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jmonkeh.bsky.social @jmonkeh.bsky.social · 40m

It makes sense when you realize they want the apocalypse to happen.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h

Trump administration cut funding floods to Alaskan villages bc “DEI” and now some of those villages have been inundated by floods.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

perhaps if you'd been a skosh more political we wouldn't have dim zealots who operate at a third grade reading level demolishing the regulatory state, karen

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

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

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

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 · 3h

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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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 42m

Yes, much like trying to explain to malepeople how literally everything is misogynistic.💀💀

Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 47m

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 · 1h

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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The Girl Who Can't Stop Reading 📚 @cheriieephii.bsky.social · 1h

You don't have to shop for Black Friday.
You don't have to shop on Prime day.
You don't have to spend what you usually spend on Christmas.
You don't have to let those subscriptions you barely use renew.

If you can't make a statement anywhere else, you can make your voice heard with your $$.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 5h

“Keisha and Sean became determined to fill this resource gap. They’re among a growing group of Black parents who are building a support network.”

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 41m

There is this whole concept called intersectionality that explains this well, but I guess it was too woke or something.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 42m

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 58m

There will never be a day in my life when I don’t laugh at who thinks they are genetically endowed by god. Never. Ever.

Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 14h

The master race. 😑

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1h

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 40m

The raccoons went through the compost bin last night, tossing aside the stale homemade focaccia because it was too hard to eat.

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rosegold1736.bsky.social @rosegold1736.bsky.social · 47m

I just finished a security brief.. just scrubbed media. Be careful on here with all these spy bots on here..

Tip: if your face and voice on here, remove your voice.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Natalie @hbnole.bsky.social · 31m

Jan 6, mofos. STFU.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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Purple Rain @sarahrain.bsky.social · 37m

WTAF so beating women is not serious to the speaker of rim jobs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 37m

the overwhelming urge to buy something I don't need or book a trip somewhere when I really need to just take a long walk outside, clean my apartment, and finally tackle my laundry

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 51m

The data I'm working with today is so dated that I have to laugh.

One person is marked as being a minor with a guardian, but the "child" is named Nancy, and her guardian is listed as Mrs. Initials Lastname.

Surely, Nancy is not just grown but collecting Social Security by now.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

The 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society

The Supreme Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

“What began seemingly as a putative crackdown on so-called ‘criminal’ immigrants, the ‘worst of the worst,’ has revealed itself to be exactly what it is: a brazen attempt to instill fear in and demand obedience of all Americans.”

What's unfolding in cities is 'terrifying escalation' of what we saw in 1968 Chicago

The action of federal government agents at Donald Trump’s direction demonstrates all too clearly that what his administration really wants is to intimidate American cities.

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Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social · 2h

Ya bastards.

Shrinkfation.

Shorter coffee filters now.
So short the coffee grounds float over the edge and into the damn coffee.

A pox on you shitheads.

Shorter coffee filters.
Assholes.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 2h

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

From @capitalb.bsky.social:

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

19thnews.org

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 3h

You want your own Super Bowl halftime show, because you don’t agree with selected entertainment. Only colonizers think and act like this to oppress others.
Explain to me why I’m wrong.

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