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Black music, especially gospel music. it’s Black embodiment to me. I don’t know connection to my people without it. samba, reggaeton, dancehall, kompa, high life — all diaspora music.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 11 days ago • 1873 comments

😅 I didn't plan to start my early days on this platform this way, but yesterday I was named a recipient of @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social's 2025 American Mosaic Journalism Prize. I'm thrilled to share this recognition with photojournalist Zaydee Sanchez. More info here: tinyurl.com/28rt8pz2

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substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

submitted 11 days ago • 284 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 11 days ago • 1575 comments

This winter/spring makes five years since the start of the pandemic. I can tell my mind is still muddled by “pandemic time” when I am thoroughly surprised that people I think of with pandemic babies somehow now have 5-year-olds?!

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The NYPD has gathered every husband in America to wander around the house in a desultory playact of looking for their spouses' misplaced earbuds.

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"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."

submitted 85 days ago • 264 comments

Jay-Z has been accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 allegedly along with Sean Combs

submitted 85 days ago • 513 comments

Nothing prepared me as a parent for the stress of school bus pickup mishaps 😭😭😭

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The Twitter trolls have taken to posting screenshots of my BlueSky & Threads posts to Twitter. The non-engagement on that platform is KILLING THEM.

submitted 95 days ago • 703 comments

I saw this post and “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” just started playing out of nowhere. Incredible.

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If you honestly believe that the Supreme Court would have let a trump trial happen before the election regardless of when he was indicted or by whom, you have way more faith in the Supreme Court than I do.

submitted 98 days ago • 254 comments

Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in a rap battle so thoroughly that Drake called the police. I will never stop laughing about this!

submitted 98 days ago • 196 comments

tell drake. i want him to know it was me. i played that shit 837283 times

submitted 98 days ago • 227 comments

Can’t decide what’s more embarrassing, this or Drake suing Kendrick

submitted 98 days ago • 109 comments

Preppin to teach this classic @alexanderchee essay, which has made life 1000x easier, in fiction workshop tomorrow 🫡 www.vulture.com/2019/10/auth...

submitted 98 days ago • 5 comments

@dopegirlfresh.bsky.social Funny thing about your new name: we had a family conversation about “hussy” last night at the dinner table bc my 12 yo had it in a vocabulary list for her Kindle book. “Slattern” made the list too 😄

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

very excited to see what happens to grocery prices when we impose large tariffs on our two largest agricultural trading partners

submitted 98 days ago • 556 comments

Wait, is there a new Kendrick album out today??

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

submitted 103 days ago • 2304 comments

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

submitted 105 days ago • 229 comments

I went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Go-Go Museum and Cafe in DC, which honors go-go’s place in the long lineage of Black liberation music

submitted 104 days ago • 32 comments

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

submitted 105 days ago • 3193 comments

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

submitted 105 days ago • 6259 comments

During our November Open Reading Period, Black Lawrence Press is accepting: -poetry -fiction -creative nonfiction -hybrid work -chapbooks -anthology proposals -and more! Send us your manuscript! blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit

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www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Netflix announces Beyoncé will perform at halftime for the Texans-Ravens game live on December 25

submitted 106 days ago • 207 comments

Just stumbled onto Guyanese poet Grace Nichols in my daughter’s school library book of nature poems 🥹

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Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

submitted 106 days ago • 4804 comments

For me, sometimes the pure bleakness of fictitious horror is what gives me strength and hope. A great example is the film THE DARK AND THE WICKED, which is an ultra bleak, HEREDITARY-style film. It centers on caring for a dying parent, something I've experienced. BUT THEIRS IS SO MUCH WORSE.

submitted 106 days ago • 39 comments

On that last repost… I feel that. Sometimes I get caught up still reaching toward dreams, when I remember that 12 years ago, I started writing/blogging while my baby slept after work, because I was never going to have any more time to be a writer than NOW. I never imagined my 2024. 🥹

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12 years ago I was in a cubicle at Boeing dreading every single second of my work day every day. Today I am going to start shooting Churchy season 2 and I’m BEYOND EXCITED. Dreams sometimes come true.

submitted 106 days ago • 89 comments

Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies. Please help us build this list. Suggestions very welcome. go.bsky.app/xCeFhi

submitted 108 days ago • 33 comments

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

submitted 107 days ago • 1603 comments

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch

submitted 676 days ago • 314 comments

The idea that you must coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

submitted 107 days ago • 631 comments

All three of my kids have strep throat and I likely have it, too. Been a rough week over here. 🫠

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Red Lobster CEO says endless shrimp is never coming back because ‘I know how to do math’

submitted 109 days ago • 384 comments

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

submitted 109 days ago • 1888 comments

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark." That's how horrifying Twitter is right now. There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

submitted 109 days ago • 949 comments

Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

submitted 109 days ago • 1064 comments

Two “feral and not trained” emus named Thelma and Louise are on the loose in South Carolina about three hours from the 43 monkey escape that happened days earlier

submitted 108 days ago • 535 comments

Three daughters of Malcolm X are suing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others, accusing them of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader

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