Like Mr. Rodgers said, look for the helpers. Especially when times are dark, remember that goodness and kindness and decency still exist. ❤️
On April Fool’s Day last year, Darlene Tart-Scott was laid off from her federal job along with thousands of other Black women. While trying to navigate this derailment, she found strength in her community. https://bit.ly/4e0OGPW
‘I Had to Get My Mind Right’: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off
Federal firings left Black women feeling betrayed. One longtime worker found strength in her community.
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David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.
This article is from 2009, BTW. Food auctions filling the pantry for many cash-short Americans tucson.com/news/nationa...
Food auctions filling the pantry for many cash-short Americans
DALLAS, Pa. — Out of toilet paper? Need to pick up a few things for dinner? Take a number and start bidding.
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I get it, I really do. We should fear China, reject them and let our local oligarchs, corrupt government and tech-bro theft machines do us harm instead; better the abuser you know than some foreign assailant whom might get you better healthcare, bullet trains and a living wage.
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
A must read. "Then, overnight, she became one of the more than 95,000 Black women who were fired or laid off from the federal government as result of massive job cuts implemented by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency"
I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21h ago“Although she knew intellectually that it wasn’t about her, one refrain kept going through her head: “I didn’t deserve this. Why did this happen to me?”
Humanity has its moments of quality. This is one of them:
Andrea Devon@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 6h agoImagine being a child in the hospital and looking out your window to see an entire football stadium waving at you. 🥹❤️ This is the Hawkeye Wave at the University of Iowa, a beautiful tradition since 2017 for the children at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital. #SheShed
I can appreciate a joke but I know when somebody’s trying to be a pedantic asshole and they’re just dismissed at that point.
Sorry to crap all over your new jersey purchase... but we're all fucking complicit in this shit... & It's disgusting. Inside the £1-an-hour official football shirt factories - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Premier League football shirts made by workers on £1 an hour
Workers are being paid a basic wage of less than £1 an hour to make official football shirts for some of the world's biggest clubs, BBC Sport can reveal.
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🔥 @angieforfl.bsky.social : “Let’s talk about the Black Panther Party…”
Despite being the “go-to person” in her department, Sharon Davis was fired from her job at the FDA after 24 years of employment. She and more than 95,000 Black women were affected by the massive job cuts led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. https://bit.ly/4hPDwP3
A 'Gut Punch': Black Women Fired by DOGE Work to Overcome Shame and Self-Blame
This story is a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, and was edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilileni Hauwanga When Sharon Davis opened her email at 5 a....
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[Reprise] Hundreds of police have sexually abused kids. How do they avoid prison time? www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.
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Idaho is keeping people in prison even when they’ve been granted parole, InvestigateWest reports:
Idaho’s women’s prison overcrowding is fueling parole delays
State agencies don’t know how many inmates face more prison time because they couldn’t access programs prescribed by parole commissioners
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⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan had a minor eruption starting around 3am today at vents near the mud volcano temple. It last erupted in July 2026 and has had numerous small eruptions in the last few years. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the temple caretaker.
Don't give your ballot to the post office. Y'all see how they acting. Take it there & it will end up in a holding tank til after the election.
NPR@npr.org · yesterdayIf you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes. n.pr/4AXBftW
The town I once lived in still get mentioned as when crime was at its worst in the fallout from the crack/cocaine era😒. People act like economic recovery isn’t possible and forget the reasons that neglect spawned crime in the first place. In my case it was blamed on who couldn’t afford to leave.
Soren Spicknall@sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 2d agoI know this is kind of a cliché, but sometimes I'm sitting here in my living room with my front door open listening to neighbors greet each other on the sidewalk and bugs make bug noises and I read some garbage thing on Facebook about how the place I live is a hellhole and the contrast is absurd
Princeton denied her tenure My aunt was in their graduate program in the 1980s for Aerospace Engineering. She left because a professor made it clear that she would never get her degree unless she washed his car in shorts etc. She retired from NASA after 40 years. Princeton still asks for money.
Princeton University@princeton.edu · 2d agoCongratulations to Anne Carson on receiving the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature. Carson taught at Princeton University in the 1980s and was recently on campus to deliver the 2025 Fagles Lecture: https://bit.ly/3TteJZj
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
Princeton University@princeton.edu · 2d agoCongratulations to Anne Carson on receiving the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature. Carson taught at Princeton University in the 1980s and was recently on campus to deliver the 2025 Fagles Lecture: https://bit.ly/3TteJZj
Expand SCOTUS 18 year terms Enforceable code of ethics Impeach and remove Roberts and Thomas.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2d agoKind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
