@suha1001.bsky.social

I don't have a lot of dogs in the fight but my request for woke 2 is we get more institutions posting their official statements on platforms other than twitter. Somehow that seems to have gotten more pronounced after Musk bought it. Here would be nice, but really anywhere else.

'In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville. His value was placed at $1,400. More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of Georgia.'

Keisha Lance Bottoms and the long road from Crawfordville to Governor’s Mansion

More than 160 years after her ancestors were enslaved in Georgia, the former Atlanta mayor has made history as the first Black woman elected governor.

ajc.com

Absolutely wild list of results for data centre ballot measures in the US "that's 28 measures across 25 localities, all opposing data centres" - EVERY SINGLE LOCALITY VOTED TO OPPOSE DATA CENTRES WILD RESULTS + A CLIMATE WIN 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21177...

Every other state in the nation: Blue wave! A new day for progressive policies! Meanwhile, on the Left Coast: What’s important is that we never take money from billionaires. Also, little girls now need genital exams to play sports.

A 4-year-old child was manhandled and kidnapped by Nazi ICE agents. A woman tried to intervene and shouted that he was a child. One of the agents screamed back, “I don’t care. This is my job,” and took the child away. Repost this everywhere. ICE agents are heartless.