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acyn.bsky.social
Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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krystallotuslang.bsky.social
Happy BLACK History Month. I read Black books every month but I got two stacks for y'all.

First stack is books by Black authors I loved and the second are the ones I’m getting to.

#booksky
February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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heatherturiello.bsky.social
This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else.

Constantly reevaluating and learning.
February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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charlescmann.bsky.social
Wonderful 1950 letter in which J. Robert Oppenheimer very patiently explains to Eleanor Roosevelt that flying saucers do not exist--and tells a funny story about human fallibility, and how all the Los Alamos scientists tried to get the local Air Force base to shoot down a UFO.
Letter from May 19, 1950. I'm just going to quote the relevant bits. "The papers [about UFOs sent by Roosevelt to Oppenheimer] all start with the assurance that there are such things. This, of course, I do not believe. ... There is not any credible evidence; and certainly the kind of explanation proposed [in the papers] does not lead one to believe in the phenomenon they are trying to explain. There is perhaps one thing one can learn. It is not just that men, and even their accounts of what they see and experience, are fallible and subject to error; it is that arriving at the truth can often be a more difficult and troublesome thing than we like to think. During the war, very shortly before the test of the first atomic bomb, people at Los Alamos were naturally in a state of some tension. I remember one morning when almost the whole project was out of doors staring at a bright object in the sky, through glasses, binoculars, and whatever else they could find; and nearby Kirtland Firled reported to us that they had no interceptors which had enabled them to come within range of the object. Our director of personnel was an astronomer and a man of some human wisdom; and he finally came to my office and asked whether we would stop trying to shoot down Venus..."
February 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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earloforkney.bsky.social
Happy Black History Month, y’all. I’m not going to stop studying it just because some Orange bigot tells me to and neither should you.
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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herberthistory.bsky.social
Every day all month I’ll be posting not just pictures but links to my favorite books on Black history, along with Blue Sky links if possible. Today is Day 1 with @maryhicks.bsky.social from @uncpress.bsky.social. Use code 01HATM30 for 30%off.

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Captive Cosmopolitans | Mary E. Hicks | University of North Carolina Press
From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space ...
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February 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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tavia.bsky.social
Reading about Felon47 blaming an air crash on DEI, this poem from 2017 leapt off the shelf:
Propter Nos Fall 2017 Insurgency/Exhaustion
February 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
Waxing Crescent Moon and Venus. 1 February 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Planet Venus above centre. The Moon below at waxing crescent phase with night side illuminated by sunlight reflected from the Earth.
February 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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penguinschoollib.bsky.social
It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth! Share these stories by and about Black joy, excellence, and history in your class or library! #EduSky #BookSky

Download the booklist: penguinschoollibrary.com/BlackVoicesB...
Graphic with flowers in the corners and a border art from GIRLS ON THE RISE by Amanda Gorman and Loveis Wise. Header reads CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH with New Books. Red banner beneath calls out: GET MORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS. 8 books are in 4 rows of 2 are on the right and they are: Row 1, left to right: GIRLS ON THE RISE and BLACK GIRL YOU ARE ATLAS Row 2, left to right: MILLLIE MAGNUS WON'T BE BULLIED and AMERICAN WINGS Row 3, left to right: ALL YOU HAVE TO DO and CREAKY ACRES Row 4, left to right: RADIANT and SHARING THE DREAM
February 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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pearlmania500.bsky.social
There was a plane crash in Philly this evening at 6pm. Luckily, our friends and family are safe, but a lot of people have been hurt and killed.

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A plane crashed in NE Philly tonight 1/31/2025 #philadelphia
YouTube video by Pearlmania500
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February 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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aeternalpessimist.bsky.social
I raised my two sons on the love of reading. They always carried a book in their pocket. My younger son died 22 years ago at the age of 24. He was buried in his leather jacket with the book he was reading in the pocket to read in the afterlife.
February 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM