RoseMarie

RoseMarie

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“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” - June Jordan |💖Books| Horror| #TrueCrime | #BLM #mentalhealth | kindness| #VoteBlue #BlueCrew | #Pinks | #Resist | #WomensRights |💙🐈🐈‍⬛😘🐸#BeKind 🌊 🌎🇺🇦

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“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.” bell hooks

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Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the police to seize the passport of Flávio Bolsonaro, the presidential candidate defeated in Sunday’s election, because he is under criminal investigation related to a money laundering scheme. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

nytimes.comBrazil Supreme Court Orders Flávio Bolsonaro to Hand Over Passports in Money Laundering Inquiry (Gift Article)Brazil’s Supreme Court told the police to seize passport of Mr. Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election, over his links to an investigation.
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The ruling, issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, stems from an inquiry into Mr. Bolsonaro’s links to a Brazilian lawyer who is accused of laundering more than $1 billion through a vast fraud scheme, according to a court document reviewed by The New York Times.

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Eddie Smith
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Charleston remains the ONLY North American city to run a uniform, stamped-metal badge system for urban slave labor. These copper badges reveal a larger truth: Charleston licensed, numbered, monitored, and taxed Black labor. Again I ask: Who knew?🤔 I didn't. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊

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Eddie Smith
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Many of Charleston's roads, buildings, docks, and infrastructure were built or maintained by enslaved artisans and laborers. Their work shaped the city, yet their names were forgotten—omitted, or never known. The badge system remained in force until slavery ended in 1865. (cont)

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Eddie Smith
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badge—or wearing an outdated/forged one—the physical price was paid by the enslaved person. They were arrested on the spot, taken to the infamous Charleston Workhouse (below), and subjected to public whippings and imprisonment until fines were paid by the enslaver or slaves themselves. (cont)

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Eddie Smith
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by the 1800s. Surveillance insured the immediate identification of permitted laborers vs. runaways. Annual license fees funded city operations. Labor Control meant managing competition with white artisans. The penalty for Black people were severe. If caught without a (cont)

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Eddie Smith
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Each badge contained four details: 1. "Charleston" 2. The Year 3. A registration number 4. The trade—e.g., Mechanic, Porter, Servant, Fisher, or Free. The purpose? It was all about surveillance, revenue, and labor control. Thousands were issued(cont) nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/n...

nmaahc.si.eduNational Museum of African American History and Culture Acquires Largest Collection of Charleston Slave BadgesThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture recently acquired what is thought to be the largest and most complete set of historic Charleston Slave Badges.

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Eddie Smith
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municipal laws forcing enslavers to buy annual copper registration badges for any enslaved worker laboring in public. Every year starting in 1800, the City Treasurer issued new stamped copper tags. The badges were square, diamond, or round shaped. (cont) www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

smithsonianmag.comThese Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built CharlestonThe Smithsonian has acquired a collection of 146 slave badges from between 1800 and 1865

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Eddie Smith
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in 1783, the city required many free Black residents to register and wear "Free" badges identifying their legal status. In urban centers, enslavers often "hired out" skilled laborers (blacksmiths, porters, carpenters) into the city. By 1786, Charleston codified(cont)

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Eddie Smith
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These stamped copper tags were required by law for enslaved people hired out for daily labor across the city. Oh yes—some badges identified free Black residents. Freedom and slavery were both monitored by law. Here’s the story behind them. After Charleston was incorporated (cont)

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Eddie Smith
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In 19th-century Charleston, SC, urban slavery gave rise to a unique and chilling tool of control: Charleston Slave Badges. Who knew? 🤔 Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory relicrecord.com/blog/charles...

relicrecord.comCharleston Slave Badges - RelicRecordCharleston Slave Badges, otherwise known as a “slave tags,” tell us that a slave was skilled and trusted enough to be rented-out for short-term work.
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competed in rodeos, cared for horses and the land, and kept Western traditions alive across generations. Acclaimed photographer and director Ivan McClellan is working to change that narrative. Through his lens, Black Western culture takes center stage, capturing a legacy that has always (cont.)

