“Five dollars. That’s it. We want every Baltimore family to have a place to put their loved one’s story, said Lisa Snowden, CEO and co-founder of Baltimore Beat. baltimorebeat.com/a-life-deser... Good #BlackskyNews

A life deserves more than a line item: Baltimore Beat launches $5 online obituaries

BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9, 2026. Baltimore Beat now publishes online obituaries for a $5 contribution, giving families an affordable way to tell the story of someone they loved. Publishing an obituary o...

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Few months ago, UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? Bc I spoke truth about this bigoted piece of dog sh*t after he died. Now, my loving 2-dog 2-cat pack and I need your help making ends meet, til my lawyers reach a fair resolution against UCLA: www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc

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Johnathan Perkins@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3d ago

Few months ago, UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? Bc I spoke truth about this bigoted piece of dog sh*t after he died. Now, my loving 2-dog 2-cat pack and I need your help making ends meet, til my lawyers reach a fair resolution against UCLA: www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc

The site's question-and-answer function confirms that President Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that Democrat Joe Biden beat him in the 2020 election. It says federal officials did not find widespread fraud in that election, as Trump says constantly. https://to.pbs.org/4yZmkO8

WATCH: Trump launches AI-powered government website America.gov

The president said the site is “glamorizing” the federal bureaucracy — but it doesn’t agree with him on many key issues.

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Crickets from those same people today. Not A Word!

Big Bad Booty Daddy@bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 4d ago

I live in an Idaho-adjacent state and am now following this story with interest. It would be very funny if Bsky could help get a non-Republican elected to the Senate from Idaho.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d ago

ok, i kind of think Todd Achilles is the real deal candidate-wise. i gave him some money. i'm going to sit down and do some math and try to figure out if this is legitimately a no-hoper or if this is a longshot-big-payoff bet, but if there's a chance we may do some cooking for him on Bsky

Class solidarity.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Federal District Judge Robert Pitman ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to immediately submit a plan for providing air conditioning.

Federal judge orders Texas to install AC in all of its prisons by the end of 2029

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@deadder.bsky.social 😢😢😢

Republican Presidential Venn Diagram

This does lead to a bigger discussion about how AI blackface, and the weird servitude that it’s encouraging. Creating Black people to do your creative bidding because you want them to be “a corrupt cop, a drug dealer, and a sexual criminal” feels propaganda-ish on its best day.

Going to a Black film prgm, one of the first things they taught us was the origins of this guy’s film “Blue Collar,” and his treatment of the writer Sydney Glass. Maybe no Black actors wanted to be in the movie bc he hasn’t written a complex Black character since ‘78 and even then he stole them? 🤷🏾‍♀️

The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

We warned Texas’s Tarrant County Commissioners Court in Texas to reject any proposal to eliminate poll sites. They did NOT listen and now 92 polling sites are gone mere weeks before the midterms. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

LDF and Partners Issue Letter Urging Tarrant County to Reject Polling Place Closure Proposal

The Legal Defense Fund today issued a letter to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court in Texas, strongly urging them to reject any proposal to eliminate poll sites. The Commissioners Court recently a...

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America’s first abortion bans were lobbied for by physicians who wanted to put midwives out of business. That the first person to be charged with violating Texas’ post-Dobbs abortion ban was a midwife is really too on the nose. Me on this history, from 2023:

It’s No Surprise the AMA Is Leaving Abortion Providers Twisting in the Wind – Rewire News Group

In fact, the American Medical Association led the charge to criminalize abortion in the United States in the mid-1800s.

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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In 1942, these men didn't just enlist to fight a world war—they fought a grueling battle at home just for the right to wear the uniform. They are the Montford Point Marines. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Campaigns are temporary. Communities are not. People who are truly rooted in their communities build trust over time by showing up, listening, and doing the work long before they ever ask for support or votes.

BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that election officials in states that choose not to use a faulty federal database to verify citizenship status could face fines or prison time. The statement marks an escalation in the administration's effort to exert federal control over elections.

DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands

His speech marked a major escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to assert federal control over state election procedures.

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When you die, your name is not automatically and magically removed from voter rolls. This is so flimsy when you stop and think about it for five seconds. Of course there are dead people on voter rolls ... but they don't vote. Because they're dead!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Mullin claims DHS will “scrub all election records” and asserts that dead people are voting

This is about Hegseth’s testosterone program. Fox is a disgusting, toxic, revolving network that platforms the worst of humanity, peddles in lies, and pays people well to put it all on full display. But this seems to be what their viewers want, which says a lot about them as well.

Read and de read and re read again

"While we also found Native American, Hispanic, and white women characters, the most viewed and engaged-with AI-generated characters found by The Verge are Black women. Aliyah’s account alone has 40,000 followers." 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 KNOW FOR A FACT NONE OF Y'ALL CARED ABOUT AIPAC A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. youtu.be/oLA-_fah2bE?...

Hakeem Jeffries OPPOSES Bill To Stop Funding… What Kyle and Leftists Won't Tell You!!

YouTube video by TabithaSpeaksPolitics

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“You lie. You lie all the time,” the school owner said to the student. She then directed classmates to attack him. She gave one a high-five. This private school, funded with tax dollars, is among an explosion of private schools in the past 3 years. www.propublica.org/article/arks...

This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.

One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...

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Are you working in the U.S. under a Temporary Protected Status that is about to expire? Do you employ workers with expiring TPS status? We'd like to hear from you for a potential story. Email: indicator@npr.org.

The Trump Administration is taking your money and giving it to the President's children.

This video was filmed 52 years ago. Last week, white Christian nationalists stormed DC. Again.

Thank you, Mr Smith! @eddsmitty.bsky.social Many here remember that the GOP War on Women has ALWAYS shaped our lives. DEMS were always the only Party that protected our rights, despite decades of relentless Republican obstruction. (Same as it ever was)

In 2018 we had to flip 24 seats. We flipped 40. This November we need 6. Read that again. —-> SIX ‼️

This is a video of ICE agents pulling a man out of a car and handcuffing him after shooting him in broad daylight in Maine — just days after killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. (1/2)