It's probably not that complicated. Peaceful pirate. More profane than profound, but I have moments.
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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
-Toni Morrison
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After ICE arrest, Baltimore courts tighten rules on law enforcement entering buildings, including requiring uniform and/or prominently displayed identification or badge, @Dylan_Segelbaum reports thebaltimorebanner.com/commu…
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"Adan" proudly shows us huge boxes of strawberries he's harvested in Vista CA. He shares, "It's hard work harvesting strawberries since you're bent over all day long." #WeFeedYou
ALT A newly picked flat of strawberries
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People are always repeating the "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance" line. But lowkey, I'm starting to believe that a significant number of people are being malicious and hiding it behind feigned ignorance.
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Two years later, after much litigation, the Army finally discloses that another FIFTY-ONE soldiers died at Fort Bragg in 2023, far more than any other military base. How is that possible? The public is no longer authorized to know. All the circumstances of death are now redacted.
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Jon Stewart really looked dead at the camera in spring 2024 and said “we will be fine no matter who wins”
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported, says he was beaten, kicked and subjected to psychological torture in El Salvador jail. apnews.com/article/kilmar-ab…
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For some politicians, slashing disability benefits is just an afternoon's political cut and thrust.
For disabled people, it is the rest of their lives.
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They're doing a backdoor repeal of the ACA and it's barely getting any attention in the media, which is interesting b/c passage of the ACA was literally all you heard about for a roughly 18 month period in 2009-2010.
The Senate version of the Republican tax would wipe out many of the strides made by the Affordable Care Act in reducing the number of uninsured Americans — resulting in at least 17 million Americans losing their health coverage, according to nonpartisan estimates and experts. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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“The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support research towards the completion of a dissertation or publication of a book.” - @AAIHS
aaihs.org/accepting-submissi…
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Forthcoming from Keisha Blain:
Without Fear:
Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
wwnorton.com/books/978039388…
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The elimination of Gaza's healthcare and health workers, including the pillars of the medical system. xitter.cf/translatingpal/status/…
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Buffalo - For nearly a week, immigration agents have targeted a block on the city’s West Side, seeking to detain an Iranian man living there.
His neighbors aren’t having it. Dozens have organized themselves into rotating shifts to do "ICE watch"
investigativepost.org/2025/0… @Indiawaltonbflo
