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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 1h

And many journalists repeated it uncritically despite Trump’s very long record of lying!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

Thing in my head now on how America and racism have messed us up for this moment….

We keep hearing the comparisons to Nazi Germany

Why don’t we hear any comparisons to Rwanda

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 4h

*for* Talia

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

slate.com

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah I have boundless respect from Talia but I felt this was off the mark too. I'm extremely skeptical of anyone criticizing protests because we truly don't know what will make a difference. And also, if this is the form of protest that lights a fire in you and keeps you going? DO IT.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

Your near-daily reminder that newspapers have business reporters, not labor reporters. www.startribune.com/a-new-kind-o...

Text with the word “hardship” is highlighted: Rising costs of food, rent and labor, which trickle down to menu prices, are turning off customers, restaurateurs are finding. The hardship is even starker within Minneapolis city limits, where the minimum wage is higher than in neighboring suburbs, and bigger government offices make navigating licenses, permits and
regulations even trickier

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks!

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 7h

I think part of this is that no singular tactic will ever do it.

We can look at history and say this or that one thing worked that time, but I think it's like getting a stuck lid open. Everything you already did probably helped.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19h

so...dumping on people protesting as not doing the ideal thing or not defeating fascism...like, no one knows the ideal thing, and no one has hit on the tactic to make fascism stop.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 7h

Fun detail from this great profile of Mamdani's campaign manager in @cityandstateny.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

As the primary election results became clear on June 24, Mamdani’s team was scrambling. They had prepared a concession speech and a “too close to call” speech, expecting that the final result would only be announced once the ranked choice tabulations were finished a week later. They had not prepared a “Cuomo concedes before 11 p.m.” version. While aides finished editing Mamdani’s speech, Bisgaard-Church took the stage to give them a little more time. It was a big moment for her as someone who prefers to be out of the spotlight.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 7h

Anyway I sprinted off the train to get away from them but I left my tote bag, and of course they were the ones to call after me and make sure I came back to get it. So now I'm the a-hole. This is more hard truth than anyone should have to face before 9:30 am.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 7h

On the train this morning a woman was sitting next to me and her male companion, who was standing in front of her, kept stroking her hand and arm and playfully walking his fingers up them. I can't tell you why this was the most annoying thing in the world; you'll just have to take my word for it.

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 10h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 10h

Can you put their donation links in here please?

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10h

So I have had two Palestinians I’ve shared lose their account this week- it was their first accounts, they didn’t understand the platform, weren’t spamming or DMing anyone- sent in appeals with pictures of their IDs and heard nothing from @moderation.bsky.app

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 11h

Telling MAGA reporters to shut up is supremely rational behavior

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 19h

Ohhhhh no no no

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 23h

The usual grift

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta keep an eye on his hired guns

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 1d

Astounding move by Indiana University to direct its student newspaper on what they can and cannot print:

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 1d

Systemic racism was/is the warm-up act for authoritarianism across the board. In case anyone is still unclear on that point

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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @kaine.senate.gov it is ILLEGAL for the president to murder people! Your country needs you to stand up for the rule of law!

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