Jeffrey Fearing, Ph.D
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Jeffrey Fearing, Ph.D
@photoprof.bsky.social
Photographer, professor, cinefile, dog lover, book lover, proud girl-dad, proud three-time Howard grad…
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The Target boycott that AFT joined on Labor Day is seeing success. This holiday season, we're doubling down to demonstrate organized labor's economic power, as well as the consequences of ignoring the will of workers and the good of working families.
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...
We ain’t buying it: Why we boycott Target
For a long time, Target—that popular mega store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceri...
www.aft.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.

Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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They all had something to say after the raid, so why aren't they paying attention now?
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly told the White House that most Republicans aren't interested in extending ACA subsidies.

Reminder that 57% of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in congressional districts represented by a Republican.

They're selling out their own voters.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's the same with their attack on the academic study of Palestine. They want to ensure people don't have the analytical tools to understand what they're seeing:

bsky.app/profile/dana...
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Yes!
Honestly amazed that A HIDDEN LIFE, a film that is EXTREMELY salient to the events of this year*, has all but disappeared.

*on top of being a masterpiece
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Jimmy Cliff, who died on Monday at 81, was a giant of Jamaican music. Here's a sampling of his greatest work. nyti.ms/4rjAczN
Jimmy Cliff: 8 Essential Songs
A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Breaking News: Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre who testified a century later in Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning reparations, died at 111. nyti.ms/4or9B1e
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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At least 1004 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since US-backed Israeli forces & settlers began escalating violence after 10/7/2023, B’Tselem reports. 217 were children. Several were US citizens.

“In the 21 cases where settlers killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted”
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Welcome back! You were missed.
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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How AP News whitewashes genocide.

TESTING THE CEASEFIRE??

Israel is *BREAKING* the ceasefire. Do you really think this would be the headline if Hamas killed 24 Israelis?

AP doesn’t even have the integrity to say Israel killed Palestinians. “Are dead” is passive to avoid attributing liability.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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BREAKING: Israel has killed 20 Palestinians, including four children, and injured 83 others in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/73c1bj
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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“ICE is just targeting brown people who have an accent, snatching people out of their cars”

Racial profiling is all they do
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Pharrell recently had some tone deaf comments about race and politics that I addressed on the latest episode of SPOLITICS Live!
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Bring back Mehdi Hasan, Katie Phang, Alex Wagner. Dump Katy Tur, Mr. & Mrs. Morning Schmoe. Stop repeats on weekends. It MSNOW not MSREPEAT, isn't it?
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence interviewed Dave Carlson over 10 years, as the Iraq war vet went from war to incarceration to redemption on his long journey home.
How do you find peace after war? A combat vet and NPR reporter's bond points a way
NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence interviewed Dave Carlson over 10 years, as the Iraq war vet went from war to incarceration to redemption on his long journey home.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The irony of the American economy being dictated by the whims of Donald Trump is that he'll have no one else to blame when it all crumbles.

This will be his undoing.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM