@rachel-es.bsky.social
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i think this is the most compelling thing in Mahmood Mamdani’s vision about postcolonial politics. he explicitly disavows any idea of demanding people humble themselves about historical traumas, but he wants to encourage everyone to see themselves as _survivors_ of history, and we all work w/in it.
December 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
i think this is the most compelling thing in Mahmood Mamdani’s vision about postcolonial politics. he explicitly disavows any idea of demanding people humble themselves about historical traumas, but he wants to encourage everyone to see themselves as _survivors_ of history, and we all work w/in it.
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Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.
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I often criticize the Dem leadership, but this one strikes me as a good approach.
Jeffries: "We will not be intimidated by Vought, who's totally out of control. The OMB has been illegally shutting down parts of the govt throughout the entire year, & the notion Dems are gonna be intimidated when all he's done is send a message that Republicans are determined to hurt people ... "
September 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I often criticize the Dem leadership, but this one strikes me as a good approach.
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“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein
September 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein
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“Unlike previous surveillance methods, new digital tools allow law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance persistently, universally, at an unimaginable scale. They can do so with no special permission, no oversight and no advance planning.”
Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance
New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Unlike previous surveillance methods, new digital tools allow law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance persistently, universally, at an unimaginable scale. They can do so with no special permission, no oversight and no advance planning.”
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Because, once again: the first violence the authoritarian right commits is against fact, truth, history, meaning, language, science, and this version keeps committing it. They bring liberation from reality, though maybe disinhibition is a better word.
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Because, once again: the first violence the authoritarian right commits is against fact, truth, history, meaning, language, science, and this version keeps committing it. They bring liberation from reality, though maybe disinhibition is a better word.
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Whether it’s Democrats saying Latinx or Republicans fantasizing about having alligators eat all 65 million Latino Americans, both sides are struggling to connect with America’s fastest growing group of voters.
July 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Whether it’s Democrats saying Latinx or Republicans fantasizing about having alligators eat all 65 million Latino Americans, both sides are struggling to connect with America’s fastest growing group of voters.
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This is a really smart point about "experience" from @besttrousers.bsky.social, presented as a screenshot of a thread for readability
June 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is a really smart point about "experience" from @besttrousers.bsky.social, presented as a screenshot of a thread for readability
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IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.
It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?
It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?
Looks like Harvard could potentially cave to the Trump administration.
And of course, race and diversity would be the first casualty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
And of course, race and diversity would be the first casualty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.
It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?
It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?
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3. They hadn't heard that after Cuomo left his governorship he'd joined the team defending Netanyahu against war crime allegations at the ICC.
I know the media portrays caring about Gaza as a "woke" youth issue but my parents bring it up everytime I see them (which is a lot) & they call it genocide
I know the media portrays caring about Gaza as a "woke" youth issue but my parents bring it up everytime I see them (which is a lot) & they call it genocide
June 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
3. They hadn't heard that after Cuomo left his governorship he'd joined the team defending Netanyahu against war crime allegations at the ICC.
I know the media portrays caring about Gaza as a "woke" youth issue but my parents bring it up everytime I see them (which is a lot) & they call it genocide
I know the media portrays caring about Gaza as a "woke" youth issue but my parents bring it up everytime I see them (which is a lot) & they call it genocide
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In Pasadena, protesters ran ICE out of a hotel. The hotel insisted ICE leave. Protesters slashed tires of many of the vehicles and local tow companies refused to assist. /
June 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In Pasadena, protesters ran ICE out of a hotel. The hotel insisted ICE leave. Protesters slashed tires of many of the vehicles and local tow companies refused to assist. /
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With photos by Stephanie Keith
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
With photos by Stephanie Keith
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Yeah, I don't care if you identify as a liberal or a moderate, if you actually care about good government, transit and housing then there is no good reason to rank Cuomo or not rank Mamdani. I say this despite having reservations about parts of Mamdani's platform!
In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible.
In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.
In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.
June 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Yeah, I don't care if you identify as a liberal or a moderate, if you actually care about good government, transit and housing then there is no good reason to rank Cuomo or not rank Mamdani. I say this despite having reservations about parts of Mamdani's platform!
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This kind of turnout in
Thousand Oaks, of all places, is bonkers.
Thousand Oaks, of all places, is bonkers.
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This kind of turnout in
Thousand Oaks, of all places, is bonkers.
Thousand Oaks, of all places, is bonkers.
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A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.
June 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.
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"There's no reason to shoot anybody!" Waters shouted to the service members. "Don't allow them to make your service a service where you're killing people."
"Don't do it. Defy them!" she added. "Don't shoot those guns for anything!"
"Don't do it. Defy them!" she added. "Don't shoot those guns for anything!"
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.
'Don't shoot!' Maxine Waters begs National Guard not to use guns at protest
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.
The California lawmaker showed up at an anti-ICE demonstration near Los Angeles on Sunday after President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to be deployed.
"There's no reason to shoo...
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June 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"There's no reason to shoot anybody!" Waters shouted to the service members. "Don't allow them to make your service a service where you're killing people."
"Don't do it. Defy them!" she added. "Don't shoot those guns for anything!"
"Don't do it. Defy them!" she added. "Don't shoot those guns for anything!"
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If Democrats didn't want people to resist fascism with violence, they should've gotten off their ass and resisted it with everything in their power on Biden's Day 1.
You can't Do Nothing and let fascists consolidate power and tell citizens to just lay down and take it. Dem shit isn't working.
You can't Do Nothing and let fascists consolidate power and tell citizens to just lay down and take it. Dem shit isn't working.
June 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
If Democrats didn't want people to resist fascism with violence, they should've gotten off their ass and resisted it with everything in their power on Biden's Day 1.
You can't Do Nothing and let fascists consolidate power and tell citizens to just lay down and take it. Dem shit isn't working.
You can't Do Nothing and let fascists consolidate power and tell citizens to just lay down and take it. Dem shit isn't working.
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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
www.wnep.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
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The Andrew Cuomo Cursed Campaign is now posing the question "What if the rent actually isn't high enough in New York City?"
NEW: The biggest single donor in the mayoral race is now the New York Apartment Association, which wants to make sure Cuomo defeats Mamdani.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Landlord lobby will boost Cuomo with $2.5M spend
The New York Apartment Association is now the single largest supporter of the front-runner in the New York City mayoral race.
www.politico.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Andrew Cuomo Cursed Campaign is now posing the question "What if the rent actually isn't high enough in New York City?"
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this obsession with a handful of high status universities is also low key an indication of elite disdain for the institutions that educate most americans who attend colleges and universities
June 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
this obsession with a handful of high status universities is also low key an indication of elite disdain for the institutions that educate most americans who attend colleges and universities