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Anyone who says "This is what they voted for" in response to the tragedy unfolding in Texas is having a vile thought and needs to sit shamefully in a corner until they learn what solidarity is.
July 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anyone who says "This is what they voted for" in response to the tragedy unfolding in Texas is having a vile thought and needs to sit shamefully in a corner until they learn what solidarity is.
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Not to do TOO much Mamdani discourse this morning, but one of the reasons American racial categories are what they are is the idea that "African" is a single, coherent, and consistent racial identity. That belief is downstream of slavery ideology, and has no real salience for actual reality.
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not to do TOO much Mamdani discourse this morning, but one of the reasons American racial categories are what they are is the idea that "African" is a single, coherent, and consistent racial identity. That belief is downstream of slavery ideology, and has no real salience for actual reality.
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NYT responds to criticism of its Mamdani story, likening the concerns about their source to “Wikileaks or Edward Snowden” (lol)
July 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NYT responds to criticism of its Mamdani story, likening the concerns about their source to “Wikileaks or Edward Snowden” (lol)
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They deemed this story newsworthy b/c the NYT & many of its elite white readers are still obsessed with race-conscious college admissions. Now after finally winning at SCOTUS anti-affirmative action folks can only attack it retroactively.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
July 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They deemed this story newsworthy b/c the NYT & many of its elite white readers are still obsessed with race-conscious college admissions. Now after finally winning at SCOTUS anti-affirmative action folks can only attack it retroactively.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
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they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power
July 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power
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the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
July 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
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This is why Democrats lose.
Just like literally everything else, Congress can pass a bill cancelling these cuts.
So what? The bill, as written, would require $500 billion in Medicare cuts. I may not run an "actual publication," but I do tell the truth.
Just like literally everything else, Congress can pass a bill cancelling these cuts.
So what? The bill, as written, would require $500 billion in Medicare cuts. I may not run an "actual publication," but I do tell the truth.
July 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is why Democrats lose.
Just like literally everything else, Congress can pass a bill cancelling these cuts.
So what? The bill, as written, would require $500 billion in Medicare cuts. I may not run an "actual publication," but I do tell the truth.
Just like literally everything else, Congress can pass a bill cancelling these cuts.
So what? The bill, as written, would require $500 billion in Medicare cuts. I may not run an "actual publication," but I do tell the truth.
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If Customs and Border Protection takes your phone at an airport/border, they can run it through tech that analyzes your texts, pictures, and social connections.
Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech:
www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...
Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech:
www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...
CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.
www.wired.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If Customs and Border Protection takes your phone at an airport/border, they can run it through tech that analyzes your texts, pictures, and social connections.
Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech:
www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...
Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech:
www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...
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it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
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The press absolutely do not think its their job to inform the public
CNN: Are you confident Democrats can convince Americans that the impacts of this bill are Republicans' fault? That is a messaging challenge
RASKIN: Look, it's a party-line vote
RASKIN: Look, it's a party-line vote
July 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The press absolutely do not think its their job to inform the public
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Asked what specifically Zohran Mamdani has said that's antisemitic, Eric Adams doesn't provide a single example.
"A little research and you'll be able to find it," Adams says.
"A little research and you'll be able to find it," Adams says.
June 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Asked what specifically Zohran Mamdani has said that's antisemitic, Eric Adams doesn't provide a single example.
"A little research and you'll be able to find it," Adams says.
"A little research and you'll be able to find it," Adams says.
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🚨NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Israel Slaughters Dozens in Attack on Popular Gaza Cafe as Trump Claims a Ceasefire Deal is Moving Forward
✍️ Story by Abdel Qader Sabbah, Sharif Kouddous and @jeremyscahill.com
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bom...
✍️ Story by Abdel Qader Sabbah, Sharif Kouddous and @jeremyscahill.com
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bom...
Israel Slaughters Dozens in Attack on Popular Gaza Cafe as Trump Claims a Ceasefire Deal is Moving Forward
Israel is intensifying its mass-killing operations in Gaza as Netanyahu plans White House visit. Hamas says no real progress on a deal
www.dropsitenews.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Israel Slaughters Dozens in Attack on Popular Gaza Cafe as Trump Claims a Ceasefire Deal is Moving Forward
✍️ Story by Abdel Qader Sabbah, Sharif Kouddous and @jeremyscahill.com
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bom...
✍️ Story by Abdel Qader Sabbah, Sharif Kouddous and @jeremyscahill.com
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bom...
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If Abundance was beating people like this with a sack of oranges, it’d be the kind of YIMBY shit I could get behind.
June 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If Abundance was beating people like this with a sack of oranges, it’d be the kind of YIMBY shit I could get behind.
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Cuomo has no friends, no hobbies, no purpose in life but to keep embarrassing himself in municipal elections. Have at it!
June 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Cuomo has no friends, no hobbies, no purpose in life but to keep embarrassing himself in municipal elections. Have at it!
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CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃
June 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃
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this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation
It’s like telling a cancer institute to stop spending so much on cancer research.
Here are a few of the many cuts.
Via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social
Here are a few of the many cuts.
Via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation
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it’s too bad our governor is a fucking coward who refuses to stand up for virginians
June 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
it’s too bad our governor is a fucking coward who refuses to stand up for virginians
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important to understand that there are still alums who are angry over integration and co-education at the university.
they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
important to understand that there are still alums who are angry over integration and co-education at the university.
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To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
Exactly! Mamdani's most "radical" proposals — free buses, government grocery stores, higher taxes on the wealthy, a huge increase in affordable housing — really aren't that radical.
The centrist meltdown has to be about something else.
The centrist meltdown has to be about something else.
on Mamdani's city-run groceries idea, "laboratories of democracy" are one of the great U.S. strengths - even if you don't think it's likely to work, it's really interesting to see it tested. Maybe it'll be really successful! Maybe it'll fail for reasons we don't expect!
June 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
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his guides are legitimately great too. we used for our trip to athens last year and it was so helpful.
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
his guides are legitimately great too. we used for our trip to athens last year and it was so helpful.
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i can’t express how much i stan rick steves
I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty.
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
Rick Steves Talks Travel, Cannabis and Freedom
The celebrated PBS television host’s plant advocacy is legendary as is his take on the current state of international cannabis.
cannabisnow.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
i can’t express how much i stan rick steves
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Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"