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PhD candidate in Black feminist leisure studies. 🌲🥾🌵✊🏽 Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury ✌🏽Sacramento, CA 📍Aotearoa NZ *Boston bound 2026 ⚓️ 🇹🇬🇨🇿🇺🇸
BIG concrete hater 🙋🏽♀️ can’t wait to learn about why we have to deal with it everywhere!
Magnolia Pictures@magnoliapics.bsky.social · 2d agoTHE HISTORY OF CONCRETE. John Wilson. September 18.
Maggie Bohara is the co-founder and director of @weareamericamarch.bsky.social, a grassroots movement organizing 160-mile walks for democracy and civil rights. Bohara tells how Jacob Coxey's 1894 march of the unemployed on Washington foreshadowed the New Deal's public works. #WeAreAmerica250
If you’re in the 318, come hear about the Amazon data centers being planned!
This is what they're voting on today: bsky.app/profile/jenr...
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 3d agoThey're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
People do seem increasingly out of pocket in IG comment sections. It was fun there for a time 😔
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoIf you want to tune out and relax after a long day, you might turn to social media, online shopping or playing games on your phone. But a new study suggests that these activities might actually stress you out more.
@rebeccanagle.bsky.social is an award-winning journalist, a citizen of Cherokee Nation, and the host of the First America podcast. Nagle tells the story of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native-run newspaper in America, which fought for Cherokee land and sovereignty and still publishes today.
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
propublica.org
A new AI model from Anthropic identified major cybersecurity weaknesses in more than a dozen popular Microsoft products, including Teams, Copilot and SharePoint. “The bug apocalypse has fully descended upon us,” said one cybersecurity expert.
Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.
Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and...
propublica.org
"A new analysis of Black voters in the South indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left."
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling
theguardian.com
#deadlyadoption what is this… how did I not know. What’s this lady up to? 🤨
Michael Minogue, the state GOP-endorsed candidate running for Massachusetts governor, built a home in the Yellowstone Club that, records show, has a market value of $31 million.
Zuckerberg, Brady, and ... Michael Minogue: GOP gubernatorial candidate owns $31m home in ultra-exclusive Montana enclave - The Boston Globe
Michael Minogue, who's running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, built a home in the Yellowstone Club that, records show, has a market value of $31 million.
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tone arguments are always delightful and never used to reinforce social hierarchies
“Maybe to distract myself from the question of loneliness, I’m working to chart the depths of my ride with Mister Anthony.” @theferocity.bsky.social considers a conversation he had with his Lyft driver, Mister Anthony, where they discuss a shared pull to New Orleans. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/f2rJl
Fordham Law Professor Tanya K. Hernández (@professortkh.bsky.social) is participating in the 3rd Annual Democracy Defenders Summit (@aapf.org) this week in Montgomery, Alabama—connecting the census research in her forthcoming book to the deliberations on democracy. Pre-order her book today:
The Global Erasure of Blackness: The Civil Rights Crisis of Census (Under) Counting
A historical examination of the Black census undercount as a transnational civil rights issueUS census taking is more accurate today than when the practice was implemented over two centuries ago—yet, ...
bookshop.org
Hey everyone, 6 items until I clear my teacher wishlist for my classroom. I was just moved less than a week ago to 2nd grade. Please help me clear it today as I hate asking but I spent so much and can't spend more. Please look and share. Thank you ❤️ 💙 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
I am a Teacher
ALT: I am a Teacher
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The world is burning and robots are learning mma but I’ll never let anyone steal my love for writing again! 🥹 #academicsky #higherEd
“ICE and Border Patrol agents have a disturbing track record of sexually and violently abusing women and children, including members of their own families. These are not people who should be given guns and free rein to roam U.S. communities.”
Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP agents have abused women and children
David Brouillette, according to Ohio Immigrant Alliance, is no outlier.
motherjones.com
the funniest thing about all the dsa media outrage lately is that we’re an organization of regular guys. like the atlantic is writing articles about an evil shadowy lobby of teachers and plumbers and librarians and grocery store workers.
It's Wishlist Wednesday! My classroom could really use a little extra love to keep my students learning and thriving. Take a peek at our Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... #clearthelist
“.. The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025 .. “.. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies .. ranked among the top three ..” $AMZN www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
More than 300,000 Black women lost their jobs in 2025. But this conversation can’t stop at employment. Black women deserve fair pay and a workplaces that values their labor. #BlackWomensEqualPayDay
Search better. Use just about anything BUT Google. It turns out my beloved Ecosia uses Google results, so it's time for change. I'll give Duck Duck Go another shot, since they have a way to disable AI slop. noai.duckduckgo.com
DuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AI
DuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.
noai.duckduckgo.com
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2w agoGoogle has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
breachmedia.ca
“Solidarity is not perfection. Solidarity is not purity. Solidarity is people choosing one another, sometimes even over themselves. Solidarity, my friends, so often feels impossible” @mayor.nyc.gov www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nelson Mandela held a mirror to humanity – and showed us what solidarity means | Zohran Mamdani
In a speech given on Wednesday in honor of Nelson Mandela Day, New York’s mayor reflects on what Madiba can teach us in a fractured era
theguardian.com
More and more of us are switching off from the news at a time when we need to be even more aware. How can we use the news to better advocate for our LGBTQIA+ community? Listen here 🎧
How to build a better relationship with the news as a LGBTQIA+ person
Overcome the feeling of overwhelm, and build healthy news habits so you can use the LGBTQIA+ news to fight back
wearequeeraf.com
This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
