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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 2h

The conservative movement experienced the Civil Rights Movement as a humiliating existential defeat that must be rolled back and never allowed to happen again.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

The Voting Rights Act has done more than perhaps any other statute to build a multiracial democracy

which is precisely why the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have spent decades casting the law as constitutionally unsound

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 5h

And they said as much! They thought that Schumer's tough talk was all fake and when the actual vote came he'd do a Kevin Nash and flop over from a light poke to the chest! They're shitting their pants because the Democrats are holding a rock-hard line against them!

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 5h

"The only restraints now are their imaginations!" yes, and as we've established they have less creative power than a diffusion engine. They're fucking morons who are stumbling ass-first into massive Constitutional violations in their panicked flailing because they thought Schumer would take a dive.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 5h

Again- the GOP certainly don't think that it's over. The guys *doing this* don't think they seized ultimate power over the budget and don't need Dems or Congress anymore. *They* don't seem to think it's Duma Hours.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4h

I know we got this reputation for being too scoldy about all the disgusting racism and sexism but what if we weren’t scoldy enough

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 7h

yeah, no, agree - I think they actually care deeply what people think of them. it's why they're so offended by being called weird losers.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 9h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate-backed Wall Street Democrats and embrace Zohran Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9h

For no reason at all I’m thinking of an AI bro on here who sneered at Timnit Gebru, saying her only claim to fame was being fired, all because Dr Gebru pointed to the deep roots of eugenics in tech, and the problematic ways Blueskys own engineers talked about eugenics in relation to AI.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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KC Says FREE LINK @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 8h

the thing about Trump is in his own bizarre way he’s charismatic and interesting. JD is a charisma black hole who reeks of shame at who he is. he doesn’t have the personality to build a cult around him.

KC Says FREE LINK @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 8h

I feel like if/when Trump dies the movement dies with him, because Miller/Vought like being in control and JD is dumb enough to think he’s the boss.

Maybe we’re wrong but the guy just doesn’t have the juice

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 10h

Yea, idk I remember saying something about how a lot of people's bar for racism is overt racism it makes a lot of problems invisible. If you're not actively on the receiving end, sure it's invisible and it seems like times were better when you were not actively confronted to take a look at yourself

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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KC Says FREE LINK @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 9h

URGENT MUTUAL AID REQUEST!!

Bank account is negative $200. Need help to buy groceries and to make sure some bills don’t bounce.

CashApp: $KennethClyburn

#MutualAid #MABoost

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 1d

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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KC Says FREE LINK @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 10h

He was being earnest too

KC Says FREE LINK @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 10h

On pre-crisis Twitter I had a conservative tell me that getting called racist was as bad as being called the n-word

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 13h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

JD Vance, probably as much as anyone on earth, represents how being a verifiable piece of shit is the most heroic thing you can do right now

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 23h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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KC Says FREE LINK @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 1d

Chat I think the Nobel Peace Prize might be bullshit

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 1d

i firmly think that the reason a lot of this stuff doesn't really get covered is because it's a bummer to bring up at a dinner party, and dinner party conversations are how the actual policy is formed in DC

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

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