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@jocysoames.bsky.social
Middle School Educator Art Refugee from the 🐤 app Political Junkie Anti-Racist Live in your truth New profile pic is a still life I drew.
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The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.
Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues
The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the ...
theins.ru
January 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
www.pbs.org
January 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the United States' highest civilian honor.

Chef Andrés is being recognized for his extraordinary contributions to humanitarian work and the culinary world.

The honor was presented…
January 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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“I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land... I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.” —Frederick Douglass
January 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Let them sleep while I cook.
January 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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For more on good old H.L. Hunt, who should be getting noticed more and more these days. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
NET Journal; H. L. Hunt: The Richest and the Rightest
Haroldson LaFayette Hunt is the American success, a grandfatherly Horatio Alger with a Dallas drawl. He was born in Illinois, son of a Confederate war veteran. Later he drifted west, worked at odd job...
americanarchive.org
January 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Just a reminder that President Carter's funeral begins tomorrow as the hearse carrying his body to the Carter Center makes stops at his childhood home in Plains, GA, and also the GA state capitol

You can watch on Cspan & cable news. Check listings
🇺🇸 President Carter's Funeral

• Public Viewing at Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, 1/4-6

• Congressional Service, US Capitol, DC, 1/7, 3pm

• Lies in State, US Capitol 1/7-8

• State Funeral, National Cathedral, 1/9, 10am

• Private internment, Plains, GA, 1/9

www.newsnationnow.com/politics/for...
Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral: What we know
The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter will be held January 9 at Washington National Cathedral.
www.newsnationnow.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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This is important to read from New Orleans writer @mauricenow.bsky.social in TIME in the wake of the attack.
January 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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This sounds rad, and I'm also interested in your book - it's right on time!

If you want to include some things on police brutality in that social control unit, I built an online course while at Michigan that's available to use in your syllabus online.umich.edu/teach-outs/p...
Police Brutality in America Teach-Out
The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have sparked a wave of renewed protests against police brutality across the United States. These nationwide uprisings have transfor...
online.umich.edu
January 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Prayers for those in New Orleans and the families of those victims.
January 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Son of Africa
Alabama born
Harlem shaped
Us anchored
Little Fess
Mind reader
Time keeper
Nation narrator
Master Teacher
Servant
Bridge
Clock and
Compass
Raise
Our Libraries
in Salute

Those who can
Teach

Heart to Heart
My Jegna
Happy 110th Birthday

#JohnHenrikClarke
January 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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man in the garden by Kendrick Lamar is a MANTRA for 2025.

"I DESERVE IT ALL." #happynewyear #newyear
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Sw...
man at the garden
YouTube video by Kendrick Lamar - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Seven

Whole days
without words
of doubt
fear
or hatred

Evidence
of things seen

When hope
had died

Steady heartbeats
Feel
each other

You/me
We
breathe

As world
around us
tears itself
apart
So?

From Ancient
to Future
We be
We see
We do
We Win

#Kwanzaa #Imani #Kwanzaa2024
January 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Aaron Brown, the renowned CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the September 11 attacks, has died
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown dies at 76 | CNN
Aaron Brown, the renowned CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the September 11 attacks and his role in shaping the network’s evening news format, died Sunday at the age of 76, his fam...
www.cnn.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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Each week on the show, we do a #KHWatchtoWatch list. Here are my picks for Best Pics of 2024:
10. "The Beekeeper" on Peacock. Jason Stratham never disappoints. Asses were kicked and in this one, it was on behalf of Claire Huxtable.
Honorable Mentions: "Fall Guy" #Thema and #MonkeyMan 1/8
December 31, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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As books are burned & banned, it’s important that all of U.S. history is forever amplified and not hidden.

The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors.

ibw21.org/reparations/...
The Dark History of New Year's Day in American Slavery
By Olivia B. Waxman — "Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any," one 1842 account explained. Here's why.
ibw21.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Urban View Mornings is LIVE now with your co-hosts @mrlamontking.bsky.social and @africanacarr.bsky.social

Tune in on Ch. 126 and the SiriusXM app!
December 26, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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left this message on Twitter:
In 2025 and beyond: We mind our business. We drink our water. We sip our tea. We do NOT engage. We do not meddle. We let this play out the way it is supposed to. And while the chaos ensues, let's make sure we're creating, building, growing, and doing.
December 31, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Kick off your New Year’s Eve with @omibell.bsky.social on Urban View Mornings LIVE now!

Let’s count down to 2025 together. Call at 1-866-801-8255 and join the celebration!
December 31, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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If this year taught us anything, it's that:

1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers.
3) Poverty is a policy choice.
4) Health care is a human right.
5) Strikes work.

I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.
December 31, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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There will be a lot written about the Biden-Harris administration over time, but this graph should be the defining legacy.
December 31, 2024 at 3:45 PM