Hi Bluesky… I’ve got a question and only you smarties over here might have an answer. Are there any Newspaper.com power users over here? I love this site. But OMG. Trying to clip one article that appears in several columns *and* in more than one section is tedious.

Substack ended its purported commitment to small writers with small audiences a long time ago.

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Betting company Polymarket and online writing platform Substack announced a partnership this week to further entrench gambling in the world of journalism and, in Polymarket’s words, make journalism “better” with “live markets.”

Black archivists have been open abt the emotional toll of the work. I experienced that today going through newspaper articles about police brutality in ‘66 in Akron, OH. My blood was boiling. But I knew what was happening in my body because of yall. And that’s not nothing even if it’s still hard.

It’s that time of the year! Tell me about the most beautiful essay/article you read this year. The one you can’t shake. The one we all missed because *gestures wildly*. The one you printed out. Tell me what moved you.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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If the Dems results are encouraging to you, take a moment to celebrate. Often in our work toward progress the wins are so few that we become suspicious of them. We jump right to all the work left undone or where we lost or the ways we are bracing for disappointment.

My sons teacher dressed as 6 7 and I hope I never have to leave this school district 😂

KZOO, I’m coming on Saturday!

welcome to @teenvogue.com new series Challengers: talking to candidates either challenging an incumbent candidate who isn't meeting the moment—or challenging the political system's expectations of what a candidate can look like up first @mussabali.bsky.social, 28, who might be Jersey City's Zohran

Is Mussab Ali Jersey City's Answer to Zohran Mamdani? Only Tuesday's Election Will Tell

“Politicians are the OG influencers,” Ali, the youngest candidate in Jersey City, New Jersey’s mayoral race, told Teen Vogue.

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Sweet baby brown Jesus, please send me someone willing to pay for my research into race riots. It’s so much fun but it would be the cherry on top to get paid for it. Surely someone’s university, institute, fellowship or foundation needs this info

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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

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I’ve been doing a deep dive into researching so-called race riots from the 40s-60s… and my oh my are the conditions being set.

Going to the archives tomorrow for the first time! So excited. I’m leveling up on my commitment to history.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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“While friendships are nice, and can often become a significant part of our racial justice journey, to frame our work in this way is deeply problematic. The work we have been called to is to correct systems of injustice.” austinchanning.kit.com/posts/keep-y...

Keep your coffee dates. Anti-racism is not about friendship.

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I just booked my first appointment to do some archival research. As someone who loves studying history, this is very exciting. But also- this research is for my first attempt at a fiction project! Finally getting started on this idea makes me feel like I could fly.

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

I’m pretty sure Black women are being purged of our influence and power. Kicked out of jobs. Depts closed. Books quietly banned. Speaking gigs gone. Budgets erased. we (the country) are in real trouble if socials, tenure, or elected office are our only paths for speaking/writing/creating change.

Beautiful book. I was immersed and deeply moved by Austin’s path of pain and joy. I am someone with chronic illness who has navigated so many challenges from my body, Austin’s narratives about her own journey spoke to my whole self. Thank you. 5⭐️ @austinchanning.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚 #BlackJoy

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

As a racial justice educator, I used to be on a college campus once a week. I don’t remember the last campus I was on. my last paid gig was 1+ year ago. I share this because the livelihoods of more than the reported 300,000 Black women are being impacted.

Little book tour 💜

Haven’t been over here in awhile. Popping in to say hello.

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Here she is! My new book: FULL OF MYSELF: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession You can preorder wherever you like to buy your books but here is a bookshop link: bookshop.org/a/100879/978... Eeeek! (Please share!)

Sinners: a half formed thought- there was something deeply political for me abt the vampires argument of “freedom, unity + immortality” that they were offering Black folks in the Jim Crow south. And something even more political abt Black folks saying no- determining freedom on their own terms.

Black women told you. We talked abt this. We wrote abt this. We preached abt this. We researched this. We warned abt this. And we were largely ignored. Don’t make the same mistake twice. Listen to Black women; believe in our assessment of American democracy. Trust we know what we’re talking abt.

I thought I understood the backlash that would result from having a Black President. I now realize severely underestimated it.

Conscience of Congress Removed: Al Green Walked Out: Jasmine Crockett, Maxwell Frost, Maxine Dexter, Andrea Salinas, LaMonica McIver, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, and several others Refused to Attend: AOC, Chris Murphy, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer History will honor these names 🔝

OMG @theferocity.bsky.social Just listened to you reading at your event with Roxane and my goodness. What an incredibly thoughtful endeavor and what a beautiful reading.