The Jelani
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Below the courageous, there is nothing. 🧢🪑🏊🏿♂️✊🏿🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇭🇹🇵🇷
Chris Rabb handing corporate Dems an embarrassing defeat in Philly on Malcolm X's 101st birthday while I did my annual tradition of listening to "The Ballot or the Bullet" is so intensely gratifying. The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing type shit! Go 🦅s Fuck 🧊 Free 🇵🇸
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THE CITY
3 days ago
A federal judge in Manhattan has barred ICE from arresting most immigrants inside New York City’s three immigration courthouses.
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Federal Judge Blocks ICE Arrests Inside NYC Immigration Courthouses
The stay issued Monday will prevent ICE from targeting most immigrants for arrest at courthouses at 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway and 201 Varick Street.
https://buff.ly/8WAaG07
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RANGE Media
4 days ago
This is the official live post thread for Day 1 of the trial of the Spokane 3. Do your preread here:
www.rangemedia.co/what-you-nee...
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What you need to know before the Spokane 3 trial
The charges, the protesters, the background, the legal terminology — your cheat sheet to court.
https://www.rangemedia.co/what-you-need-to-know-before-the-spokane-3-trial/
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jamelle
4 days ago
The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black Students
The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/yale-medical-school-trump-doj-findings/
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Tracy Jan
4 days ago
Black, oily goo drove this Oklahoma family from their dream home.
@propublica.org
&
@readfrontier.bsky.social
show you what happened next. AND coming soon: A film featuring the Merediths & other Oklahomans living with the environmental impacts of oil & gas pollution. Screening in Tulsa May 20.
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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-regulators-fort-gibson-meredith-family
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Joel S.
5 days ago
I know we're long past the point where this should be shocking anymore, but I still can't get over official government accounts stating that Jesus is "our Savior."
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aliii✨✨
5 days ago
Random tea about the Drake album release you probably don’t know about. And it has to do with charting 🧵🪡 So Drake dropped right ? Everyone predicted he’d have the largest Spotify debut of 2026 competing with Bad Bunny. Well you’re right Spotify even posted about it with Billboard backing it.
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Black Aziz Anansi
5 days ago
Boosting
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Chise
6 days ago
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.
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At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people
Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01546-0
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jamelle
6 days ago
the way to think of this is that it is the judicial version of “you’re the real racist for noticing my racism or even thinking about race”
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Steffen Hope
6 days ago
Biblical literacy is always needed when analysing contemporary US politics, &
@karenattiah.bsky.social
does a great job of it.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
7 days ago
Public Interest Law Center called the decision “a victory for the city’s growing tenant organizing movement.”
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In a rare ruling, Philly’s Fair Housing Commission said a landlord unlawfully retaliated against a tenant for organizing her peers
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/fair-housing-commission-ruling-landlord-retaliation-tenant-organizing-rights-20260515.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1778885028
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Mississippi Free Press
7 days ago
BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.
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Shackled, Isolated and Pressured to Self-Deport: Makoka Brothers Recount ICE Arrests
After their arrests by ICE in Mississippi, brothers Israel and Max Makoka share their stories of detention and isolation.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/shackled-isolated-and-pressured-to-self-deport-makoka-brothers-recount-ice-arrests/
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
7 days ago
BREAKING: SCOTUS has denied Democrats' request for a stay on the Virginia redistricting case. This means that the VA Supreme Court ruling stands. This is what Democrats get for asking permission. It is beyond absurd that they asked a 6-3 MAGA fascist court for permission. They need to ACT ASAP.
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Al Jazeera English
8 days ago
Large parts of eastern Cuba were plunged into darkness in the latest round of nationwide electricity shutdowns.
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‘Absolutely no fuel': Cuba hit by blackouts, protests amid power outages
Large parts of eastern Cuba were plunged into darkness in the latest round of nationwide electricity shutdowns.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/14/absolutely-no-fuel-cuba-hit-by-blackouts-protests-amid-power-outages?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
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Baltimore Beat
8 days ago
Baltimore is full of women who show up and change the world
baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-is...
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Baltimore is full of women who show up and change the world
Monalisa Diallo “I’ve always been a person that felt like I’m not allowed to complain unless I’m helping or coming up with something better.” Advocate and grandmother Monalisa Diallo lets this belief…
https://baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-is-full-of-women-who-show-up-and-change-the-world/
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Chris Geidner
8 days ago
BREAKING: Richard Glossip is granted bail. Lawyer Donald Knight: "For the first time in 29 years of being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, during which he faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals, Mr. Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom ...."
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Anarcho Cat Fan
8 days ago
This episode feels particularly important to me. Even though I lived through a lot of it, I found the history of US empire, war, and the analysis of our current wars, and the connections of it all, very helpful.
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Democracy Now!
8 days ago
Louisiana Police to Pay More Than $4.8 Million to Settle Wrongful Death of Ronald Greene
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Louisiana Police to Pay More Than $4.8 Million to Settle Wrongful Death of Ronald Greene
Louisiana state police and a local sheriff’s department will pay more than $4.8 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the daughter of a Black motorist who was beaten, dragged and elect...
