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"Woke just means you give a damn about other people." — Jane Fonda accepting the Life Achievement Award at the SAG Awards

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The first text I got from a "famous" person after I went public about January 6th, was @joyannreid.bsky.social Joy didn't want an interview, a statement or even a soundbyte...Joy simply said, Harry i want to be your friend and I'm here for you. She's as real as they come and I'm so thankful for her

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Day #23 of BHM: Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) was raised as part of an aristocratic family in Georgian Britain. Her mother was a young Black woman and her father was Royal Naval officer Sir John Lindsay. She lived at Kenwood House On Hampstead Heath in London. 1/

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Does anyone remember the last time Carville was right about anything?

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Weird how the Times didn’t feel the need to note that all this happened after Trump’s FCC chair notified Comcast that the company was under investigation for “promoting DEI” as they were trying to spin off MSNBC To be fair, maybe the writer didn’t know all this Oh, wait…

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1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally #slaveryarchive t.co/JCD87bVNxe

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

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There is literally no one who has a better bead on Alaska politics than Murkowski, so, uh.. flashing warning signs for the GOP here.

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Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank.

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So this week I was in SF. Visited the Presidio and saw there was an exhibit on Japanese Exclusion at the Officers' Club, so we went in. My teen has been learning about Fred Korematsu in civics, and I want him to understand this history. The exhibit was powerful. But--

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We have Nazi salutes now because nobody said anything about Confederate flags.

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If you're feeling kinda down today, Stacey Abrams has a message for you I'm editing this week's episode with Rep Abrams and Princess Mabel van Oranje about Vow for Girls and it's so good. Out Friday.

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This is such a great organization to support, if you have work clothes to donate.

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“¿Qué tienen en común Trump, Milei y Miguel Ángel Rodríguez? La relativización de la verdad”, insiste José María Lassalle, profesor de Filosofía del Derecho. "Lo que determina que un contenido sea valioso o no ya no es que sea verdad, sino su viralización" https://dozz.es/dj6hp5

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Congrats to #Howard's swim team for winning the 2025 Northeast Conference Championship...again. #HU #YouKnow

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Went to the Pérez Art Museum while I was in Miami and the security guard 1. told me that I needed to see this piece and 2. made me pull out my phone and google the artist (Calida Rawles)

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Y'all know what Kendrick said two weeks ago, they can rig the game but they can't fake influence.

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Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts

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Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

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“The pushback in recent days has come not only in highly competitive districts but also in deeply Republican ones, suggesting a broader problem for the party.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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"In a world where representation is often weaponized simply to get eyes on screens, A THOUSAND BLOWS stands out as a thrilling and heartfelt examination of race and class in 19th-century London." Read Kaiya Shunyata review of the new Hulu series:

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In America, especially the Deep South, we work very very hard to keep people in poverty because it makes fast food owners and waffle house proprietors money. And they get local lords of huge swaths of desperate people. The 3% enrollment is the point. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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I think I need these

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Warren “was a vocal opponent of the Republican president during his first term … On Saturday, the more than 1,000 people who packed into Nevins Hall in the Framingham Memorial Building in Framingham had just one message for the Cambridge lawmaker: Keep it up.” www.masslive.com/politics/202...

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1998. "I have a horror of... men & women who are consumed by hate & distrust, who cloak their bigotry & intolerance in high-sounding moral & religious principles. Such are the rabid Republicans.... We must be galvanized by this desperate charge of the fascist right." books.google.com/books?id=VFk...

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I hope one went to the judge in the case where he’s pretending he has no actual power

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Folks, whatever we think Diddy did… it’s worse than that. https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-lawyer-quits-sex-trafficking-case-under-no-circumstances-can-i-continue/

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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Yes @adamserwer.bsky.social gets it right. But for all these reasons, it is necessarily an attack on the 14th Amendment. We have to start talking about it in constitutional terms. Because that is what they are resisting.

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Do yourself a favor and read this entire NYT interview with Ed Yong. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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"Vivimos actualmente la ruptura más profunda en la historia desde la de 1989 a 1991". El intelectual alemán Heinrich August Winkler, que ha recorrido en su obra el pasado y presente de su país, dice que AfD es el adversario más peligroso para la democracia

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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

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I finally got through to my 22 year old cousin yesterday. He lives in Philly and was almost going to vote for Tr*mp when I convinced him not to vote at all rather than affirmatively giving him his vote. We talked yesterday and I said: "you were being lied to by rich white men." And he got it.

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Frankétienne, legendary Haitian writer and artist, dies at 88 The pioneering author, playwright, and painter, known as the “father of Haitian letters,” leaves behind a towering literary and artistic legacy. haitiantimes.com/2025/02/21/f...

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The French film "Zombi Child" is set in present day France where a Haitian teen attends an elite boarding school AND 1960's Haiti where her grandfather (real life Clairvius Narcisse) is turned into a zombie to work cane fields. Links French slavery and colonialism in Haiti to l'hexagon via zombie.

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Attorney & Army veteran Dovey Roundtree (below) won a landmark 1955 desegregation case representing Sarah Keys, a US Army private who’d been forced by a bus driver to relinquish her seat to a white Marine in NC. Roundtree, an officer in WWII, had experienced a similar situation in 1943 in Miami.

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This will warm your heart and make you smile

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