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Two daily #SmallPress #books: The Global History of Black Girlhood (@illinoispress.bsky.social) www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... -and- I Am Still Your Negro (@ualbertapress.bsky.social) ualbertapress.ca/978177212510... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth #reading #nonfiction

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Two daily #SmallPress #books: Black Matters, poetry by Afua Cooper (Roseway Publishing) -and- My Black Motherhood by Sandra Igwe (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) 1. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/black-m... 2. us.jkp.com/products/my-... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #reading #poetry

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Remember a fake video in October that showed a fake poll worker destroying pro-Trump election ballots in Pennsylvania? There's now a copycat fake video with the same script about the German election, showing a fake poll worker destroying election ballots for the AfD in Hamburg.

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Two daily #SmallPress #books: Black Lives, American Love by D.B. Maroon (@chireviewpress.bsky.social) www.chicagoreviewpress.com/black-lives-... -and- Finding Edward by Sheila Murray (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social) www.cormorantbooks.com/finding-edward 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #reading

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Recent updates to my running list of stuff to pay attention to - not comprehensive but hopefully helpful. Actual post with links is at joannemerriam.com/2025/02/01/f.... #uspoli #recipes #SAVEAct #VoterSuppression #Missouri #RegistryOfPregnantWomen #NAACP #SpendingGuide #CharlieAngus #NATO

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This channel may become increasingly useful over the next few years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OPQ... #depressionera #recipe

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

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Daily #SmallPress #books: Nomenclature, #poems by Dionne Brand (@dukepress.bsky.social) www.dukeupress.edu/nomenclature and out this summer: Protesting with Rosa Parks by John K. Bollard (@ugapress.bsky.social) ugapress.org/book/9781588... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth #reading

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“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” —Edward Hopper

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From Arlene Dickenson's Linkedin post... a useful list! "Some great Canadian brands to buy. (I invested in some of these! ) Buy, Support, Invest in Canadian goods ❤️🇨🇦"

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Action this week: Congress is in recess this week. Is your House Representative having a town hall? Call and tell them they need to. And then show up.

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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As unsettling as this last month has been with tariff and takeover threats, there is a silver lining: many highly-accomplished US citizens with plenty to offer are feeling completely at odds with what is happening in their country. #Canada #immigration

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Daily #SmallPress #book: We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books). www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-c... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth @arionne.bsky.social @chireviewpress.bsky.social

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“Diversity is better for the bottom line,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said ... . “In a global economy, those who reject the multicultural nature of consumerism and business will be left in the past they are living in.” naacp.org/campaigns/bl... & apnews.com/article/blac... #diversity #DEI

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Look at AKMARAL in this book cover ❤️ post! Thank you @joannemerriam.bsky.social #booksky #akmaral #akmaralnovel #beautifulbooks

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Two #SmallPress #books from @akashicbooks.bsky.social: A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid -and- The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. (Alt-text: details/URLs.) 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #fiction

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A #silentsunday #photo posted on a Monday... #OathillLake #Dartmouth #NovaScotia #ice

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Two #SmallPress #books: Ballots and Bullets by James Robenalt (@chireviewpress.bsky.social) and When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black by Harry Edward (@yalepress.bsky.social) (URLs in alt-text.) 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth #reading #memoir #nonfiction

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Updated my post where I update daily with actions/info: joannemerriam.com/2025/02/01/f... #reproductiverights #uspoli #protests #Section504 #abortion

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These chuckleheads.

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walk into Sobey's approach cashier "No salt, sorry." #Halisky

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Two #SmallPress #books from @ugapress.bsky.social: Japa and Other Stories by Iheoma Nwachukwu ugapress.org/book/9780820... & Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker ugapress.org/book/9780820... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth #reading #fiction

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Please understand this is not a new or sudden language shift. ⚠️ 1.) The case of 17 states against Section 504 was filed in September of 2024. Almost 5 months ago. 2.) Disability and accessibility have always been a part of DEI. Think self descriptions, ASL interpreters, etc.

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