Chinanu Okoli
@chinanu.bsky.social
He/Him. Twin. Reposts/likes/follows ≠ endorsements.
Journalist. Musician. Swiftie. Plantain Lover.
Different ≠ Deficient.
DM for Signal.
chinanuokoli.com
Journalist. Musician. Swiftie. Plantain Lover.
Different ≠ Deficient.
DM for Signal.
chinanuokoli.com
Re-upping this story as Massachusetts residents testify today on Rep. Danielle Gregoire’s proposal to ban the use of electric shock & aversive therapies on disabled people. The bill, which targets the Judge Rotenberg Center, has been offered in every legislative session since 2015.
#StopTheShock
#StopTheShock
Advocates push legislation to permanently stop electric shock on disabled people
The Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts is the only U.S. school that uses the aversive therapy to change people's behavior.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Re-upping this story as Massachusetts residents testify today on Rep. Danielle Gregoire’s proposal to ban the use of electric shock & aversive therapies on disabled people. The bill, which targets the Judge Rotenberg Center, has been offered in every legislative session since 2015.
#StopTheShock
#StopTheShock
Lots of lessons Michelle Zenarosa shares in this
@poynterinstitute.bsky.social piece about
@lapublicpress.bsky.social journalists covering ICE raids in their own neighborhoods. I appreciate every newsroom working on the fly to support & protect their reporters against these very real dangers 🙏🏾
@poynterinstitute.bsky.social piece about
@lapublicpress.bsky.social journalists covering ICE raids in their own neighborhoods. I appreciate every newsroom working on the fly to support & protect their reporters against these very real dangers 🙏🏾
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it
www.poynter.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Lots of lessons Michelle Zenarosa shares in this
@poynterinstitute.bsky.social piece about
@lapublicpress.bsky.social journalists covering ICE raids in their own neighborhoods. I appreciate every newsroom working on the fly to support & protect their reporters against these very real dangers 🙏🏾
@poynterinstitute.bsky.social piece about
@lapublicpress.bsky.social journalists covering ICE raids in their own neighborhoods. I appreciate every newsroom working on the fly to support & protect their reporters against these very real dangers 🙏🏾
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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I have also found this to be true. It is why I am still alive. Every time I go through a depression I can’t imagine there is anything coming that I’ll be happy to be alive for. There always is.
Doesn’t make the despair any easier to live through, but helps me remember how necessary it is to do so.
Doesn’t make the despair any easier to live through, but helps me remember how necessary it is to do so.
I've said this over and over, but someone needs to hear this, right now:
Virtually all of the best things in my life were things I had absolutely no way of predicting, even a few months ahead of time.
We have no real way of imagining our future, and yet despair is always based on that imagination.
Virtually all of the best things in my life were things I had absolutely no way of predicting, even a few months ahead of time.
We have no real way of imagining our future, and yet despair is always based on that imagination.
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I have also found this to be true. It is why I am still alive. Every time I go through a depression I can’t imagine there is anything coming that I’ll be happy to be alive for. There always is.
Doesn’t make the despair any easier to live through, but helps me remember how necessary it is to do so.
Doesn’t make the despair any easier to live through, but helps me remember how necessary it is to do so.
Emailed my unofficial (but official) college advisor last week to thank him for telling me to seek an ADHD eval while I while was in undergrad. His reply was so VALIDATING & ENCOURAGING, I started tearing up. I appreciate him — & everybody who has encouraged me/helped me navigate this — so much. 🙏🏾
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Emailed my unofficial (but official) college advisor last week to thank him for telling me to seek an ADHD eval while I while was in undergrad. His reply was so VALIDATING & ENCOURAGING, I started tearing up. I appreciate him — & everybody who has encouraged me/helped me navigate this — so much. 🙏🏾
A friend told me a few months ago that she thought I was neurodivergent because she felt safer around me & is always safer around ND people. I said I was SO flattered & always felt safer w/ her but that I wasn’t 💛💛
Reader, today I was diagnosed with ADHD.
Reader, today I was diagnosed with ADHD.
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A friend told me a few months ago that she thought I was neurodivergent because she felt safer around me & is always safer around ND people. I said I was SO flattered & always felt safer w/ her but that I wasn’t 💛💛
Reader, today I was diagnosed with ADHD.
