Rita Book ☆ (she/her)
@shadowsub6.bsky.social
*If you post AI content=blocked* Tree hugger, crocheter, moto rider, pan 🏳️🌈 poly kinkster, lover of books. Wake me up when it happens
"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
It’s always fascinating how much grace white people give to other white people who repeatedly engage in abuse / support abusers. “She’s been having a hard time lately” — after person accuses me of playing the race card, calls for me to be fired, calls people the r-word, + fiercely supported Platner
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last wk.🤔At what point did you realize that Parker Molloy was acting way out of pocket? Did you pick up on it in the way that she went at Karen Attiah? Or did you only notice when she started throwing the r-word around? Be honest!
Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
When you're constantly just trying to keep the lights on and put food on the table, you don't have the time or energy to fight the system. Keeping people hanging on by a thread isn't a policy failure; it's how they keep us too tired to push back.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Alex Winter@alexwinter.com · 3w agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
When did Black folks become the political enemy of the far left? “Monkey” “Errand boy” “Israel’s cattle” “Political prostitute” This racist shit needs to stop. You don’t get a pass on anti-Black racism because you call yourself progressive.
The Mitch McConnell shit is really weird, and I say this as the person the NYT assigned to write three separate obits of Uzbekistan's president as the state covered up his death: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-senate
Ghost Senate
The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.
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This is a fascinating and detailed article about the link between styles pushed on women and the link to authoritarianism or fascism.
The Washington Sun Perspectives@washsunperspect.bsky.social · last mo.Since the start of the second Trump administration, there has been a lot of chatter about “Mar-a-Lago face.” But historically, if you want to know where politics is headed, a better guide has been the constriction of women’s waists, argues Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.
To the kid back in Alabama who read Percy Jackson and told himself he’d write a book series with a character who looks like him one day… You did it, kid. #booksky
You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?
The water that data centers use for electricity generation in just the top 7 states with the most data centers is the equivalent of 12-times the annual water use of Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, combined. /1 news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Data Centers Use More Water Than California Cities, Study Says
Electric power generation for data centers is a threat to water supplies even in states outside the arid Southwest, according to a report published Tuesday by the think tank Ceres.
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jesus fucking christ TARGET MADE A BLACKFACE MINSTREL CHILDRENS HALLOWEEN COSTUME
Somewhere, a girl is being praised for how easily she yields to a man, and because it is praise, she cannot see the cage taking shape around her. By the time she is a woman, obedience may feel so much like love that she will hand a man the right to hurt her and apologize for making his hand ache.
www.patreon.com/posts/167067... @letsnotdate.bsky.social Reading these is how I start my day 😁 thank you
Brooke from Let’s Not Date: America feared Charlotta while she was alive and forgot her after she died. Both responses made it easier to avoid listening to her. That
America feared Charlotta while she was alive and forgot her after she died. Both responses made it easier to avoid listening to her. That
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Let me get this right? There’s been a massive number of lynchings in the US over the past year and we are not hearing about this from the NYT, WaPo, LA Times, or any other major outlet? Can we get @propublica.org to cover this?
Jason Arday story hits home for many Black professionals. Washington Post fired me, claiming I harmed their journalistic integrity. The public accused me of a misquote, in reality Post’s reason? I disparaged “white men who espouse hatred and violence”. karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...
Why Washington Post fired me
Read the official termination letter for yourself.
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My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...
Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror
What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.
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My spider plant, Audrey, started as a cutting from a coworkers plant. I've been growing her for 15 years. Loves the PNW & is thriving
I’m here to break the hearts of ICE supporters
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
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Woke up at 4:30 for no reason. I'm going to write a strongly worded letter about it 😂 it's going to be a long day
