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Justin

@sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social

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Recovering attorney, former journalist. History nerd. Polish/Ukrainian Jew. Married to a bona fide civil rights lawyer. He/him

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · Mar 20

Basically it’s down to denial vs procrastination now.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 5h

That’s kind of you but literally all I did was say standard stuff while being a white guy.

don’t get me wrong, I’m more than happy to do that any time it can help. but this isn’t about me.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

And an apology would be nice.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

Cool.

You have seriously disrespected my friends and allies. Please move along now.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

I think the blurb is from senior?

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

You will continue to fail to recruit people if you continue to be unwilling to actually hear what they are saying.

And quite honestly I’m offended that you have been more polite and gracious in disagreeing with me than you were to my friends here. So please move along now.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

It’s an overstep.

He ran for president to be president. He served two terms.

He’s retired.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

Neither of those facts is relevant.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a bigger theme that you’ve been missing all along and I’m going to say it as clearly as I can.

After 400+ years of some of the most inhumane treatment that any group of people has had in human history, and ongoing failure to address that, Black Americans Do_Not_Owe_This_Country_Anything.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

Also 👇

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a bigger theme that you’ve been missing all along and I’m going to say it as clearly as I can.

After 400+ years of some of the most inhumane treatment that any group of people has had in human history, and ongoing failure to address that, Black Americans Do_Not_Owe_This_Country_Anything.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

No, you only believe in saying “gosh that’s a sad situation” when other people are splitting groups. You want Black people here for all hands on deck because you think you’re at risk.

They’ve been shouting for help for fucking decades and I don’t recall a whole lot of people saying “oh, unity”

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

And if you want to trot out this nonsense “that’s how democracy works,” i would ask you to think very hard about whether people who are still systematically excluded from so much of this country, publicly and privately, should be lectured about how democracy works.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a bigger theme that you’ve been missing all along and I’m going to say it as clearly as I can.

After 400+ years of some of the most inhumane treatment that any group of people has had in human history, and ongoing failure to address that, Black Americans Do_Not_Owe_This_Country_Anything.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 7h

As for this silly idea that he benefits materially from the fact that he was president - yeah, that’s just how time works. It doesn’t come with a reciprocal obligation.

There are dozens of well-known political figures who are straight cis white men, Republicans and Democrats, who have been silent.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 7h

No. Once someone leaves office, that’s it. Public service is over.

It doesn’t matter if they are still getting secret service protection (which btw Trump would cancel for Obama in an instant if he had the ability).

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 7h

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 10h

Thrice-divorced father of 14 calls his new business “Macrohard,” everyone pretends this is normal behavior for an executive in charge of six (seven?) companies.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 11h

Elon Musk’s new technology company sets its sights on Microsoft.

Elon Musk Targets Hardware and Software With New Microsoft Competitor

www.newsweek.com

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 8h

#kavanaughstop

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h

Trump's secret police in action in Chicago

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 10h

It’s not just Trump voters who repaint the world in their imagination.

If you’re reporting on the uninhibited actions of a half-trillionaire white supremacist maniac because “like him or not, he’s a player in the business world” then don’t edit what he says. Investors have a right to know that too.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 10h

Thrice-divorced father of 14 calls his new business “Macrohard,” everyone pretends this is normal behavior for an executive in charge of six (seven?) companies.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 11h

Elon Musk’s new technology company sets its sights on Microsoft.

Elon Musk Targets Hardware and Software With New Microsoft Competitor

www.newsweek.com

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 11h

Reporter:
Can we have more information about what DHS posted on X?

Government:
Here’s a link to what DHS posted on X.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

Reporter:
Can we have more information about what DHS posted on X?

Government:
Here’s a link to what DHS posted on X.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20h

Great thread on the distinctive political culture of Portland, by a US historian who is very much from Portland.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 21h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 12h

“If there are not people there to make sure the laws are followed, the laws are meaningless.”
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs

The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

Ah right, that too!

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, there’s a reason we already have heard terms like “managed democracy” and “illiberal democracy.”Hungary and Russia hold elections, too.

Why bother to cancel them when you can steer victories through mass media, creating technical barriers for opposition candidates and voting, etc?

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 21h

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”