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📚 "Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” - W.E.B. Du Bois

✊🏾Black resistance is the engine of American democracy.

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the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · Sep 5
Before the Nakba, there were books in Jaffa. Music in Haifa. Students in Jerusalem. Orchards in Galilee. Cafés in Ramallah. They didn’t erase emptiness—they erased abundance. Every face is testimony. Every archive, refusal.
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Progress update: I’ve started Course 5/12 of the Microsoft Cloud Support Associate path—The Microsoft 365 Ecosystem—and completed the first module with a 90% score. Steady progress, real skills. If you’d like to support: gofund.me/01c1223e5
#CareerTransition #CloudSupport
Donate to Partner With Me on the Path to a Stable Career, organized by Michael Kibbe
A Short Bridge to Stability — Help Me Stay Housed While I Train for IT … Michael Kibbe needs your support for Partner With Me on the Path to a Stable Career
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January 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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It’s Christmas season.
I’m training for a stable IT career and using a small GoFundMe to stay housed while I finish.
If you can give or share, it genuinely helps.

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#MutualAid #Christmas
Donate to Partner With Me on the Path to a Stable Career, organized by Michael Kibbe
A Short Bridge to Stability — Help Me Stay Housed While I Train for IT … Michael Kibbe needs your support for Partner With Me on the Path to a Stable Career
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December 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Kepler killed celestial spheres w/ ellipses—data over dogma. Enabled Newton. Witchcraft trials tried to silence him; math echoed louder. #Kepler #ScientificRevolution
December 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Civilization doesn’t progress by abandoning violence.
It progresses by changing the story it tells about it.
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A classroom in motion. A return to source. The Kemet Study Tour reframes Africa as living knowledge, not distant past — grounding study in place, language, and Maat. #AfricanaStudies #Kemet

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A Journey to the Source:
In August 2026, a select group of scholars, artists, students, and community thinkers will gather on the African continent for an immersive, 14-day group learning experience designed to reconnect part...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Shelves done!
December 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Someone asked how do I keep mine fur so floofy. It's called bed head meets static electricity. And mine lip is stuck on mine tooth. Gives me an engaging smile. So we love you all. Hope you get a good rest. Family sends snuggly hugs 💤💙💤
December 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Iran’s nuclear sites were hit hard. Scientists were assassinated. Civilians died. Yet inspectors say no active weapons program was found—and new underground sites are expanding. Force may delay, but secrecy accelerates. #NonProliferation #MiddleEast

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Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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December 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Supreme Court blocks Guard deployment as U.S. power flexes abroad and fractures at home. Force expands; consent narrows. Courts, not crowds, draw the line—for now. #RuleOfLaw #Power

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News Wrap: Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago for now
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Rubin Observatory has crossed the threshold: construction complete, operations live. With LSST set for 2026, astronomy shifts from snapshots to a decade-long cosmic record. The sky won’t blink again.
#Astronomy #RubinObservatory

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Updates from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | NOIRLab Science
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December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Thomas Nast turned Christmas into Union propaganda—trees, Santa, and hearths pressed into war service. He didn’t just draw the holiday; he encoded loyalty, victory, and national memory into it. #CivilWar #CulturalPower

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The Wartime Christmas Art of Thomas Nast - Emerging Civil War
For the December 23 Emerging Civil War Podcast, Chris Mackowski and I discussed Christmas during the Civil War. As part of that discussion, I made mention of a number of images drawn by Thomas Nast. T...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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📚 **Historical Signal — Madam C. J. Walker (1867–1919)**

Born on December 23, 1867, **Madam C. J. Walker** emerged from the first generation of Black Americans born after emancipation and engineered one of the earliest models of **independent Black economic infrastructure** in the United States.
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Japan’s nuclear restart isn’t just about energy — it’s about whether disaster memory can be overridden by state urgency. Fukushima still votes, even when it’s ignored.
#Japan #EnergyPolitics