Reader, today I was diagnosed with ADHD.
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ICE arrested a man with brain cancer - he’d been out delivering for DoorDash and got lost. He was supposed to have a hearing to get out - then ICE moved him to Georgia @wbur.org @rachellss.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
ICE arrests Afghan man with brain cancer in Methuen. Now, he’s hundreds of miles from his doctors
It’s getting harder for immigrants to win release from custody, even when they're in dire health.
www.wbur.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
ICE arrested a man with brain cancer - he’d been out delivering for DoorDash and got lost. He was supposed to have a hearing to get out - then ICE moved him to Georgia @wbur.org @rachellss.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Brown Sugar will always be one of my favorite songs — LOVED playing it on my college radio station. He was a fantastic artist. 💔💔💔
D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51
D'Angelo Dead at 51
Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.
www.tmz.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Brown Sugar will always be one of my favorite songs — LOVED playing it on my college radio station. He was a fantastic artist. 💔💔💔
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Looking forward to singing (jazz and pop/R&B tunes w/ guitarist George Hicks and bassist Warren Olsen) at the Harvestween Festival, White Barn Farm in Wrentham, on Saturday, October 25 (10:00-4:00, our set 11:45 to 1:15). Join us for a fun fall day!
www.whitebarnfarm.org/events-1/har...
www.whitebarnfarm.org/events-1/har...
Harvestween | White Barn Farm
Join us after the Pumpkin Pacer for our annual Harvestween Festival!
www.whitebarnfarm.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Looking forward to singing (jazz and pop/R&B tunes w/ guitarist George Hicks and bassist Warren Olsen) at the Harvestween Festival, White Barn Farm in Wrentham, on Saturday, October 25 (10:00-4:00, our set 11:45 to 1:15). Join us for a fun fall day!
www.whitebarnfarm.org/events-1/har...
www.whitebarnfarm.org/events-1/har...
“He’s never been able to work outside the prison system. He’s never seen a modern film, he’s never been on the internet, he doesn’t know technology. To send him to India at 64, on his own and away from his family and community, would be just extending the harm of his wrongful incarceration.”
October 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“He’s never been able to work outside the prison system. He’s never seen a modern film, he’s never been on the internet, he doesn’t know technology. To send him to India at 64, on his own and away from his family and community, would be just extending the harm of his wrongful incarceration.”
Kingsley Fifi Bimpong died after officers allegedly ignored his stroke symptoms for hours. Robins Kaplan attorney:“The shocking deliberate indifference from local authorities stripped Kingsley of his last safeguard: the right to basic medical care.” minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...
Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer
Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”
minnesotareformer.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
If Nigerians are not mad at me for chewing my fufu, Italians should not be mad at me for breaking my spaghetti…
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If Nigerians are not mad at me for chewing my fufu, Italians should not be mad at me for breaking my spaghetti…
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ICE is everywhere these days - this group is watching. @wbur.org’s @simonfrios.bsky.social and @rlub.bsky.social were there to observe
www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
As ICE ramps up activity in Mass., this group bears witness
Activists connected through an immigrant advocacy group called LUCE are documenting arrests throughout the state. The "ICE watchers" record the names of those detained to make sure they’re accounted f...
www.wbur.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
ICE is everywhere these days - this group is watching. @wbur.org’s @simonfrios.bsky.social and @rlub.bsky.social were there to observe
www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
“Each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it. You may not find it… whether or not you find that role you’re supposed to play, your life does matter. Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world and you get to choose the difference that you make.”
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“Each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it. You may not find it… whether or not you find that role you’re supposed to play, your life does matter. Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world and you get to choose the difference that you make.”
And that Consumer Reports is publishing this says so much.
October 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
And that Consumer Reports is publishing this says so much.
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Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.
We should all be outraged.
freedom.press/issues/mario...
We should all be outraged.
freedom.press/issues/mario...
October 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.
We should all be outraged.
freedom.press/issues/mario...
We should all be outraged.
freedom.press/issues/mario...
