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Art Historian, Black Woman, Slow with ‘Follow Backs’ - sorry I’m not Gen Y, cynical and exhausted human, just screaming into the void with the rest of you 🇨🇦🇹🇹🇺🇸 ✊🏽 💛💙❤️🤎 🖖🏾

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · Aug 12

🫩… 👇🏾This is a snapshot, a sliver of the #FACTS of #Anti-BlackRacism.

So, before getting offended at my calling out non-Black #fauxAllies of #RacialJustice, consider first how insidiously embedded to normalization anti-black racism is, and how you perpetuate it. #NumbersDon’tLie #BLM ✊🏾

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Aug 11

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile, the damage is done, and continuing; and while they have their millions and A+ healthcare, none of them will do a minute behind bars, where the entire GOP establishment belongs. 🫤

a man in a blue shirt and tie is making a funny face while sitting in a car .

ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is making a funny face while sitting in a car .

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 1h

What I REALLY want to know is, how’s MAGA responding to the $20B bailout, while cost of US living is still rising?

Again, MAGA will only understand trump & GOP are frauds when their money gets hit. 🤷🏾‍♀️

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s the thing #Canada Black Canadians are still given harsher sentences, and less bail opportunities than their counterparts, so… #cdnpoli #canada #racism

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Carney says legislation to toughen sentences, make bail harder coming next week | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will introduce legislation next week to crack down on crime by introducing harsher sentencing and making bail much harder to get.

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

I’m still waiting to hear from #UshaVance about her husband’s virulent #racism.

Heck, I’m still waiting for BIPOC or LGBTQ Republicans to explain why they support the GOP brand.

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4h

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

I’m MORE scared of Canadians not being able to see through toxic politicians like Poilievre and Smith - whether or not they’re “more palatable”.

We decisively fired his ass in April, and he still forced himself into office, because he had just enough support.
That worries me like crazy.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

#Facts.

Also, Why aren’t we getting a cut of the profits for our personal data😡?
#AI #techbros #ChatGPT

Just Call Me Frank @justcallmefrank.bsky.social · 6h

AI like ChatGPT will eventually be programmed to only provide the information the Technofascists want you to have,
after they've taken away all the current accessible information.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Facts.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not above being petty, especially when the idiocy of trump supporters collides with reality. #SorryNotSorry #trumpTax #GOP #EpsteinShutdown
#America

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Respectfully, GOOD!!!!! If only the loss of healthcare would impact trump voters.

Maybe NOW, trumpers will understand there’s no “Democrat programs” or “Republican programs”, but societal programs!!!

Morons. 😡

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

ARRRG!!! This f@cking guy!!!

Now he’s stealing trump’s “lock ‘em up” schtick?! JFC #PatheticPoillievre STILL without a security clearance, and the toxic AF CPC will be the end of #Canada if we don’t force him off our national stage.

I believe in us Canada, No Maple MAGA. ✊🏾🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

La Presse @lapresse.ca · 2h

Déclarations-choc | Les scandales du gouvernement Trudeau auraient mérité l’emprisonnement, selon Poilievre

Le chef du parti conservateur Pierre Poilievre durcit la ligne : mardi, il a affirmé que les responsables des scandales de l’époque Trudeau auraient dû être emprisonnés, et mercredi, il a assimilé le socialisme au nazisme.

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Did Poilievre get his #securityClearance yet?

HTF is it, especially since 9/11, he’s allowed to serve without being able to obtain one??

PS. 🖕🏾 Alberta for imposing that smug-faced, tacky trump imitation in our consciousness and politics. #Canada

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck “age limits” how about a no ‘asshole policy’ that strictly demands reps work for the overall benefit of constituents and humanity.

Each time McConnell’s frailties show it gives me faith in karma and justice.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 3h

Martha’s deer in the headlights look is priceless proof she’s been drinking too much Republican kool-aid 🤣
Doesn’t she have research assistants to verify stuff? 🤣

#Mamdani for the win✊🏾

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

FOX: The Washington post said all these terrible fearmongering things will happen if buses are free

ZOHRAN: good news - we did it already and here’s what actually happened

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 1d

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously though, wtf is up with that guy’s eyes?!

What a total Napoleon complex douchebag.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 4h

And Americans looked at the old, loud, racist, and adjudicated fraudster, and said, “meh, he’s not the Black lady.”

America has NO credibility whatsoever.

Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 20h

Jack Smith Reveals He Had “Tons of Evidence” Against Trump

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Jack Smith Reveals He Had “Tons of Evidence” Against Trump

The former special counsel is speaking out against the Trump administration.

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 10h

People talk about the 300k+ Black women who have lost their jobs as if they are statistics for their research projects and I’m here to remind yall, we are real ass people feeling the effects of it. In our homes, quality of life and well-being.

To those of you in this boat with me, I see you. 💙

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 5h

Agreed! And I forgot the fact that’s he’s been behind every measure that transfers wealth from the poor to the stupidly rich.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 5h

* Mitch McConnell is trending, Is he dead? * seems like almost…

No one person has done more to help fossil fuels, incarcerate Black people, stop universal health care, limit expanded voting access, help gun violence, maintain police brutality, and keep the poor hungry.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 5h

🤣🤣🤣🤣

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 5h

Me: quelling my rage at America by trusting Carney’s instincts. #cdnpoli

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a woman is making a funny face with her eyes closed and the words `` stressing me out '' written next to her .

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

100%!
Sue their butts to the wall #Ontario ✊🏾🤨 #cdnpoli #Canada #trumpTax #automotive

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

Canada's auto sector is under threat and we need to be working on a response.

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‘If you can’t get a deal, let’s start hitting him back’: Doug Ford says he wants strong response to tariffs from Carney amid Stellantis decision

Premier Doug Ford said he has been given assurances by the president of Stellantis that the Brampton auto plant will continue operations in the future following an announcement by the automaker Tuesda...

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

It’s actually quite refreshing for the GOP to be honest on their feelings. 🫩

I’ll NEVER understand or respect BIPOC and LGBTQ Republicans, never.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

😡😡😡😡

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, totally expected, especially since it’s been 50-60 years the Klan traded in hoods and cloaks for Brooks Brothers 🫩

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, I expect little Nazi wannabes to “look like this”, since the Klan traded their hoods for Brooks Brothers 60 years ago 🤨

His parents should be ashamed AF, but again, they’re likely responsible for his pro-swastika stance. #USA #GOP #Conservatives

Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11h

This is A.J. Elia,
Legislative Correspondent in the Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH-2.) This is the little prick who displayed a swastika in his cubicle. Didn't you expect him to look like this?

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