As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
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HAITI / USA: Around 7,000 Haitian workers to be removed from Indiana’s workforce on Monday www.ipm.org/news/2026-07...
Around 7,000 Haitian workers to be removed from Indiana’s workforce on Monday
Residents from Haiti can no longer legally live or work in U.S. after Temporary Protected Status ends.
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Too many white people across the political spectrum consider us mascots for their political desires and not as fully developed equals with flaws and virtues
And people do this all the time, it’s why Black politicians loom particularly and uniquely large in their minds as villains. They very much hold onto the idea that being Black makes people immune from criticism while at the same time being hyper critical.
@deon-botl.bsky.social · 2w ago"A single black woman said a racist thing therefore black people are bigoted" is ironically the most on the nose example of racist thinking possible
It sometimes feels like the mentality is that some voters deserve to be courted, while others must be herded, ordered, and lectured. Some people get "please vote for us," others get "vote for us or else"
I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
Nun speaks out for first time about being detained by ICE while walking to Mass in Texas
Nun speaks out for first time about being detained by ICE while walking to Mass in Texas
A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking ab...
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Booker Wright was a waiter in the 60's describing the terrorism Black workers endured from white people. He kept smiling because he wanted his kids to have a better life. This was only 60 years ago.
Data shows that the mothers of Black newborns are more likely than those of White newborns to be referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy.
Moms of Black Babies More Likely to Be Flagged to Police Over Alleged Pregnancy Drug Use
Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.
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Inside Higher Ed covered it on Thursday when the regime announced they would publish the final rule on Friday, and I thought their reporting was good (although there are still some giant unanswered questions about matters for undergrad students). www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Trump Administration Finalizes Limits on Student Visas
International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.
insidehighered.com
Over the weekend, my investigation on dropshipping digital blackface scams was published by @theverge.com: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle
Can race, guilt, and empathy get you to pay $40 for this $9 belt buckle on TikTok?
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I wrote about Mitch McConnell’s monthlong disappearance, and the absurdities of elite impunity that allowed it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Mitch McConnell mystery is solved. But it doesn’t look good for America | Moira Donegan
The senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one’s job in the US Senate
theguardian.com
A Toledo woman says the parasite left her “camped out in the bathroom” and she’s still experiencing nausea 17 days later “It’s kinda scary to think like the effects it would have on elderly or young kids or those who aren’t healthy” www.13abc.com/video/2026/0...
#Americaat250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness newpittsburghcourier.com/2026/07/04/u...
USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
by Jenny Woodley, Nottingham Trent University As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, there is a tension between those who want to remember an uncomplicated past and those who would rem...
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We all understand that only a white man could have been a "Graham Platner" because, given the same givens, if the same people had run a Black man (or, don't make me laugh...a Black woman) with everything else the same, the laughs would be heard from space. We all get that, right?
i like that the obvious clickbait here was “niagara falls is a nice place to be”
I'm sorry, lol at this job posting: Graham Platner for Senate (urgently!) hiring a Research Director, listing posted today www.daybook.com/job/research...
Research Director (Urgently Hiring) - Daybook.com
Explore the opportunity of Research Director (Urgently Hiring) in Maine, USA! Get insights into job responsibilities. Check your eligibility and apply for the position today on Daybook.
daybook.com
“We all messed this up” like hell “we” did, y’all fucked this up. I’ll be damned if I get lumped in with the “they have to acknowledge their bigotry against white men” crowd,
This was over for me with the tattoo, but it definitely should have been over for anyone who sincerely believes in the equality of women and marginalized genders when we heard that he forcibly locked his ex in a closet. That some people needed even more than that tells on them.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 4w agoI am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.
the high-profile people who supported platner ignored the nazi tattoo, so a bunch of women came forward to report sketchy behavior, which they also ignored, until this woman had to come forward and tell her full story. i hope they do some reflecting on how and why they put her in that position
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · last mo.Oh its OVER OVER
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says.
AP exclusive: Doctors Without Borders report found cases of abuse and exploitation by staff in Chad
A confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says that the international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border.
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The “vibe shift” proclaimed Nov. 2024 - Jan. 2025 was just some elites—in business, media, law, and some higher ed admins—who kinda liked the fascism and gave themselves permission to accommodate it. That’s all it ever was. A close presidential election is not somehow a binding cultural referendum.
Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
prospect.org
The humanity of black people is not considered a given, but rather is something to be judged against the prevailing mores of the time. This very notion is barbaric.
Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last mo.This type of logic persists because violence against Black people is still considered a banality while violence against white people is considered a tragedy,
The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.
U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments
The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...
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The reason conservatives went with “actually they agree with us they just don’t want to say it” as their theory of change is because it’s largely true.
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · last mo.Rufo has now primed Klein to accept the first step in the radicalisation pipeline of irrational fear over 'large-scale demographic change'. Klein is now openly affirming the 'concerns' underlying the Great Replacement Theory in The New York Times. Great job, Klein! You did it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
