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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 17h

it started with their little white liberal pep rally and hasn't stopped

PLEASE stop playing right into their game

DO. NOT. REACT.

JUST BLOCK

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 17h

🗣️ THESE ARE NOT REAL ACCOUNTS
STOP BITING THEIR BAIT

PropheticNexus @propheticnexus.bsky.social · 17h

And you're being racist. But we're not ready to have that conversation, are we?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12h

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis, in the first major violation since the US-brokered ceasefire began.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ttcve3

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 1d

very true! i still use twitter for updates on what's going on in Cameron, Congo, Togo, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, etc.

for Sudan, i'd highly recommend following @bsonblast.bsky.social and @nisrinelamin.bsky.social

recs. for bsky accounts posting about African continent, pls share in comment or quote

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 16h

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Help farahat's family 💔🍉 @husamfarahat0.bsky.social · 2d

It doesn’t shield us from the burning heat of summer, nor does it protect us from the freezing cold of winter.💔
This is what we now call “home.”
No shelter no safety just fear and hunge😢
A small help can make a huge diffrence
tinyurl.com/fashamaid

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Azzoz😭💔 @azooz42.bsky.social · 19h

I’m Azooz 16 years old
My father and several family members were killed in the war, our home and school destroyed, and now I’m supporting my family alone
Your donation can buys me books, supplies, bringing me one step closer to the classroom & future

tinyurl.com/azooz9

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 20h

" It's the kind of book you throw across the room because it pierces your heart, but you pick back up again and cradle because it's so beautiful. No lie: Fes Is a Mirror is a masterwork."

Robert Jones, Jr. on @chantalalive.blacksky.app's upcoming novel!

cannot wait!!!!

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Things are coming together for my novella FES IS A MIRROR to come your way soon! Check out our first blurb from novelist Robert Jones, Jr. He thinks you will dig this!

On Fes is a Mirror by Chantal James
Out October 28, 2025 from Willow Books

I hate how quiet it's kept that Chantal James is one of the most brilliant writers writing. I read Fes Is a Mirror faithfully, amazed at the level of skill, of world-creation, and of wisdom contained within its pages. James is so careful with her characters, no matter how reckless their situations. She's so intentional with her language and every sentence is delicious. It's the kind of book you throw across the room because it pierces your heart, but you pick back up again and cradle because it's so beautiful. No lie: Fes Is a Mirror is a masterwork.

- Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Things are coming together for my novella FES IS A MIRROR to come your way soon! Check out our first blurb from novelist Robert Jones, Jr. He thinks you will dig this!

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 1d

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 1d

Today's quick update [Oct 13]:

- Heavy RSF shelling continues in Elfashir, hitting a health clinic; one doctor reported killed, 3 other civilians injured.

- RSF forces continue to detain/abduct civilians fleeing Elfashir.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1d

"Reception of Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, director of Al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, north of the #GazaStrip, after his release as part of a prisoner exchange deal. He had been arrested by the occupation while performing his duties at the hospital."

www.threads.com/@sndnewsa/po...

#Gaza #Israel #News

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Not only is he calling out chumps but you can literally trace many of the threads in our modern reactionary moment to many of the currents shot through in the writing by the authors listed here. It’s also a heads up.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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J. Skyler 🏳️‍⚧️ @jskylerinc.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY $220 REMAINING TO TURN NY SERVICES BACK ON! CAN ANYONE DONATE RIGHT NOW? linktr.ee/jskylerinc

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 1d

Update: folks have generously given around $300 so far, and I’m so deeply grateful 😭❤️

About $700 remains on our goal. Even the smallest contribution will make a giant difference for this family 🙌🏾

#KeepEyesOnSudan
#mutualaid

BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 2d

Hi friends 👋🏾 coming with an urgent request for a refugee family that needs help covering current & past due bills.

They need $1,000. I have $43 from previous donations. If you can, pls help 😭

paypal.me/BSonblast
Ven: BSonblast

#KeepEyesOnSudan #mutualaid

Pay Sara Elhassan using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/BSonblast and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 1d

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very true! i still use twitter for updates on what's going on in Cameron, Congo, Togo, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, etc.

for Sudan, i'd highly recommend following @bsonblast.bsky.social and @nisrinelamin.bsky.social

recs. for bsky accounts posting about African continent, pls share in comment or quote

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 2d

not available on this app : most of Africa, Asia and Latin America

very available on this app : people virtuously instructing other people Already. Using. This. App. that everyone should use this app

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 1d

very true! i still use twitter for updates on what's going on in Cameron, Congo, Togo, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, etc.

for Sudan, i'd highly recommend following @bsonblast.bsky.social and @nisrinelamin.bsky.social

recs. for bsky accounts posting about African continent, pls share in comment or quote

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Renewed fighting between rival leaders forces mass exodus across South Sudan's borders as fears of wider war rise.

Conflict sends 300,000 people fleeing from South Sudan in 2025: UN

Renewed fighting between rival leaders forces mass exodus across South Sudan's borders as fears of wider war rise.

bit.ly

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Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to see these out in the wild. Been working on MeWe for a while. It's about the individual being a part of the collective.

If you need one, they're available at MeWeFree.com

(photo via @shepptar.blacksky.app)

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 26d

morning, our dear community member Dahab is fundraising for his top surgery. Dahab does so much vital community work & has wanted to get top surgery done for a long time

pls contribute what you can & amplify...also check his instagram

www.gofundme.com/f/dahabsfund

www.instagram.com/p/DOwOue7DGqr/

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 5d

lászló krasznahorkai described in details, UNPROVOKED i might add, how he'd be 'tortured & killed by Arabs' while discussing his Jewish heritage. he went out of his way to share his vile anti-muslim & anti-arab racism, knowing the impact this would have.

🖕🏿 him & as always 🖕🏿the nobel prize

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László Krasznahorkai: „The Arabs would certainly accept to torture and shoot them dead”
By: Saturday - 2023-12-16 Column: Culture-Arts

In an interview on the Friderikusz Podcast, Kossuth Prize-winning writer László Krasznahorkai also talked about the Jewish origin of his paternal family and hinted that although this would not be religiously sufficient for Judaism, it would be sufficient for the Arabs to torture and kill him.

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 2d

Today's quick update [Oct 12]:

- RSF drone strike reported in Dalami, South Kordofan (red) for the second consecutive day.

- RSF drone strike reported in Abu Jibeiha, South Kordofan (blue) yesterday.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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