Ms. Smiley If You're Nasty⁷ 🪷 (she/her)

On Threads. It's so quiet over here.

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Y'all, I've been cheating on you! 😬 Threads has me in a chokehold for #Nicolandria discourse, edits, jokes, and more. Are y'all having fun with #LoveIslandUSA"s star couple of Season 7 too, or should I check back in later?! #TeamOlandria #TeamNicVans #TeamNicolandria #BlackSky

Ace Shades Nicolandria Romance and Sparks Wave of Jealousy Accusations Ace questions Nicolandria’s romance, sparking backlash and jealousy claims as Olandria’s rise challenges old Love Island narratives.

“A dark-skinned Black woman thriving with a supportive white male partner disrupts the expected narrative, making her success a target for shade rather than celebration. The focus reveals bias more than authenticity”

(Ace is insufferable, always!)

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#Nicolandria

They've gotten away with what? I'm confused.

It's crazy. So many production jobs will be lost. Union jobs.

A sick populace is a weak populace.

Costco made a massive decision to not carry a thing it has never carried this is awful

City Council Vows To Override Mayor's 'Senseless' Vetoes - Streetsblog New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams had choice words for the mayor who vetoed her colleagues' worker protection bill.

BREAKING: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams eviscerates Mayor Adams — and cites Streetsblog's @sophlebo.bsky.social — in her promise to override his veto of a delivery worker minimum wage bill:

I've seen people either saying, Oh corny. Or, oh he's just running for President. And my thought is, AWESOME. Let the 2028 Dem Prez primary be about who can fight against Trump and for our democracy and our rights the most effectively and aggressively and let it begin today.

This is much bigger than Costco. Anti-abortion activists are coming after all reproductive health tools, including condoms. The GOP cult is backing all of their nonsense to make it law. Your reproductive health is no longer your choice. This is not a safe country to live in as a woman anymore.

“Approximately 850 officers and agents were surged across the city. They made a total of 23 arrests," Press Sec. Leavitt told reporters. For reference, the D.C. police average is 58.7 each day.

Almost no one has been arrested because D.C. isn’t actually a crime-ridden hellhole.
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FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL

“They’re trying to price these kids out of an education”

Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working The Trump administration’s COVID-revenge campaign has laid the groundwork for Kennedy’s larger agenda.

"The public fight between medicine and government is now accelerating the nation onto a path where advice diverges over not just COVID shots but vaccines generally."
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The CDC Shooting Proves How Dangerous Misinformation Can Be Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to acknowledge how his anti-vaccine rhetoric endangers public health workers.

RFK's Covid vax misinfo/disinfo fueled the distrust that has made public health folks' jobs harder & more dangerous. Now, he's using the lack of trust to justify dismantling our public health protections. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance

BREAKING: US layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Oh look the thing I've been talking about for fifteen years, yelling about for ten years, and screaming about for four years, all while being called an alarmist and reactionary, is here. Thank you in advance for your "nobody could have foreseen this" comments. Can't wait to repeat the whole cycle.

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around

“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected Jaime Slaughter-Acey said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to discover her study on Black maternal health was cancelled after the Trump administration’s NIH cuts

A professor had a $2.4 million grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

Reporting on the way conservatives planned to promote Prager U while they were defunding PBS would have been useful context for readers and the general public.

Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last

The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The AHA saying historians can use AI to generate fake historical images is pretty crazy.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians “I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

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L O V I N G the vibes for Season 6 of ##HandmaidsOnHULU. Episode 7 is giving me so much hope and reminding me why resistance in various forms matters.