Nia Ngina Meeks
@niangina.bsky.social
Writer | Thinker | Justice Lover | Daughter | FAMU Alum | Philly Girl | Amateur Gardener | Arts Enthusiast | All views here are mine
If you know a lawmaker -- and every voter should -- check on them. They are humans, after all, and have taken an oath to serve us. That should never put them in an assassin's bullseye. #JusticeForMinnesota
June 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If you know a lawmaker -- and every voter should -- check on them. They are humans, after all, and have taken an oath to serve us. That should never put them in an assassin's bullseye. #JusticeForMinnesota
Seems like we can't send up enough prayers lately. The outbreaks of evil means stepping it up, everywhere. #JusticeForMinnesota #IsraelIran #KeepStandingWithUkraine
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seems like we can't send up enough prayers lately. The outbreaks of evil means stepping it up, everywhere. #JusticeForMinnesota #IsraelIran #KeepStandingWithUkraine
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I cannot recommend this book enough, I'm doing a second read for note-taking, and it is such an important text for our times
May 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I cannot recommend this book enough, I'm doing a second read for note-taking, and it is such an important text for our times
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Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
May 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Modern areas CANNOT remain competitive w/o solid mass transit. Today's discussion on #SEPTA was critical for #Philly & #PA. We need to keep it up -- and act accordingly. 6abc.com/post/local-t...
Local ties to two bombshell books on the 2024 election
This Sunday, Host Matt O'Donnell and the Panel talked about two bombshell books on the 2024 election with local ties.
6abc.com
May 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Modern areas CANNOT remain competitive w/o solid mass transit. Today's discussion on #SEPTA was critical for #Philly & #PA. We need to keep it up -- and act accordingly. 6abc.com/post/local-t...
Who's taking bets on whether #Congress will FINALLY resume its checks-balances role after the arrest of #JudgeHannahDugan? Heard the over-under will be HUGE . . ..
April 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Who's taking bets on whether #Congress will FINALLY resume its checks-balances role after the arrest of #JudgeHannahDugan? Heard the over-under will be HUGE . . ..
The current WH administration continues to operate w/o bounds or correction, sadly.
DOJ personnel don’t comment on anything beyond the four corners of a charging document in order to avoid prejudicing a defendant’s rights. Here’s the policy. The Attorney General of the United States violated it yesterday.
April 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The current WH administration continues to operate w/o bounds or correction, sadly.
Preach.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Preach.
Every step can make a difference. #Leadership #Resistance #BlackHistoryISAmericanHistory
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Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump's order
Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an executive order by President Donald Trump alleging exhibits there and at other Smit...
apnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Every step can make a difference. #Leadership #Resistance #BlackHistoryISAmericanHistory
apnews.com/article/smit...
apnews.com/article/smit...
Annual #Easter TV traditions:
"The Ten Commandments."
"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe."
"Easter Parade."
"The Wizard of Oz."
Which movies made your family's post-Easter service holiday🍿list?
"The Ten Commandments."
"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe."
"Easter Parade."
"The Wizard of Oz."
Which movies made your family's post-Easter service holiday🍿list?
April 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Annual #Easter TV traditions:
"The Ten Commandments."
"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe."
"Easter Parade."
"The Wizard of Oz."
Which movies made your family's post-Easter service holiday🍿list?
"The Ten Commandments."
"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe."
"Easter Parade."
"The Wizard of Oz."
Which movies made your family's post-Easter service holiday🍿list?
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"Attempting to murder an American Jew over the actions of completely different Jews thousands of miles away in the Middle East is textbook anti-Semitism," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes.
But in the case of Josh Shapiro, it’s particularly perverse:
But in the case of Josh Shapiro, it’s particularly perverse:
The Lies About Josh Shapiro Have Consequences
An attack on the Pennsylvania governor shows the dangers of tendentious misrepresentations.
bit.ly
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Attempting to murder an American Jew over the actions of completely different Jews thousands of miles away in the Middle East is textbook anti-Semitism," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes.
But in the case of Josh Shapiro, it’s particularly perverse:
But in the case of Josh Shapiro, it’s particularly perverse:
Really thoughtful discussion on tap for #EasterSunday w/my "Inside Story" colleagues on @6abcactionnews.bsky.social. Hope you tune in as we dissect the attempted assassination of @governor.pa.gov, #DOGE's machete in #Philly & more. At least set your DVR!
April 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Really thoughtful discussion on tap for #EasterSunday w/my "Inside Story" colleagues on @6abcactionnews.bsky.social. Hope you tune in as we dissect the attempted assassination of @governor.pa.gov, #DOGE's machete in #Philly & more. At least set your DVR!
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Diminishing historical figures like Jackie Robinson was always the goal. If you acknowledge the racism of the past, you also are confronted with the racism of today. Easier to ignore both. It allows those in power to continue enforcing the systems that gave them the power in the first place.
April 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Diminishing historical figures like Jackie Robinson was always the goal. If you acknowledge the racism of the past, you also are confronted with the racism of today. Easier to ignore both. It allows those in power to continue enforcing the systems that gave them the power in the first place.
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This is excellent. Liberals & conservatives have tried to do to Jackie Robinson what they've tried to do to Martin Luther King — to de-radicalize them. To turn them into comforting icons of the American way. But their words & deeds tell a different story.
