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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 32m

If you are a WW defending Katie Porter, I don't trust you and you are likely the kind of WW that asks why BW don't trust WW.

Katie Porter type WW are why.

We told you about her in 2018. But she had a whiteboard...

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 34m

See my post. She's been this way since elected. Have not been a fan since she tried to Karen her way I to the committee assignment Maxine Waters earned.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 35m

@blackamazon.bsky.social ☝🏾

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Fox News is eating this up.

Have you ever seen anyone torch their own governor chances as fast as Katie Porter did last week?

Google searches for “Katie Porter interview” are up 10,000% and her odds of becoming the next California governor just cratered from 40% to under 16%.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1h

So many ppl spent the entire 2010s online trying to find ways to exclude Blackness from their interpretation and analysis of history; the cost of doing so is a level of intellectual and political unpreparedness that cannot meet the current moment in a way that’d be laughable if it wasn’t dangerous.

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.bsky.social · 2h

No no, sorry but we can't talk about intersectionality anymore. That is part of the "Woke Times" that we are leaving behind for reasons that those folks will never fully explain.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 2h

Just like the foundation of all the violence communities are seeing now is anti-blackness. If any of us wants this to end we 1000% can NOT end it without addressing and dismantling anti blackness. It’s that simple. It’s not that all of our fates are tied together-

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 42m

I am not shocked by Katie Porter's behavior. Remember when she didn't get the committee assignment she wanted in her first term and Nancy Pelosi gave that assignment to Maxine Waters? Remember how Katie tried to Karen and bully her way to that assignment?

BW have not!

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

$50K in taxpayer dollars. Where are all the folks who whine about their $3.12 annually that goes to "welfare" for the people they always blame?

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Just Lee 🇨🇦 @justleeg.bsky.social · 5h

This is exactly how it will work

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

Can this generation of rappers read?

I know they don't, it's obvious and quite a few feel no shaming saying so, but I am asking CAN.

The indie ones do and they are ✊🏾, but the mainstream ones most young people have access to, I just don't hear art even trying to reach its full potential here.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

Should've asked them to remake the food...

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

There's time later to be consumed w/ seriousness of our situation. Before starting the work of resistance, take 5 minutes to sit with yourself at a less complicated time in life for a mental cleanse . This was mine 👇🏾

"Back in the day on the boulevard of Linden..."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkn...

Check the Rhime

YouTube video by A Tribe Called Quest - Topic

music.youtube.com

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

Clever little name for this makeshift band. First single, "Never Kissed a Girl" drops next week!

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 5h

Clever little name for this makeshift band. First single, "Never Kissed a Girl" drops next week!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Blue Sedition Podcast @blue-sedition.com · 19h

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries...

Are we winning yet?

finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

finance.yahoo.com

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think people realize from our perspective how HARD people work on their racism, even the microaggressions, when logically it's easier to not be racist and mind your business.

Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 1d

@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social What you are talking about with the surveillance of mobile phone locations is the start of what the right is talking about in their echo chambers of implementing "ordered liberty." @michaelsteele.bsky.social was talking about thos last night.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 1d

I have a 30 yr old Prince symbol on my ankle and 2 others of butterflies. So anyone with a tattoo is getting picked up at this point. It is scary.

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