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‘SINNERS’ has become the highest-grossing live-action original film domestically in the past 15 years, bringing in over $267M in the US.

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Please start talking to your felon-supporting relatives—the ones who chose an adjudicated rapist over a woman—before you come asking the demographic who y’all actually hate, who saw this coming, who never wanted this, to go risk life and limb for you.

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After I watched those people storm the capitol on January 6, I vowed to never again be shocked on behalf of this country. It’s a struggle to hold that line as I watch L.A.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

RESPECTABILITY POLITICS NEVER SAVED ANYONE.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

The federal minimum wage was rescinded from $17 to $13 per hour…

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

King of Ashes is out in the world today I did the best I could... Hope y'all enjoy it 😌

submitted 14 hours ago • 25 comments

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

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After many years of practice on other countries, America is finally carrying out a rightwing coup on itself, like a jaded big game hunter who finds there’s only one species he hasn’t yet slaughtered, and places the shotgun under his own chin.

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The more I look at the prep and legal reasoning behind invading LA, the more it looks like that the administration wants to seize supreme authoritarian power over the corpse of the republic through force of arms but also doesn’t want to do any actual work to do so. Rather surreal.

submitted 23 hours ago • 86 comments

Everything happening is so exhausting and draining. You feel like you want to take a break from the news but then realise the least you can do is speak up. So you feel guilty for turning away for just a second. We’re stuck in a cycle of wanting to do more and feeling helpless.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

submitted 23 hours ago • 374 comments

In general, the US populace is not prepared for the moment we're in.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82

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clean your space. you don’t ever want to start off the week with a messy home. spend some time decluttering. you’re bound to be happier & feel more productive if your environment & space is clutter free. start the week off clean, literally speaking

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There are more old people in Congress than ever before. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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'Trading Places' was released on this day 42 years ago (June 8, 1983) Directed by John Landis. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Paul Gleason. #OTD #OnThisDay #80sMovie #TradingPlaces

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Love Your Library

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Let me tell you something... Life????? Knows how to humble you

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I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

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A Steller’s jay greeting me this morning and hoping its cuteness will result in more peanuts. Dear Reader, it worked! 🥜 🪶 #Birds #Jays #FeatheredFriends #Stunday #Edmonds #Photography #Nature #Corvids #SundayCorvids #BackyardBirds

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I am 100% confrontational and I do not think it’s a bad thing when done correctly. Like I’m not with the passive aggressive shit and talking to any and everybody but the person I have an issue with. I will absolutely go to the person directly lol.

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The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

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"A small, shy, determined person, with that strength dictated by absolutely impersonal ambition: She was not trying to ‘make it’ — she was trying to keep the faith.” -James Baldwin describing Lorraine Hansberry

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Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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If undocumented workers with no criminal history are being dragged from job sites that they’ve worked at for years, then when do the CEOs, contractors, and farm owners who employed them start getting handcuffed? Or is that not how “justice” works in America?

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

always remember: “I was just following orders” is not a valid defense for human rights violations

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile Israel is genociding Palestinians with US weapons, political support and funds. I just...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 3 days ago • 353 comments

Cops cannot be 'reasoned' with. They do what they want with impunity in the US and a lot of people simply refuse to acknowledge this reality.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

On the new shelf display. I ❤️ libraries. @sgj.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social @dolenperkinsvaldez.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Now this I am hyped for!!!

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"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

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BREAKING: In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court grants DOGE access to millions of Americans' personal data, including social security numbers and banking information. In her dissent, Justice Jackson warned of "grave privacy risks for millions of Americans." From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social‬

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

the virginia museum of fine art’s african art collection is incredible, fyi for those of you in the area

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

We need to revisit this. Top row Smoke bottom row is Stack.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

#1 Best Thriller of the Year So Far at Amazon! KING OF ASHES!!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Found out today that my state cut all preexisting funding for overdose prevention, addiction, & “harm reduction efforts to reduce overdose rates and deaths.” The city I live and work in has as many overdose deaths as San Francisco and my state is in the top worst for overdose for the past 15 years.

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

And this is why having American aviation communications rely on Starlink was always a terrifying idea

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“I’ll get gas in the morning “ is Satan’s greatest trick

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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨

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BREAKING: The U.S. government says 247,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the most in eight months.

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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

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"Therefore the historical suppression of writers is the earliest harbinger of the steady peeling away of additional rights and liberties that will follow. The history of persecuted writers is as long as the history of literature itself."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed fellow Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as her first choice for New York City mayor.

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This breakthough in #HIV detection (so that it can be attacked by our own immune system) is immense, and "...could be a new pathway to an HIV cure" 🤯 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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“Desire paths” are unofficial trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route to get somewhere. The people (AKA meanderthals) that tramp along these routes often wear away grass, creating the secondary path Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...

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Some news! Resistance Summer School has an official home! I will teach Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 at the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C., starting in mid-July. Thank you to everyone for their support! karenattiah.substack.com/p/studying-t...

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments