billy stencils is the nate silver of andrew yangs

Honestly I’m glad whenever a man stands up to him because he’s been on a quest for weeks to get Bluesky to ban half the people on here and a lot of people are acting like that’s totally normal and cool

It’s funny how he responds to men ain’t it

Here’s what getting absolutely dog walked taught me about winning an election 👇

It sure is weird that every piece of campaign common sense comes down to “don’t do anything”

frankly i think it's disgusting to share an article about a candidate's strategies to accuse her of "campaign fraud" while deliberately ignoring the parts of the article where 1) the campaign actively works to maintain compliance 2) the tampons were all donated, not purchased with campaign funds

You spent all day yesterday complaining about free tampons and the Black Panther party. We don’t have to paint you as anything Will.

uhhhh I hope Rudy has good legal counsel because "decentralised payment rails using USD that are untraceable to the banking partner and Blacksky" is sparkling money laundering / tornado cash. @kathryntewson.bsky.social holy shit, uh...

I'm very annoyed that the one project that we all thought we were funding (an independent appview) is not done yet still (Link is still not able to post / be seen by people on blacksky pds and blacksky website) and now we're apparently on a side quest to reinvent money laundering.

liberals seem a lot more bothered by the chomsky-epstein connection than leftists. looking at an account posting a music video about it in reply to every socialist comedian and podcast they can find, while every commie i know is like "that sucks, we'll just do it without him though."

I gotta say this as someone who was raised Christian but then became Jewish: y'all really need to be mindful with your interpretations bc "fresh progressive theology" usually veers into pretty awful antisemitism *fast*, and it's so baked in you often don't see it until you're outside of it.

The entirety of the US penal system is inhumane and deeply racist. The more I learn about it, the deeper my belief in total abolition grows.

And before anyone tries to say that "Some immigrants are Black..." I was a Black immigrant.🤷🏿‍♂️ And I've introduced innocent people to immigration attorneys and defense attorneys. I've paid legal fees to help innocent people get out of immigration detention and get out of county jail.

Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice... Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No? It's only bad when the GOP does it? It's okay when it happens to Black people?

This thread is not to minimize the horrors of CECOT. This thread is to say that I wish more people knew about and cared about how many innocent Black people have had their lives destroyed by the exact same horrors. This tears Black families apart.

The Trump admin says that people can avoid CECOT by voluntarily giving up their rights to be in the US and self-deporting, even when there's no legal basis for deporting them. All US admins say that innocent Black men can avoid the harms of prison and jail by "confessing" to crimes they didn't do.

If you refuse to do the slave labor while in jail for a year before your trial you can be put into solitary confinement as a punishment. During this solitary confinement for refusing to do slave labor while innocent, you can lose visitation rights, and lose your right to access your attorney.

CECOT has a max capacity of 40,000. There are over 50,000 Black men in solitary confinement in the US today. Black men are most likely to be falsely arrested and charged while 100% innocent. You can be in jail for over a year before your trial. During that time you can be forced to do slave labor.

"So you see, consumer? It's mostly your fault for wanting things conveniently! It's not the fault of the company CEOs that supported the election of a president that blocks progress on climate change, or the fact that there's no reasonable rail network, or that delivery bikes aren't a thing here."🤡

As I've said, there is no such thing as a "fiscal conservative." It's a completely made up term. Because whether or not someone thinks government should spend more money or less money, depends entirely on who is going to get that money.🤷🏿‍♂️ A fiscal conservative should be yelling "Defund the police!"

I wish this were true. I really do. But it's not. In March of this year, 52% of white Americans approved of Trump's approach to "handling immigration." In December of this year, 53% of white Americans approved of Trump's approach to "handling immigration." Trump's base still loves the cruelty.

For my pedant friends thinking, "OK fine, 500,000 Black people in pretrial is ~10X the 50,000 migrants in ICE detention... But which number was ~100X the scale for Black people? * People-days of solitary confinement * Deaths in pretrial detention vs deaths in ICE detention * Shot and killed by cops

"Same racism, but make it blue!🤡" Doesn't work for us. So many US folk are confused by the current moment, because they've lived their entire lives never having to really consider what it's like being a Black person in this country. Now they're getting to experience a fraction of that treatment.

Cartoon cat avatars going from "Whoa, you're saying that Biden had something to do with mass incarceration? Citation needed?🤡" To "If you criticize Biden, you're effectively a Republican!🤡" This is why so many Black people can't take y'all seriously. I am not "pro-Dem." I am anti-racism.

Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.

Counterpoint: Your art is your own. You owe it to no one. Many US art forms, but especially jazz, were born out of joy in the face of resistance. It was not made to entertain the people being resisted. Your body dies when you die. But your art may be spoken of for hundreds of years. Cherish it.

