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

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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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 49m

My 21yo explained this to me the other day and it's so ridiculous that it gave me a headache.

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 58m

Parents! Finally an answer for the utterly nonsensical kid favorite... SIX-SEVEN!

youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA?...

Is 67 just brain rot?

YouTube video by languagejones

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 57m

"You may not be into politics but politics is into you and it is your stalker. "

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 57m

"If you don't show up, the people who want you silent are going to take your silence as consent"

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 51m

something something the purpose of a system is what it does

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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 1h

No one is saying *individual Republicans* can't change! We are saying the party has LOOOONG been structurally racist and has LOOOONG refused to stigmatize outright racism and misogyny in their ranks. THIS IS SIMPLY TRUE.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Oh look, Neil Gorsuch pointing out a *legitimate* problem with the court's VRA jurisprudence. The Court says race cannot be the "predominate" factor, but Gorsuch asks "what does predominance mean?"

But, by his own admission, Gorsuch is teeing up the next case, he's made up his mind on this one.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Moopppan: "There's no reason to think that the Louisiana legislature would have done anything different if every black democrat was a white democrat."

ACTUALLY THAT DOESN'T MATTER. Because the VRA (section 2) isn't asking about INTENT it's asking about RESULTS.

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QuyetPawz @quyetpawz.bsky.social · 1h

Daily Mutual Aid Thread is back.

Link should have never been suspended!

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1h

15-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Taken By Feds For 5 Hours After East Side Protest, Attorney Says

"This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes," an attorney for the boy, arrested as crowds formed around a car crash Tuesday caused by federal agents, said in a statemen...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

THE WHOLE REASON we're arguing the case this year, after it was ALREADY argued last year, is that Roberts couldn't figure out how to get away from the court's own ruling in Milligan. Now, he's figured it out.

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 2h

Happy to share my piece for @theguardian.com on the mainstreaming of fascist fashion. If we want to fight this, we first need to learn to recognize (and name) its aesthetics, especially today. Check it out 🗃️https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/fascist-fashion-language

The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you

www.theguardian.com

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2h

yeah, once more with a cover photo - I really, really encourage all tech folks to read this

cover of the report linked: a light green-grey eagle silhouette on a darker background with 5 yellow stars and the text:

United States Senate Committee On
Homeland Security
& Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member Gary Peters

Unchecked and Unaccountable
How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress

HSGAC Minority Staff Report
September 2025

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2h

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 1h

This thread is amazing. Some of the best SCOTUS commentary I have ever read. Deliciously vicious toward the FedSoc justices.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Kagan is going back to the difference between Section 2 and Section 5. This would work if Roberts was an intellectually honest person. Unfortunately, Roberts hates Black people voting as much as any Klansman ever did.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Haaahahaha. Kagan says "in Milligan, we rejected a number of arguments. It seems to me that you just made every one of them." Then she started to list them.
... she's still listing them. :)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Sotomayor: "race is *always* a part of redistricting efforts."

Thank you. See, the Republicans are trying to gaslight people by suggesting they're for "no race in gerrymandering." That's just not true. Race is ALWAYS a factor when you're drawing a map.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Kagan: "It's not about intentional discrimination because Section 2 isn't about intentional discrimination, it's about effectual discrimination."

Again, this should be the winning argument. It won't be.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

They are of course wrong. Understanding how race works in something like, voting, doesn't mean you *must* discriminate against one group or another. But Gorsuch and Brett can't see it that way. Because when *they* "use" race, it's always to discriminate.

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