Fara
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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We lost Roe because they wanted to give the power back to the states.
We’re about to lose the department of education for the exact same reason.
But when it comes to AI, which enriches Trump’s billionaire friends, they want an EO to block state’s from creating AI regulations.
We’re about to lose the department of education for the exact same reason.
But when it comes to AI, which enriches Trump’s billionaire friends, they want an EO to block state’s from creating AI regulations.
White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws
The draft surfaced after President Donald Trump called for a single federal standard on AI "instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes."
www.cnbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
We lost Roe because they wanted to give the power back to the states.
We’re about to lose the department of education for the exact same reason.
But when it comes to AI, which enriches Trump’s billionaire friends, they want an EO to block state’s from creating AI regulations.
We’re about to lose the department of education for the exact same reason.
But when it comes to AI, which enriches Trump’s billionaire friends, they want an EO to block state’s from creating AI regulations.
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Think about this from the perspective of the musicians who create the music & who the monopoly power of the major labels renders relatively powerless. You will be furious.
All three major record labels — Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music — have reportedly licensed their works to a music AI streaming service
Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Think about this from the perspective of the musicians who create the music & who the monopoly power of the major labels renders relatively powerless. You will be furious.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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I’m still stuck at $95 / I spent $55 of that to get photos taken of my art but I CANNOT afford prints right now.
I am so beyond upset and almost feeling defeated that you REALLY NEED MONEY IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY.
Please share and donate if you can!!!
I am so beyond upset and almost feeling defeated that you REALLY NEED MONEY IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY.
Please share and donate if you can!!!
Hii I am at $95/$400 for my goal to get PRINTS of my ART! I need to LEAVE this toxic place and *heal*! I currently live with people who have abused me. I need to leave for my health and sanity.
Please donate!!
Venmo: @zzz22
CA: $ziizzzii
Please share! Please donate! ANYTHING HELPS!! Even $5! 💜
Please donate!!
Venmo: @zzz22
CA: $ziizzzii
Please share! Please donate! ANYTHING HELPS!! Even $5! 💜
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m still stuck at $95 / I spent $55 of that to get photos taken of my art but I CANNOT afford prints right now.
I am so beyond upset and almost feeling defeated that you REALLY NEED MONEY IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY.
Please share and donate if you can!!!
I am so beyond upset and almost feeling defeated that you REALLY NEED MONEY IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY.
Please share and donate if you can!!!
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
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Important to know that the secret police are a bunch of fucking cowards and you can effectively bully them into running away. Join your local ICE watch, and if you don’t have one, start one!
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Important to know that the secret police are a bunch of fucking cowards and you can effectively bully them into running away. Join your local ICE watch, and if you don’t have one, start one!
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
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something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end
April 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end
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After our GFM stalled out last week, we received $535 in the last 3 days.
I’d like to have enough to cover October rent before court on Thursday.
We’re $1861 (plus fees) away from meeting that goal.
Can you like, comment, share and donate?
I provided an update vid on IG. 💓
gofund.me/1395745ca
I’d like to have enough to cover October rent before court on Thursday.
We’re $1861 (plus fees) away from meeting that goal.
Can you like, comment, share and donate?
I provided an update vid on IG. 💓
gofund.me/1395745ca
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
After our GFM stalled out last week, we received $535 in the last 3 days.
I’d like to have enough to cover October rent before court on Thursday.
We’re $1861 (plus fees) away from meeting that goal.
Can you like, comment, share and donate?
I provided an update vid on IG. 💓
gofund.me/1395745ca
I’d like to have enough to cover October rent before court on Thursday.
We’re $1861 (plus fees) away from meeting that goal.
Can you like, comment, share and donate?
I provided an update vid on IG. 💓
gofund.me/1395745ca
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For the evening crowd! Support the people doing queer- and trans-led sex ed for ALL! I don't know if you know this but the pay in sex ed is SHIT and the government is very mad at us right now!!
I'm supporting @scarleteen.org with their annual fundraising appeal. This year, we're funding health benefits for staff and volunteers and I have GREAT NEWS: We've got some matching donors in the house! Donations through my fundraising page are doubled up to $1,000...
