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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25m

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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CuriousValkyrie @curiousvalkyrie.bsky.social · 1h

A friends sent this to me, a few things to keep in mind:
1. No mainstream media have picked this up yet, we DO NOT know how accurate this is.
2. There is a VERY high chance this is just a scare tactic, and the Admin. leaked it themselves to shrink crowd sizes.

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Americans Participating in 'No Kings' Protest Designated as Terrorists in Chilling DHS Memo

A bombshell classified memo obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein paints a chilling picture: the Trump administration has effectively labeled Americans planning to participate in the upcoming No Kin...

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1h

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

What we propose to fix America’s crisis of balkanization and low social trust is: hate and fear your neighbors who look different from you

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1h

"immigration has decreased social trust because we spend our days lying about immigrants and trying to decrease social trust"

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1h

the good news is the Trump administration knows they don't have enough U.S. Nazis to retain power.

the bad news is they're recruiting Nazis from abroad to help.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1h

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

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The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

OK but now I just want to know the context for that image. Guess I really do need to get around to watching Peacemaker.

Jordan @slclunk.com · 4h

Your standard online liberal who worked at a conservative think tank in college

Peacemaker looking at a mural of hitler and saying “Fuck. How'd I miss that?”

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 6h

Barrett is now suggesting that the Voting Rights Act may be BEYOND CONGRESS’S POWER TO ENFORCE THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS.

Neoconfederate stuff here.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 23h

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20h

It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 2h

If this court overturns its own prior ruling on Section 2 of the VRA, we have no choice but to not only pack the court, but to radically restructure representation in the US.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

damn

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Yorubarbie says put away childish things @caladaley.bsky.social · 2h

I will reiterate my position that all blue states should aggressively gerrymander, that court packing should be a primary litmus test, and that we should be asking black communities in the south what specific material they need to cope with this and then giving it to them.

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ProSKULL Haram ♂🎃👻 @jack-hoff.bsky.social · 2h

The older generations who came of age in decades past still have a mental image of Young Republicans as being Carlton Banks/Alex Keaton-type snooty preps and, lol, no, those guys were all shanked, chopped up and tossed in the river a LONG time ago.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2h

And they’re all the same guy depending on the exact temperature of the Discord chat at that exact moment

ProSKULL Haram ♂🎃👻 @jack-hoff.bsky.social · 2h

In 2025, there are four kinds of Republicans born after 1990:

1. Will call you an antisemitic slur
2. Will call you an anti-Black slur
3. Will call you an anti-Indian slur
4. Will call you an anti-LGBT slur

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

Patriarchy isn't the rule of men.

It's the rule of patriarchs.

And that's so very much worse, as anyone with a shitty grandfather can attest.

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MTAggie 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🇬🇪 🇱🇻🇪🇪 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇨🇦🇩🇰🇵🇦 🇬🇱 @mtaggie.bsky.social · 4h

For purposes of clarification:

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 14h

The Global War on Terror where Bush and Co. were in command on 9/11 was a nightmare of cruelty and racist despotism

The Global War on Terror where Trump and Co. are in command on 9/11 features Treblinka-on-the-Tigris, if not just the nuclear holocaust of everything between Morocco and Pakistan

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

George W Bush and his party were ravenous war criminals and ardent reactionaries. They were not Nazis. *these guys* are Nazis

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 1d

Every single Trump would have been busy throwing stones at the fallen woman, and calling for Jesus to be crucified.

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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 4h

As others have said, Biden was America's "sin eater" and he was lashed for our COVID-19 hardships and collective mental breakdown, which the press fully participated in.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

i am just saying, maybe don’t attribute any kind of supervillain strategic insight to these people, they’re scared fucking morons, and they *should* be scared

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 3h

The court is not illegitimate because it issues bad rulings

The court is illegitimate because it cannot even build a consistent legal framework out of those rulings and in that failure rejects law

Six of the nine are honest-to-God just Schmittians going off of “my friends good, my enemies bad”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

The Supreme Court simultaneously holds that:
*it is impossible for them to do anything about blatant gerrymandering
*they are entitled to dismantle, bit by bit, the landmark civil rights law of the last century
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 3h

Keeping indigenous people alive is woke.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

this is not a country that deserves anything more than the Serbia treatment

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pushingthatpulp.bsky.social @pushingthatpulp.bsky.social · 2h

The masculinity crisis is grown men never wanting to answer for being as socially repulsive as possible and not facing any scrutiny but want you and everyone else to gather a torch and pitchfork cause a marvel movie skews from the source material.

Which knowing Stan Lee, probably lifted from DC

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2h

he is one million percent in these chats

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