This is why Pete Buttigieg got so much backlash during that Pod Save interview for saying he supports a two state solution, and then when asked if he'd recognize Palestine if he was president he went on to say literally nothing for 3 and a half minutes. People can smell bullshit, they're not dumb.

🧵 The thing about white people who ask what they can do to help Black people is... historically, y'all are great at stabbing Black people in the back. 1st Reconstruction was abandoned and violently destroyed. Jim Crow existed in the South, but North, East, and West too. Redlining. UNIONS. 1/

for, uh, world-historical reasons I am putting this back out there

"The purpose of racism is to control the behavior of white people, not Black people. For Blacks, guns and tanks are sufficient." (Otis Madison) Right now, as in other moments like the public lynching of George Floyd, many white people are waking up to racism, and wondering what they can do... 1/

Yup that’s Gary! I’ll never forget how in one of his 2022 senate campaign ads, he had hit a blunt then set the confederate flag on fire 😂 www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1...

Today we marked 50 years of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, legislation that had a profound impact on my life as a child with a disability. As a disabled woman, I am carrying the fight for disability justice forward.

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.

and please save all the "kamala warned us" stuff. she warned us while campaigning alongside liz cheney, who loves this shit.

"In these trying circumstances, the black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws- racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism." 1/

Kamala Harris' campaign was pro-genocide. NOW. . . if YOU felt you had to hold your nose and vote for her in the quietude of your voting booth? Fine. You did what you felt was right. But hopping online to DEFEND her, is defending a PRO-GENOCIDE candidate. That's how that works.

Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back

Dems: NORMS! CIVILITY! KEEPING OUR POWDER DRY…! GOP: [revs up big lifted diesel pickup truck] YAHOOO SOUTH GONNA RISE AGAIN! WOKE THIS [runs over Dems] Dems: … kitchen …table …issues!

With a few friends, I've been trying to put together a sanctuary: actually buy a building, as big as we can, so trans folk can live there and not worry abour paying rent. We'd have an onsite cafeteria, grocery coop, workshop. We'd have a shop and cafe to sell wares. www.rainbowfoundry.net

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

"What can I say to you, world? Should I tell you that the most precious thing in my life might leave me within hours? Or should I tell you that I am powerless to help save his life? My beloved Arafat is going to die and I am helpless. I beg you to donate if you can. 😭" gofund.me/df8249776

A key provision of the VRA was gutted by SCOTUS under Obama. BLM, Occupy, and Tea Party arose under Obama. Freedom Caucus formed after 2014 midterms. Record deportations facilitated by Homan, appointed by Obama! Y'all out here posting about 'if Kamala, you'd be bored rn' as if nothing happened... 1/

Their goal is to detain or deport all Black and Brown immigrants regardless of legal status. Because there are not 20 million undocumented people. Not even close.

Greta Thunberg saying the quiet part out loud about how social democratic countries like Sweden are not the paradises that people think that they are.

If Reform wins in the UK, expect insufferable Trump-Farage contests to see who can be the most racist and kleptocratic. I hope this will bring Black Americans and Black Britons closer together tho. Black Atlantic solidarity ✊🏾🖤 (Don't mind the "ADOS/FBA" reactionaries)

No better time to read "Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880" by W.E.B. Du Bois. Any fight against white supremacy without a class perspective is empty and futile. In America, racism is a very lucrative business. Slavery represented billions in property and unwaged labor, and political power.

Black political leaders during Reconstruction were quite effective. www.jstor.org/stable/26898...

Just reminding everyone that Black political representation has material effects on policy. It’s so effective that the last time Black politicians were run out of office (Reconstruction), it was with violent force. They paid with their lives for their success. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Can’t wait until taking away Black representation solves nobody’s problems and in fact makes them all worse

Yup. This Democratic Party doesn't have the juice or the ideals or the firepower for a '3rd Reconstruction'

Anyway I got a new story out and it would be cool if you read it. Good night ✌🏾 bsky.app/profile/deec...

And we’re all just supposed to go to work everyday like our democracy ain’t being ripped to shreds little by little. It’s worse if you work with a trump supporter, because these mothafuckas are just having a blast with all of this.

Around 55% of Black Americans live in southern states and vote overwhelmingly Democrat. The VRA has been cited thousands of times since it's passage. After SCOTUS gutted the VRA in 2013, North Carolina tried to restrict Black voting power "with almost surgical precision". This was ALWAYS the plan.

This is eugenics.

Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre

If it's bad for Tom Homan to be kidnapping and deporting huge numbers of people under Trump, it's bad for him to be doing under Obama, and I wish more people who are nostalgic and defensive of Obama yet hateful and critical of Trump could see the throughline from centrist politics to fascism.

Tom Homan was appointed by Obama to be ICE's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, during which he advocated for 'family separation' and facilitated record deportations. He was awarded a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive.

The mood on the ground in Tennessee today.

Fourteen year old white girls screaming at grown men about the Black people vote But the “leaders” of “progressivism can’t even put out platforms pledging to support Black voters And all of its being covered by newsrooms that watched the Black women be pushed out of journalism en masse

Police search for college student missing out of Boston #news https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/07/police-search-for-college-student-missing-out-of-boston/

One of the hard truths of US politics is that white people will do *anything* to avoid addressing the obvious issues of the country. They have shown time and time again they would rather die than acknowledge the reality of what‘s happening. This is why is why I say political labels are meaningless

The delight with which these crackers are snatching rights from Black folks! It’s cruel fun for them. They’re very much enjoying themselves & doing it with glee.

Me: *finally just getting over symptoms that where causing me extreme health anxiety and getting better and now I can live my life * 👍 News: *there’s a potential we may have another pandemic * Me: okay whAT THE FUCK-

pragmatism in service of principle is probably a better approach than toothless moderation for its own sake

An acknowledgement that we're living under Federal fascism could be helpful. But alas.

There is a reason Obama stays silent most of the time. It preserves his popularity and approval among Dem voters. If they actually saw and heard from him regularly, they would realize he’s just Chuck Schumer.

Reading "Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880" by W.E.B. Du Bois. By chapter 5 of 17, three major takeaways: 1) the North was tolerant and complicit in the maintenance of chattle slavery because industry profited and splitting the working class benefited capital 1/

The Israeli military illegally attacked a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza & abducted at least 175 civilians, including US citizens. This is a violation of international law. I joined Rep. Rashida Tlaib demanding an end to the blockade on Gaza & protection for civilians providing aid.

Reskeeting 🫠

Monumental evil.

When I was a kid, we actually stayed home when we had infectious diseases. That was standard practice. You stayed out of school or work & watched junk TV. Remember that? Sure grandma, let's get you to bed.

Yes, and people outside the binary also need bodily autonomy

There is a mother crying beside a hospital bed, terrified her son will not wake up again. Amal’s son was critically injured by an Israeli drone and urgently needs treatment outside Gaza. The family is drowning in fear and costs. Please don’t ignore their suffering chuffed.org/project/save...

A deep and manifold discussion of what the war on Iran and Hormuz crisis means for a world system that was stewarded by the very hegemon that's now shredding it. Puts all MSM talking head panels to shame. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...