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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland. Land access was the first step.

'[Young] farmers rank access to stable, affordable land as a top challenge. For Black, Indigenous, and other farmers of color, it’s an even more formidable barrier. And access to capital is right up there alongside—and intimately tied to—land access.'

Martial Law Didn’t Silence South Korea’s Media. It Empowered Them. (Gift Article) Journalists criticized the president’s attempt to place the press under military control, hardened by years of challenges to press freedoms by the country’s political leaders.

I want to make this paper’s US-based politics desk read this!

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Back at work… so much fun!!

Gotta kick off the 🎄 season right!!!

Take it away, DMX!

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities. More than a year into...

Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List

Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Those London podcast boys ain’t never coming back from this. “Don’t let no white comedian talk about no Black woman that’s law.”

Never forget Tamir Rice Samaria Rice is on a mission to preserve her son’s legacy 10 years after his death CLEVELAND—It has been a decade since the tragic death of young Tamir Rice. On a recent cool, breezy evening at the Go...

Today marks 14 years since Tamir Rice was extrajudicially murdered. Thinking of him & also his sister, Tajai, who witnessed her brother's killing, was tackled & handcuffed by cops & deeply traumatized. Holding Tamir, Tajai & Samaria Rice today. Abolish the police.
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when ketchup finishes second, and relish finishes third.

It was all good just a week ago… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The only weekend march that mattered – Matter News Less than 24 hours after a dozen or so masked Nazis walked the streets of the Short North on Saturday, Brian Winston, president of 100 Black Men of Central Ohio, helped lead a counterdemonstration mea...

Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men.

Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.

And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.

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Two necessary starter packs as we head into the darkness of the coming administration
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The cruelty is the point!

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

Introducing myself here! I write about the South for @propublica.org often about race, gender & the welfare of children. Investigative narratives are my 1st love.

Here is my latest in our series about segregation academies with the great @mrsimon22.bsky.social

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I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining

Well, this is gonna be really, really bad…

Opinion | There Is a Reason Trump Wants Fewer Adults in the Room The point of placing loyalists in positions of influence isn’t to make the government work; it is to bend the government to Trump’s will.

“Neither chaos nor dysfunction nor incompetence is an obstacle to Trump’s lawless intentions. If anything, they’re assets.” @jamellebouie.net #mustread this am.

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

Sobering but essential by badass journalist @carolecadwalla.bsky.social:

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Just saw #ARealPain and WHEW! I really, really enjoyed it. Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin were so, so good!

Such an interesting film about generational trauma and how we carry it with us in deeply profound ways. A 2024 Fav!

I’ve literally been trying to figure out how we got to “skeets” and this is…. 🥴😩🤣

Hadn't seen one of these yet, so here's a Baltimore starter pack. Who do we need to add?

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SKEET stands for Spreading Kindness Everywhere Except Twitter

Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.

The Post has the first inside look at a Musk-linked operation that used arguably deceptive digital ads and other approaches to depress democratic voter turnout. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

this is the ONLY thing I want to be strict as hell on:

I don’t EVER want see “how is this app still free?!” When we’re in the best of times on here.

that’s how they got our asses last time.

This is the most fascist shit I ever in my life. They rigged the election by interfering with messaging on a major social media app to favor the right, & the person who owns that app has been given high positions in the administration of this new dictatorship. We’re ruled by the Sith Lords now.

If you’re new to Bluesky, this is a really helpful thread that explains how to use this platform: