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I'm an anthropologist currently at historic Olivewood Cemetery, which is Houston's oldest remaining African American cemetery. Established in 1875, more than 1/4 of the population at rest were enslaved.

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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."

27.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 455    🔁 245    💬 14    📌 24
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ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

28.11.2025 05:49 — 👍 11856    🔁 4682    💬 216    📌 170

St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators."

"We are not your adversary. We are your police."

They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.

27.11.2025 06:49 — 👍 353    🔁 125    💬 10    📌 5

This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.

It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.

26.11.2025 03:47 — 👍 1327    🔁 356    💬 21    📌 15

I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??

26.11.2025 02:31 — 👍 464    🔁 128    💬 4    📌 4

We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.

People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.

(*wherever you are)

25.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 288    🔁 97    💬 5    📌 5
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AI’s water problem is worse than we thought A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

25.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 1072    🔁 679    💬 29    📌 54

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

24.11.2025 02:50 — 👍 4236    🔁 1590    💬 139    📌 101

Since the implementation of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the IDF has murdered 338 men, women and children They have wounded hundreds more.

23.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 991    🔁 518    💬 45    📌 31
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Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

Denmark routinely and painfully steals children from Inuit families in Greenland, utilizing ridiculous parenting tests such as asking "Who is Mother Teresa?" and observing the mother playing with a doll.

This article is heartbreaking.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

23.11.2025 01:19 — 👍 80    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 5
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Heartbroken family of trans teen speaks out about how bullying led to his death The family of trans Iowa student Miles Phipps has spoken out about bullying following losing their son to suicide. He was just 15-years-old.

A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers.

"Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns."

It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

23.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 3177    🔁 1017    💬 112    📌 93

Black women are down 297,000, but men’s gains have surged to +621,000. That’s a 324,000 widening of the gender gap in two months—a 34% jump. Since February, the swing between black women’s losses and men’s gains approaches 1 million jobs.

23.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 331    🔁 105    💬 7    📌 9

341,000 Black women are still missing from the labor force since the pandemic began. This is the most educated female cohort in the country, and more than half are breadwinners for households with children. Erasing their economic participation undercuts today’s stability and tomorrow’s workforce.

23.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 464    🔁 102    💬 1    📌 3

these forced exits alone are draining an estimated $9.2 billion from U.S. GDP this year. These aren’t just missing paychecks; they represent lost productivity, lost tax revenue, and diminished national output.

23.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 283    🔁 47    💬 1    📌 1
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The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

23.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 2203    🔁 1138    💬 32    📌 105

It's an excuse for declaring war on any sane country and cozying up to the worst ones, in the insane hope that more governments will fall in line with fascism out of fear.

23.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

this is some DC comics villain shit

22.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 932    🔁 272    💬 21    📌 5
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Border Agents Target Mississippi Communities in ‘Swamp Sweep’ Border agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep,” targeting immigrants in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana.

Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”

Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.

buff.ly/ISpXE0l

21.11.2025 19:36 — 👍 163    🔁 130    💬 29    📌 36
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BREAKING: The Israeli military has attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut, striking, it says, a Hezbollah operative in Dahiyeh aje.io/enmmf4

23.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 100    🔁 69    💬 14    📌 5
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Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾

19.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 1192    🔁 373    💬 22    📌 87
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Israel keeps bombing Gaza, kills two in occupied East Jerusalem A displaced person has been killed south of Gaza's Khan Younis city, according to Nasser Hospital.

A displaced person has been killed south of Gaza's Khan Younis city, according to Nasser Hospital.

21.11.2025 07:30 — 👍 72    🔁 40    💬 2    📌 4

Aaron Rupar when it's time to harass Black women to his left

17.11.2025 22:50 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

If you're looking for someone on social media, that does clipping of interviews and CSPAN videos. @acyn.bsky.social isn't a condescending asshole and gives you the same thing. Rupar should muted at the very least lol

17.11.2025 23:19 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This story is nuts.

"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

21.11.2025 11:51 — 👍 2049    🔁 1005    💬 44    📌 53

Yep, it’s funny when you travel and meet people, and somehow every state and region has a funny quirk of hating the place that has the most Black people nearby.

20.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 627    🔁 156    💬 25    📌 37

Not the hill you'd die on, but you expect those of us who will die on that hill to politely stretch our necks for the knife.

"This issue" is our lives.

You vote us down, you are dying on the next hill. That's not a threat. It's the pattern of history.

20.11.2025 06:40 — 👍 277    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0
From X, the post and the text from the screenshot of the email: 

Anyone picked this one up from the Epstein emails? Melanie Walker, neuroscientist and advisor to Bill Gates, tells Epstein the Middle East is "perfect" as a laboratory "to test clinical wearables and experiment with remote telemetry due to no legal or policy restrictions."
Is Read: Yes
Is Invitation: No
GUID: OD8E6236-6EB2-4450-BEC6-BDEA5E2E121B

Screenshot Message: Middle East is perfect perfect to test clinical wearables (due to no legal or policy restrictions) and also to experiment w remote telemetry (don't have to leave home / great for gender issues there)
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Time: 02/17/17 02:31:49 PM (509063509)

From X, the post and the text from the screenshot of the email: Anyone picked this one up from the Epstein emails? Melanie Walker, neuroscientist and advisor to Bill Gates, tells Epstein the Middle East is "perfect" as a laboratory "to test clinical wearables and experiment with remote telemetry due to no legal or policy restrictions." Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No GUID: OD8E6236-6EB2-4450-BEC6-BDEA5E2E121B Screenshot Message: Middle East is perfect perfect to test clinical wearables (due to no legal or policy restrictions) and also to experiment w remote telemetry (don't have to leave home / great for gender issues there) Sender: Time: 02/17/17 02:31:49 PM (509063509)

“due to no legal or policy restrictions.”

Testing on brown people before using it on you. American voters, foreign policy is domestic policy. This truth can no longer be ignored for the panacea of a mythical lesser evil.

20.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 460    🔁 172    💬 15    📌 13
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Charlotte Set a New Standard for Resisting ICE If they thought Charlotte would break, they miscalculated. Inside: the proof, the tactics, and the shareable content to spread what really happened.

Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power.

This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥

www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...

19.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 473    🔁 223    💬 13    📌 11
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I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

18.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 19540    🔁 4609    💬 787    📌 271
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How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump's war on DEI Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.

It's very ironic that you can have a 'Brotherhood of Carpenters' which references brothers, but you can't have – because of DEI – a 'Sisters in the Brotherhood,'" says Kina McAfee, a retired union carpenter who is now on staff at Chicago Women in Trades.

19.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 44    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

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