Michael
@mjfromla.bsky.social
Afropunk 1.0 Refugee "Jahluv"
@michael_fromla on IG
Jazz, Bicycles, Motorcycles (mostly choppers), Old Cars, 🦅🌎⚓veteran
"Mejor solo que mal acompañado"
@michael_fromla on IG
Jazz, Bicycles, Motorcycles (mostly choppers), Old Cars, 🦅🌎⚓veteran
"Mejor solo que mal acompañado"
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Michael
@mjfromla.bsky.social
· Sep 10
This single father's struggle for housing pushed him out of Boston, Massachusetts
YouTube video by GBH News
youtu.be
My man did everything he's supposed to do... heartbreaking story.
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ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers
“Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.
www.startribune.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!
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“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.”
Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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There's a paywall - If you have the Libby library app you can read it there. Sis got the hell up outta the US to go be a star.
#JosephineBaker #ZouZou
#JosephineBaker #ZouZou
January 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
There's a paywall - If you have the Libby library app you can read it there. Sis got the hell up outta the US to go be a star.
#JosephineBaker #ZouZou
#JosephineBaker #ZouZou
This is actually a thing... and it might be good. 🫨
One of the best noir comics you can get. I’m not kidding
January 14, 2026 at 12:19 PM
This is actually a thing... and it might be good. 🫨
Who is still buying a Tesla, using X (Twitter), using his AI platforms, and Starlink with a clear conscience? You are funding a billionare asshole.
...read the whole thread.
...read the whole thread.
“But on the Grok standalone app, website, & X tab, users can still use AI to remove clothing from images of nonconsenting people.” 1/9/26 … 1/
Elon Musk's X limits some sexual deepfakes after backlash, but xAI's Grok still makes them
Musk was facing mounting pressure from regulators, lawmakers and some users.
www.nbcnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Who is still buying a Tesla, using X (Twitter), using his AI platforms, and Starlink with a clear conscience? You are funding a billionare asshole.
...read the whole thread.
...read the whole thread.
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Jan. 12, 1926: Rufus Turner works on a radio set he built for his own station, W3LF of Washington, D.C.—making him the first Black person to hold a broadcasting license. At just 18 the high school student will transmit music and sermons from St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church.
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Jan. 12, 1926: Rufus Turner works on a radio set he built for his own station, W3LF of Washington, D.C.—making him the first Black person to hold a broadcasting license. At just 18 the high school student will transmit music and sermons from St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church.
The whole thread... 😔
Jan. 13, 1926: An explosion in an Oklahoma coal mine kills 91 miners. The blast at the Degnan-McConnell Co. Mine No. 21 near Wilburton is so powerful that it send a pillar of flame 50 feet high and destroys the tipple, or loading mechanism, aboveground. Ten men survive. 1/3
January 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
The whole thread... 😔
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Jan. 13, 1926: Attendees at the Public Welfare Institute for Negro Social Workers, a training session that opens today at Winston-Salem Teachers' College in North Carolina.
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Jan. 13, 1926: Attendees at the Public Welfare Institute for Negro Social Workers, a training session that opens today at Winston-Salem Teachers' College in North Carolina.
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Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.
bit.ly
January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
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It’s day 2 of the #NYCNursesStrike!
America’s unions stand with the over 15,000 @nynurses.bsky.social fighting for what they deserve:
Safe staffing, health care, workplace protections and more.
It’s time for hospital management to quit wasting time and give nurses fair contracts.
America’s unions stand with the over 15,000 @nynurses.bsky.social fighting for what they deserve:
Safe staffing, health care, workplace protections and more.
It’s time for hospital management to quit wasting time and give nurses fair contracts.
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
It’s day 2 of the #NYCNursesStrike!
America’s unions stand with the over 15,000 @nynurses.bsky.social fighting for what they deserve:
Safe staffing, health care, workplace protections and more.
It’s time for hospital management to quit wasting time and give nurses fair contracts.
America’s unions stand with the over 15,000 @nynurses.bsky.social fighting for what they deserve:
Safe staffing, health care, workplace protections and more.