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
For the evening crowd! Support the people doing queer- and trans-led sex ed for ALL! I don't know if you know this but the pay in sex ed is SHIT and the government is very mad at us right now!!
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It is so important that care and support for Palestinian people continues. Jamal's family are rebuilding their lives after everything that has been done to Gaza--if you're able to give a donation, you can help them in that effort. ❤️
I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone.
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying.
If you can, please help me rebuild my life even the smallest support means the world to me.
repost = rebuild
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying.
If you can, please help me rebuild my life even the smallest support means the world to me.
repost = rebuild
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It is so important that care and support for Palestinian people continues. Jamal's family are rebuilding their lives after everything that has been done to Gaza--if you're able to give a donation, you can help them in that effort. ❤️
A friend of my cousin's runs a thrift store in JA and is hoping to donate her stock in a meaningful way after Hurricane Melissa. Please consider supporting her in this effort by donating and sharing 🇯🇲
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November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A friend of my cousin's runs a thrift store in JA and is hoping to donate her stock in a meaningful way after Hurricane Melissa. Please consider supporting her in this effort by donating and sharing 🇯🇲
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www.instagram.com/reel/DQy8IRq...
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And I just keep thinking of our government officials on VACATION while their constituents' stomachs burn.
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
And I just keep thinking of our government officials on VACATION while their constituents' stomachs burn.
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In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The world continues to ignore Sudan and every day, things get worse. So much suffering met with silence.
Staggering atrocities in Sudan.
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan
Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The world continues to ignore Sudan and every day, things get worse. So much suffering met with silence.
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The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
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“.. This is more than a crisis,” said the Rev. John Udo-Okon, who runs a food pantry in the Bronx. “Right now, you can see the desperation, you can feel the frustration that the people are going through.”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/food...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/food...
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“.. This is more than a crisis,” said the Rev. John Udo-Okon, who runs a food pantry in the Bronx. “Right now, you can see the desperation, you can feel the frustration that the people are going through.”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/food...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/food...
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A Black Family is asking for help with a few bills. After the loss of the mother’s brother they’ve been grieving, with funeral & burial costs they’ve fallen behind on mainly the electric bill & a few others. If we each give $1 theyll reach their goal. We’ve helped 168 people so far, let’s keep going
November 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A Black Family is asking for help with a few bills. After the loss of the mother’s brother they’ve been grieving, with funeral & burial costs they’ve fallen behind on mainly the electric bill & a few others. If we each give $1 theyll reach their goal. We’ve helped 168 people so far, let’s keep going
Returning to my BookTube roots with this one
You can listen to me talk about books for 30 minutes **right now** no one can stop you!!
youtu.be/HQornC8aTJM?...
You can listen to me talk about books for 30 minutes **right now** no one can stop you!!
youtu.be/HQornC8aTJM?...
Books I've Read Recently
YouTube video by Fara
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October 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Returning to my BookTube roots with this one
You can listen to me talk about books for 30 minutes **right now** no one can stop you!!
youtu.be/HQornC8aTJM?...
You can listen to me talk about books for 30 minutes **right now** no one can stop you!!
youtu.be/HQornC8aTJM?...
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Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes
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Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes
The Facebook page ICE Sighting-Chicagoland amassed over 70,000 members in recent weeks as the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” has ramped up in Chicago and the suburbs.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes
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I love live music but I hate people jostling/standing too close to me.. We as a society need to come up with a solution
October 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I love live music but I hate people jostling/standing too close to me.. We as a society need to come up with a solution
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Abuse of disabled people in immigration detention is a longstanding issue and it's escalating very fast right now. (Shoutout to orgs like Disability Rights CA, our state protection and advocacy organization, for fighting to get into ICE facilities.)
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Abuse of disabled people in immigration detention is a longstanding issue and it's escalating very fast right now. (Shoutout to orgs like Disability Rights CA, our state protection and advocacy organization, for fighting to get into ICE facilities.)