Jesmyn Ward
@jesmimi.bsky.social
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Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”
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Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI".
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
March 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI".
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
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Segregation was never just separate facilities
It was paying more & getting less in your neighborhood
It was getting the Phd, but still not getting hired
It was needing police for the police
It was building up a newspaper & having it burned (Wells)
It was building a school & having it shot up (JSU)
It was paying more & getting less in your neighborhood
It was getting the Phd, but still not getting hired
It was needing police for the police
It was building up a newspaper & having it burned (Wells)
It was building a school & having it shot up (JSU)
March 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Segregation was never just separate facilities
It was paying more & getting less in your neighborhood
It was getting the Phd, but still not getting hired
It was needing police for the police
It was building up a newspaper & having it burned (Wells)
It was building a school & having it shot up (JSU)
It was paying more & getting less in your neighborhood
It was getting the Phd, but still not getting hired
It was needing police for the police
It was building up a newspaper & having it burned (Wells)
It was building a school & having it shot up (JSU)
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ok, so basically I would like this post to go viral.
Please don't forget to Sign, Support (from 819 to 850+ donators), even a little amount (*)) and Share everywhere this 👉 www.change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘
(*) The only VITAL #petition, worldwide, in 6 languages (should be at millions of signature).
Please don't forget to Sign, Support (from 819 to 850+ donators), even a little amount (*)) and Share everywhere this 👉 www.change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘
(*) The only VITAL #petition, worldwide, in 6 languages (should be at millions of signature).
March 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
ok, so basically I would like this post to go viral.
Please don't forget to Sign, Support (from 819 to 850+ donators), even a little amount (*)) and Share everywhere this 👉 www.change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘
(*) The only VITAL #petition, worldwide, in 6 languages (should be at millions of signature).
Please don't forget to Sign, Support (from 819 to 850+ donators), even a little amount (*)) and Share everywhere this 👉 www.change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘
(*) The only VITAL #petition, worldwide, in 6 languages (should be at millions of signature).
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EU tariffs will hit everything from American jeans and motorcycles to soybeans in Louisiana (Mike Johnson’s home state); beef and poultry in Kansas and Nebraska; and produce from Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia.
Europe Hits Back at Trump’s Tariffs With Plan Targeting Red States
The European Union has responded with retaliatory tariffs of its own, with a special focus on products from Republican states.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
EU tariffs will hit everything from American jeans and motorcycles to soybeans in Louisiana (Mike Johnson’s home state); beef and poultry in Kansas and Nebraska; and produce from Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia.
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
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“We feel like we're abandoning the community that we've built around this," MSU Coastal and Marine Extension Program Director Eric Sparks said after the abrupt cancelation of a USDA grant for coastal restoration work.
Trump Follows Project 2025 Blueprint on Environment, Climate
Mississippi is already feeling impacts as the Trump administration slashes environmental protection funding and ends efforts to fight climate change.
buff.ly
March 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“We feel like we're abandoning the community that we've built around this," MSU Coastal and Marine Extension Program Director Eric Sparks said after the abrupt cancelation of a USDA grant for coastal restoration work.
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The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM.
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
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The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
March 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM.
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
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A cowardly statement.
March 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A cowardly statement.
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Musk is now claiming that DOGE has no legal authority to fire federal workers or cancel contracts.
OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES?
These people use words so carelessly.
OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES?
These people use words so carelessly.
March 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Musk is now claiming that DOGE has no legal authority to fire federal workers or cancel contracts.
OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES?
These people use words so carelessly.
OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES?
These people use words so carelessly.
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“This bill is pointless, unnecessary and unbelievably cruel. Transgender Iowans are our friends, our neighbors and our coworkers. We deserve the same fundamental rights, dignity and respect as anyone else. This legislation will not improve the life of a single Iowan.”
Wide-ranging GOP bill would remove gender identity protections from Iowa Civil Rights Act
A wide-ranging Republican bill would remove protections against discrimination for transgender people from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
www.desmoinesregister.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“This bill is pointless, unnecessary and unbelievably cruel. Transgender Iowans are our friends, our neighbors and our coworkers. We deserve the same fundamental rights, dignity and respect as anyone else. This legislation will not improve the life of a single Iowan.”
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This is a bigger scandal than people realize.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is a bigger scandal than people realize.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
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Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
February 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
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It’s actually just racist because the NYT is co-signing the idea that he got his job because he is Black and there’s no evidence for this
I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.
February 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It’s actually just racist because the NYT is co-signing the idea that he got his job because he is Black and there’s no evidence for this
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This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid’s Show in Major Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
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Well now.
“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
February 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Well now.
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New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
February 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
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With all the talk of “constitutional crisis”focused on separation of powers,there’s been too little focus on Trump’s dedication to dismantling what historian Eric Foner calls “the most impt addition to the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.” The 14th Amendment.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
February 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
With all the talk of “constitutional crisis”focused on separation of powers,there’s been too little focus on Trump’s dedication to dismantling what historian Eric Foner calls “the most impt addition to the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.” The 14th Amendment.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis.
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
February 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis.
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”
Trump Launches Mass Purge of Air Traffic Control Staff
The Trump administration has kicked off a firing spree of air traffic controllers, despite four deadly plane crashes on his watch.
newrepublic.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”
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Media are missing this if they don't include it.
Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk.
But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause.
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Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk.
But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause.
⬇️Key para⬇️
February 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Media are missing this if they don't include it.
Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk.
But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause.
⬇️Key para⬇️
Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk.
But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause.
⬇️Key para⬇️
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The point here is Trump does not recognize order, laws, defined terms, accountability. It never mattered to him. And for that reason the Constitution is just a bunch of words to him as well. “I have an Article II that says I can do whatever I want.”
That’s why these suits are so important.
That’s why these suits are so important.
Trump: "Elon is to me a patriot. So, you know, you could call him an employee, you could call him a consultant, you could call him whatever you want."
February 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The point here is Trump does not recognize order, laws, defined terms, accountability. It never mattered to him. And for that reason the Constitution is just a bunch of words to him as well. “I have an Article II that says I can do whatever I want.”
That’s why these suits are so important.
That’s why these suits are so important.
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900 former Department of Justice prosecutors, including former special counsel Jack Smith, signed an open letter expressing concern about Trump’s Dept Of Justice & its politicization of prosecutions.
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/d...
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/d...
Jack Smith among 900 former prosecutors alarmed by Trump's DOJ
They said they've "watched with alarm" as DOJ leadership has tested values they swore to uphold.
www.axios.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
900 former Department of Justice prosecutors, including former special counsel Jack Smith, signed an open letter expressing concern about Trump’s Dept Of Justice & its politicization of prosecutions.
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/d...
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/d...