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🪶 time for a bird of the day 📺

Have a little lunch time with Gia and Mrs. J the blue Jays, Shakespeare the mockingbird, and some house finches too. Notice how good Gia is getting at picking up food on her own.

#Birds

100,000,000,000,000,000%

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

📺Watch the Gov.JB Pritzker press conference live now! Texas State Dems fighting back & breaking quorum on rigged redistricting. We are proud of our fighters🔥
#Pinks

Looking forward to a quiet evening - have a nice night Brenda! 💖

The State of Emergency for Women's Health 6 states have only one abortion-care provider. Soon, 1 state may have none.

Hey MAGA women do you think your daughters, sisters, or mothers can’t die because of lack of access to women’s healthcare?? The statistics in this article are horrifying. Women should always stand with other women!!
#Pinks

www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abort...

You did just that my friend. Sweet dreams. 💖

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 3 AUGUST 2025

BRAVO TEXAS STATE HOUSE DEMOCRATS
BRAVO GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER OF ILLINOIS

Texas state House spokesman Josh Rush Nisenson said at least 51 State House Democrats

BREAK the QUORUM

Ken Paxton wants them arrested but it is LEGAL THANKFUL FOR PRITZKER

The Week Ahead Sunday August 3, 2025

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, but there’s not a lot to celebrate. There is, however, a positive action that you can take, right now, to help.

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We still good with tariffs? We still believing that we are NOT the ones paying the tariffs?

Still no Republicans in congress to say enough is enough?

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

Trump’s narcissistic self, and his fragile ego, have to be in your face everyday or he feels empty and worthless. Deep complete narcissism. His brokenness and unresolved issues with his daddy creates all this insanity. Hurt people hurt people. Just a thought

Okay Ian. I don't have time for little boys like you

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

No sorry at all!!! You were first and deserve the credit for that. And we truly need independent media!

Woo hooooo! You go!!
Hide them. Everyone needs to protect them and keep them safe at all costs.
Our future is on the line. 💪🏼
#Pinks

Hey 📣 @50501oc.bsky.social a great day to RAGE AGAINST THE REGIME!!! #Irvine #California #ProudBlue #MomSky #Pinks

Thank you Jaye. 💖 It seemed pretty clear to me, and people who disagree can discuss without tearing each other down but this person had no intention of being anything other than demeaning.

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Rigged Redistricting | Take Action Now Join us to oppose Greg Abbott's redistricting scheme and prioritize flood relief. Help protect Texas families and democracy today.

📢You can help our TEXAS state house leaders that are fighting for our Democracy!
@5calls.org has two new scripts for those in or out of Texas.

⬇️ Donate to help them with their fines. This is our collective fight for fair maps. We need to support their efforts.✊🏼 #Pinks

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I’m not understanding how refusing to speak with Ted can be held against anyone.

🚨‼️TEXAS LFG🔥 Our state house leaders are breaking quorum and headed to meet with Ill. Governor, JB
Pritzker, press conference at 7:15 CDT. At the 3 hearings & at the Capitol we demanded they break quorum. Let’s support them in every way possible! #txlege #Pinks
Our vote 🗳️ Our voice This is a BFD!🔥

I stand corrected! It changes nothing. But please. Continue.

This visual ambiguity, especially when the person pictured is Black, plays into long-standing racial stereotypes. Scholars like Dixon (2008) and Entman & Gross (2001) have shown how such framing contributes to the over-criminalization of Black individuals in the media."

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Placing the image of Carlos Robinson—a grieving father—directly under a sensationalist headline about a gruesome crime committed by another individual, without visually separating or clarifying the roles, can lead readers to falsely associate him with the crime.

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4. "Visual Priming of Race: Misidentification in Crime News"

By: Keith Payne (2006)

Psychological Science

Key Point: Even a fleeting image of a Black face can prime viewers to associate that person with criminal behavior due to unconscious racial bias.

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3. "Media and the Racialization of Crime"

By: Mary Beth Oliver (2003)

Journal of Communication

Key Point: Viewers exposed to racialized images of crime may have distorted perceptions of who commits crimes, especially when the photos are ambiguous or misleading.

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2. "Framing Crime and Race in Media Coverage"
By: Robert M. Entman and Kimberly A. Gross (2001)
American Behavioral Scientist

Key Point: Even subtle media cues, like image placement and framing, can influence how people racially categorize suspects and victims.

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1. "Race and Crime in the News: How Media Shape Perceptions of Crime & Race" By: Travis L. Dixon (2008) Journal of Communication
Point: News coverage tends to overrepresent Black people as perpetrators & white people as victims. Visual choices (photos) significantly shape public perception.

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Misidentification of Black individuals as criminals.

Implicit bias and stereotype reinforcement.

Emotional harm to individuals wrongly associated.

Erosion of public trust in journalism.

Here are peer-reviewed articles and scholars who have written about related topics:

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