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As I was saying in my last audio column, the destruction of the pipeline for Black advancement is the goal of this segregationist purge. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

Reminder that today is an economic blackout. Don't buy from chains or big box stores! However! You are still encouraged to shop at local and small businesses, and you can, of course, still buy medicine, food and emergency supplies. Good explainer here: www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

Good things to do today * Use your public library * Text a friend * Give a book to a little library * Go outside * Look for birds * Write a poem

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Because I am a librarian, I also made this poster highlighting another reason I am doing an economic boycott: Our 1st Amendment rights and public libraries are under assault. You can find free & fun things to do today during your $ boycott at your local public library. Free people read freely!

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

There are a lot of people on here smugly telling people that protests don't work, that boycotts are pointless. These people are part of the problem, not the solution. Taking action, even at the most base level, as opposed to only calling reps, or posting, is a highly effective form of engagement.

submitted 4 hours ago • 124 comments

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 84 comments

So what are some things we can take from this blackout that are easy to make a permanent habit? Amazon ONLY if necessary. Use cash as often as you can. Stop giving these companies extra money from their fees. EAT LOCAL IF YOU GO OUT. Stop favoring brand names owned by conglomerates.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Conservatives love Big Govt when it gives white Americans exclusive economic security, free land, unlimited immigration, free education, social welfare, & generational wealth. But when Black & brown Americans seek the same—Conservatives remember "Small Govt." www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Fuck you, John Roberts. Fuck you. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 815 comments

@calltoactivism.bsky.social I need EVERYONE to repost this ASAP! The Dept of Education is now accepting tips from the community to root out “divisive ideologies” that are happening in our nation’s schools. I think we all understand the assignment… enddei.ed.gov

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 5 days ago • 289 comments

It's beyond Obama. The bigger truth is about Black progress in America in the 20th/ 21st century-- Black advancement helps open the doors for so many other marginalized groups to rise. They want to kill the path of govt/educational/ career advancement for EVERYONE not white, straight, and male.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 5 days ago • 852 comments

I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

They all sound like novel titles.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

“ Trump fired all the women and Black people” So did your newsroom / tech space/ funding/ firm You watched Black women slip away tap out be shoved to the side in almost every space you are in And “didn’t see” your racist colleague. The theft of ideas , the precarity Do you get it now

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 7 days ago • 862 comments

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Target loses 15.7BILLION$$ since ending its DEI initiatives. Keep it up. I'll try a short vid while doing domestic shit in a bit.

submitted 6 days ago • 109 comments

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

submitted 7 days ago • 197 comments

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Real talk. x.com/maddenifico/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 9 days ago • 627 comments

I think we really need to repeat, and keep top of mind - The federal employee firings are NOT ABOUT SAVING MONEY. What is spent on those employees is peanuts compared to most of the money in the government. Firing federal employees sows confusion, depletes morale, and degrades government service.

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

Kamala staffer voted for Trump and says that SHE “can’t win.” She threw marginalized people under the bus and complains about how she’ll be treated. Acting as if it was for “principles.” The audacity.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We're mobilizing towards a March 4 Day of Action to #ProtectOurKids from the Trump administration’s plans to gut the U.S. Department of Education and slash federal funding would devastate millions of students. Join the call tonight to learn more! event.on24.com/wcc/r/486529...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

I wish some of the biggest accounts here on Bluesky would use alt text more. It really doesn't take that much time to do. Here's a link to a quick explainer. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Someone please call winter’s mother. They need to leave.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, FFS: DOGE dweebs don’t understand COBOL. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is huge—CMS has so much info. Thanks @charlesgaba.com @niemanlab.org and @angierasmussen.bsky.social !

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

submitted 20 days ago • 314 comments

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

submitted 20 days ago • 1198 comments

Politico helped Trump launder lies during the campaign and he’s been on a week-long rampage against them anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 19 days ago • 296 comments

What pains me the most about this week has been the sheer scope of the silence from the women’s sports world as trans women and girls are being banned.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

I write a lot of poetry but rarely submit—not because of rejection but because it’s REALLY hard to figure out WHERE to submit! But an exhibit in Washington Hts about hair? That’s for me! Thank you, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance., for selecting my poem Raices!

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, cat lovers! This is a good time to keep your cat indoors—keep you both safe. 🐱😻

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The way they say “the first President to attend the super bowl” like this is an achievement—although in this case maybe it is?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 21 days ago • 1140 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 21 days ago • 6588 comments

As someone who has studied autocratization elsewhere, I can tell you that you need to keep your eyes on THIS. Changes to the partisan balance of bodies overseeing elections or changes to the electoral system is key to how wannabe autocrats become actual autocrats. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Y esto no para, tenemos a @romyngoldberg.bsky.social con @adriaq.bsky.social autora y @judithvaldesb.bsky.social ilustradora, de libros que ensalzan las raíces más profundas y entrañables. @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWIwinter25 #scbwi #kidlit

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Part of the message I sent them: As a Jew, I’m deeply offended that you would make a deal with someone who just two weeks ago publicly did a Hitler salute.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments