Freeborn Black Woman First of Her Name
@thewaywithanoa.bsky.social
mom, comms/narrative strategist navigating the matrix, lawyer, host of “The Way with Anoa” podcast, and avid sci-fi fan.
Folks need to put GA-1 on your radar...
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Folks need to put GA-1 on your radar...
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This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/
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And if you missed this important panel from earlier in the year, learn more about funding solutions for local news at the state and local levels.
Free Press continues to work in collaboration with partners to advance public-funding models for local news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKC...
Free Press continues to work in collaboration with partners to advance public-funding models for local news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKC...
Funding the Future of Local News: State and Local Solutions in a Time of Crisis
YouTube video by Free Press
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And if you missed this important panel from earlier in the year, learn more about funding solutions for local news at the state and local levels.
Free Press continues to work in collaboration with partners to advance public-funding models for local news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKC...
Free Press continues to work in collaboration with partners to advance public-funding models for local news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKC...
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"When you have rural communities where the only media is a national or multinational corporate influence, and they're being pummeled with misinformation and information that may not be the information they'd like to hear, and news specifically, that's a real problem." - @reprabb.bsky.social
Pennsylvania Legislator Takes Action to Address the Local News Crisis
A Pressing Issues conversation with State Rep. Chris Rabb about two new local-news bills
pressingissues.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"When you have rural communities where the only media is a national or multinational corporate influence, and they're being pummeled with misinformation and information that may not be the information they'd like to hear, and news specifically, that's a real problem." - @reprabb.bsky.social
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🗣️ Funding local news is not a partisan issue.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb introduced two new bills to fund local news, creating a PA Civic Information Consortium & fellowship program.
@reprabb.bsky.social sits down w/ Free Press to learn more about his vision for the future of media in PA.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb introduced two new bills to fund local news, creating a PA Civic Information Consortium & fellowship program.
@reprabb.bsky.social sits down w/ Free Press to learn more about his vision for the future of media in PA.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🗣️ Funding local news is not a partisan issue.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb introduced two new bills to fund local news, creating a PA Civic Information Consortium & fellowship program.
@reprabb.bsky.social sits down w/ Free Press to learn more about his vision for the future of media in PA.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb introduced two new bills to fund local news, creating a PA Civic Information Consortium & fellowship program.
@reprabb.bsky.social sits down w/ Free Press to learn more about his vision for the future of media in PA.
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Wherever you live, this story has significant implications because the trend of defunding libraries, when we should be fortifying these outposts of learning, sharing, and survival, is a national phenomenon. Libraries are models of the kind of infrastructure we must EXPAND to get the world we want.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wherever you live, this story has significant implications because the trend of defunding libraries, when we should be fortifying these outposts of learning, sharing, and survival, is a national phenomenon. Libraries are models of the kind of infrastructure we must EXPAND to get the world we want.
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Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
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We will be holding @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to his stated commitment and we expect the @council.nyc.gov to deliver. organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fig...
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We will be holding @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to his stated commitment and we expect the @council.nyc.gov to deliver. organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fig...
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I was so moved by the tenacity and love documented in this film about the long campaign to Free Leonard Peltier. The film is streaming until November 30. $15.
www.docnyc.net/film/free-le...
www.docnyc.net/film/free-le...
FREE LEONARD PELTIER - DOC NYC
NYC PREMIERE In the midst of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, two federal agents are killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South
www.docnyc.net
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I was so moved by the tenacity and love documented in this film about the long campaign to Free Leonard Peltier. The film is streaming until November 30. $15.
www.docnyc.net/film/free-le...
www.docnyc.net/film/free-le...
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At the center of much of Philadelphia’s gun violence is disinvestment in neighborhoods. That includes the closing of schools.
Does Closing A School Contribute to Gun Violence in Philadelphia?
At the center of much of Philadelphia’s gun violence is disinvestment in neighborhoods. That includes the closing of schools.
capitalbnews.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At the center of much of Philadelphia’s gun violence is disinvestment in neighborhoods. That includes the closing of schools.
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“The idea Congress can shut down the govt over affordable health care, delay action on extending these subsidies & maybe not extend them at all shows how far we have drifted from the basic principle that health care should be stable & not subject to political cycles”
- @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social
- @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social
Opinion | Congress needs to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies now
As an emergency physician, I have cared for marginalized patients who came into public hospitals after delaying care because they had nowhere else to turn.
www.msnbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“The idea Congress can shut down the govt over affordable health care, delay action on extending these subsidies & maybe not extend them at all shows how far we have drifted from the basic principle that health care should be stable & not subject to political cycles”
- @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social
- @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social
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Follow up: Why was this the first year SNAP benefits were not funded during a government shutdown?
Q: You said one of the costs of the shutdown was people missing their SNAP benefits. Can you explain then why the administration went to court to fight the funding of SNAP?
LEAVITT: Recipients missed their SNAP benefits because Democrats shut the government down. Then you had an unhinged judge ...
LEAVITT: Recipients missed their SNAP benefits because Democrats shut the government down. Then you had an unhinged judge ...
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Follow up: Why was this the first year SNAP benefits were not funded during a government shutdown?
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
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This is 2022 all over again
NEW: Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds
This demand spans Senate leadership to Finance Cmte to proponents of ACA money.
Dems say hell no, current Hyde protections suffice.
"It's a nonstarter," Shaheen tells me.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
This demand spans Senate leadership to Finance Cmte to proponents of ACA money.
Dems say hell no, current Hyde protections suffice.