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existed but has too often been left out of the story. His new photography book, Eight Seconds: Legacy in Motion, features 91 previously unpublished photographs that celebrate Black cowboys and cowgirls not as supporting characters in someone else’s Western, but as icons in their own right.

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FED UP!
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Trump’s unhinged meltdown towards Bill Maher over the weekend proves he cares nothing about Americans but his bloated ego. 🗳️ The future of our children/grandchildren is at stake and we must not disappoint them. 🗳️Our lives are at stake. 🗳️Our vote is our voice! #Pinks #SheShed

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Rachel Maddow
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“covert surveillance inside houses of worship… “interrogations of churches’ staff… “ICE agents hauled off a nun who was wearing her habit and walking down the sidewalk en route to Sunday Mass… “suing a Catholic diocese in New Mexico to seize 14 acres of their land…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowThe Trump administration keeps clashing with faith communitiesLast year the White House said Joe Biden and his administration “abused and targeted Christians.” A year later, the hypocrisy is staggering.
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A 30-year-old far-right gun influencer who’s made disparaging comments about women and veterans and has called himself “the AK Jesus” might win the House seat representing Uvalde, (cont.) Don't let this happen, Texas. #VoteBlue www.huffpost.com/entry/an-edg...

huffpost.comAn Edgelord Gun Influencer Is On His Way To Representing Uvalde In CongressThe YouTuber who has referred to himself as “the AK Jesus” has said people should be glad murderers use guns in mass killings.
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Herrera is really a “single-issue candidate,” and the issue is “unfettered access to firearms,” Emma Brown, executive director of the gun violence prevention organization Giffords, told HuffPost.

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A 30-year-old far-right gun influencer who’s made disparaging comments about women and veterans and has called himself “the AK Jesus” might win the House seat representing Uvalde, (cont.) Don't let this happen, Texas. #VoteBlue www.huffpost.com/entry/an-edg...

huffpost.comAn Edgelord Gun Influencer Is On His Way To Representing Uvalde In CongressThe YouTuber who has referred to himself as “the AK Jesus” has said people should be glad murderers use guns in mass killings.
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the Texas city where 19 children and two adults were killed in a horrific mass shooting in 2022. Brandon Herrera, a self-described constitutionalist with over 4 million subscribers on YouTube, has said he first decided to run for Congress after the district’s former GOP Rep. (cont.)

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"I didn't take ​sides, but it looked like another rigged election," he said. "Elections have ​to be indisputable, and ​it looked very bad to me." Defeated ‌right-wing ⁠Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat.

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His father, former President Jair ​Bolsonaro, was ​a ⁠close ally of Trump's while in office. ​A wave of ​recent ⁠right-wing election victories in other Latin American countries has ⁠been ​heralded by Trump's ​administration.

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"If there is one thing that Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for governor of Iowa, definitely does not want to talk about, it’s his connection to the Koch family." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/us/politics/zach-lahn-iowa-governor-kansas-kochs.html

nytimes.comAn Iowa Republican’s Unusual Connection to the Kochs (and Kansas)In his campaign for governor, Zach Lahn has pitched himself as a self-made businessman. His backstory is more complicated.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸
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The Independent: Venues cancel on Vivek Ramaswamy over controversial attack ad. I haven't seen this much hatred towards a woman by Republicans since, oh wait never mind, hating women is their entire brand. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Marie 🇨🇦
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Joe Walsh just said what too many in the media are terrified to say. 🔥 Trump’s loyalty to Putin should alarm every democracy on Earth. How much more damage must be done before America wakes the hell up? Democracy doesn’t defend itself. The American people must. 🇺🇸 #USDemocracy #VoteBlue 🔵

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Aaron Rupar
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Q: Back to Chauvin -- what is your position on clemency for Derek Chauvin? DEMUTH: So, are there any more questions to do with the fraud?

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Mullin had reportedly been hospitalized more than 100 times because of sickle cell disease. But after months of intensive treatment, he celebrated what his medical team described as a “functional” cure.

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According to an announcement from the Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, he became Louisiana’s first pediatric patient to receive the LYFGENIA gene therapy and the second person in the state to undergo gene therapy for the disease.