are engaged in the same slave patrols and Jim Crow terrorism our people endured for generations. disgusting.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 3d

don’t call it fascism or naziism though

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

my mom’s older brother lives in Townsend and they raised their kids there…in a weird twist, even though my dad was raised in Somerville his mom had the cottage in Groton and my mom was raised in Ayer & Shirley

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

yes!

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

I had a bald baby I named Tyrone

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

a dental hygienist for a time and a landscape architect for a time…but by 16 I knew I wanted to be a sportswriter

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 5d

17. What did you want to be as a kid?

shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

my paternal grandmother owned a little cottage (not fancy at all) on a little lake in groton mass and we went every weekend in the summers

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 5d

4. What do you miss the most about your childhood?

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

cabbage patch kids.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 5d

1. Without telling me your age, what was popular around your childhood?

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

top hat for me

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 4d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

small thing, but if she actually did do it how does throwing objects at a car = physical assault?? loser fat thugs

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

a group of people are standing on a stage and one of them says you do martha graham martha graham martha graham

ALT: a group of people are standing on a stage and one of them says you do martha graham martha graham martha graham

media.tenor.com

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

thank you for this! a necessary laugh this morning. Sherman is a legend 😁

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 4d

maybe it’s me but if the goal is forced births, sending women to prison for life might not be the right approach. but I’m not an old white man who spent his life as a small town tax collector and is now an expert in obstetrics so what do I know?

good morning…try to find a moment of joy today

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4d

The South Carolina GOP is pushing for one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. If passed, the bill would:
✅Make abortion a felony equivalent to homicide
✅Narrow the legal definition of contraceptives
✅Criminalize sharing information about abortion
https://bit.ly/47ipe5t

New Attack on Free Speech: South Carolina GOP Wants to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Info