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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Dec 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 1
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge #BlackSky

“Assata”, by Assata Shakur & Angela Davis

Book cover of ona my favorite books, the Autobiography “Assata”, by Assata Shakur & Angela Davis. Is a photo of Assata with the title printed in heavy typography and a bright red color.

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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 13

💯 After reading an expose written by a Musk biographer couple of months ago, it’s really interesting how little the truth about him has been allowed to matriculate.

Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 13

That’s ALL yall got to say in this matter? No added commentary?

Okay NBC News.

Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 13

If you’re able, pls share and support

Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 13

You’re very welcome. Happy to support yall 🙏🏾

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 8

Listen.

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · Feb 8

Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike.

Don’t let up.

Keep making noise.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · Feb 8

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data.

Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · Feb 8

We're suing over the free rein Donald Trump gave Elon Musk and DOGE to access Americans’ private information.

Musk and DOGE want to use this information to cut vital services that Americans rely on — from health care to education.

This is unacceptable and illegal.

vimeo.com/1054527049/f...

AG James on DOGE Lawsuit

This is "AG James on DOGE Lawsuit" by New York AG Letitia James on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 8

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · Feb 8

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

web.archive.org/web/20231206...

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA

Lee esta historia en español aquí

web.archive.org

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Feb 8

Fighting shit like this is like planting trees. The best time was five years ago; the second best time is now.

It’s now NOW.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Feb 8

Oh, and I block assholes saying “too late now.”

Fuck you. It’s never too late.

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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 8

This

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Feb 8

I keep seeing people say “nobody’s doing anything but posting.”

False. People are doing a lot; you have to spend the time to go find them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Feb 8

Trump's CFPB, now under the command of billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, has halted the Biden admin's rule to ban medical bills from credit reports.

It's been estimated that the rule would help improve the credit scores of 15 million people.

Some populist, huh?

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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you can, pls share and support

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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 8

No need to apologize. Yall stay safe. Will share definitely your post.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Feb 7

Capitulating to abusive demands doesn’t make the abuser back down—it emboldens them to go further. Apparently this is something that a lot of media executives, politicians, and political strategists don’t realize

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Feb 8

Woke up to an Office of Christian Nationalism

Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · Feb 8

Establishment … just in case there’s some ambiguity about what this is?

Establishment of The White House Faith Office

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to assist faith-based entities,

www.whitehouse.gov

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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 8

Absolutely don't let any of them off the hook for being complicit.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · Feb 8

Counterpoint: this is exactly what you signed up for, and now you're pretending it wasn't just so you'll never have to admit that you did this to yourself.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Feb 8

“.. I don’t like the turbulence. I don’t like the chaos in the market,” said Paul Bisson, a 58-year-old, who .. voted for Trump. “That will make the economy worse, and that’s not what we signed up for.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Feb 7

chip in, or help spread the word? It all counts!

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Reuben @yobigrube.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you’re in w position to, PLEASE support, if you can’t support, PLEASE share his original post!

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Feb 8

I was on Al Jazeera discussing how Trump has implicitly stated and acknowledged that Israel has conducted crimes against humanity. The more ppl emphasise how Gaza is inhospitable, the more they highlight Israeli war crimes.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Feb 6

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jan 26

Can we get people to focus on the fact that Greenlanders have EU status (which is kinda valuable) and that 90% of Greenlanders are indigenous Inuits??

No, they don’t “want to be with us.” This is straight up imperialist menace and a prelude to war with Denmark. A nightmare.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Jan 26

On Greenland: “I think we’re going to have it. I think the people want to be with us,” President Trump tells reporters on AF1. “I don’t really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it’d be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen because it’s for the protection of the free world.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jan 26

Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · Jan 26

That’s what y’all said when we brought it up last times. Defunding the police is a reallocation of resources to exactly what you’re saying. How much of tax dollars go to the $1 billion police budget? It is always the right time. There is no wrong time for justice

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