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Saeed Jones

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Winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Poetry. Also, I cohost the podcast VIBE CHECK.

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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

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“A document signed by the head of Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, in late June—and viewed by The Wall Street Journal—warned that the conditions in which Palestinians were being held could violate international humanitarian law.”

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Yeah, this news about this storm itself is terrifying. Praying for your family. But also, it’s what this storm portends that really scares me.

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“It took Beryl only 42 hours to strengthen from a tropical depression to a major hurricane, which is a Category 3 storm or higher — a feat accomplished only six other times in Atlantic hurricane history, and with Sept. 1 as the earliest date.”

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The NYPD restored more than 2,000 missing discipline records to its public database of uniformed officers, weeks after ProPublica revealed data reliability issues. But it also removed case numbers, making future oversight more difficult.

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I realized that I was watching so many clips on TikTok, I might as well give it another shot. I still think everyone talks too much. But I do indeed stan Claudia.

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Forget about interviews, honey. These vampires need couples therapy. And maybe a dash of electroshock tbh.

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“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards.

The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

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I’m catching up on #TheBoys and I just wanna say: Annie’s hair looks EXTRAORDINARY. Like, there’s this crazy violent satirical show and then there’s the glory of her hair.

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Charlotte Jones: "(the cheerleaders) have a chance to feel like they’re valued, that they’re special and that they are making a difference." Emphasis on *feel* as distinct from actually being valued and correspondingly compensated for work generating profits for the Cowboys.

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YOU: touch grass ME: have you SEEN m. night shyamalan's The Happening? I think the fuck not

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Oh that’s great news! I wasn’t aware of the fire.

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“So she would have the artist turn his lyrics over to the government prior to putting out or promoting any songs he planned to use them in, and at that point if they are deemed to be “inconsistent with the goals of rehabilitation”, prosecutors could ask to modify Dorsey’s supervised release terms.”

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Wait, kids
 aren’t allowed in libraries anymore in Idaho???

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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Oh, WOW. That framework just blew my mind.

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To put it another way: “A man walked into the restaurant and punched a lady in the face. It was so scary. I hope she’s okay. I don’t think they caught the guy.” “Why were you at that place? Their food is consistently terrible. Don’t you read the Yelp reviews. I don’t know why you’re shocked.”

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I get it. We want to be *in* on the conversation. It’s like trying to jump in on double dutch. Those ropes are moving FAST. And, I think, it’s easier to reply “ugh, that HEADLINE is awful” than to engage the gnarly problem itself. AND you’re right, headlines often are awful.

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I share news articles on here to draw attention toward growing harms, noteworthy patterns, significant shifts. The subtext of sharing these articles — at least when I do so — is not to praise executives at whatever newsroom put the article out. I thought we were all operating under this assumption.

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I’m going to share an opinion: It kind of irks me that fairly often when I share an article drawing attention to a clear and present danger, there’s a tendency on here to focus on how the article was written rather than the danger itself. I get it, so many norms in journalism reify power. BUT—

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Yeppp. The more things change, the more fascists work to keep things the same.

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When I was writing HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, I privately debated leaving some chapters out. I thought writing about kids asking me if I was saved at the lunch table or my private panic about Matthew Shepard would be too dated to be relevant to readers by the time the book came out in 2019. ALAS.

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“And the next thing I knew, my 9-year-old son had told me about one of his friends who was in the LifeWise program, told him that he was going to hell because he didn't believe in Jesus,” Sogal said.

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“An Ohio-based program offering Bible study during school time is expanding. The increasingly popular LifeWise Academy will be in 525 schools in 23 U.S. states next school year. Its slogan is “during school hours.”

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Wow, you’ve got the episode names MEMORIZED. Damn. Fortunately for me, she loves to skip episodes three minutes in just to torment me so
 I should be alright.

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I got mad when Homegirl changed the channel in the middle of an episode. Like, EXCUSE ME?

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Honestly, I see why so many kids like Bluey. This show is a hoot.

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Seven year old neighbor just accurately explained the difference between “programming” and “hacking.”

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I can feel your anger all the way over here, tbh. I had to re-read your reply because like, we agree, right?

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I don’t disagree. But it is what happened.

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NEW: "Richard Nixon would have had a pass": John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, stunned by Trump immunity ruling.

“Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct. www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

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HE WON’T EVEN STOP FUNDING A GENOCIDE.

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