AnnitaMaria
@annitamaria.bsky.social
It's not personal, it's politics. Pfft
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While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
![Trump brings bigots out of hiding
WASHINGTON Once you notice it, you can't unsee it."
A
about a Trump rally near Phoenix where
couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
The Twitterverse, and social media a young man shouted "mother-f—.
"Let's not mince words, Donald generally, can be dark places, as can the ing tacos — go back to Mexico" at two Trump is a bigot and a racist." comments section of Washington Post
Latino protesters — and a 70-year-old
I cited a long list of incidents in which articles, and my email inbox. This is
retiree sucker-punched a demonstrator.
he targeted women, Latinos, African-
the seventh presidential campaign I've
And where is the condemnation of
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the covered in some form over 25 years, and this behavior? At the Las Vegas debate, disabled. Here's what I heard back from harsh criticism comes with the terri-
Trump's rivals all but ignored the front-
Trump's defenders:
tory. But the Trump backers venom is runner, who previously said of a black
"Let's not mince
without precedent. His supporters surely protestor at his event: "Maybe he should
words," somebody
aren't all bigots — but he is bringing the have been roughed up." Trump is burn-
tweeted under the name
bigoted in from the cold.
ing down the Republican house, and the
Helios Megistos. "Mil-
There is an obvious truth to what
American house, yet his rivals are on a
bank is an anti-white
white nationalist publisher Jared Tay-
march of the narcissists.
parasite and a bigoted
lor told The New Yorker this summer:
If Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb
kike supremacist."
Trump's "support comes from people
Bush, John Kasich and other sensible
"[Trump] may well
who are more like me than he might like
candidates were to unite behind any one
be a bigot and a racist,"
to admit."
of them, that person could likely beat
DANA
one Michael Banfield
I write this not out of any hope of
Trump, and Ted Cruz. Instead, enabled
MILBANK
wrote me via email. "But changing the minds of Trump back-
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December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
Great. ChatGPT is like another Fox News. So much misinformation. Just what the US needs. Sigh.
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Great. ChatGPT is like another Fox News. So much misinformation. Just what the US needs. Sigh.
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Appalling. But no surprise.
The White House’s new national security strategy includes these paragraphs on Europe. They read like a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, with “migration” threatening to make the “continent…unrecognizable” within two decades.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Appalling. But no surprise.
They came to the US for safety, for decency, for a life without the rape and exploitation of the vulnerable. They came from everywhere. And look what America now offers.
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
They came to the US for safety, for decency, for a life without the rape and exploitation of the vulnerable. They came from everywhere. And look what America now offers.
Why is there no "unsend" feature for text messaging? I'd pay for that.
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Why is there no "unsend" feature for text messaging? I'd pay for that.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
That last line.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
That last line.
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Listen.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Listen.
Inspiring perseverance and refocus.
This is so cool. I interviewed Calvin Duncan - exoneree, and now Orleans Parish Clerk of Court - back in 2023 about his work as a jailhouse lawyer for the folks on death row in Louisiana. I remember being really struck by his words:
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Inspiring perseverance and refocus.
I'm with Callen
As an adult survivor of childhood sex abuse I don't care who is in the files--Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Independent--it doesn't matter. If the Epstein files show that someone is guilty of abusing children, then prosecute them to the fullest. For the victims. #EpsteinFiles #4theVictims #CSA
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'm with Callen
Wtaf NT Times
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Wtaf NT Times
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Here's an important essay about learning how to talk across political divides, which is also good training in how to do ethnographic interviewing. More of us should learn how to open minds, starting with our own. open.substack.com/pub/karintam...
I Talked to a Trump Voter for Two Hours. Here’s What Happened.
The protest was "No Kings", but our conversation was the change.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Here's an important essay about learning how to talk across political divides, which is also good training in how to do ethnographic interviewing. More of us should learn how to open minds, starting with our own. open.substack.com/pub/karintam...
Assessment: competitive authoritarianism forthcoming
Here's a report written by 100s of former members of the US intelligence community, assessing the US now the way that they used to assess other countries to determine their political trajectories. Sober, fact-filled analysis that reaches alarming conclusions. open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline
The Steady State | October 16, 2025
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Assessment: competitive authoritarianism forthcoming
What else plays nice with Bluesky? I'm off meta, insta, somewhat threads, Google search, what's app...
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
What else plays nice with Bluesky? I'm off meta, insta, somewhat threads, Google search, what's app...
Link, direct to the White House website. Go down to the Major Events Timeline and scroll to the right. This isn't just propaganda. It's disgusting propaganda.
Is this for real???? www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
Is this for real???? www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Link, direct to the White House website. Go down to the Major Events Timeline and scroll to the right. This isn't just propaganda. It's disgusting propaganda.
Is this for real???? www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
Is this for real???? www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The last of my garden beauties
October 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The last of my garden beauties
What an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day. (This post limited to opinion on today's weather only)
September 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
What an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day. (This post limited to opinion on today's weather only)
#ScholarSunday Thread 241
Shared on September 14, 2025
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Word of the day: GROTESQUE
As in, "Actions of the current administration are grotesque." Tomorrow's word is HYPOCRISY.
As in, "Actions of the current administration are grotesque." Tomorrow's word is HYPOCRISY.
September 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Word of the day: GROTESQUE
As in, "Actions of the current administration are grotesque." Tomorrow's word is HYPOCRISY.
As in, "Actions of the current administration are grotesque." Tomorrow's word is HYPOCRISY.
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Same here! A new course starts in fall and enrollment is open.
I took the first course and already enrolled for the following 102 because it was sooo good.
@karenattiah.bsky.social
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I took the first course and already enrolled for the following 102 because it was sooo good.
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@resistanceschool.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Same here! A new course starts in fall and enrollment is open.
I took the first course and already enrolled for the following 102 because it was sooo good.
@karenattiah.bsky.social
@resistanceschool.bsky.social
I took the first course and already enrolled for the following 102 because it was sooo good.
@karenattiah.bsky.social
@resistanceschool.bsky.social
Grateful that I can scroll my feed here on Bluesky and see what I signed up for and not crappy as* ads.
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Grateful that I can scroll my feed here on Bluesky and see what I signed up for and not crappy as* ads.
This.
This is apparently what people voted for. I will never, in my lifetime, understand it.
Thank God I don't have that kind of hate eating me up from the inside out.
"whatever you do for the least of them, you do for me"
Thank God I don't have that kind of hate eating me up from the inside out.
"whatever you do for the least of them, you do for me"
June 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This.
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Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight
June 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight
Gross negligence? Or simplt Gross action.
We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol.
Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.
W/ @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga
Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.
W/ @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
www.propublica.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Gross negligence? Or simplt Gross action.