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/14/headlines/louisiana_police_to_pay_more_than_48_million_to_settle_wrongful_death_of_ronald_greene
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Unicorn Riot
9 days ago
Despite receiving scholarships to universities across the world, approximately 1,000 Palestinian students remain trapped in Gaza as Israel controls the borders and won’t let them out. [Video]
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Palestinian Students Trapped in Gaza by Israeli Border Closures - UNICORN RIOT
Approximately 1,000 Palestinian students remain trapped in Gaza despite having scholarships to attend universities abroad as Israel controls the borders and won't them out.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/palestinian-students-trapped-in-gaza-by-israeli-border-closures/
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian
9 days ago
i cannot emphasize enough that nothing of radical importance can occur on any of these platforms. the second you start treating them like some sort of global town hall for changing hearts and minds you’ve lost the plot
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Gillian Brockell
9 days ago
ICE flights. Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (The landing in Japan was not a deportation, likely a fuel/crew stop.)
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Gregg Gonsalves
9 days ago
The destruction of US pandemic preparedness, infectious disease research, our withdrawal from WHO, is a five-alarm fire. Want something to be worried about? Should we be faced with another pandemic, we are now more vulnerable than ever.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing
The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hantavirus-pandemic-preparedness/
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OKSOTHICK.
10 days ago
If they can revoke your passport for any debt … it’s a LOT of people who won’t be able to leave the country eventually.
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Ken Klippenstein
16 days ago
🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...
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Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists"
New national strategy vows to “cripple them BEFORE" crimes are committed
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre-crime-strategy-unveiled
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Says the guy who recently stammered and went full absent-minded professor lecture when asked if the genocide in Gaza is a genocide....
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians)
16 days ago
How Rutgers uses Paul Robeson while cancelling a pro-Palestine, graduation speaker, who is also alum:
bsky.app/profile/thra...
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Karen Attiah
16 days ago
Thinking a lot about a convo between
@liberationma.bsky.social
and me: Whether we are all destined for a a future in America where we are all hawking our services on social media like one Big Giant Home Shopping network. Journalism becomes not a stable career, but a side hobby at best.
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The Tennessee Holler
16 days ago
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1312 Antifascists (Chicago)
16 days ago
Since Ben Bergquam is riding around with ICE in the west burbs this morning, we thought it only fair that people see the invite to have a pint and discuss politics with him tonight. Feel free to call the church and tell them your thoughts on his active support of ethnic cleansing.
#Chicago
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Prison Policy Initiative
16 days ago
While 1 in 3 families with an incarcerated loved one goes into debt over the cost of prison phone calls, telecom companies line their pockets with billions. It's time to end this vicious exploitation of incarcerated people and their loved ones.
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Prisonculture
19 days ago
I'm not concerned about "erasure" because I know history in this country so I know that Carter G Woodson, Du Bois and countless others who were operating under USian political fascism documented Black life and history. They did so under much worse conditions than we have now.
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jamelle
19 days ago
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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Astra Taylor
19 days ago
i found it incredibly painful to hear tucker carlson repeatedly invoke the legacy of Occupy Wall St and talk about the oppressive burden of debt on the nyt podcast yesterday. the fact that this space is even available for him to, well, occupy is such an indictment of a the democratic party.
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Zinn Education Project
20 days ago
#tdih
1963 Birmingham "May 2nd, is 'D-Day' as students 'ditch' class to march for justice. In disciplined groups of 50, children singing freedom songs, march out of 16th St. Baptist Church, 2 by 2. When police arrest each group, another takes its place." ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
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May 2, 1963: Children of Birmingham Fill the Jails
In disciplined groups and singing freedom songs, students “ditch” class to march for justice and fill the jails.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/children-of-birmingham-fill-the-jails/
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✫ ☭ Communegro ☭ ✫
21 days ago
And they wouldn’t even have to move like this if BLUESKY had not repeatedly banned their accounts
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amanda moore 🐢
21 days ago
Jennifer Vasquez Sura shared a message from her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to the crowd gathered at DC’s May Day rally.
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Eric Columbus
21 days ago
Trump declares the Iran war “terminated” precisely on the 23rd anniversary of Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech. (h/t
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Kate Ross
21 days ago
In the camps, the guards are your neighbors, and they place wagers on what person will commit suicide next.
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Victor LaValle
22 days ago
Killing in the name of…
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L.A. TACO
26 days ago
On the morning of April 25, a U.S. citizen was detained and then released, along with two others whose legal status are unknown, by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations masked agents. The full story:
lataco.com/exclusive-us...
By
@chularadio.bsky.social
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The Overseer Class is available everywhere books are sold
28 days ago
The final version of The Overseer Class caught up with me in Oxnard, so I decided to open it with my mom and dad
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 month ago
Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Sean T. Collins
about 1 month ago
A succinct history of why there hasn't been a wrestling union
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More Perfect Union
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged an ICE agent with two counts of assault related to a road rage incident. A nationwide warrant has been issued for his arrest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE agent charged with assault in Minnesota for allegedly pointing gun at motorists
Prosecutors say this is first criminal case against a federal agent involved in Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/minnesota-ice-agent-assault
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ashley fairbanks
about 1 month ago
apparently they didn’t talk to a single person in minneapolis about this
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Greg Pak
about 1 month ago
Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
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Democracy Now!
about 1 month ago
"What exactly are these negotiations really doing, other than giving Netanyahu basically the green light, or at least the ability, to buy more time for his aggression in Lebanon?"
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“Scorched-Earth Campaign”: Israel Uses “Gaza Playbook” to Turn Southern Lebanon into Rubble
Israeli forces continue to bombard towns in southern Lebanon today, according to Lebanese state media. Several people were killed in a strike on the coastal town of Ansariya. According to Lebanon’s He...
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/15/lebanon_scorched_earth
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
placesjournal.org/article/the-...
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The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
https://placesjournal.org/article/the-warehouse-in-plain-sight-a-disappearing-machine/
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