The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

"It’s harrowing to see the immiseration of the entire population...particularly the vulnerable." People in Cuba are starving and dying as a result of the U.S. blockade and push for regime change. Members of Congress must speak out to demand an end to Trump's blockade and military threats.

Once upon a time Google was literally the most amazing information retrieval system I have seen in my life. It was quick and returned primary sources to read on almost any subject. It was better than magic. It makes me sick to see what they've done to that resource.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

“Won’t somebody think of the terrorists?”

The pandemic exposed the real reason for mass incarceration. Without huge numbers of innocent Black people being arrested and processed, a lot of towns and counties were going to go bankrupt. Seriously. A lot of judges, courts, sheriffs offices, and jails, exist *only* to arrest poor Black people

kind of insane how it's 2026 and we are only just now starting to get electeds who, when referring to reagan, will not speak of him in positive terms

All these groups turned out for Kamala in larger percentages than white women except Latino men & it was only by 2% and even then you must consider the number of white identifying Latino men to contextualize that 2%. This is silly anyway but the problem is white people. You should worry about that.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

But even when Black women do get their degrees, get hired, and keep their jobs... they are paid less than their peers. We hear a lot about the gender pay gap. In the US, most of that, is a racist gap. The gap between white men and white women, is less than the gap between white and Black women.🤷🏿‍♂️

Oh, she's RUNNING running.

Lived in US 25 yrs. Fled last year. Final week that I spent in US, I got letter telling me to appear at immigration office. I didn't go. The anxiety I felt that final week made me puke multiple times a day. Still nothing compared to what Black People experience *every day of their lives*.

🤔A few thoughts, and a question: 1) There is no immigrant in the US that has been stopped by ICE, more times than I have been stopped by the cops. 2) I am not stopped by cops more than the average Black man. This happens to all of us. Some have been stopped 100s of times. Does our anxiety matter?

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Seems to me that this is a great time for all of the 'vote or die' white people to be at the forefront of fighting for voting rights. Perfect time not to fantasize about what you would have done during the mid-century Black freedom struggle but to enact a 21st century version of it. Let's stay tuned

36%. That's the floor.

What? His approval is still at 37%? Who could have predicted this? 🤡 But people don't like his views on the economy, and the war is unpopular? I was told that this was all about the price of eggs? Gasoline? Inflation? It's almost like his popularity is driven by something else entirely! 🤔

The genius of Louise Fletcher's portrayal of Kai Winn is how skillfully she did Erika Kirk face.

She's in the race. Yes, she could win. Yes, I would vote for her. She doesn't have Bernie's oblivious anti-Blackness baggage. She doesn't have Biden's "play to the middle!🤡" centrist suck-up baggage. She understands turnout. She can communicate directly to voters. She's not all "Fund more cops!🤡"

"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Every election for the past 80 years, white US voters have picked the most fascist candidate on the ballot. The only thing stopping white US voters from choosing fascism for the past 80 years, has been Black US voters. Black voters were protecting you, and protecting the world. And now we can't.🤷🏿‍♂️

Everyone marveled at how accurate this list of very specific predictions is... but then thought that the US far-right were not serious about the next set of items on the list?🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes, they are serious. And yes, the US far-right's plan ends with the elimination of almost every Jewish person on earth.

Also to celebrate V E day. 3 things that the nazis paid for, right before World War 2: 1) The new ballroom at the Reich Chancellory 2) The "fuhrerbunker" under that ballroom complex, where Hitler hid out during air raids. Some of y'all call this the downfall bunker. 3) Dachau concentration camp

Yep. This is why when places end cash bail, the conviction rate goes down. Because a lot of those convictions were just innocent Black folk taking plea deals for crimes that they 100% did not do, to avoid a life destroying year in jail. Like this.

The fact that the Republican Party always has legislation to make it harder to vote or to disenfranchise Black people ready to go whenever the Supreme Court takes another whack at the Voting Rights Act tells you...a lot.

I continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.

ICE is a criminal organization harming and racially profiling Californians. I'll send ICE to jail if they break our laws, all the way up to Stephen Miller.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard for folks to grasp, “pick better candidates,” especially when the ppl targeted by policies supported by shitty candidates have stated unequivocally they won’t vote for their own eradication & warn everyone in advance! Why double down? Just pick someone better!

Listen to what a young John Kerry asked the Senate in 1971: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

The snowplow was followed by WHISTLES.

Southside did what MNDOT was afraid to do! (This thing is huge and I'm so curious what the armature inside is like!)

"The Roberts Court operates in a completely legal-free zone. They're going to reinterpret the 15th Amendment. They're going to reinterpret the Voting Rights Act. They're going to override the will of Congress just because they want to. And they're daring someone to stop them and so far no one has"

whole states have stopped their election processes faster than the Biden administration was able to respond to an opinion that had already been leaked months earlier. i don't mean this as a random jab; republicans just understand power in a way that dems do not.

I did some napkin math, and we're talking about a high speed rail network five times the length of the Shinkansen system, from 2020-2025's investment alone. Can't help wondering how many of these routes we could have built. youtu.be/wE5G1kTndI4?...

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

several years ago there was a campaign of North Korean threat actors targeting high-profile security researchers. they opened with a cold DM just saying “hello” several people fell for this. you will be shocked to learn that not a single woman was among them

Abughazaleh: One of the most egregious aspects of this is Hegseth saying that this conflict that we started is ordained by God. Is bombing a school full of schoolgirls ordained by God?

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Yes. Say it like this!

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

I am thinking of so many conversations with undergrads who were uncomfortable with protests, sit-ins, and other tactics that "inconvenienced" white people, and I would ask them what approach Black Americans should have been using instead. They'd always say "voting" and then the penny dropped.

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.

I’ve lived and voted in both black and white neighborhoods. This is incredibly true. Hour-long lines were normal in the black neighborhoods, but no wait at all was standard in the white ones.

Just a reminder that in Shelby County, Roberts told us not to worry about the loss of VRA preclearance, because we’d still have VRA sec. 2 suits. That was, of course, disingenuous nonsense even at the time. Now, with Brnovich and Calllais, it’s all the more so.

The Supreme Court's Republican supermajority, afraid of the blowback from declaring what remains of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, instead says only they know the one true way the Voting Rights Act can be constitutional, and nothing will ever meet their new standard.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.