Excellent historical context, sadly reminding us that where we are is where we’ve been before. I was 12 when all these type of scenes were coming across my privileged white family’s B&W.

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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Been thinking a lot abt James Baldwin’s excellent Report from Occupied Territory in the context of ICE abuses & military deployments to our communities. Couldn’t be clearer that “occupied territory” is the form of governance pursued by this lawless regime.

Repression & plunder have always gone hand-in-hand. The cost of food, housing, electricity, etc are soaring precisely because those in power see this moment as a boundless opportunity to take, to discipline, & to repress.

To be clear, nobody is saying don’t vote, but as resistance to the regime & its miserable policies snowballs, we must expect more rigging, repression, & self-coup tactics. It would be beyond foolish to expect the turnout strategy that only *barely* worked in 2020 to succeed under such circumstances.

Trump's name appears the most: more than 1,600 times. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

BREAKING: Trump asked Texas to redraw its map to entrench his power Now his DOJ is trying to overturn California’s voter-approved map This isn’t law It’s a president at 37% approval trying to rig 2026 before voters can speak Read 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

It's always a good idea to go back to Baldwin (or DuBois, or Ida B. Wells) if you want to understand why they're doing what they're doing. Great thread.

Exactly, it's about who has unfettered freedom: of movement: bodily, socially, economically, geographically, politically: Whiteness My son gave me this book for Christmas in 2019, it's still the best articulation of MAGA in one that I've read. The End of the Myth www.pulitzer.org/winners/greg...

“Repression and plunder have always gone hand-in-hand!” I admit I haven’t read this Baldwin essay (yet), but that lil sentence alone is a GEM.

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James Baldwin always hits . . .

They've been doing Vietnam-inspired counterinsurgency campaigns vs. inner city areas since the 1980s.

Been thinking a lot abt James Baldwin’s excellent Report from Occupied Territory in the context of ICE abuses & military deployments to our communities. Couldn’t be clearer that “occupied territory” is the form of governance pursued by this lawless regime.

Ask Bondi? Was Bondi integral to the #WorstThanWatergate cover-up by the #GOPCabal of Epstein’s continued reported pedophilia and sex trafficking after his 2008 sentencing? REMINDER: Many instances of Epstein and Maxwell's alleged crimes were reported during Bondi’s tenure as FL AG from 2011-2019.

Weird how people who kept Epstein's activities in Florida from being prosecuted keep getting cabinet-level appointments from Trump. Someone should ask Pam Bondi about this puzzling phenomenon.

Never forget that Bondi ended Florida's investigation into trump university after getting a $25,000 campaign donation from trump. Bondi is not just corrupt, she's a bargain. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

The bizarre "miracles" in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas always struck me as something more suited to a horror story like Brightburn than to a gospel.

Remember that time liberals were falling all over themselves to rehabilitate the image of this inveterate racist Fox News propagandist? Maybe that was a bad idea.

Oh, it's gonna happen.

Blanche, Bondi, etc. They are all part of the coverup and belong into jail. bsky.app/profile/wiho...

Weird how people who kept Epstein's activities in Florida from being prosecuted keep getting cabinet-level appointments from Trump. Someone should ask Pam Bondi about this puzzling phenomenon.

And I know I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but what got us here is hierarchy Children are at the lowest points in our social order, and thus, the most vulnerable

Thank you so much. This is my hometown and I’ve never heard of this incident. Will definitely look into this more

“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.” - @emily.gorcen.ski

An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations. They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.

hey GOP is THIS impeachable, or nah (we fucking knew they had kompromat in December 2015)

Trump’s name is in these new Epstein emails but you’ll notice the one thing that sets him apart from the rest: He didn’t send or receive any emails himself because he’s long understood the liability of a paper trail.

based on the epstein emails released today i am Tapping The Sign

In which “gone too far“ means simply having SAID various versions of “sexual harassment, abuse, & violence is wrong.”

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?

There's something there and a competent opposition party would press this.

Yes!!!! Dan Berger and this book have been so much on my mind lately!!!

EXACTLY! The only rights ANY of us have are ones that ALL of us have. Everything else is privilege!

Also, on this point, which laws DO get enforced and against whom says a lot about where we are as a society.

Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.

Oh my god. This is my hometown. I have NEVER heard of this.

Honestly a great deal of what ails us as a society in the US is the persistent unwillingness of so many to even acknowledge the *existence* of Black thinkers, much less a recognition of their contributions to what might be called genuine democracy.

I have to say if not for black authors I'd not have an honest image of the America I inhabit. Unlike my friends and family, I sensed there was a piece missing that white authors didn't broach.

✌🏾The base of the party ✌🏾

Laws continue to be an expression of power, rather than the source of it. I have lately been thinking that passing laws is sort of a big scissors ribbon cutting for activists. Proof of accomplishment, where we can take pictures and look at artist renderings of what's supposed to happen

"Pro-Israel and right-wing advocacy organizations – including those without any campus presence – have driven the surge in antisemitism investigations; in at least 78% of the complaints we analyzed, such groups either represent complainants or act as complainants themselves."

Yes.