~Nioshii~
@nartistnioshii.bsky.social
Lifelong artist, arts educator, civil and human rights activist/organizer, repro rights activist since 1980s. NYC in ATL
Followed by Barack Obama since 2008 along with a diverse array of stellar pols, media, good folks on the bird app 💙aka @ Nartist
Followed by Barack Obama since 2008 along with a diverse array of stellar pols, media, good folks on the bird app 💙aka @ Nartist
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Gosh, I loathe this man.
Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles
September 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Gosh, I loathe this man.
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Music has always had the power to connect and inspire us. At the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, Eddie Vedder and the young people from Guitars Over Guns wrote and performed a profoundly moving song, ‘Better Believe,’ that spoke to each of them and all of us.
September 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Music has always had the power to connect and inspire us. At the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, Eddie Vedder and the young people from Guitars Over Guns wrote and performed a profoundly moving song, ‘Better Believe,’ that spoke to each of them and all of us.
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Michelle and I hope you’ll check out their story and incredible performance:
Eddie Vedder - Better Believe (w/Guitars Over Guns at the Obama Presidential Center)
YouTube video by EddieVedderVEVO
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Michelle and I hope you’ll check out their story and incredible performance:
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Art and the Authoritarian Deracialization Campaign
Ernest Cole, The True America (1968-71)
sherrilyn.substack.com
September 3, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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It’s taken me some time to get into this but this appears to be a real cause for alarm. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face
A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
It’s taken me some time to get into this but this appears to be a real cause for alarm. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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Imagine serving your country as a soldier for decades, rising to the height of the profession, and then being forced, by a drunkard TV talk show host with a hairstylist and beautician, to sit for a polygraph like some kind of common criminal
September 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Imagine serving your country as a soldier for decades, rising to the height of the profession, and then being forced, by a drunkard TV talk show host with a hairstylist and beautician, to sit for a polygraph like some kind of common criminal
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Link to paywall workaround:
archive.ph/r7OD2
archive.ph/r7OD2
September 4, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Link to paywall workaround:
archive.ph/r7OD2
archive.ph/r7OD2
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BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office.
“This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.”
www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
“This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.”
www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
www.hrw.org
September 1, 2026 at 10:57 PM
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office.
“This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.”
www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
“This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.”
www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
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“Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy for Mr. Putin who handles informal negotiations with the White House” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...
Dmitriev’s press notices have come a long way from ‘some Russian guy who had a beer with Erik Prince when they both happened to be in the Seychelles.’
Dmitriev’s press notices have come a long way from ‘some Russian guy who had a beer with Erik Prince when they both happened to be in the Seychelles.’
September 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
“Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy for Mr. Putin who handles informal negotiations with the White House” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...
Dmitriev’s press notices have come a long way from ‘some Russian guy who had a beer with Erik Prince when they both happened to be in the Seychelles.’
Dmitriev’s press notices have come a long way from ‘some Russian guy who had a beer with Erik Prince when they both happened to be in the Seychelles.’
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❗️The Kremlin signaled it has no intention of abandoning its military goals in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Kremlin-linked sources said Putin is ready to end the war only on his terms and that Moscow's demands are getting tougher because it believes it holds a military advantage over Ukraine. #Ukraine
❗️Witkoff and Kushner discussed US ideas for ending the war with Putin, Axios reports. A White House official said the sides discussed "substantive plans for next steps" that will be announced in the coming weeks, with the US envoys expecting further meetings in Ukraine on Sunday. #Ukraine
September 6, 2026 at 8:21 AM
❗️The Kremlin signaled it has no intention of abandoning its military goals in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Kremlin-linked sources said Putin is ready to end the war only on his terms and that Moscow's demands are getting tougher because it believes it holds a military advantage over Ukraine. #Ukraine
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The Supreme Court is Donald Trump’s Make-a-Wish Foundation
September 6, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The Supreme Court is Donald Trump’s Make-a-Wish Foundation
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Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children.
But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation.
Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation.
Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
September 6, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children.
But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation.
Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation.
Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
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Trump would shut down DisneyWorld if it did this.
🌞 Disneyland Paris turned its huge parking lot into a solar power hub.
🚗 82,000 panels now cover 11,200 car spaces, giving shade + clean energy at the same time.
⚡ The system makes about 36 GWh electricity every year — enough to power thousands of homes.
🚗 82,000 panels now cover 11,200 car spaces, giving shade + clean energy at the same time.
⚡ The system makes about 36 GWh electricity every year — enough to power thousands of homes.
August 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Trump would shut down DisneyWorld if it did this.
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My latest on yesterday’s order in the mail-in ballot/voter list case is up!
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...
Conservative Majority Shows Its Hand Again in Mail-In Ballot Case
Civil Rights & American Democracy
sherrilyn.substack.com
August 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM
My latest on yesterday’s order in the mail-in ballot/voter list case is up!
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...
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After lying about leaving to be a better mom for her kids, Karoline Leavitt Announces Post-White House Job is....
A TOP TRUMP ADVISOR!!!
A TOP TRUMP ADVISOR!!!
deadline.com
August 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
After lying about leaving to be a better mom for her kids, Karoline Leavitt Announces Post-White House Job is....
A TOP TRUMP ADVISOR!!!
A TOP TRUMP ADVISOR!!!
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I feel like Trump demanding that Canada give up its right to trade independently with other countries should be bigger news?
August 23, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I feel like Trump demanding that Canada give up its right to trade independently with other countries should be bigger news?
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READ: If you read (& perhaps clutched your pearls over) that Tyler Austin Harper piece in The Atlantic about DEI and Bates College, then I hope you’ll have the integrity to read this rejoinder by Andrew Baker, a Black male professor who preceded Harper at Bates.
open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...
open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...
Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
open.substack.com
August 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
READ: If you read (& perhaps clutched your pearls over) that Tyler Austin Harper piece in The Atlantic about DEI and Bates College, then I hope you’ll have the integrity to read this rejoinder by Andrew Baker, a Black male professor who preceded Harper at Bates.
open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...
open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...
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Feeling discouraged? Watch this. Because THIS is what it will take.
Love to see it.
Love to see it.
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” as a delaying tactic, the latest in the Township’s long fight to stop the construction of a $1.2 billion data center. @mjgault.bsky.social reports.
Read more: www.404media.co/township-fig...
Read more: www.404media.co/township-fig...
August 20, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Feeling discouraged? Watch this. Because THIS is what it will take.
Love to see it.
Love to see it.
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Unseen history: Stunning 1966 photos of Thurgood Marshall taken by The Scurlock Studio. Image Credit: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. More artifacts here: thurgoodmarshall.org/artifacts/
August 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Unseen history: Stunning 1966 photos of Thurgood Marshall taken by The Scurlock Studio. Image Credit: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. More artifacts here: thurgoodmarshall.org/artifacts/
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Happy anniversary to the best partner I could ask for. I love you so very much, Dougie.
August 22, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Happy anniversary to the best partner I could ask for. I love you so very much, Dougie.
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I see it’s Matt’s first time thinking about the countermajoritarian principle behind rights-based constitutional amendments
We’ll get there right about October, buddy, in the second half of the semester. Hang tight.
We’ll get there right about October, buddy, in the second half of the semester. Hang tight.
me (stunned): …and what do you call your act?
matt: “The Popularists!”
matt: “The Popularists!”
August 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I see it’s Matt’s first time thinking about the countermajoritarian principle behind rights-based constitutional amendments
We’ll get there right about October, buddy, in the second half of the semester. Hang tight.
We’ll get there right about October, buddy, in the second half of the semester. Hang tight.