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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · Jul 3

2024 election results mega thread for reference. It will be updated as more studies of the 2024 election become available. Includes some comparisons to the 2020 election as well to help illustrate some points about the real world impacts of the electoral college and how Harris did vs Biden.

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 2h

talia reports on the ground from face-to-face showdowns with fascists in which she routinely finds herself directly targeted for violence and saying that she is leeching off the "real protesters" who show up one saturday a month to wave signs at passing cars is indeed some radlib shit

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 13h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 2h

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 15d

Patton supported fascism:
From the 1975 Bodyguard of Lies Volume II:

Patton was relieved of command of the 3rd Army by Eisenhower just after the end of the war for stating publicly that America had been fighting the wrong enemy— Germany instead of Russia

Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 2h

He was quite the opposite of the leader of antifa. He admired Nazi Germany and felt the US aligned on the wrong side in WWII.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2h

*10/15/2025 noncooperation thread*

"The Consular Accountability Project is a legal defense organization protecting the rights of visa applicants and bringing accountability to the consular process."

consularaccountability.org

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Skye @itzskye.bsky.social · 4h

Spread the word on resources that people may need!

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 2h

Just a side note, we need to stop thinking of people in college as being young and fresh out of high school. My wife started college in her 40s, for example. The college we attended had a significant amount of the student population that was mid 30s and higher.

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 2h

The social media admins of @winnipegfreepress.com are cowards who disable replies and quotes when their reporting is called out for being biased.

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 7h

I guess not because they just disabled replies and quotes

Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 8h

Do you want to talk about the Palestinian prisoners who have had limbs amputated due to 2+ years of torture in Israeli custody? Over 1500 of these hostages were held without charge and experienced torture including rape, starvation, intentional infestation with scabies, and medical neglect.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe it's time for the pathetic and cowardly Democratic Leadership to FINALLY ENDORSE ZOHRAN MAMDANI?

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 3h

That's quite an impressive headline for the AP, kudos to them. Usually they're much more circumspect.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 3h

About time these great questions were asked (but where is part One?)

youtube.com/shorts/XTzxQ...

Israeli Military Secrets The BBC Doesn't Want You To Know – Part 2

YouTube video by Novara Media

youtube.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone says "Canada isn't racist" I pull up one of these stories

APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

'I don’t drink': A Mi’kmaw Elder was tasered twice by two members of the RCMP for refusing to give a breathalyzer.

Mi’kmaw is Fred Sylliboy’s first language. He said he asked the RCMP for a translator numerous times.

Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered after refusing breathalyzer

A Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered outside his home in Eskasoni by the RCMP after refusing to take a breathalyzer.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 4h

I would say if anything has hurt coalitions, it's the endless amount of rope extended to young racist shitheads, a thing that is a distinct impediment to building effective coalitions with the targets of their clearly hateful bigoted behavior, not pointing out someone's aggrieved sanctimony online

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4h

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4h

They told my generation of Black girls to stop having babies in our teens. They eliminated older forms of welfare. They decimated our communities by creating the PIC. It ruined neighborhoods & families.

Constant propaganda turned us into worker drones. Now they're mad that Black women... work?

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 4h

And this time, no making compromises to end Reconstruction early.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4h

All our lives, we've been told that we're responsible for every murder, every theft, every shenanigan that anyone with even a passing association to us allegedly committed.

This thread asks white allies to convince those you love & in your sphere to turn away from fascism that will destroy us all.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4h

Yes! And if you object to this sermon of a thread:

30-40 years ago, the entire nation was on Black communities' necks about "crime rates" and "teen motherhood." Yesterday's "welfare queen" is today's "DEI hire."

Having zero sense of collective responsibility is a luxury in these United States.

Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 5h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops.

There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done."

And no, he isn't.

LINDSEY BOYLAN: People who abuse women abuse every kind of power they have.

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 4h

In memory of:

Mahmoud Kamal Ibrahim Al-Bardeini / محمود كمال ابراهيم البرديني
Age: 26

We will not forget you.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 4h

(And as usual, Israel is just doing what the US does. Remember all the "we have to figure out what the hell is going on in the Muslim world" bullshit? What's going on is decades of relentless bombing, starvation sanctions, and government overthrows BY YOU there I did it I solved the mystery.)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 4h

But there's been such a total dissolution of cause and effect in the Zionist imagination that it seems like people really cannot wrap their mind around things like "if you murder, imprison, displace, and relentlessly mistreat your neighbors then it's very normal for them to be upset about it."

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 4h

YAY I'M ON BLACKSKY! Thanks so much @sharpiepls.com for your patience. If you're looking to support a safer, more inclusive space on the internet, consider contributing to Blacksky

opencollective.com/blacksky

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 4h

Also, you may believe (as I did) that just because your ancestors were from the "north" (mine, NY & NJ), they did not enslave people. I was horrified to find out that this was not the case while researching my roots.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4h

Your ancestors may have never owned anyone, but we've all been in direct labor competition for a few centuries now. Your ancestors came into a nation with an established racial hierarchy. Let's be honest about that.

It's why I have questions about Marxism in general (Black Marxism is different).

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