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This part. Some of the worst racism I've personally experienced came from a white-adjacent Cuban.
They weren't misled they wanted a piece of white supremacy for themselves. They forgot about the most Important part, being white.
Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
This part. Some of the worst racism I've personally experienced came from a white-adjacent Cuban.
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And it helps people learn how these systems actually function. Preserving widespread ignorance about how things work--and therefore how to change them--is actually one of the reason political consultants don't like telling the truth.
January 20, 2026 at 5:55 PM
And it helps people learn how these systems actually function. Preserving widespread ignorance about how things work--and therefore how to change them--is actually one of the reason political consultants don't like telling the truth.
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The loudest critics of corruption are also its biggest perpetrators.
April 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The loudest critics of corruption are also its biggest perpetrators.
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Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”
Decent story but infuriating that this is still being cast as a good-faith institution that failed to achieve its lofty goals rather than a fundamentally cynical right-wing project.
Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”
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#OtD 15 Jan 1934 the UK tabloid the Daily Mail published an article 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!' supporting Oswald Mosley's fascist movement. Written by Viscount Rothemere, whose family still own the Mail, its politics haven't really changed much stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8672...
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 15 Jan 1934 the UK tabloid the Daily Mail published an article 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!' supporting Oswald Mosley's fascist movement. Written by Viscount Rothemere, whose family still own the Mail, its politics haven't really changed much stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8672...
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If you consistently support a brand or do business with a company, you have power.
You can use sites like opensecrets.org to find what a company funds and where our money is really going.
This is part of the resistance. Cut them off monetarily.
One less kidnapped child, one less murder.
ICE
You can use sites like opensecrets.org to find what a company funds and where our money is really going.
This is part of the resistance. Cut them off monetarily.
One less kidnapped child, one less murder.
ICE
OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
opensecrets.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
If you consistently support a brand or do business with a company, you have power.
You can use sites like opensecrets.org to find what a company funds and where our money is really going.
This is part of the resistance. Cut them off monetarily.
One less kidnapped child, one less murder.
ICE
You can use sites like opensecrets.org to find what a company funds and where our money is really going.
This is part of the resistance. Cut them off monetarily.
One less kidnapped child, one less murder.
ICE
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Calling someone you just shot a “fucking bitch” is not a response to fear.
January 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Calling someone you just shot a “fucking bitch” is not a response to fear.
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That’s the completion of a thought that started long before you pulled the trigger
January 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
That’s the completion of a thought that started long before you pulled the trigger
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Considering it was formed in 2003 I’d say we just tell people we’ll enforce the law however we did back when LeBron James was a rookie.
Continue to think that saying “abolish ICE” without explaining how you’ll enforce the law is a trap, but boosting this
"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
January 9, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Considering it was formed in 2003 I’d say we just tell people we’ll enforce the law however we did back when LeBron James was a rookie.
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A kind woman and her husband sheltered their DoorDash driver to keep her from being abducted by ICE in a video that feels reminiscent of something you’d read about in Nazi Germany:
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
A kind woman and her husband sheltered their DoorDash driver to keep her from being abducted by ICE in a video that feels reminiscent of something you’d read about in Nazi Germany:
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Her: “Did u like those pictures I sent you? 😏”
Me:
Me:
December 31, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Her: “Did u like those pictures I sent you? 😏”
Me:
Me:
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And detainees are held for much long periods of time than needed so that these companies can charge more and make billions extra. It’s state sanctioned human trafficking.
December 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
And detainees are held for much long periods of time than needed so that these companies can charge more and make billions extra. It’s state sanctioned human trafficking.
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Who remembers "The people of this country have had enough of experts”
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Who remembers "The people of this country have had enough of experts”
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Haven't seen it
But I DID see some fuckass article about how an entire family works for ICE and they justified it by saying "laws are laws"
So i can only assume they would have taken photos of deaths at Auschwitz because orders are orders
But I DID see some fuckass article about how an entire family works for ICE and they justified it by saying "laws are laws"
So i can only assume they would have taken photos of deaths at Auschwitz because orders are orders
Is anyone aware of literally one fucking instance of an ICE agent this year quitting in protest
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Haven't seen it
But I DID see some fuckass article about how an entire family works for ICE and they justified it by saying "laws are laws"
So i can only assume they would have taken photos of deaths at Auschwitz because orders are orders
But I DID see some fuckass article about how an entire family works for ICE and they justified it by saying "laws are laws"
So i can only assume they would have taken photos of deaths at Auschwitz because orders are orders
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when the second tape came out, right-wing Fox types spoke derisively of DNC operatives spending hundreds of hours poring over old CSPAN tapes and, nope, it was just a guy with a blog and one of his readers, who happened to have saved the tape because he couldn't believe what he heard
fun fact: lott resigned after a second tape emerged of him repeating his remark that america would have been better off if strom thurmond had been elected president. A reader of my old blog was the one who came up with that tape, which became public after I alerted a journo I knew.
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
when the second tape came out, right-wing Fox types spoke derisively of DNC operatives spending hundreds of hours poring over old CSPAN tapes and, nope, it was just a guy with a blog and one of his readers, who happened to have saved the tape because he couldn't believe what he heard
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These people making brutal decisions then going back to their lives like shit is sweet. It needs to become unsweetened FAST.
December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
These people making brutal decisions then going back to their lives like shit is sweet. It needs to become unsweetened FAST.
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Will the media--will the Democrats!--finally explode the biggest taboo* in US political life?
*the prohibition against mentioning the GOP's tactical use of violence and intimidation, actual and threatened, to achieve its ends.
*the prohibition against mentioning the GOP's tactical use of violence and intimidation, actual and threatened, to achieve its ends.
Federal District Judge Esther Salas says the increasing threats against members of the judiciary are fueled by the sharply divisive rhetoric coming from the GOP and the Trump administration - Dec 18, 2025
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Will the media--will the Democrats!--finally explode the biggest taboo* in US political life?
*the prohibition against mentioning the GOP's tactical use of violence and intimidation, actual and threatened, to achieve its ends.
*the prohibition against mentioning the GOP's tactical use of violence and intimidation, actual and threatened, to achieve its ends.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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Time to jettison @firefox.com
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Time to jettison @firefox.com
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Question 4: You mean how the poors do?
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Question 4: You mean how the poors do?
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Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans
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Your fellow reporter just got blasted on national TV by the president of the United States as "obnoxious" and "terrible" -- and you follow it up with a crappy question about the midterms, which are 11 months away.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Your fellow reporter just got blasted on national TV by the president of the United States as "obnoxious" and "terrible" -- and you follow it up with a crappy question about the midterms, which are 11 months away.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.