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Hollywood needs to invest in Xavier Alvardo. He just needs the right role.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“Merit based and colorblind” is when you determine who is good and bad purely by the coincidence of where a person or their ancestors were born
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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"[W]e have a responsibility to develop ways to describe people that don't ... stigmatize them. Stigmas tend to use even the kindest among us as their unwitting weapons."
I Am Not Your ‘Inmate’.

"I didn’t always detest this term," said Lawrence Bartley. "But hearing officers use it as an insult reminded me to call incarcerated people — including myself — by our names." Story via @themarshallproject.org. #2021

www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/12/i...
I Am Not Your ‘Inmate’
Hearing officers use “inmate” as an insult reminded me to call incarcerated people — including myself — by our names.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Unbelievably, Montreal's REM still has a top speed slower than that of marta, a system that began construction 50 years ago.

This is a reflection of how Atlanta was so ahead of its time back then, and how the anti-urbanist political machine and racism has strangled the system in the 50 years since
#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM.

Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)

And really fun to ride...

🧵
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday.

The answer: yes, they are.

capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
Why Fresh Collard Greens Are Becoming a Holiday Lifeline in These Communities
From farmers to churches, residents across the country are working together to provide free food for those in need this holiday season.
capitalbnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Parthenope and Babygirl were movies that I'd like a time refund for.
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Googling because Pyrex needs to use words because all of the symbols look like ovens to me.
From the Baking community on Reddit: Is this oven safe? Also what does the first icon mean?
Explore this post and more from the Baking community
www.reddit.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My only half-baked idea is that I don't think reporters should be allowed to work the same beat for longer than 5-7 years. I think this would solve a lot of media problems but not the case with the 20something.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I did not know that lady y'all are talking about is 32 years old. For whatever reason, I thought she was mid-40s.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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More focused on proximity to power and book deals than doing the actual work of journalism while everyone who actually cares about this work is scrabbling for freelance scraps or being reporter/editor/ceo/social manager/cfo/cto of their newsletter.
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I Am Not Your ‘Inmate’.

"I didn’t always detest this term," said Lawrence Bartley. "But hearing officers use it as an insult reminded me to call incarcerated people — including myself — by our names." Story via @themarshallproject.org. #2021

www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/12/i...
I Am Not Your ‘Inmate’
Hearing officers use “inmate” as an insult reminded me to call incarcerated people — including myself — by our names.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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There are currently 19 free tickets left!
🎉RSVP for a special celebration with PJP alum.

Who: PJP alumni, readers and supporters, PJP team (including the co-founders)

What: A celebration of PJP writers, their stories and five years of impact

When: 4-5 p.m. ET, Dec. 8, 2025
Voices From the Inside: A Celebration of PJP Writers & Five Years of Impact
Celebrate five years of powerful storytelling with Prison Journalism Project as we honor the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers.
celebrationofpjpwriters.eventbrite.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I have been working on the Dec. 8 event. It looks like we'll likely have people on the inside at the event, too. Looking forward to having our readers come out to support our writers.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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“.. In some areas, such as New York City, the surge has been dramatic — with residential [utility] shutoffs in August up fivefold from a year ago, utility filings show.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Happy Sunday! We are 23 days into our end of year fundraising. If you value our work and want to help us keep training and publishing writers on the inside, please consider becoming a supporter. Your donation will be matched!
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November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I'm down to Sister Sister vs P-Valley

P-Valley wins
Okay, this here, this is unnecessary Black on Black crime.
March 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
$12 for streaming Starz for a year with no ads? SOLD!
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This is why I work with a speaker's bureau and have a publicist. The spammers are not going to bother to go through these channels, but legit folks (book festivals, libraries, etc) will. I realize this is a privilege not every author has, nevertheless I am glad to have them vet for me.
As a librarian, this makes me very sad. We love inviting authors to our annual community read, but it's become impossible to get in touch with authors thanks to all the spam/scams out there.
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Like, this is applying the lowest possible standard here: I’m not even asking the US press to manage the impossible task of caring about the millions of poor people around the world being killed or having their lives ruined; they can’t even manage to judge it as a political win/lose story
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.
It may be hard to believe, but Twitter was once a useful public space instead of a weird monetization scheme for racist ragebait chatbots.
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The early days of Twitter, identities were easy to prove because no one understood it and, at least my circle, we connected with people based on geographical location. That meant that we were doing meetups with folks in the same city/state.
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM