In my college in VA there were fraternities that displayed the Confederate flag on walls. A Black woman I knew had pictures of animals — apes and boars etc— pasted on her door. They just didn’t have group chats.

At best you might be able to make an argument that previous generations weren't fully mask off with white supremacy or that it wasn't the majority of the party but it's been festering there for a long time that anyone could see if they took an honest look.

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

Yes they have. Talk to more Black people. You: "For anyone tempted to say that great white sharks have always eaten seals 🦈, no they haven't. I knew a great white shark in the 90s, and he was a compassionate vegan!" Me: "Have you considered talking to any seals that lived through the 90s?🦭"

😅Took my wife and California-pilled kids to Waffle House, 2 days in row. Kids now addicted. Waitresses were so kind and welcoming! Went on 3rd day with my sister to order for pickup. Waitresses were cold and mean! At one point we had to call my wife to confirm her order. Waitresses: "Oh! Sister!"

Some white folk get really mad at the very idea that someone might want to hear the opinion of a Black person, and not their opinion, in any context. They believe that their opinion should be valid absolutely everywhere. This is weird. Don't do this.

Plus he comes from generational wealth. He’s cosplaying as working class but this is his grandfather. www.dwr.com/designer-war...

The stint at Blackwater and the repeated deployments make me side eye personally. YMMV

As I stated earlier, we share peeps in common, though we haven't met yet. I know someone who was part of the folks he consulted with about running. Local labor liked him. He was harbormaster for years and pretty involved in his various communities. Maine is the kind of place a person will run.

I literally have a voicemail he left me the week he announced his run. We share colleagues/peeps, and he reached out. I missed his call. I know folks who know him and who have met him, and they all speak highly of him. His voicemail was cool, he came across as sincere.

I live in Maine, and I haven't met Graham yet, but we share a number of folks in common. I hear he's really the real deal, and I agree with this assessment. Folks are truly pumped about him. No one I know is pumped about Janet. She has been an ok governor, but that's it.

"[Mekka] marked himself safe from the great protein powder lead poisoning event!" My protein powder still has lead in it!🤷🏿‍♂️ Just not as much as those fancy designer plant based proteins. So I will turn weird and start acting like a Roman a few years later than the fancy people that lift at Equinox.

Black people and Black people only: What do we know about Graham Platner in Maine? Is he cool? Does he like us? He seems cool. Is he? Who can speak for him?

You all know what I'm going to say. Slice by race. Or slice by party. 64% of US white people believe that either the Dems are more responsible, or that Dems and GOP are equally responsible. Because most are GOP, and 93% of the GOP thinks Dems are responsible, or Dems and GOP equally responsible.

RIP D'Angelo.

No, this isn't funny. This is serious. Please get your dog to a vet immediately. Worry about cleaning the rug layer. Try to remember all of the things that your dog has eaten in the past 12 hours, as this info can help your furry friend's medical team get to a diagnosis more quickly. Good luck!

Cool story! EVs aren't the thing that's driving prices up. EVs are *cheaper* and are driving prices down... everywhere but the USA.🤡 This BYD Dolphin costs $24K USD ($37K AUSD). And it costs about 3 cents per mile to drive. But you can't have one! Drive a Cybertruck instead! 🤣

No! Don't treat innocent immigrants like innocent Black women! 🤡 The GOP wants to put immigrant women in a facility where they will get unnecessary gynecological exams without their consent! Evil! The Dems only want to put innocent Black US citizens in there! Good! 🙂🙃 Vote Blue, no matter who!

👴🏻"Yes, I know this person did horrific things to Black and brown people, but if you don't pretend to honor his memory, you are the bad guy here!"🤡 No. It doesn't work like that. Not for Kirk. Not for Columbus. There have been *millions* of great Italian Americans. Columbus is not one of them.

I have found people in tech to be relatively narrow though - its not that a broader education will magically make them inclusive, but a broad education is valuable in and of itself. (Maybe working a min wage job for a decade or so would help - might tip better at team lunches.)

This. One of the weirdest claims about tech, is that if people only studied humanities, they would be more inclusive and kind. No. That's not the important dimension. Studying art or philosophy or history does not magically make you an ethical person. Hitler was a painter. Wagner was a composer.

Some of y'all are pointing out that Trump ran the FBI on Jan 6, and had run it for ~1,400 days straight at this point. But this doesn't have to pass your discerning eye. It has to work on people that believe that Haitians eat your dogs, and that raw milk and Ivermectin is better than vaccines.🤷🏿‍♂️

Not at all sure the frog is white. See this interview, in which the first of them identified as Mexican about a minute in (speaking with an accent to match). bsky.app/profile/comp...

I understand and agree with your overall point but it's also significant that the original frog guy is Mexican

Shout-out to all of the white people that think that dressing up as inflatable frogs is an innovation in non-violence that takes power away from authoritarians. The difference is not about the tactic. The difference is about who is in inside the frog costumes. This is BLM "Wall of moms" redux.

Some of y'all have the ability to pretend to yourselves that this makes any sense.🤡 They've created a situation where an Argentinian farmer sees China as "They buy our soybeans!" And the US is seen as "They want to take our newfound soybean industry away!"

Not the point, but also funny: The "Raw Egg Nationalist" account has as its profile picture a photo of Vince Gironda... a bodybuilding coach and nutritionist that hated steroids, encouraged people to eat more eggs and drink milk, and was friends with and trainer of tons of Black bodybuilders.🤡

I'm not giving investment advice of course, but I'm telling you what I don't do: I don't short Tesla. Shorting Tesla, is essentially asking the question: "How rich exactly are US finance and tech bros that don't know anything about the world?" The answer to that question is "Ungodly rich."🤷🏿‍♂️

But if it isn't the corrupting influence of money, why else would Americans have elected a racist authoritarian? [reads American history book] ah, I see.

Kinda? But here's the problem with this framing: Musk is the richest man on earth. He couldn't even buy himself a judge in Wisconsin. Billionaires couldn't buy themselves a mayor Cuomo or a mayor Adams. Billionaire money can buy reach. But the audience has to be susceptible to their message.

Hey, it's October! And I keep saying that the majority of white folk in the US still approve of the way Trump is "handling immigration." But the popularity of his immigration policies has been declining overall? Surely by now, the majority of white folk in the US would not support these ICE raids?🤡

New scientific method just dropped! 1) Eat raw bear meat to acquire worm. Wait a few weeks for worm to migrate to your brain. 2) Listen to brain worm for science ideas! If worm is not active, try drinking a solution of 10 parts water and 1 part glucose, then shake head vigorously. 3) Make proof!

In the US, "Christian" is often just a euphemism for "white and racist." Because again, the data shows that in the US, Hispanic folk attend church more frequently than white folk. 🤡 And Black folk attend church more often than Hispanic folk. Black folk attend church more than any other race. 🤡🤡

No. They are not all being ignored. You are not being ignored if you vote for someone that promises to do the exact opposite of what you claim to want. And they do not want the same things. Trump's most popular policy with GOP voters *by far* are his "immigration policies." His voters want this.

It's cruel to show me cool international news, when my local news is like, "MMA tournament on Whitehouse lawn set to take place in jello filled pool" and "President declares tariff on Q-tips" And "3rd Marine Expeditionary Force successfully lands at Applebee's in Manhattan, stages push into Queens"

Deplorable or misguided? Misguided. We say that because it's generally considered more polite than asking "evil or gullible?"

Interesting interview. Deplorable or misguided? Misguided. Unfortunately, I didn't hear any reflection on what he would have done differently, or will do differently, to stop himself from being misguided again next time. Still wouldn't have voted for Harris. Still trusts the same news sources.🤷🏿‍♂️

Me, a fool: 🇺🇸🧔🏿‍♂️: Hey Canadian friends! He is serious about this 51st state thing! He wants to send troops to your cities! Canadians, wise and learned scholars: 🇨🇦👩🏽: Bro, isn't California closer to DC than British Columbia? We're not Poland in this reenactment. We're only Denmark. You're Poland!

1. He didn't cheat, at least not with that guitarist. They were already separated and estranged. She wanted to get back together, and he didn't. He had already moved on. He started a new relationship. She filed for divorce, as she realized it was over. There doesn't always have to be a bad person.

E-bikes are very disruptive; I ran errands yesterday, making 15 distinct stops in about 5hrs, which would be absolutely impossible with a car.

The first few Ultimate Fighting Championships were funny, because it was just a bunch of tough guys getting beat up by Jiu-Jitsu black belts. Because the tough guys couldn't accept that their tough guy training was not a winning strategy. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Eventually they figured it out. Now everyone can fight.

You: ICE can't just detain a whole apartment building without probable cause! Fascism has finally come to America! Me: There are ~1 million Black non-Hispanic and Afro-Latino men and boys living in NYC. In some years, NYPD does 700,000 stop and frisks. 90% of those happen to Black men and boys.

Gen Z works harder than Millennials.🤷🏿‍♂️ Millennials work harder than Gen X. Gen X works harder than Boomers. My favorite counter to the "Kids don't want to work anymore!" is to show JFK's real, full Harvard essay.🤡 This is it! The whole essay! Tell a Gen Z kid that this essay got you into Harvard.

🤔It only seems fast if you don't talk to or listen to any Black people in the US. If you talk to or listen to Black people, then this US crashout has been a 20+ year slow motion train wreck. 🙂🙃 Like I said, listening to Black people in the US is pretty much a superpower. You can see the future! 🧙🏿‍♂️🔮

Having spent 2007-2013 working on solar power in Silicon Valley, first for a startup and then for an inverter producer (we were acquired), I can say the returns were better in less beneficial industries, and we would look at their exits with some envy.

we cdv marshall planned sm countries over the decades but we consistently rejected em in favor of perpetual conflict 4profit &2 uphold white supremacy globally

The biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of renewables, is the fact that the richest, least intelligent, most self-important, fashiest 50 dudes in the US, wasted the low interest rates of the 2010s investing in monkey jpegs instead of solar cells and battery production.🤡 Now they fear China.

👨🏻‍💼Thank you for showing up for jury duty! This is an important part of your civic duty -- 🧔🏿‍♂️NOT GUILTY! 👨🏻‍💼Oh... Ha ha! It's not time for that yet! 🧔🏿‍♂️Oh, my bad! 👨🏻‍💼No problem! I'll explain the process. First, we seat you on a jury -- 🧔🏿‍♂️NOT GUILTY! 👨🏻‍💼Oh dear... 👨🏻‍💼 ... 👨🏻‍💼 Y'know what? You can go.

I see people on social media who have gotten their feelings hurt sometimes continue to lash out online and I wish I could reach across the screen and just say: "I see that you are hurt and you need to log off now."

Not true. It's paid for by both the American and the non-American taxpayer. That undocumented person has a job, pays rent, buys stuff, eats food, etc.👍🏿 They pay into the same tax pool as everyone else. And they pay a *higher* effective tax rate. Undocumented folk in CA pay $8.5B in taxes a year.