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A tenet of “cancel culture” logic that we should never accept: the idea that being embarrassed about being wrong or mistaken about things is something humans shouldn’t have to experience. Embarrassment sucks! So does falling on your face! It’s allowed! Humility is a gift! It’s how we learn!

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A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."

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I am scrambling to make a hard move out date on Tues. I deserve to live in a stranger-free apt with locking doors, that was not in pre eviction ready. I need to raise 6K. I'd already decided I would become a Malörtian full time. Tryna to make my connected & community-led health stand in CHI.

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Good morning, parents.

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In times like this, it’s nice to be reminded what hope feels like…

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“The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love.” @nikitagill.bsky.social

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DC Folks I'm back onstage with all new jokes this Saturday! Dupont Circle! www.donttellcomedy.com/shows/dc-06-...

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After 2 months of work, the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 video is here. I interviewed most of the game's senior leadership team asking one simple question: how did you do this? Their answers were inspiring and moving, and it's no surprise that COE33 is as remarkable as it is: youtu.be/mXLOLgC2V2Q?...

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Go back and rewatch watchmen anyway, be ause the cops-in-masks theme is gonna make you go "oohhhhhh. …Shit."

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🧵The first movie ever screened at the WH was Birth of a Nation. Most white films commercialize our traumas at best, or portray us as animals + criminals. Throughout history, Black folks have been robbed of our own narrative + imagery. It's why #Sinners touched us as a community.

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This should be the norm.

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The UK High Court has ruled that Shell plc + its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for historic oil pollution which has devastated the environments of the Bille + Ogale communities in Nigeria. There’s a long way to go in the case, but congrats today @leigh-day.bsky.social

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This made me tear up fr Happy #Juneteenth

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OMG - just in case you thought Roger Rabbit was based on a conspiracy theory.

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Wow, this article.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist announced #LiteraryAwards www.writingafrica.com/ursula-k-le-...

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Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something... My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.

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Hey. Come here. I smoked cigarettes for almost a decade because I didn't value my life. I was grieving and didn't get the help I needed. I quit cold turkey when I turned 29 and started to heal. I knew it was killing me. That said: I implore you - stop fucking vaping.

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The reason it's really important to leave substack NOW is their relatively new social networking features. Substack is creating a walled garden that you have to share with white supremacists. They want to keep you on substack where all the Nazis are and force you to share your revenue with them.

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I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years). cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)

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Hi, we haven't sold a book all month. Tell a friend to tell a friend, to shop local! bookshop.org/shop/OurWatt...

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Yall know the mf vibes. It's Juneteenth and you got paid last week. We got some Black books that need patronage. You couldn't make a boycott, couldnt de-complicate your feelings . Find the words in Black tradition. Fight Book banns and the legacy of ethnic erasure via media. go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e

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It's also worth reflecting on what refusing to work for free has cost Black people in this country.

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Today is not a "Black and brown" day or a "POC holiday" it's a Black day. A Black American day, more generally and a Black Texan day specifically.

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“I'm f🤬’d up, homie, you f🤬’d up But if God got us, then we gon' be ALRIGHT!”

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Happy #Juneteenth. If you're in the LA area, please support #PiesforJustice. If you're in Minnesota, give a shout-out to Sweet Potato Comfort Pie. If you're anywhere else, bake a pie and share it. As my latest story reminded me, "Pie is the food of the heroic." www.salon.com/2025/06/19/j...

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fyre fest-ass industry knowing it's fucked but they keep going bc they think "but what if?? a miracle occurs??? and it works anyway????" it's not working, it didn't work all those other times, but they truly believe it they keep fakin' it, they'll eventually make it.

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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Countdown to release of The Fake Ghost, a supernatural thriller about a racist US president reborn as an African child in a tiny hut. The book has already made it to Paste’s Most Anticipated Horror of Summer 2025 & now on Preorder. @deadskypub.bsky.social www.pastemagazine.com/books/horror...

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Happy #Juneteenth! This is your loud reminder that the only policy that completely closes the racial wealth gap is REPARATIONS! According to Drs. Sandy Darity and Kristen Mullen, giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 closes the racial wealth gap. #econsky #blacksky

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Anybody need a Juneteenth book? May I recommend We Refuse by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social --it's a stunner.

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Your Juneteenth watchlist * Miss Juneteenth * The Blackening * Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror * Horror Noire - the @shudder.com anthology film I bet you never saw! Includes my first adaptations: "The Lake" and "Fugue State" (co-starring Tony Todd!!!)

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I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

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Mrs Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth, deserves as much praise for today as the holiday itself. Turning 99 later this year in October, she successfully launched the campaign to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. She was also given the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year

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PLAYLIST ALERT: Juke Joint Music: A Blues & Southern Soul Playlist is now live on Spotify & Apple Music. You can get it - plus ALL the other #BlackMusicMonth playlists so far - @ linktr.ee/musicsermon

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Happy Pop Out Anniversary to all who celebrate!

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What if we finally got HORROR NOIRE certified fresh for Juneteenth

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Bounce thread for Juneteenth? Bounce thread for Juneteenth.

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it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry

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My Audible Original novel The Shape of Monsters, read by Omari Douglas (It's a Sin, Black Doves) will be live in July! Full details here - substack.com/@portobellol...

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This is where Black disability activists like Imani Barbarin who've been talking about where these issues overlap FOR YEARS just roll their eyes at y'all.

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"Gail Etienne, Leona Tate, and Tessie Prevost — known as the “McDonogh Three” — faced large crowds of angry protesters as they desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School just blocks away. In fact, the McDonogh Three technically segregated New Orleans’ schools first." Yet another thing not taught.

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It’s pride month. Quote with a queer character 🏳️‍🌈

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“Givin' 'em our truth and they gave us blackface, Why you wanna make a mockery of my pain?”

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