The entire state of Louisiana voting against these racist white folks effectively trying to segregate the school system in Baton Rouge makes my heart happy. We not dead in Louisiana. We are not a lost cause.

America was founded in & continues to be fueled by Native genocide & chattel slavery & its afterlives. Its leaders now want it as a white ethnostate & to expel immigrants who are not white. It's only not fascism if nonwhite people aren't human subjects. Which we are. America has always been fascist.

Someone posted that the 5/16 marches were "a good start". I don't know WTF they've been doing except being at the upper levels of the racial hierarchy but we've always been fighting fascism & ethnic cleansing strategies because the need is a constant necessity. Most white people are not ready.

Many of the rural communities where I grew up are majority Black. This is the case throughout plenty of the South. Ain't it just amazing that's somehow never where the focus is when pundits, consultants and hacks wax rhapsodic about "rural voters" and "rural areas."

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Party That Unilaterally Surrenders

North Carolina doing the absolute least

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

I think the problem with posting, and we've got ample evidence of this now going on 20ish years, is that it's apparently a lot easier to make people evil and crazy with posts than it is to make them decent and kind.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

i have never wished i was watching a podcast instead of listening to it. not once.

I use podcasts to alleviate the tedium of boring chores and long drives. If I wanted to watch a video I’d watch a video. It’s off-putting when podcast hosts base conversations or even entire episodes around photos or videos they’re sharing with each other in the moment.

I'm happy the "name the most millennial song" has devolved into "remember some songs" it's what social media is for

We also have a new hat store on Depop depop.app.link/I7xfLLQC02b We raise money for you know what and where. Can't actually spell it out otherwise we get suspended as well

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

I don't remember who I first learned it from, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social or @prisonculture.bsky.social, but ever since, I celebrate Mother’s Day by giving to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to reunite Black mamas & caregivers with their families Join in to #FreeBlackMamas at bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026!

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Obama and other liberals keep saying that they want a "strong GOP". Well, this is what it looks like: a brazen and gleeful rejection of Black people having anything worth respecting or defending and alignment with an openly white nationalist agenda that holds nonwhiteness in contempt.

If you were once upon a time literally the most powerful person on the planet you should have some humility and do some work afterwards

the resistance to this is massive, so huge; people cannot imagine democracy without police.

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

I want to add that class in the U.S. is only legible among white people. Black people have been the MOST working class segment of U.S. society for decades AND YET... Black people are consistently written out of the narrative of "working class" USians.

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Can we please give it up for all the people working to deliver mutual aid to others who are struggling themselves with raising mutual aid they need to basically live? The hardest workers for others in need are needy themselves. They're living such hard lives & commit to making it easier for others.

Tickets this year cost $100,000.

i am extremely tired of being this pissed off all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

new york times pulitzer finalists for their podcast series about trans youth where they don't really talk to any actual trans people. good shit....great shit!

Mostly driven by the fact that cis gentry pointedly try to redefine "working class" in ways that divorce it from money and power. That a handful of trans gentry have outsize media/political influence, *really* don't like to talk about class and have contempt for most trans folks also doesn't help.

Regular reminder: trans people are an overwhelmingly working class demographic. Struggles with severe poverty and on the ground labor issues are far, far more common than making big bucks for a giant tech corporation, being a well-off influencer or whatever supposedly represents us this week.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Lol good ol Marty 100% confident this guy is calling from either Myrtle Beach or Florida

White working class guy shooting off his own dick because the bullet will also kill a brown person is a tale as old as America itself. Being a chud is a necessary prerequisite, but let's be real that there are also structural incentives, otherwise there simply couldn't be this many Brads

Brad voted Trump because the centuries-long legacy of a failed Reconstruction followed by multiple red scares has left most American incapable of understanding who is oppressing them and how. Also he’s racist.

the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood

Slightly diminish a book A Crinkle in Time

Typical dirty dangerous Philly shit from Zegras right there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

From the News Guild. Deep cuts over at the Post-Gazette yesterday, including some 80% of strikers:

I'm just totally shocked and appalled by this. I thought the Baltimore Banner folks who bought the P-G were good human beings. I was wrong

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

You never have to defend politicians. You really do not. When you feel the urge bubbling up, drink water and keep it moving.

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

The guy appointed by the Hurricane Katrina President declaring racism over and done with is really grotesque when you think about it.

Can I slap the shit out of you for suggesting we throw away 1 million Black people that have been on this land since the 1700s?

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

No. You can leave. Take anyone with you who thinks these, or other southern states, aren't of worth.

alito and thomas think the creation of majority-minority voting districts is itself discriminatory. but the goal of the voting rights act wasn't to usher in an era of harmony by eliminating all racial categories, it was to alleviate discrimination by whites against blacks, particularly in the South

I wonder if white people peep that when some whitefolk employ the term ‘white trash’ what’s happening there is justification for revocation of status protection & consent manufacture of denial of humanity and rights. That’s how fragile whiteness as a social construct is. So you can just let it go.