Shout out to all the people that will intentionally misread this thread as being "pro-Trump🤡," rather than see that it's "anti-racism." Shout out to all the people that think anti-racism is trying to figure out who said the n-word, rather than figure out who put 1 million Black men in jail.

There are better candidates. Here are our choices: A) Fascism for everyone! B) Fascism, but only for Black people! C) No fascism for anyone. Fascism is bad. This shouldn't be hard. This isn't a trick question. Choose "C."

Asking Black men to vote for a "tough on crime" candidate, is like asking the ant to focus the magnifying glass directly on its own back.☀️🔍🐜 Just, no. "Tough on crime" is not how to make communities safer, any more than ICE raids are how to keep immigrants safe. The entire premise is ridiculous.

Y'all want to vote your way out of this mess in 2026 and 2028. But some of y'all are still pushing "tough on crime?" candidates? Good luck with that. "Tough on crime" is a euphemism for "super racist." As I said would happen, crime is *decreasing* in Baltimore and Chicago with *fewer* cops. 🙂🙃

Under Trump 2024, the pain of fascism is shared by more groups of people. More people are in the undesirables group, and more are exposed to state violence. Under Biden, it was more heavily concentrated just on Black people. "Trump is worse!" does not mean "Biden was awesome!"

It's easier for me to point out how horrific keeping 500,000 innocent people in pre-trial detention is... Now that there are under 50,000 innocent migrants in ICE detention. Half a million people. In jail. For no reason. Many in there because of policies written by and implemented by senator Biden

It's easier for me to point out how "SCORPION units" that violently assault innocent Black people, cannot make Black communities safer, and destroy what little trust was left with police... Now that people see that ICE goon squads cannot keep migrant communities safe, and destroy trust in the DHS.

It's easier for me to say how ridiculous it is to deploy 1,000 national guard troops to the NYC subway to harass innocent Black people... Now that Trump had deployed 800 National Guard troops to DC to harass innocent Black people and immigrants.

It's easier for me to talk about how bad it is to transfer $50 billion away from Covid relief funds, and towards ramping up efforts to arrest and harass innocent Black people... Now that Trump has transferred $45 billion away from other useful programs and towards ICE to harass innocent immigrants.

The Biden years were not *awesome*. It's easier for me to talk about the horror of solitary confinement, now that people have a reference to CECOT. It's easier for me to talk about the horror of pre-trial detention for over a year, now that immigrants are spending 1 or 2 months pre-trial.

Everything that is happening to immigrants today, happened to Black people at a scale 10x to 100x more, under Biden. Not a typo. 10x to 100x more. And yet... the plan for avoiding Trump was "Black people, especially men, will show up to vote in record numbers for even more of this mistreatment?"🤡

Trump has undoubtedly thrust the US onto the path of electoral authoritarianism like we have in India. But just like in India that path was paved by people who used the trappings of liberal democracy to do many of the things fascists wanted.

Alongside George W Bush, Biden is the worst US president of my lifetime, which is saying something. From his carceral policies to his anti-immigration policies to his full-throated support of a fully televised genocide to letting the pedos skate, his policies differ from Trump in degrees not kind.

Quickly became apparent (which many had already guessed) that talk of sovereignty was actually pretext for demolishing what little sovereignty had already existed.

Not lost on me that the vast majority of the people who were on here in mid 2024 talking about the need to restore Lebanese sovereignty have nothing to say about the total depopulation of much of south Lebanon by the Israeli occupation or the arbitrary and totally unrestrained bombing campaign.

A great piece from Nathaniel

Jasper Nathaniel is an excellent reporter who has lived for a while in the occupied West Bank and he's right on the money here: a lot of people who are naturally predisposed towards the Israeli narrative flip entirely once they actually witness what occupation and apartheid look like with their eyes

“Trump is using the US presidency as the ultimate branding opportunity. He’s slapping his name on as many buildings, monuments and government projects as he can” — my latest for @theguardian.com

As somebody who worked on Gaza under both Biden and Trump and also personally had my career upended by Trump (USAID) I still hold more hate in my heart for Biden, and working on Gaza under him was genuinely worse.

What a surprise that Biden paved the way for this.

NEW: An unprecedented fear of retaliation has set in at the State Dept's legal office—usually a foreign policy guardrail -Staff suspect frank legal advice could lead to them being sidelined/punished/fired -Increasing politicization suggests their role has "vanished" www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...

HuffPost has previously revealed the State Dept legal advisor's office has seen an unusual exodus under Trump + Rubio: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... If you have more to share, please reach out via Signal; I'm at akbar.58 & anonymity is fine. I've never burned a source in 12 years of covering DC

this was just what Catholic historians in the 20th century argued unfortunately now they're all NatCon idiots

Every Senate vote to confirm Trump nominees is embarrassing but the unanimity to make Rubio Secretary of State is an institutional humiliation www.ms.now/opinion/marc...