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This is a very good read
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is a very good read
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The White House asked nine major universities, including MIT and Brown, to accept the government's definition of gender and apply it to campus bathrooms, locker rooms and women’s sports teams. It also asks colleges to stop considering race, gender and other demographics in the admissions process.
Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money
The proposed agreement asks universities, including MIT, Brown and Dartmouth, to accept the government's definition of gender and apply it to campus bathrooms, locker rooms and women’s sports teams. I...
www.wbur.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The White House asked nine major universities, including MIT and Brown, to accept the government's definition of gender and apply it to campus bathrooms, locker rooms and women’s sports teams. It also asks colleges to stop considering race, gender and other demographics in the admissions process.
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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE @wbur.org FUND DRIVE SO I AM SHOUTING AT YOU TO PLEASE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND PLAY THE GAME THE RIGHT WAY AND GIVE 110 PERCENT AND LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD AND EVERY OTHER SPORTS CLICHE!
Froggy “borrowed” my tools of the trade to remind you that @wbur.org =INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM=CORNERSTONE OF DEMOCRACY=DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS. Congress canceled all federal funding of public media. WBUR needs your support. Please give at wbur.org/game-on or call 800-909-WBUR. Thanks! And ribbet.
October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE @wbur.org FUND DRIVE SO I AM SHOUTING AT YOU TO PLEASE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND PLAY THE GAME THE RIGHT WAY AND GIVE 110 PERCENT AND LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD AND EVERY OTHER SPORTS CLICHE!
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Nick’s right. It’s abs and speedos vs. cider and donuts.
Rise, my layered sisters. Swaddle yourselves in rollneck cardigans. Summon servants to feed you Stilton, apples and walnuts. Swap out the clear liquor for the brown. Watch Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies.
The time is ours.
Rise, my layered sisters. Swaddle yourselves in rollneck cardigans. Summon servants to feed you Stilton, apples and walnuts. Swap out the clear liquor for the brown. Watch Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies.
The time is ours.
i maintain there are two types of homosexual.
the june gay and the october gay.
october gays — it’s finally our time.
the june gay and the october gay.
october gays — it’s finally our time.
October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Nick’s right. It’s abs and speedos vs. cider and donuts.
Rise, my layered sisters. Swaddle yourselves in rollneck cardigans. Summon servants to feed you Stilton, apples and walnuts. Swap out the clear liquor for the brown. Watch Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies.
The time is ours.
Rise, my layered sisters. Swaddle yourselves in rollneck cardigans. Summon servants to feed you Stilton, apples and walnuts. Swap out the clear liquor for the brown. Watch Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies.
The time is ours.
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My media friends: Please stop saying that Republicans are making the "false claim" that Democrats want to give free health care to undocumented immigrants. It's a lie. They know it's a lie. Call it a lie every single time, including to their faces.
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My media friends: Please stop saying that Republicans are making the "false claim" that Democrats want to give free health care to undocumented immigrants. It's a lie. They know it's a lie. Call it a lie every single time, including to their faces.
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It’s increasingly frustrating having to rewrite emails because people who should be able to parse large chunks of text can’t. It’s becoming more like TL;*CR (can’t read) than TL;DR.
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s increasingly frustrating having to rewrite emails because people who should be able to parse large chunks of text can’t. It’s becoming more like TL;*CR (can’t read) than TL;DR.
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The Uproot Project stands with the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling for the safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza, Yemen, and beyond.
September 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Uproot Project stands with the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling for the safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza, Yemen, and beyond.
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LinkedIn has been quietly scraping the personal data of U.S. member profiles to train AI models for at least a year.
The below 2025 warning (announcement) is for users in countries who actually care to protect their citizens’ personal data.
There was no such announcement for us in 2024.
The below 2025 warning (announcement) is for users in countries who actually care to protect their citizens’ personal data.
There was no such announcement for us in 2024.
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
LinkedIn has been quietly scraping the personal data of U.S. member profiles to train AI models for at least a year.
The below 2025 warning (announcement) is for users in countries who actually care to protect their citizens’ personal data.
There was no such announcement for us in 2024.
The below 2025 warning (announcement) is for users in countries who actually care to protect their citizens’ personal data.
There was no such announcement for us in 2024.