It’s time for hospital management to quit wasting time and give nurses fair contracts.
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Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Still a thing. No Starbucks...
January 13, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Still a thing. No Starbucks...
What the hell...?
Some Kentucky Republicans want to ban naturalized Americans from holding public office, as the GOP drives ever-further into xenophobia. www.lpm.org/news/2026-01...
Immigrant citizens would be barred from local, state offices in Kentucky under proposed bills
A Republican lawmaker has filed two bills designed to keep naturalized Americans and those with dual citizenship from serving in local or state elected offices in Kentucky.
www.lpm.org
January 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
What the hell...?
My great grandparents went jail in the 1940s for building a home in an area of Los Angeles zoned for Whites only.
Jan. 8, 1926: The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case, Corrigan v. Buckley, that will test whether restrictive racial covenants are legal. A white woman in Washington, D.C., had tried in 1922 to sell her home to a Black family but was barred by a contract from doing so. 1/2
January 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
My great grandparents went jail in the 1940s for building a home in an area of Los Angeles zoned for Whites only.
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New California law bans punishing outreach workers for helping homeless people. It bars cities and counties from enacting ordinances prohibiting individuals or organizations from providing assistance, such as legal services, medical care, or food & water, to the homeless
www.ijpr.org/poverty-and-...
www.ijpr.org/poverty-and-...
New California law bans punishing outreach workers for helping homeless people
The new law responds to a recent crackdown on homeless encampments nationwide, following a 2024 Supreme Court ruling.
www.ijpr.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 AM
New California law bans punishing outreach workers for helping homeless people. It bars cities and counties from enacting ordinances prohibiting individuals or organizations from providing assistance, such as legal services, medical care, or food & water, to the homeless
www.ijpr.org/poverty-and-...
www.ijpr.org/poverty-and-...
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When asked who holds him to account, Phoebe CEO Scott Steiner said, “I hope that our consumers do, right? ... They can do that by electing to get care elsewhere.”
Except in Albany, they don’t have anywhere else to go.
Except in Albany, they don’t have anywhere else to go.
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5: Too Big to Fight
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needed at Phoebe, it raises the question: Who can?
projects.propublica.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
When asked who holds him to account, Phoebe CEO Scott Steiner said, “I hope that our consumers do, right? ... They can do that by electing to get care elsewhere.”
Except in Albany, they don’t have anywhere else to go.
Except in Albany, they don’t have anywhere else to go.
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Gaza students brave snipers in 'yellow zone' tent schools as UNICEF warns 25% of children now have speech impediments.
Gaza children risk snipers to attend tent schools
Gaza students brave snipers in 'yellow zone' tent schools as UNICEF warns 25% of children now have speech impediments.
www.aljazeera.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Gaza students brave snipers in 'yellow zone' tent schools as UNICEF warns 25% of children now have speech impediments.
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Biden gaslit Anita Hill, setting back #MeToo by decades & opening the door to Ginny Thomas & Jan6th. His Delaware tenure magnified upward-wealth economics. He failed 2 cancel student debt & codify Roe. He said Haiti could sink into the ocean & no one would care. He is the avuncular face of fascism.
January 2, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Biden gaslit Anita Hill, setting back #MeToo by decades & opening the door to Ginny Thomas & Jan6th. His Delaware tenure magnified upward-wealth economics. He failed 2 cancel student debt & codify Roe. He said Haiti could sink into the ocean & no one would care. He is the avuncular face of fascism.
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this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
![How would you describe Mamdani's politics?
He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism.
What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor!
I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left.
There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreic7pxra6vmrjmqo4jmw4vdagiluj6xtkovqb3f4ex7fc55m7pzaxu@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
January 2, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
The whole thread... read it.
1/ A memorial to African-American soldiers who fought to liberate the Netherlands in World War II was removed to comply with Trump Administration anti-DEI policies, according to newly released records, contradicting later claims about the reasons for the removal. ⬇️
January 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
The whole thread... read it.
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Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...