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Hell is empty, and all the segregationists are once again here.
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The Age of John Crow: the Fall of the Fourth American Republic, 2000-2028 (available May 2070).
The Third Reconstruction: the Birth of Multiracial Democracy, 2029-2036 (March 2072).
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The Age of John Crow: the Fall of the Fourth American Republic, 2000-2028 (available May 2070).
The Third Reconstruction: the Birth of Multiracial Democracy, 2029-2036 (March 2072).
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this week has made me the most optimistic that I've been since the election that we're going to get out of this intact, or some vague approximation thereof
(whether we can successfully rebuild from there, I am more skeptical about, but first things first)
a thread
(whether we can successfully rebuild from there, I am more skeptical about, but first things first)
a thread
The number one job of all small-d democrats over the next 11-35 months is to build a controlling majority within the Democratic coalition for radical political and constitutional reform. A Democratic federal government is coming, we have to be ready to end this war.
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Being nice and normal is an act of rebellion against the government now. They can't stand it. They're the angry guy from the meme
December 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Being nice and normal is an act of rebellion against the government now. They can't stand it. They're the angry guy from the meme
Peace on earth, goodwill toward all.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Peace on earth, goodwill toward all.
And she wept.
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
And she wept.
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As a matter of right and wrong she should have broken with Biden and come out for an arms embargo (or pressured Biden into following her)
But I do not believe that would have changed the election result
But I do not believe that would have changed the election result
This. A million times this.
no one wants to read the truth, that Harris ran a very good campaign that substantially moved the needle in her direction but it wasn't enough to overcome a hostile environments driven by factors outside her or anyone's control
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
As a matter of right and wrong she should have broken with Biden and come out for an arms embargo (or pressured Biden into following her)
But I do not believe that would have changed the election result
But I do not believe that would have changed the election result
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No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
I've been thinking a lot about how the constitutional crisis is, at the institutional level, entirely of Congress' making. I would posit that, given how actual pushback from the GOP caucus has played out, that despite the insanity playing out in the courts, Congress remains the most powerful branch.
Congress would let you do away with AFRICOM since it was always a half baked command, but unilaterally rewriting basically the entire geographic UCP without talking to them, not to mention taking away SACEUR from the US (which is what this is backdoor trying to do).....lol, lmao
guys, @sodrock.bsky.social @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social @mikeblack114.bsky.social, DoD reorg plan just dropped
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I've been thinking a lot about how the constitutional crisis is, at the institutional level, entirely of Congress' making. I would posit that, given how actual pushback from the GOP caucus has played out, that despite the insanity playing out in the courts, Congress remains the most powerful branch.
Step (1): gut the supreme court like a fish. Step (2): explicitly overturn Trump v. US and Trump v. Anderson by statute. Step (3): Special Prosecutor's Office with $1B budget. Step (4): prosecute the fucker.
A two page law and an aggressive prosecutor, Trump will die in prison.
A two page law and an aggressive prosecutor, Trump will die in prison.
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Step (1): gut the supreme court like a fish. Step (2): explicitly overturn Trump v. US and Trump v. Anderson by statute. Step (3): Special Prosecutor's Office with $1B budget. Step (4): prosecute the fucker.
A two page law and an aggressive prosecutor, Trump will die in prison.
A two page law and an aggressive prosecutor, Trump will die in prison.
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Like you hear these congressional reps, especially republicans, talking about how they're scared to vote against the party line because they might get hurt and Ahmed al Ahmed literally ran at a guy with a gun because he felt his duty to his fellow humans was to try and sanctify life
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Like you hear these congressional reps, especially republicans, talking about how they're scared to vote against the party line because they might get hurt and Ahmed al Ahmed literally ran at a guy with a gun because he felt his duty to his fellow humans was to try and sanctify life
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ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
this would actually be a great constitutional amendment
Hot take: every elected official & every judge should have to meet with everyday constituents for two (2) hours every week. Just whoever signs up, decided by lottery. And each constituent gets a full 5 minutes. The official has to sit there and listen - absolutely not allowed to leave the room.
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
this would actually be a great constitutional amendment
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
I think I have a book-length proposal for a pro democracy, anti-imperialist, social democratic foreign policy in me, but I really don't want to deal with citations. Is that something I can do?
December 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I think I have a book-length proposal for a pro democracy, anti-imperialist, social democratic foreign policy in me, but I really don't want to deal with citations. Is that something I can do?
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Hi Bluesky! I’m Josh Arnon, a Jewish democratic socialist running for Assembly in Manhattan. I was one of the leads of the Tax the Rich campaign in 2020 and later a Day 1 supporter of Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign. I’m running to enact Zohran’s agenda and end corporate control over our politics.
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Hi Bluesky! I’m Josh Arnon, a Jewish democratic socialist running for Assembly in Manhattan. I was one of the leads of the Tax the Rich campaign in 2020 and later a Day 1 supporter of Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign. I’m running to enact Zohran’s agenda and end corporate control over our politics.
The key phrase here is "catalyzed by McGovern's loss in 1972 and Reagan's win in 1980." The inconvenient truth is that the Democratic Party didn't abandon the New Deal coalition: the New Deal coalition abandoned the Democratic Party, largely in response to the Party championing civil rights.
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The key phrase here is "catalyzed by McGovern's loss in 1972 and Reagan's win in 1980." The inconvenient truth is that the Democratic Party didn't abandon the New Deal coalition: the New Deal coalition abandoned the Democratic Party, largely in response to the Party championing civil rights.
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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For a lot of reasons, trans rights will be a more difficult row to hoe, but it can be done. Polling averages are not fundamental laws of the universe, they are subject to change. It's called 'doing politics.'
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
For a lot of reasons, trans rights will be a more difficult row to hoe, but it can be done. Polling averages are not fundamental laws of the universe, they are subject to change. It's called 'doing politics.'
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People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"
none of these people (inclusive of UK labour) seem to understand that voters want their leaders to *lead* them, not reflect their own ill thought preferences back at them
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"
8 USC 1421 (amended)
(a) The authority to naturalize persons as citizens of the United States is conferred upon the President, the governors of the several States, and the Attorney General.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, which shall apply to the Attorney General,
(a) The authority to naturalize persons as citizens of the United States is conferred upon the President, the governors of the several States, and the Attorney General.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, which shall apply to the Attorney General,
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
8 USC 1421 (amended)
(a) The authority to naturalize persons as citizens of the United States is conferred upon the President, the governors of the several States, and the Attorney General.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, which shall apply to the Attorney General,
(a) The authority to naturalize persons as citizens of the United States is conferred upon the President, the governors of the several States, and the Attorney General.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, which shall apply to the Attorney General,
American conservatism is lying as a way of being. Lying to yourself about objective reality; that hierarchies exist as laws of nature, that might makes right, that goodness is inherent and divorced from action.
The fucking blatant lying is just so insulting
Doug Burgum lies that renewable energy is "worse for the planet, worse for the environment, and it drives up your electric prices"
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
American conservatism is lying as a way of being. Lying to yourself about objective reality; that hierarchies exist as laws of nature, that might makes right, that goodness is inherent and divorced from action.
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
A $500B/year Higher Education grant to the states and localities to make public universities, colleges, community colleges, and technical schools tuition-free would solve a lot of social problems.
I believe it's good to do higher education that enriches & extends. I do not think it is sustainable to charge $20k, $140k, $60k a year for this
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A $500B/year Higher Education grant to the states and localities to make public universities, colleges, community colleges, and technical schools tuition-free would solve a lot of social problems.
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NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.