Doc Sportello ❌👑
@digyoursoul.bsky.social
Fighting for Equality and democracy
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Shut down MAGA’s war on Americans!
END the hostile takeover of our government
HALT the funding of war against Americans
STOP the abductions of neighbors, stealing healthcare from seniors, & taking food from kids.
No funding for fascism.
No dollars for dictatorship.
No bankrolling billionaires.
END the hostile takeover of our government
HALT the funding of war against Americans
STOP the abductions of neighbors, stealing healthcare from seniors, & taking food from kids.
No funding for fascism.
No dollars for dictatorship.
No bankrolling billionaires.
In Tucson, Arizona voters approved more money for schools! www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...
Tucson voters buck economic anxiety, OK more money for local schools | What the Devil won't tell you
With all the economic turmoil around tariffs, the job market and high prices, local voters were still willing to cut checks to TUSD, Flowing Wells and Sunnyside school districts and invest in the futu...
www.tucsonsentinel.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
In Tucson, Arizona voters approved more money for schools! www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...
In a stunning rebuke of the far-right education movement, ALL 31 Moms for Liberty-endorsed candidates in competitive races were defeated.
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Ocean City says no to Moms for Liberty school board candidates
Kevin Barnes said he is happy with a Board of Education win and optimistic about the district, but concerned about politics entering Board of Education elections.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In a stunning rebuke of the far-right education movement, ALL 31 Moms for Liberty-endorsed candidates in competitive races were defeated.
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Twenty people, including 14 current or former Mississippi law enforcement officers, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges that allege a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy.
Mississippi Officers Accused of Trafficking Plead Not Guilty
Twenty people have pleaded not guilty to federal charges that allege a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Twenty people, including 14 current or former Mississippi law enforcement officers, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges that allege a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy.
Boise, Idaho voters overwhelmingly passed a two-year property tax hike to raise $11 million dollars to fund land purchases for public parks and open space.
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Boiseans pass Clean Water and Open Space Levy with overwhelming support
BOISE — Boiseans signaled Tuesday that there continues to be abundant support for the city’s investment in the conservation and preservation of the city’s natural resources, passing the Clean Water
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November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Boise, Idaho voters overwhelmingly passed a two-year property tax hike to raise $11 million dollars to fund land purchases for public parks and open space.
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Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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#IBelieveTheSurvivors
The world doesn’t listen to women…if we did, Clarence Thomas & Brett Kavanaugh would not be Supreme Court justices.
I believed professor Anita Hill.
I believed Professor Christine Blasey Ford.
The world doesn’t listen to women…if we did, Clarence Thomas & Brett Kavanaugh would not be Supreme Court justices.
I believed professor Anita Hill.
I believed Professor Christine Blasey Ford.
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#IBelieveTheSurvivors
The world doesn’t listen to women…if we did, Clarence Thomas & Brett Kavanaugh would not be Supreme Court justices.
I believed professor Anita Hill.
I believed Professor Christine Blasey Ford.
The world doesn’t listen to women…if we did, Clarence Thomas & Brett Kavanaugh would not be Supreme Court justices.
I believed professor Anita Hill.
I believed Professor Christine Blasey Ford.
Hailey Lewis has been elected mayor of Moscow, Idaho, garnering 70% of the vote and defeating her Christian nationalist opponent.
www.uiargonaut.com/2025/11/04/u...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hailey Lewis has been elected mayor of Moscow, Idaho, garnering 70% of the vote and defeating her Christian nationalist opponent.
www.uiargonaut.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.uiargonaut.com/2025/11/04/u...
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So what can you do? 🤔
1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.
2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.
🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks
1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.
2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.
🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
So what can you do? 🤔
1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.
2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.
🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks
1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.
2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.
🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks
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There is no consensus that age-gating = safety.
Online ID checks
- Require disreputable companies to collect intimate data on us, leading to security threats.
- Limit our ability to freely access information and connect with people online.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/onli...
Online ID checks
- Require disreputable companies to collect intimate data on us, leading to security threats.
- Limit our ability to freely access information and connect with people online.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/onli...
ONLINE ID CHECKS WILL RUIN THE INTERNET
www.fightforthefuture.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There is no consensus that age-gating = safety.
Online ID checks
- Require disreputable companies to collect intimate data on us, leading to security threats.
- Limit our ability to freely access information and connect with people online.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/onli...
Online ID checks
- Require disreputable companies to collect intimate data on us, leading to security threats.
- Limit our ability to freely access information and connect with people online.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/onli...
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KOSA UPDATE: House lawmakers are considering removing duty of care & KOSA is currently in limbo since the House & Senate versions will differ.
BUT the threat of Bad Internet Bills still looms as the House considers age verification in new kids safety package...
www.theverge.com/policy/81087...
BUT the threat of Bad Internet Bills still looms as the House considers age verification in new kids safety package...
www.theverge.com/policy/81087...
A contentious kids safety bill might be getting gutted — and nobody’s happy
It’s expected to be introduced with a package of kids online safety bills.
www.theverge.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
KOSA UPDATE: House lawmakers are considering removing duty of care & KOSA is currently in limbo since the House & Senate versions will differ.
BUT the threat of Bad Internet Bills still looms as the House considers age verification in new kids safety package...
www.theverge.com/policy/81087...
BUT the threat of Bad Internet Bills still looms as the House considers age verification in new kids safety package...
www.theverge.com/policy/81087...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on KOSA on December 9th (originally scheduled November 18th). Also, KOSA is being included in a package of dangerous bills (COPPA 2.0, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act, etc.).
