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Faith Pennick
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Writer of things, incl. "D'Angelo's 'Voodoo'" from 33 1/3 Books/Bloomsbury. Maker of films. Lover of life. Chicago native w/NYC in my blood! 🥰📖🎬📝☮️♎️ #ProChoice www.faithpennick.journoportfolio.com (writing portfolio) www.orgchaos.com (the rest). F**K ICE.
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Faith Pennick @faithp.bsky.social · Oct 15
My @npr.org Morning Edition interview honoring D’Angelo and his musical legacy. www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
Remembering D'Angelo: Soulful visionary and pioneer of the neo soul movement
D'Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the neo soul sub genre, died Tuesday at age 51. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Faith Pennick, who wrote a book about his album "Voodoo."
www.npr.org
faithp.bsky.social
BLAME CANADA! 🇨🇦
lindapatch.bsky.social Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 @lindapatch.bsky.social · 11h
@corybooker.com has the 60-minute CECOT segment available on his channel. Watch it while you can. In other places, Paramount has taken the video down - "copyright," don't you know. Share. The more who witness, the better.

youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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December 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
faithp.bsky.social
Film recommendation: watch “The Alabama Solution” on HBO Max.
chadloder.bsky.social Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 12h
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
faithp.bsky.social
Our resilience!
heyyypuddin.bsky.social Cerebral Hussy 🧠💋 @heyyypuddin.bsky.social · 13h
What do you like about black women

THAT’S NOT

a physical feature?
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
faithp.bsky.social
*in unison*

THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT!
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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wyattprivilege.bsky.social
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
faithp.bsky.social
I’m a little shocked by this number because I don’t go to #SoulCycle every day or every other day. So…well done, ME! 🥳
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
faithp.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg was arrested in London for…(checks notes)…

holding a SIGN.

Good to know that the UK is now Russia. 🙃

apple.news/AJYmW8J6STb6...
Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard — Guardian US
Two other people held on suspicion of criminal damage after protest at insurance company’s offices
apple.news
December 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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propublica.org
When police returned Reggie Williams’ wallet, an officer told him: Don’t do anything bad and keep your ID on you.

To Williams, the warning echoed a slavery-era requirement that free African Americans carry documents to prove they weren’t enslaved.

(Published Nov. with @mlk50.com)
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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motherjones.com
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
faithp.bsky.social
Wishing you a speedy recovery, Barry!!
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
The singer Barry Manilow has been diagnosed with lung cancer and will undergo surgery, he announced on Monday, postponing several concert dates. “It’s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was found so early,” he wrote.
Barry Manilow Is Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
The “Mandy” and “Copacabana” singer said he would undergo surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his left lung, and he postponed several concert dates.
nyti.ms
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
New: Here is my report on Waco judge Dianne Hensley's Friday lawsuit in which her lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, says their goal is to get to SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas judge files suit with intent to overturn gay marriage ruling
It's the latest attempt out of Texas to overturn the 2015 decision.
www.chron.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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adamrose.bsky.social
Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 2d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
A CBS News source tells me this tonight about 60 Minutes abruptly yanking the CECOT story:

"It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
faithp.bsky.social
1) Why?!!
2) WHEN?!!
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 2d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
faithp.bsky.social
💔
December 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
One woman, then a model and college student in her early 20s living in Manhattan, said she attended four parties at the mansion. She cannot recall the names of most of the men she met at the gatherings, not even those Mr. Epstein directed her to “take care of” at two of them. Recruited by Ms. Maxwell and then abused by Mr. Epstein, she buried her shame and kept their secrets for years. But Mr. Trump’s presence stood out, she told The Times. He was a household name, someone Mr. Epstein often bragged about to the women around him, yet also seemed to compete with. “It was like a pissing contest — who had the most women,” she recalled. She requested anonymity to describe her experiences in detail, saying she feared for her family’s safety after Mr. Trump said some of his critics could be executed for sedition.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
theonion.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
faithp.bsky.social
I turned Trump off because frankly, I’m exhausted. Is it worth turning him back on? For laughs, even?
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
faithp.bsky.social
SIGH.
December 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: .... The Proclamation continues the full restrictions and entry limitations of nationals from the original 12 high-risk countries established under Proclamation 10949: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It adds full restrictions and entry limitations on 5 additional countries based on recent analysis: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria. It also adds full restrictions and entry limitations on individuals holding Palestinian-Authority-issued travel documents. It imposes full restrictions and entry limitations on 2 countries that were previously subject to partial restrictions: Laos and Sierra Leone. The Proclamation continues partial restrictions of nationals from 4 of the 7 original high-risk countries: Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela. Because Turkmenistan has engaged productively with the United States and demonstrated significant progress since the previous Proclamation, this new Proclamation lifts the ban on its nonimmigrant visas, while maintaining the suspension of entry for Turkmen nationals as immigrants. It adds partial restrictions and entry limitations on 15 additional countries: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Proclamation includes exceptions for lawful permanent residents, existing visa holders, certain visa categories like athletes and diplomats, and individuals whose entry serves U.S. national interests. The Proclamation narrows broad family-based immigrant visa carve-outs that carry demonstrated fraud risks, while preserving case-by-case waivers.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM