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Author. Producer. Meme Lord. Orijennofspecies.com/subscribe
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Politico
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University of Alabama shutters Black, female student magazines
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University of Alabama shutters Black, female student magazines
A school official cited July guidance from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
http://dlvr.it/TPcnvF
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“This isn’t the U.S.” —Ancient European Proverb (especially popular among countries engaged in ethno-religious conflict for centuries)
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Prisonculture
23 days ago
I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.
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Puff the Magic Hater
23 days ago
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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sarah jeong
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
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The Guardian
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UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
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UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian. Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/07/aid-cuts-uk-rejected-atrocity-prevention-sudan-civilians-rsf-massacres-el-fasher?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Al Jazeera English
about 1 month ago
In Sudan, war is being waged on women and children —
#AJOpinion
by reena ghelani. 🔗:
aje.io/z8s64p
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Anne Applebaum
about 1 month ago
"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone
www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
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Terror Returns to Darfur
Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/4NL_ODJKTbc
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bobby
about 1 month ago
damn mamdani killed dick cheney and he’s not even the mayor yet
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
hug your war criminals a little tighter today
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realm threatener
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”
@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Nicole Chung
2 months ago
a life-saving program in North Carolina, found to have “saved $1,000 annually for each of the 13,000 Medicaid recipients enrolled,” is now shutting down—a preview of more devastating Medicaid cuts to come
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Fragile N.C. Residents Lose Medicaid Support for Food and Housing
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/health/north-carolina-medicaid-food-housing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Jeremy Corbyn
2 months ago
This government’s legacy will be its complicity in the greatest crime of our time. My piece for
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
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www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labo...
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Labour Party conference: Will Palestinians get a mention in Starmer’s speech?
The legacy of Keir Starmer's government will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our times
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labour-party-conference-will-palestinians-get-mention-starmers-speech
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
2 months ago
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
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Watching Ta-Nehisi Coates’s convo with Ezra Klein. Confirms why neoliberalism is to blame for the the destruction of the Democratic Party. He obfuscates with rhetorical devices and avoids any real, substantive arguments. Zero moral clarity. Please stop taking him seriously.
youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?si=icH8xlihc_fa-Jnx
2 months ago
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الكسندرا ميراي
2 months ago
Rest In Power ✊🏼
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Monica Byrne
2 months ago
I’m so grateful for Greta Thunberg and everyone with her. Just so grateful.
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Leigh Claire La Berge
3 months ago
Everyone: American political discourse cannot be any more stupid. Kamala Harris:
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
3 months ago
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together/
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Monica Byrne
3 months ago
In the last three years, I’ve lived in nineteen different countries. Here’s what each one does best. Starting with: 1. Best Food 2. Best Thunderstorms 3. Country Where You’re Most Likely To Encounter an Old Woman Standing in the Grass Eating a Strawberry in her Undies and Not Caring If You See
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And the award goes to... | Monica Byrne
Get more from Monica Byrne on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/138939990?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
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Rahawa Haile
3 months ago
Introducing COYOTE: A worker-owned Bay Area media collective. Our stories will be public for the first two weeks. Read ‘em and subscribe!
www.coyotemedia.org
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**looks at what’s trending, sees that creepy video** Yeah, now might be a good time for people to read this:
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Alli DeJong
3 months ago
Chicago forever
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Max Kennerly
3 months ago
I see, fighting antisemitism by putting Jewish names on a list and giving it to the government so they can decide punishment.
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leon
3 months ago
it’s cool that bluesky is bending over for conservatives and banning people making jokes about charlie kirk’s death. as we all know, once you give in to the right they will leave you alone
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My pattern recognition has been kicking me in the face for 2 days. I’m begging people to read more books. It doesn’t even have to be mine. 😭
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Michael Hobbes
8 months ago
"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
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Haymarket Books
8 months ago
Chicago! Join us for an outdoor picnic to celebrate the release of our new children’s book Prisons Must Fall, written by
@prisonculture.bsky.social
and Jane Ball and illustrated by
@ollycostello.bsky.social
! Saturday, May 17th at 10am RSVP to join:
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Monica Byrne
8 months ago
Hi all. Every now and then, someone will publish a piece trying to rehabilitate Junot Díaz with a wide-eyed “look what you did to him” shake of the head, and various literary figures will take up the call. (1/n)
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Debt Collective 🟥
8 months ago
No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.
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Eric McDaniel
8 months ago
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/14/g-s1-59863/hiv-aids-drugs-usaid-zambia
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Johanna Mellis
8 months ago
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
I remember this being a strong overview of how Orbán kicked out CEU in the late 2010s:
www.vox.com/world/2018/1...
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An assault on a Hungarian university shows authoritarianism in action
Hungary forcing out a university founded by George Soros reveals the authoritarian rot inside the modern West.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/12/4/18123754/hungary-ceu-orban-soros-authoritarianism
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Such a gorgeous, epic, other-worldly read. Get your hands on this while the getting is hot!
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9 months ago
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
10 months ago
In a span of 24 hours Trump: •Signed EO withdrawing USA from UN Human Rights Council •Declared ethnic cleaning of Gaza & US control •Sent immigrants to a Gitmo concentration camp •Said he’d let El Salvador imprison US Citizens If you still don’t see this fascism for what it is you’re complicit.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)
10 months ago
Found: A Manuscript That Unlocks a Forgotten Black Composer’s World Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...
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Found: A Manuscript That Unlocks a Forgotten Black Composer’s World
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/arts/music/edmond-dede-morgiane-opera.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk4.1YDI.E-4ZXijeSaCe&smid=url-share
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Guardian US
11 months ago
The US state department has frozen all applications for passports with “X” sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports.
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Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with ‘X’ sex markers
Secretary of state instructs staff to implement strict new guidelines following Trump executive order on gender
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/trump-rubio-x-gender-passport?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=us_bsky
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Take a shot every time someone mentions MLK.
#Inauguration2025
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So many war criminals. So little time.
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Monica Byrne
11 months ago
My maybe controversial view is that genius like David Lynch’s genius is actually very common, and what’s rare is the chance to develop it.
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Laila Lalami
11 months ago
Another 70 people were killed while waiting for the ceasefire deal to be ratified by Israel's cabinet.
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Overland Journal
11 months ago
"Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is _a story about Auckland_." We interrupt our summer break to bring you this important piece by Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape.
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Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape - Overland literary journal
The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name...
https://overland.org.au/2025/01/neil-gaiman-and-the-political-economy-of-rape/
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What a lovely thread. 🥰🥹
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Raquel Willis
11 months ago
URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires.
Bit.ly/rebuildAD
h/t:
@ykreborn.bsky.social
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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
https://Bit.ly/rebuildAD
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Lydia Polgreen
11 months ago
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/5-years-after-it-appeared-things-we-know-and-still-dont-know-about-covid
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Dr. T. Flo
11 months ago
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape
12 months ago
I've only read her debut novel THE GIRL IN THE ROAD, a remarkable novel weaving together Indian and east African near-futures, climate change, and more, but
@monicabyrne13.bsky.social
is a compelling voice in the genre, I think, and you can help support her with a patreon subscription:
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Get more from Monica Byrne on Patreon
Creating art.
https://www.patreon.com/c/monicabyrne/posts/
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