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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20m

you cannot remedy racism without focusing on race. it's asinine to try.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17m

When Brazil adopted quotas for higher ed, the percentage of Afro Brazilians in higher ed shot up 400 percent and all of them did as well as non-affirmative action students.

The idea that affirmative action is stigmatizing and elevates unqualified people is a BS argument.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas. (Updated)

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21m

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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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

Not only is it invented, it is ASININE.

We've had the Voting Rights Act for 60 years.

On top of 88 years of Jim Crow and 250 years of slavery.

If there is a time limit, it should 250 + 88.

I have such loathing for these justices.

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 1h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22m

The Episcopalians have been activated. Repeat: the Episcopalians have been activated.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 29m

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 2h

I thought that’s how precedent was supposed to work . . .

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2h

CJ Roberts: "Allen v. Milligan took existing precedent as a given."

Uh ... ok? What? The litigants challenged existing precedent in that case too?

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 11h

every person in that Politico article looks like they came out the womb wearing transition lenses

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 13h

John Mayer, you leave that nice Kat Stickler alone.

Demi Lovato commenting “GET A JOB. STAY AWAY FROM HER.”

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 15h

I need to get this off my chest.

Uncomfortableness should not be a word. The word is discomfort.

Comfortability should not be a word. The word is comfort.

Stop adding syllables.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 18h

God, I loved that game.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, I know. It’s real fucking dark, LMSFGB.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 19h

Did we solve the male loneliness epidemic? Are they going to stop bothering women now?

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 19h

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users | TechCrunch

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 20h

Never has the phrase “looks like a thumb” been more appropriate.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 21h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 21h

I loved @tamis.bsky.social’s memoir! I especially recommend the audiobook.

Audiobook of Cry for Me Argentina by Tamara Yajia

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time, beyond time, really, I’m leaving Substack. I didn’t do it before because I had no other income to rely on. I don’t think abandoning spaces is always the right answer but sometimes it’s necessary www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

Why I am leaving Substack | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

Dreamed last night that Skrillex, an artist I have never listened to and am unsure if he still does stuff, released a CBD drink called Skrelax. “The ultimate in skrelaxation”. Ok

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing that will reverse this is maybe the courts, and probably more effectively red states saying they want this restored. Also, stop electing Republicans.

Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t intend to spend the IDEA money going forward, because they don’t believe in educating disabled kids. This will all be put under the umbrella of “DEI” and “returning education to the states.”

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory about the Dept. of Education layoffs. The money for this year is already distributed, so they don’t need staff to do that. They hate disabled people and fundamentally oppose federal oversight of the states or technical assistance, so they don’t need staff to do that.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

Jon Hamm in French is Jean Jambon.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era.

Me and my wife 16ish years ago visiting the Capitol before I started working there.

Selfie of me (white guy, dark hair, clean shaven) and my wife (Mexican woman, black hair, beautiful).

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