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River Blackearth
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The waters that wash salt to the sea. The whisper of leaves unfolding. A planet awake and aware.
PhD student in Environmental Studies. Writer. Scholar. Womanist killjoy. Alchemist. Owl.
Dark as night. Black as pitch.
Pinned
Bitches who could never: Are bitches who could ruining everything?
Tricia McLaughlin will die in prison.
February 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Hello from the second Surprise City Council meeting since DHS purchased a large industrial warehouse nearby with plans to convert it into a concentration camp. Public comment begins soon, tune in here if you want to watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT8...
February 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Rest In Peace and Power, Jesse Jackson.
Thank you. ✊🏿🖤✨
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Today’s cards: knight of cups, king of wands, the star 🔮 deck: tarot vintage 🎴 for readings & more - madamadam.com 🖤

#madamadam #tarot #wellness #witch #tarotreading
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE

Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said

www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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Today at Law Dork: Judge Cynthia Rufe’s Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia. www.lawdork.com/p/a-presiden...
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children.

Now, what are we going to do about it?!
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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This mofo said false herring
Emmer: "It's a false herring for these guys to suggest, 'Oh, we now we need a judicial warrant,' because they know that that's going to delay any enforcement of the actual administrative warrant."
February 17, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project
Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.
edopportunity.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
What are these societies white men have for centuries called “great civilizations“ worth if those civilizations do nothing to protect their own children from predation, trafficking, and violence?
The only things these men are ever willing to protect are whiteness, privilege, and the almighty dollar.
Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Goodnight from Jake Barber, reminding himself that living on a boat moored on Red Eel Island was always going to demand an unusual level of appeasements. Goodnight from Laura Tilling, hearing Honeywink Wood growling against a wounded memory of fire and axe. Goodnight from Hookland.
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
The last square is where they decide the poors shouldn’t get to know how to read.
February 16, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Trump can exhibit obvious confusion, have no idea what’s going on in general, even have a public BM, and everyone is supposed to act like they don’t hear it or smell it. Nothing to see here!
But we HAVE to note every. single. stutter. and any hint of uncertainty when a woman of color speaks.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
pretty stunning chart
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Listen, the CROWS have 🐦‍⬛✨OPINIONS🐦‍⬛✨TODAY and I don’t think ✨MOST✨ of y’all are ready for what they have to say.
Somebody done fucked up.
a man in a red hat with the letter c on it holds a red cup
ALT: a man in a red hat with the letter c on it holds a red cup
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Antlers not grown yet?
Tentacles all awry?
Fangs & claws cracked and broken?
Don't worry.
We're all perfectly imperfect in our own way, and that's ok.
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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At the end of this clip, Jim and Kermit talk about how the puppeteer can just kinda vanish as the puppet draws all the attention, and that exact thing happens as he goes on. It’s magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHl...
Jim Henson on Kermit the Frog
YouTube video by Technology for Storytelling
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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One thing about me is I spend a disproportionate amount of my time on the internet posting about Frederick Douglass, who was one of the greatest and earliest philosophers of the potentials and problems of American democracy and liberty and should be cited and taught as such
February 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM