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Jonel ❌👑

@jonelstr.bsky.social

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pronouns are she/her Everything is political Retired, living on a barge. USMC raised, expect swearing. Feminist & Anti racist, anti Nazi Dog/Cat fostering I follow folks with interesting things to say.

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Jonel ❌👑 @jonelstr.bsky.social · Aug 4

SEATTLE! ***💕GRACIE NEEDS HER FOREVER HOME💕***

This foster girl is THE SWEETEST, goofiest, funniest, most loyal companion anyone could want. She is easy-going with humans, loves men AND women & teens. (No idea about littles)

Adoption fee is covered at SavingGreatAnimals.org.

Happy blond lap/pit mix smiling in the car

Happy blond lap/pit mix sitting on a dock with two people standing behind her

Happy blond lap/pit mix being petted by three children in a park

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6h

yes.

Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 6h

The greatest trick the FedSoc devils ever pulled was pretending that "considering race while trying to fix structural racism" is itself racist. It's a bad-faith argument, made by "polite" white supremacists.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 6h

Since the launch of the 2nd #NoKings mobilization, the Trump regime has escalated their authoritarian agenda.

We won’t back down.

On Oct. 18, we’re telling this wannabe dictator: America belongs to us.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. app.sosha.ai/s/GLV3dTgM

Find An Event Near You!

app.sosha.ai

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

The case is submitted.

My prediction is that Section 2 is overturned, 6-3 Kav majority, saying that the Section 2 still *exists* but isn't allowed to do anything.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

NEW via NYT:

A U.S. attorney and his deputy were removed after telling top DOJ officials they don't believe criminal charges are warranted from a new Kash Patel-backed investigation seeking to discredit the FBI's earlier Russia investigation that looked into Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 5h

I’ll add that many of the arguments that conservative legal movement luminaries are making now would not have flown even in FedSoc circles a decade ago. It matters that they are comfortable saying this stuff in public, and that the conservative lawyers who reject these arguments are now irrelevant.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 6h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5h

We're taking to the streets this Saturday at hundreds of protests nationwide to reject the Trump administration's attacks on our rights.

Find a No Kings protest near you at nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=a...

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 5h

According to CAVE (Caucasian American Vernacular English):

"DEI" is a political agenda to subvert "meritocracy"
"Diversity hires" are unqualified ppl who got a job because of their race
These terms describe the federal prosecutors who Trump hired to indict his political enemies

Trump's DOJ Is White DEI

The Trump Administration's Justice Department is filled with incompetent, unqualified people who personify the conservatives definition of a "diversity hire."

dlvr.it

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6h

why are we pretending that race shouldn't be predominant when remedying racism?

it's the same problem I've always had with affirmative action being about "diversity" rather than quotas.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SHOULD BE ABOUT QUOTAS.

REMEDYING RACISM IN VOTING SHOULD CONSIDER RACE PREDOMINANTLY.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

Everything is retribution

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 4h

I stand with the brave journalists who are refusing to abide by Hegseth’s press ‘policy’.

Freedom of the press is one of our most foundational rights guaranteed by the Constitution — and Secretary Signalgate is attempting to chip that away.

This is nothing more than censorship.

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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 3h

This judge got it exactly right––indiscriminate firings and cuts to key programs have a human cost that we won't tolerate.

Glad that Trump's authoritarian abuse of power is curbed for now. We'll keep fighting in the courts, Congress, and the streets to put a stop to it.

apnews.com/article/gove...

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown. U.S.

apnews.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Jonel ❌👑 @jonelstr.bsky.social · 1h

Oh ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 2h

Just 20 days left to vote, Virginia.

At a time when extreme Washington Republicans are recklessly shutting down the government, Democrats aren't backing down from the fight for Virginians’ healthcare, lower costs, and well-funded education.

Let's do this.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2h

One of the most inspiring days of the year for me is when I get to present the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security's annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards to honorees from around the world who are working to safeguard democracy, sometimes at tremendous personal risk.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 2h

Your reminder that Republicans have ALL the power and can open the government if they wanted to. Yes, the senate as they’ve done before with Republicans in charge can vote to remove the 60 vote threshold and use their simple majority to cut off healthcare and open government.

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 2h

As a Supreme Court gets ready to strip the rest of the protections in the Voting Rights Act… California needs to set the tone for the resistance.
YES on prop 50.
youtube.com/shorts/PwCAq...

FIGHT back CALIFORNIA

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

youtube.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

also lmao c’mon

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

love to be told that i’m “obsessed with race” and “hysterical about racism” when i calmly say that these people are segregationists.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

yeah look i'm a little irritated at how much people lied about who these people were and what they wanted while calling those who described things accurately hysterical.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote in february that the administration had an apartheid refugee policy. As usual though in this business it's better to be wrong in a way that powerful people like rather than right in a way they don't. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Only

Trump wants to “promote the resettlement” of white South Africans.

www.theatlantic.com

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 1h

The white ruling class wants to keep the south red and dumb and the SCOTUS will most likely accommodate. Democrats and black folk will be left with nothing.

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