Contact your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
Contact your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
So what can you do? 🤔
1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.
2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.
🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks
1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.
2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.
🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on KOSA on December 9th (originally scheduled November 18th). Also, KOSA is being included in a package of dangerous bills (COPPA 2.0, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act, etc.).
Contact your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
Contact your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
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"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now"
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now"
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
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📣 Now it's time to focus on the 2026 Midterm Main Event!
I'll be filling in competitive #TEXAS districts soon; for now you can help TX Senate Dems, TX House Dems & the TX Democratic Party.
Donate today! #Blue26
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I'll be filling in competitive #TEXAS districts soon; for now you can help TX Senate Dems, TX House Dems & the TX Democratic Party.
Donate today! #Blue26
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Chip in!
Show your support with a contribution.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
📣 Now it's time to focus on the 2026 Midterm Main Event!
I'll be filling in competitive #TEXAS districts soon; for now you can help TX Senate Dems, TX House Dems & the TX Democratic Party.
Donate today! #Blue26
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I'll be filling in competitive #TEXAS districts soon; for now you can help TX Senate Dems, TX House Dems & the TX Democratic Party.
Donate today! #Blue26
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Democracy can feel tiresome, boring, frustrating. It is all about constantly negotiating and re-negotiating conflicting interests and sensibilities. Not exactly the most rousing stuff. But it is the day-to-day implementation of the grandest and noblest of ideas: That all people are equal.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Democracy can feel tiresome, boring, frustrating. It is all about constantly negotiating and re-negotiating conflicting interests and sensibilities. Not exactly the most rousing stuff. But it is the day-to-day implementation of the grandest and noblest of ideas: That all people are equal.
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But right there, in 2024, she was excited, enthusiastic: “I’m about to vote free, I got victory in my feet.”
I say this as a straight white man whose right to equal participation has always been a given: Don’t we dare forget the sacrifice of those who had to fight for every inch of democracy.
I say this as a straight white man whose right to equal participation has always been a given: Don’t we dare forget the sacrifice of those who had to fight for every inch of democracy.
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
But right there, in 2024, she was excited, enthusiastic: “I’m about to vote free, I got victory in my feet.”
I say this as a straight white man whose right to equal participation has always been a given: Don’t we dare forget the sacrifice of those who had to fight for every inch of democracy.
I say this as a straight white man whose right to equal participation has always been a given: Don’t we dare forget the sacrifice of those who had to fight for every inch of democracy.
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Shortly before the 2024 election, a video clip made the rounds showing an elderly Black woman in Mississippi waiting in line to vote. She recalled her experience growing up in an apartheid system in the Jim Crow South, how Black people were systematically excluded from political participation.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Shortly before the 2024 election, a video clip made the rounds showing an elderly Black woman in Mississippi waiting in line to vote. She recalled her experience growing up in an apartheid system in the Jim Crow South, how Black people were systematically excluded from political participation.
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People need to accept that things can change – in either direction: It really could get much, much worse. But it could also get better. There is nothing inevitable about either doom or progress. We are neither fated nor guaranteed to experience the status quo for all eternity.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
People need to accept that things can change – in either direction: It really could get much, much worse. But it could also get better. There is nothing inevitable about either doom or progress. We are neither fated nor guaranteed to experience the status quo for all eternity.
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That is why Reconstruction is such a key historical reference. America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was quickly drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and escalating white reactionary violence. It took a century to get the country back to that level of democracy.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That is why Reconstruction is such a key historical reference. America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was quickly drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and escalating white reactionary violence. It took a century to get the country back to that level of democracy.
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The actual takeaway from Amwerica’s historical experience is that we must not assume directionality in history at all. There is no arc, and there definitely is no ironclad law of the universe that says “We” can’t slide back – or slide forward into a new kind of authoritarianism.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The actual takeaway from Amwerica’s historical experience is that we must not assume directionality in history at all. There is no arc, and there definitely is no ironclad law of the universe that says “We” can’t slide back – or slide forward into a new kind of authoritarianism.
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But America did not reach a consensus about what this nation should be in the 1960s. The forces who rejected the vision of egalitarian pluralism, they were not confined and condemned to an existence on the fringes of society. They have engaged in a comprehensive counter-mobilization.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
But America did not reach a consensus about what this nation should be in the 1960s. The forces who rejected the vision of egalitarian pluralism, they were not confined and condemned to an existence on the fringes of society. They have engaged in a comprehensive counter-mobilization.
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I think it is fair to say that those who passed the civil rights legislation intended it to be a definitive answer to the question of whether or not the United States was supposed to be a pluralistic democracy at all: They sought to take that question off the table.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I think it is fair to say that those who passed the civil rights legislation intended it to be a definitive answer to the question of whether or not the United States was supposed to be a pluralistic democracy at all: They sought to take that question off the table.
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A hierarchical ethno-state dominated by white Christians or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? That conflict was not resolved in 1776. It wasn’t settled in 1865. Unfortunately, the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 didn’t usher in democratic consensus either.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A hierarchical ethno-state dominated by white Christians or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? That conflict was not resolved in 1776. It wasn’t settled in 1865. Unfortunately, the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 didn’t usher in democratic consensus either.
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America has conceived of itself as a democracy since the beginning. This has obscured the fact that a variety of different regimes, of competing social and political orders, of incompatible visions of what the country should be, have existed side by side throughout the nation’s history.
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
America has conceived of itself as a democracy since the beginning. This has obscured the fact that a variety of different regimes, of competing social and political orders, of incompatible visions of what the country should be, have existed side by side throughout the nation’s history.
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There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
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