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Through the discrete lens of power—not partisan politics—just power, voting on a funding bill to reopen the govt in hopes of renegotiating terms at a future time with no leverage has to be high up on list of foolish errands. 1/3
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Through the discrete lens of power—not partisan politics—just power, voting on a funding bill to reopen the govt in hopes of renegotiating terms at a future time with no leverage has to be high up on list of foolish errands. 1/3
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When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
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the white supremacists are not taking a break to mourn because they have people of color to fuck over
The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.
Education Department ends grants for some minority college students
The Education Department is withholding millions of dollars in grant funding appropriated by Congress for colleges that serve large populations of minority students.
wapo.st
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
the white supremacists are not taking a break to mourn because they have people of color to fuck over
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The way the media is covering the killing of Charlie Kirk is why white supremacy will never end in this country. This is a disgrace.
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The way the media is covering the killing of Charlie Kirk is why white supremacy will never end in this country. This is a disgrace.
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If Trump can successfully fabricate this staggeringly ridiculous pretext for stripping permanent residence from Khalil, they can do it to me or anyone they don’t like. How the federal judge responds will have broad implications for whether even green card holders may speak freely in this country
Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria
“It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech," Khalil, a former Columbia University grad student, said in a statement.
www.nbcnews.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If Trump can successfully fabricate this staggeringly ridiculous pretext for stripping permanent residence from Khalil, they can do it to me or anyone they don’t like. How the federal judge responds will have broad implications for whether even green card holders may speak freely in this country
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It was never about free speech.
It was always about protecting whiteness and its discursive power. If it were about speech, they wouldn’t ban the 1619 Project, books, and history itself, or punish those who remind us of the bigotry Charlie Kirk proudly espoused.
Some of us been tryna tell y’all.
It was always about protecting whiteness and its discursive power. If it were about speech, they wouldn’t ban the 1619 Project, books, and history itself, or punish those who remind us of the bigotry Charlie Kirk proudly espoused.
Some of us been tryna tell y’all.
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It was never about free speech.
It was always about protecting whiteness and its discursive power. If it were about speech, they wouldn’t ban the 1619 Project, books, and history itself, or punish those who remind us of the bigotry Charlie Kirk proudly espoused.
Some of us been tryna tell y’all.
It was always about protecting whiteness and its discursive power. If it were about speech, they wouldn’t ban the 1619 Project, books, and history itself, or punish those who remind us of the bigotry Charlie Kirk proudly espoused.
Some of us been tryna tell y’all.
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Today in US History: On Sep. 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850 bet. Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. Law enforcement could arrest people suspected of escaping enslavement on as little as a claimant’s sworn testimony of ownership.
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
constitutioncenter.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Today in US History: On Sep. 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850 bet. Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. Law enforcement could arrest people suspected of escaping enslavement on as little as a claimant’s sworn testimony of ownership.
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what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
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trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
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"The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence, two independent real-estate experts said."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence, two independent real-estate experts said."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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The paradox of tolerance- Charlie made a living encouraging the erasure of black folks, queer people, Jews, immigrants, liberals, feminists….
That’s not politics or political speech, that’s hate speech that drives people towards actual violence & demagoguery of those innocent communities
F him
That’s not politics or political speech, that’s hate speech that drives people towards actual violence & demagoguery of those innocent communities
F him
September 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The paradox of tolerance- Charlie made a living encouraging the erasure of black folks, queer people, Jews, immigrants, liberals, feminists….
That’s not politics or political speech, that’s hate speech that drives people towards actual violence & demagoguery of those innocent communities
F him
That’s not politics or political speech, that’s hate speech that drives people towards actual violence & demagoguery of those innocent communities
F him
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What’s the historic analogue for this?
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
www.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What’s the historic analogue for this?
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
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Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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should've let us put nixon's hatchet man on the supreme court, sincerely, the Good Conservative Tom Nichols of MSNBC
August 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
should've let us put nixon's hatchet man on the supreme court, sincerely, the Good Conservative Tom Nichols of MSNBC
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Well the thing is they are not going to do that because they do not care about the well being of this city but rather yearn to use it as a punching back while encouraging the aesthetics of militarizing liberal/Black urban enclaves and any analysis of this project should start there. Hope this helps.
Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” https://theatln.tc/6RCOGO23
August 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Well the thing is they are not going to do that because they do not care about the well being of this city but rather yearn to use it as a punching back while encouraging the aesthetics of militarizing liberal/Black urban enclaves and any analysis of this project should start there. Hope this helps.
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They’re not saying it because msm has refused to report on the truth about racism & white supremacy in this country in any sustained manner. They will say “Democratic cities” over and over. But what of Portland, Seattle, Nashville, Jacksonville, Miami?
It’s the thing the msm won’t say or touch — Trump is trying to break black America over his knee www.oliverexplains.com/p/donald-tru...
August 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They’re not saying it because msm has refused to report on the truth about racism & white supremacy in this country in any sustained manner. They will say “Democratic cities” over and over. But what of Portland, Seattle, Nashville, Jacksonville, Miami?
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At least three people died in a mass shooting in a Target parking lot in Austin on Monday. The suspect has a "mental health" and criminal history, local authorities said.
Texans may want to know why their GOP leaders just banned a proven legal tool for preventing this www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/u...
Texans may want to know why their GOP leaders just banned a proven legal tool for preventing this www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/u...
August 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
At least three people died in a mass shooting in a Target parking lot in Austin on Monday. The suspect has a "mental health" and criminal history, local authorities said.
Texans may want to know why their GOP leaders just banned a proven legal tool for preventing this www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/u...
Texans may want to know why their GOP leaders just banned a proven legal tool for preventing this www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/u...
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Recent research found that traffic stops by police in Hillsborough County, Florida reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.
boltsmag.org/a-polic...
boltsmag.org/a-polic...
A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote
New research shows how the communities that are most heavily policed are pushed away from politics and from having a say in changing policy.
boltsmag.org
July 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Recent research found that traffic stops by police in Hillsborough County, Florida reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.
boltsmag.org/a-polic...
boltsmag.org/a-polic...
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Pause to consider what this means: The Trump administration will audit admissions data by race, color, and test score.
RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.
When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?
RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.
When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
July 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Pause to consider what this means: The Trump administration will audit admissions data by race, color, and test score.
RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.
When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?
RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.
When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?
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But for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could be living in poverty, dependent upon assistance to put food on the table, to take our children to the doctor, and to pull ourselves out of debt. The lack of empathy, the pure callousness on display in this bill, is infuriating.
July 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
But for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could be living in poverty, dependent upon assistance to put food on the table, to take our children to the doctor, and to pull ourselves out of debt. The lack of empathy, the pure callousness on display in this bill, is infuriating.
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The people I actually know, in real life, who listen to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are 45 and think they're 22, which explains a lot of things.
The narrative that young people were going reactionary was always bullshit.
It's not just Zohran Mamdani in New York. Democrats are having a big moment with young voters again.
Here's a recent FL special. Enthusiasm among 18-30 year olds is off the charts for those registered as Dems, but not for young Republicans.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-number...
Here's a recent FL special. Enthusiasm among 18-30 year olds is off the charts for those registered as Dems, but not for young Republicans.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-number...
July 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The people I actually know, in real life, who listen to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are 45 and think they're 22, which explains a lot of things.