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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 3h

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21m

2024: they’re running on a platform of shit will be bad

2025: why the fuck is shit bad?

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 6m

It is.

thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 8m

So true. I’m as white as they come and what you describe has always bothered me about white society and white culture in particular. I’ve tried to fit into that mould and smoothing my rougher edges. It’s stifling.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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newsoneofficial.bsky.social @newsoneofficial.bsky.social · 12h

What’s happening to Black workers isn’t a downturn, it's a pattern hiding in plain sight and a deliberate racial targeting.

More on #NewsOne.com —> https://bit.ly/4n5Uvxk
📸: Anastasiia Havrysh / Getty

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 12h

I want to believe you, but we’ve seen a shit ton of kneeling and/or people not even bothering to osu attention this year. What is going to change?

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 12h

Or the CDC for that matter.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 12h

But we still can’t have health care or a living wage….

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 14h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 14h

Indeed. Our country has no soul.

thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 16h

Hilary was being charitable in her characterization of maga.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 19h

Now do trump

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 19h

It has long been thus.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 19h

Put another way, the contemporary Republican Party isn't really a coalition defined by policy preferences. Rather, it's a community of racists, xenophobes, sexual abusers, and misogynists that just happens to have a political apparatus attached. It attracts bad values and degrades any good values.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 19h

But we are all overreacting when the regime leader called Latinos vermin.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 19h

Right?! They’re not being serious or anything…

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 22h

It's been two weeks since Republicans shut down the government.

Reminder: they could come to the table and negotiate to reopen things today and restore people's health care coverage.

They're actively choosing not to.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 21h

Readers don’t want it. But then, what we want is irrelevant. It’s about capturing the narrative and blurring reality for us.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 1d

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Tina Fey’s SNL
impersonation included her scarring.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

"We live in a fascist police state now.

They just haven't gotten to you yet"

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 1d

But that’s just it. Too many people don’t want to help others. Our racism as a country is so ingrained that we could all have healthcare but some people just don’t want to support others they see as “less than”.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 1d

Our enemies rejoice.