"It's a nonstarter," Shaheen tells me.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds
Democrats say that’s a nonstarter, arguing there are already limits on abortion access. The dispute could torpedo a deal, leading to higher health insurance premiums for millions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is 2022 all over again
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NEW Breaking Basket (new short-form audio news update thing I’m testing out) on the Marion County Record settlement, with context and background on the unprecedented newspaper raid.
Listen here:
Listen here:
Breaking Basket 11/11/25 — Marion County Record $3 million settlement
Listen to Breaking Basket 11/11/25 — Marion County Record $3 million settlement by Marisa Kabas #np on #SoundCloud
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November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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my original scoop from 2023:
SCOOP: Kansas newspaper raided by cops was investigating police chief, owner says
Eric Meyer of the Marion County Record tells The Handbasket his paper had been investigating the police chief prior to the raids on his office and home.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
my original scoop from 2023:
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Eddie Conway and the Black Panther Party remembered with art, music, and education baltimorebeat.com/eddie-conway...
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Eddie Conway and the Black Panther Party remembered with art, music, and education baltimorebeat.com/eddie-conway...
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Millennial candidates made sweeping gains in rural towns and small cities — making history and achieving several firsts. capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
Black Women Sweep Local Elections in Small Towns
Millennial candidates made sweeping gains in rural towns and small cities — making history and achieving several firsts.
capitalbnews.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Millennial candidates made sweeping gains in rural towns and small cities — making history and achieving several firsts. capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
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We live in a two-tiered system—where corporations & brands buy access to the data they need and public interest researchers are locked out.
One customer representative candidly admitted: "Even when they added more restrictions on Facebook, we found a way to get more data."
One customer representative candidly admitted: "Even when they added more restrictions on Facebook, we found a way to get more data."
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press
Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We live in a two-tiered system—where corporations & brands buy access to the data they need and public interest researchers are locked out.
One customer representative candidly admitted: "Even when they added more restrictions on Facebook, we found a way to get more data."
One customer representative candidly admitted: "Even when they added more restrictions on Facebook, we found a way to get more data."
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A win for reality.
“Judge Immergut also disputed the president’s claim that antifa, at least in Portland, is an organized and cohesive group working against the federal government” and that testimony from ICE about “how disruptive the protests was not believable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“Judge Immergut also disputed the president’s claim that antifa, at least in Portland, is an organized and cohesive group working against the federal government” and that testimony from ICE about “how disruptive the protests was not believable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A win for reality.
“Judge Immergut also disputed the president’s claim that antifa, at least in Portland, is an organized and cohesive group working against the federal government” and that testimony from ICE about “how disruptive the protests was not believable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“Judge Immergut also disputed the president’s claim that antifa, at least in Portland, is an organized and cohesive group working against the federal government” and that testimony from ICE about “how disruptive the protests was not believable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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🚨 Tim Kaine is saying the quiet part out loud - underscoring why anyone shouldn't be satisfied with any of the "no" statements or posts from Dem Senators.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🚨 Tim Kaine is saying the quiet part out loud - underscoring why anyone shouldn't be satisfied with any of the "no" statements or posts from Dem Senators.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
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This morning Demand Justice unveiled a new analysis that found 27 of Trump's judicial nominees have provided dishonest and misleading answers about the 2020 election and January 6th.
Read the groundbreaking report here:
demandjustice.org/new-report-f...
Read the groundbreaking report here:
demandjustice.org/new-report-f...
New Report From Demand Justice: Pattern Of Dishonesty And Evasion From Trump Judicial Nominees - Demand Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 11, 2025 CONTACT: [email protected] NEW REPORT FROM DEMAND JUSTICE: PATTERN OF DISHONESTY AND EVASION FROM TRUMP JUDICIAL NOMINEES Washington, DC – Today Demand Ju...
demandjustice.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This morning Demand Justice unveiled a new analysis that found 27 of Trump's judicial nominees have provided dishonest and misleading answers about the 2020 election and January 6th.
Read the groundbreaking report here:
demandjustice.org/new-report-f...
Read the groundbreaking report here:
demandjustice.org/new-report-f...
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The program spans four months and includes a $400 stipend for all participants. Applications are open now through November 21. Learn more and apply today! 🔗 commonjustice.org/civicengagem...
Communities for Safety Collective | Common Justice
commonjustice.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The program spans four months and includes a $400 stipend for all participants. Applications are open now through November 21. Learn more and apply today! 🔗 commonjustice.org/civicengagem...
Self-Employed Person here...this is a trap. The insurance we get isn't as good as what's available to employer plans. And its expensive. Nobody is "negotiating" with health insurance companies except super wealthy oligarchs. This will literally kill people like me.
i knew it would be bad but i didn’t know it would be comically bad newrepublic.com/post/203018/...
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Self-Employed Person here...this is a trap. The insurance we get isn't as good as what's available to employer plans. And its expensive. Nobody is "negotiating" with health insurance companies except super wealthy oligarchs. This will literally kill people like me.
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Right now, millions of voters are participating in our democracy and making their voices heard. 🇺🇸
After voters cast their ballots, election officials play their part by counting and certifying every single vote 🗳️
After voters cast their ballots, election officials play their part by counting and certifying every single vote 🗳️
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Right now, millions of voters are participating in our democracy and making their voices heard. 🇺🇸
After voters cast their ballots, election officials play their part by counting and certifying every single vote 🗳️
After voters cast their ballots, election officials play their part by counting and certifying every single vote 🗳️