After Jackie Robinson hung up his cleats in 1957, he became a constant presence on picket lines and at #civilrights rallies.
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#JackieRobinsonDay #JackieRobinson #history
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#JackieRobinsonDay #JackieRobinson #history
Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history
Years before Colin Kaepernick was born, Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’
buff.ly
April 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is excellent. Liberals & conservatives have tried to do to Jackie Robinson what they've tried to do to Martin Luther King — to de-radicalize them. To turn them into comforting icons of the American way. But their words & deeds tell a different story.
Advanced and powerful nations believe in educating their citizens, preserving and celebrating the arts, as well as the fortitude and dividends of soft power.
That used to be us. Apparently no longer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
That used to be us. Apparently no longer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID
The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved funding through cuts to public broadcasting, the U.S. Agency for Interna…
thehill.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Advanced and powerful nations believe in educating their citizens, preserving and celebrating the arts, as well as the fortitude and dividends of soft power.
That used to be us. Apparently no longer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
That used to be us. Apparently no longer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Meet Daniel Tiger.
Now, tell me why he seems to so scare the current WH occupant and his minions. Is it because Daniel teaches us to be good neighbors? Asking for a friend. #PBSCuts #StandForPublicMedia
Now, tell me why he seems to so scare the current WH occupant and his minions. Is it because Daniel teaches us to be good neighbors? Asking for a friend. #PBSCuts #StandForPublicMedia
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Meet Daniel Tiger.
Now, tell me why he seems to so scare the current WH occupant and his minions. Is it because Daniel teaches us to be good neighbors? Asking for a friend. #PBSCuts #StandForPublicMedia
Now, tell me why he seems to so scare the current WH occupant and his minions. Is it because Daniel teaches us to be good neighbors? Asking for a friend. #PBSCuts #StandForPublicMedia
All for the HER-story and inspiration of this moment. Torn about the distracting components i.e. celebrity and costs clouding the realities of most folks today.
Your take?
Your take?
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched his fiancee Lauren Sanchez to space with an all-female celebrity crew that includes Katy Perry and Gayle King.
Blue Origin launches an all-female celebrity crew with Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez
Blue Origin is launching Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez to space with an all-female celebrity crew that includes Katy Perry and Gayle King.
bit.ly
April 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
All for the HER-story and inspiration of this moment. Torn about the distracting components i.e. celebrity and costs clouding the realities of most folks today.
Your take?
Your take?
@blerdandbold.bsky.social @jeahbrandey.being.baby @zoot580.bsky.social
Hey, y'all! Sorry to be late on our #ReadingChallenge check-in! Slow start, but looking to dig more deeply during this Holy Week! How are your pages turning?
Hey, y'all! Sorry to be late on our #ReadingChallenge check-in! Slow start, but looking to dig more deeply during this Holy Week! How are your pages turning?
April 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
@blerdandbold.bsky.social @jeahbrandey.being.baby @zoot580.bsky.social
Hey, y'all! Sorry to be late on our #ReadingChallenge check-in! Slow start, but looking to dig more deeply during this Holy Week! How are your pages turning?
Hey, y'all! Sorry to be late on our #ReadingChallenge check-in! Slow start, but looking to dig more deeply during this Holy Week! How are your pages turning?
We knew the attacks on #HBCUs would only be a matter of time. Now WE, alumni of all stripes, have to:
- Raise our voices
- Flood the airwaves
- Blanket Congress
- Put our $$$ toward closing the gaps.
This is serious, #FAMUly
afrotech.com/famu-loses-1...
#RattlersToTheRescue
- Raise our voices
- Flood the airwaves
- Blanket Congress
- Put our $$$ toward closing the gaps.
This is serious, #FAMUly
afrotech.com/famu-loses-1...
#RattlersToTheRescue
FAMU Loses $16.3M Grant That Reportedly Helped Produce 60% Of The Nation’s Ph.D. Graduates In Pharmaceutical Sciences - AfroTech
Florida A&M University (FAMU) has lost a significant grant that helped produced 60% of the nation’s Ph.D. graduates in pharmaceutical sciences. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the Historically ...
afrotech.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We knew the attacks on #HBCUs would only be a matter of time. Now WE, alumni of all stripes, have to:
- Raise our voices
- Flood the airwaves
- Blanket Congress
- Put our $$$ toward closing the gaps.
This is serious, #FAMUly
afrotech.com/famu-loses-1...
#RattlersToTheRescue
- Raise our voices
- Flood the airwaves
- Blanket Congress
- Put our $$$ toward closing the gaps.
This is serious, #FAMUly
afrotech.com/famu-loses-1...
#RattlersToTheRescue
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Need something peaceful, encouraging, and beautiful after another chaotic day in these United States? Get immersed in this work here.
You're welcome.
H/T @womensartbluesky.bsky.social. Great soul balm.
You're welcome.
H/T @womensartbluesky.bsky.social. Great soul balm.
Vanessa Barragão, Portuguese textile artist known for large-scale hangings inspired by ecosystems like coral reefs, using upcycled waste materials from the textile industry #WomensArt
April 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Need something peaceful, encouraging, and beautiful after another chaotic day in these United States? Get immersed in this work here.
You're welcome.
H/T @womensartbluesky.bsky.social. Great soul balm.
You're welcome.
H/T @womensartbluesky.bsky.social. Great soul balm.