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May is #FibromyalgiaAwareness Month. This is how I feel every day. As I share I hope it helps someone respect and honor their body, know they're not crazy, it's not all in their head, feel less alone, and know it's okay and NECESSARY to give your body space to heal the way it was designed to.

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Spoke to businesses today at the GA Chamber of Commerce on the triple bottom line—people, planet, and profit as a long-term investments in stability, competitiveness, and brand integrity. #GCCFOES #TogetherWeProsper #CleanPowerToThePeople

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Ha! I absolutely LOVE this!!!

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Pritzker is one of my favs!

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20 million Americans might lose their health coverage, just so Republicans can give billionaires a tax cut.

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Doge is like the best foreign intelligence operation ever. I’m sure the very honest man in charge of the country won’t wield this huge unconstitutional power for bad aims at any point.

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When I tell you God came in clutch for my final Morehouse class! Let me get some rest and I'll tell y'all how we ended this year with a bang!

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So glad my cousin came to support my Just Energy Circle Meeting at the Gathering Spot and she even brought my old co-worker from my Innovation Lab days at Clark Atlanta University!

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NEW: ICE is now restoring thousands of student visa records. Trump admin had revoked them in recent weeks, saying students had criminal records. Many were never charged with anything. Some had minor traffic violations or were even victims of abuse. Reversal comes as Trump kept losing in court.

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#EARTHMONTH: Check out this summary of the presentations and discussions from the #NASEM Gulf Research Program 1st Building Health and Resilience Research Capacity in the U.S. Gulf Coast Workshop - October 2024. FYI, I gave keynote talk. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2911... #HBCU #HBCUalum

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1/6 What a week! Ended last week with Super South Climate Summit. 🧵

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White privilege is not even have to consider sundown towns.

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Happy Resurrection Sunday! I'm so thankful that He rose on the third day with ALL POWER that I might be saved, filled with His Holy Spirit, and walk in His Resurrection Power! Because HE LIVES He always causes me to triumph! 🙌🏾 #HeRoseWithPower #HeIsRisen

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ACLU urges US supreme court to block ‘imminent’ deportations of Venezuelans. Emergency filing says group of men could be deported on Friday or Saturday without court-ordered judicial review. #MomSky #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is yet another reminder that managers can refuse to follow illegal executive orders. And that they can follow the laws that mandate inclusion by NSF instead.

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HELL YES.

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“After decades of precedent, the United States will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections." This is where we are.

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The B Company, 28th NZ (Māori) Battalion History Trust, is calling on whānau and descendants of B Company soldiers to help strengthen the legacy of New Zealand’s Māori Battalion.

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Tuesday we launched our #BLocalGA Bridges program at RICE ATL getting entrepreneurs ready to get there B Corp certification and secure their commitment to business as a source for good! I'm honored to serve as a board member and excited for these entrepreneurs! #BlackSocEnt

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Indigenous leaders from Namibia, Rapa Nui, and the U.S. will meet at UNPFII to share ancestral knowledge and defend collective rights. Juǀʼhoansi voices spotlight land stewardship vital to biodiversity. Respect for Indigenous rights counters systemic discrimination.

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Welcome to the Indigenous Hip Hop Business Association! The IHHBA is dedicated to positive Native Hip Hop, business education, and Native life-culture. The IHHBA Journal is a quarterly online publication focusing on these areas. Check out the website, ihhba.org #native #indigenous #nativehiphop

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GENOCIDE AS POLICY The genocide of Native Americans required killing off as many as possible through bullet, disease, and starvation. Killing off bison to starve Indians was government and corporate railroad policy. Here we see a mountain of bison skulls waiting to be ground to fertilizer in 1870.

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Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The beaver, by reason of its well known gnawing ability. Against even the hardest of wood, is invoked on

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Spent my Thursday moderating a panel at the #SuperSouth Summit on Getting Back to the Basics: Growing an Equitable Future for All.

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1/4 And just like that the birthday festivities are over. Every year I'm even more thankful to be here because just three years ago I was 30 minutes from being out of here according to the doctor. 🧵 🏴‍☠️💙⚓️💙🏴‍☠️

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Outstanding. More.

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“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

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This is so validating!!

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They enjoy hurting poor people. This is just evil. "The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewage..." insideclimatenews.org/news/1104202...

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This was such a good episode. Real hope and real strategy for these times! Take a listen! youtube.com/watch?v=x1gw...

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Tool for local journalists! @climatetrace.org monitors 300 satellites and 30,000 sensors to identify “exactly where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.” They've begun issuing monthly reports, enabling journalists to track nearby emissions sources and ask officials about the pollution.

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The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

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The Trump Administration has mounted a concerted & unprecedented attack on the legal profession. LDF is fighting back. LDF Files Amicus Briefs Defending Wilmer Hale and Jenner & Block from the Trump Administration’s Targeting of the Legal Profession www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

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What more is there to say?

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Breaking News: Five more prominent law firms facing punitive action by President Trump reached deals to provide free legal services to causes he supports.

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Cowards. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

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Excellent thread, worth reading right to the end. We are all (especially US folk) going to need to get more familiar with the economics of globalised #SupplyChains (or value chains, or commodity chains) - which will be a good thing!!

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"A precedent has been set. Every international student in America today must accept that they may be abducted, detained and deported for attending a protest or expressing a view that upsets the White House or its allies." — #AJOpinion by @somdeepsen.bsky.social ⤵️

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Trump's political appointees decided which books to remove from the Naval Academy's library. Among them: Maya Angelou's “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Russian authorities stole more than 1.7 million items of Ukrainian cultural heritage from occupied territories, Culture Minister Mykola Tochitsky said. english.nv.ua/nation/russi...

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