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Japan to restart world's largest nuclear power plant – DW – 12/22/2025
After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. The planned restart of a reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant has triggered protests in the coastal city of Niigata.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Five offshore wind projects paused under “national security” claims—despite prior military clearance. This isn’t security policy; it’s energy sabotage dressed in uniform.
#EnergyPolicy #OffshoreWind

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December 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Data sovereignty isn’t about where servers sit—it’s about whose law controls them. Europe is learning the hard way that “sovereign cloud” under U.S. jurisdiction is a contradiction.
#DigitalSovereignty #TechPolicy

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Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord
Feature: Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty
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December 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Weapons, bomb plans, Nazi propaganda, and child abuse material — the overlap is not incidental. Extremism is a violence system, not a single crime.
#DomesticTerrorism #Extremism

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December 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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DOGE didn’t fail — it settled in. Musk left, but the logic of austerity + control remains the operating system.
#DOGE #Authoritarianism

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The DOGE mindset is still central to the Trump administration's agenda as 2025 ends
The Department of Government Efficiency effort was one of the most consequential and controversial — if not entirely successful — changes the Trump administration made in 2025.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Project 2025 wasn’t abandoned — it was absorbed. Denials were theater; implementation was the point.
#Authoritarianism #Project2025

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According to plan: Despite denials, Trump’s team looks to be implementing Project 2025
The summer before Donald Trump returned to the White House, a group of far-right Republicans wrote up their wish list for the next four years. Although Trump disavowed “Project 2025” — both during the...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The Civil War didn’t start with cannons — it started with polite resignation letters, three cheers, and officers choosing whiteness and state over Union.
#CivilWarHistory #Secession

The Union cracked first not under fire, but under ceremony.

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A Holiday Season of Departing Secessionists: Christmas 1860 on USS Richmond - Emerging Civil War
Following Abraham Lincoln’s election as president in November 1860, the country’s eyes turned south to see reactions that rather quickly resulted in the secession of states that then formed the Confed...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Waiting to Exhale wasn’t anti-love — it was pro-breathing. Thirty years later, Black women choosing sisterhood over suffocation looks less radical and more inevitable.
#BlackFeminism #WaitingToExhale

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30 Years of 'Waiting to Exhale'
The iconic film based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel remains a timeless classic for Black women who choose sisterhood when the dating pool isn't enough.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Mexico’s left isn’t failing — it’s succeeding, and that’s the problem. tRUmp’s neocolonial reboot turns reform into a survival test. Without mass mobilization and speed, sovereignty won’t hold.
#AntiImperialism #LatinAmerica

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Mexico’s Successful Left Project Is Under Threat From Trump
Mexico’s hugely popular president, Claudia Sheinbaum, won massive reforms in 2025. But with the Donald Trump administration’s neocolonial interventions in Latin America, next year will be a fight for ...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The rot of power isn’t sustained only by zealots. It survives through capable professionals who see the danger, stay anyway, and call it stewardship. Intoxication doesn’t require ignorance — just proximity.
#Power #Democracy

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Opinion | The Most Important Thing We Learned From Susie Wiles
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December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Zohran’s challenge isn’t policy — it’s power. Without popular assemblies that organize working people beyond elections, socialist governance risks isolation and rollback. Democracy needs institutions, not just intentions.
#MunicipalSocialism #WorkingClassPower

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Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Early U.S. power in Louisiana rested on fear: enslaved & free Black people used Spanish law, religion, and flight to disrupt American control. Expansion didn’t erase resistance—it multiplied it.
#EarlyRepublic #BlackHistory
December 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Rubin Observatory won’t just spot cosmic oddities — it will turn interstellar visitors into data. From 3 known objects to potentially 50, astronomy is about to shift from anecdotes to populations. #Astronomy #VeraRubin

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With The Powerful Vera Rubin Observatory, We Could Find Up To 50 Interstellar Objects Like Comet 3I/ATLAS
The new observatory is going to really shake things up in astronomy.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM