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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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Lover of art and people. Political watcher and doer. Descendant of Sapelo. Auntie of Adrianna. Dog mom of Phineas McGee.

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When Ta-Nehisi Coates travels to the West Bank and sees Jim Crow, his eyes are not deceiving him. He is not blinded by TikTok. His historical memory is not misperceiving the occupation. His historical memory is activated by the occupation. I took that to be the point of Holocaust education. Not to exceptionalize Jewish suffering, but to activate solidarity. To recognize that there is a continuum of atrocity perpetrated by dominant classes against subjugated ones. The Holocaust shows where, once normalized, such things can lead. Antisemitism doesn't have to be the exact same as anti-black racism for the lesson of antisemitism to be to confront anti-black racism. The ongoing Nakba doesn't have to be the exact same as the Holocaust for me to find it appalling—particularly because it is performed in the name of my safety. That was what I learned from my Holocaust education: Never again for anyone.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Gavin and Tanner, boy, I don't know
Timeline: From July 2024 to May 2025, the suspects took Haitian Creole classes to prepare for the coup. On Aug. 5, 2024, Weisenburg enrolled at the North Texas Fire Academy in Rockwall. This was allegedly an effort to gain training in useful skills for their plot. On Jan. 7, 2025, Thomas enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. The document says he intended to use his military training for the planned overthrow of the island. On Feb. 8, 2025, Weisenburg failed out of fire training.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This is less an opinion column than a fundraising letter...
Screenshot of NYT opinion piece from Binyamin Applebaum, headline: "Mamdani isn't the future of the Democrats. This Guy (PA governor Josh Shapiro) is."
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Does the ability to get regular health screenings and early treatment for illness improve health outcomes? We may never know...
It would take more than a decade before the evidence became strong enough to convincingly show that health insurance actually saves lives, although researchers still aren't sure precisely why. Kronick's failure to find a clear link between insurance and mortality at the time echoed several other studies that found that while uninsured people tended to die earlier, it wasn't possible to definitively link the two. Too many other factors were in play. The topic could be surprisingly complex - some research even indicated uninsured people might live longer because many of those willing to go without insurance tended to have fewer medical problems.
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Our current bullshit moment in a nutshell
American Prospect post: "OpenAl is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies." After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAl officials are angling for a bailout. Quote posted by @kashana.blacksky.app who says: So, we broke into your house and stole all your stuff, please give us money. followed by post from @jackjenkins.me: "Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be 'no more prayer' in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions." blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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If you see this, post four female characters you love.
Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth Jennifer Ehle as Eliza Bennett from Pride and Prejudice Bette Davis as Margot Channing in About Eve Glenn Close in Danger to Liaisons with Jon Malkovich
November 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Eddie Murphy I'm Dreamgirls looking out with an expression of bitter resentment.
October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Careful, y'all--the monkey's paw is listening...
Screenshot of 2 bsky posts in a row. First from Eric Lipton at the NYT sharing a story about plans for a $2 "commemorative Trump coin": It is not clear that Mr. Trump's image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway. Second from Chris Geidner: I really do wish I could get a $1 coin for every time I resist jumping in to discourse when I know I shouldn't.
October 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Just, every day...
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Reading Frederick Douglass and coming across this passage that reminds me once again that there is nothing new under the sun...
But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, "It is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more, and denounce less; would you persuade more, and rebuke less; your cause would be much more likely to succeed." But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it... Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? How should I look to-day, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? speaking of it relatively and positively, negatively and affirmatively. To do so, would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding. There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Every word of this is just straight hot fire:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Post you from a different era.

The sweet-cheeked little monkey in this photo just turned 12 but somehow her Auntie has aged about 30 years in that time... 👵🏾
Woman holding baby around 3 months old.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Show me a picture in your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
Poster from the Tim Burton Batman with Jack Nicholson as the Joker
September 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Emailed Mr. Klein this morning for the last time.
Screenshot of an email: Mr. Klein, I was really eager to hear your response to critiques like mine to your last column. Reading your response this morning broke my heart. As I said before I've been a big fan for a long time. But you are missing the moment right now in a way that endangers the lives of people like me. Kirk had no interest in dialogue. He chose violence, not in his worst moments but every day up to and including his last. Black people, immigrants, women, trans people are under daily, violent attack. You've chosen to use your platform to defend and elevate our attackers in the name of peace. The loss of one reader/listener won't mean anything to you, I'm sure. But I simply can't listen to someone who values his own philosophical abstractions over my ability to simply live.
September 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Reading Ezra's high minded bullshit before leaping head first into Ben Shapiro's race science is a terrible way to start the fucking day.
So I left this conversation as it was. It's about Shapiro's new book and the political moment before Kirk's murder. I wanted to let it live as it was, because talking to one another about our disagreements isn't only something we should do in grief or in horror. It's just something we should be doing. Ezra Klein: Ben Shapiro, welcome to the show. Ben Shapiro: Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. So let's go into the book. You have a theory of two groups here: Lions and Scavengers. What's a Lion? What's a Scavenger? The basic idea is that there are parts of us or you can say cultures, groups, depending on how you're characterizing them - who are more apt to build. Who believe that there is an active duty in the world to make the world better, to build social fabric, to defend a civilization that is worthwhile, to innovate, to protect things that are good.
September 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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As the GOP hits new lows of fascism and science denial, publications committed to rigid apartisanship look increasingly absurd
Screenshot of a newsletter with headline: States Taking Different Paths on Vaccines
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I do strategic planning, policy analysis, and strategic research and campaign planning for community-based organizations and pop ed for community members. Also dog mom to this little dum-dum
Pitt mix sitting on a couch next to a pillow that says "Reserved for Finn"
September 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Always have to resist this response when I hear that phrase
Two stills from Clue: Wadsworth (off camera) says, "To make a long story short " and Colonel Mustard responds "Too late."
September 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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"Don't be evil* *Unless it's Profitable" Google
September 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A pic of the first graduating class
Still of blonde demonic children from Village of the Damned.
August 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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No new pictures, where are you mentally?
August 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Close up of the mural of a judge protecting a man from a lynch mob
August 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Whenever I watch Sinners I have to block out 2-4 hours after to sit in my feelings, let the tears flow and dwell on whatever new element or symbol I saw this time. Evokes the old pics of my aunties and uncles looking sharp and feeling joy in defiance of a world trying to break them every day.
One of my elders down in Georgia looking fierce.
August 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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This pretty lady is my mama, who would have been 75 today. I owe everything from my deep sense of empathy to my inability to shut up, even when it's for my own good, to her.

Happy birthday, Ma. Miss you every day.
Twenty something Black woman some time in the 70s looking like an icon...
August 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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It's true--these little buggers are lifesavers...
A very good boy sleeping on his special pillow
August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM