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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 4d

This is why we gotta let the Clears figure this out themselves. They can’t take an ounce of accountability for shit but mad we’re leaving their asses alone.

Y’all got this.

Dakota @dakota.bsky.social · 4d

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Pew public polling data of the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections broken down by race and gender.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 3d

So we have an air traffic controller staffing problem just in time for the holiday travel season if this shutdown doesn’t get resolved soon.

Thanks Mayo Nation.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is busy trolling Democrats on social media.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 3d

Airports are experiencing massive staffing shortages because of the Trump shutdown.

House Republicans remain on vacation.

Get back to work so we can reopen the government!

#RepublicanHealthCareCrisis

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

This is what they’ve been towards ever since Brown vs The Board of Education.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

This is beyond disgusting. Yet they’re confused as to why we don’t respect them, fuck with them or give two shits about anything they’re talking about.

EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 3d

We been knew about these pro Hamas assholes…

They are racist as fuck

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

Man they were banking on mass civil unrest because now they’re getting desperate and looking more ridiculous by the day.

Texas National Guard troops to Illinois? We gotta send troops to Portland?

This is ridiculous. It’s almost like they’re saying “please riot”

Pathetic.

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Christine @chermitup.bsky.social · 2d

The people dressing up in silly costumes at these protests and clergy showing up really reveal the lie at the center of their claims that they're the good guys stamping out violent crime. Hard to believe when they're teargassing a twerking unicorn and a preaching reverend.

KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

Man they were banking on mass civil unrest because now they’re getting desperate and looking more ridiculous by the day.

Texas National Guard troops to Illinois? We gotta send troops to Portland?

This is ridiculous. It’s almost like they’re saying “please riot”

Pathetic.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

Rut roh….someone isn’t sticking to the script

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 2d

People need to be thanking Black people because we didn’t roll out into the streets but, they won’t.😒

KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

Man they were banking on mass civil unrest because now they’re getting desperate and looking more ridiculous by the day.

Texas National Guard troops to Illinois? We gotta send troops to Portland?

This is ridiculous. It’s almost like they’re saying “please riot”

Pathetic.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: Republicans control all three branches of government and can reopen the by themselves.

So yes this is 🧢

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: What's your message to families facing missed paychecks because of the shutdown?

TRUMP: Blame the Democrats. It's their fault.

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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 2d

It’s racist af to have all this smoke for Hakeem Jeffries the MINORITY leader with no power. When none of you pricks have said one word about Heritage Action for America. The lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation who wrote and are implementing Project 2025. www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/h...

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

This feels like a very rushed acceleration of Project 2025.

Interesting.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

This is what they’re going to use to go after legacy Black and Latino organizations along with Progressive orgs like the SPLC.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin reportedly plans to deploy the FBI, DHS, DOJ, IRS and the Treasury Dept. against left-wing groups it accuses of 'funding and organizing political violence'

INSIGHT-Trump’s War On The Left: Inside The Plan To Investigate Liberal Groups

The Trump admin plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus against left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, the officials said.

www.huffpost.com

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA initiative to run up on HBCU campuses starting shit under the guise of a “debate” is the ultimate in weirdo behavior.

You don’t want us in White spaces and we don’t go but y’all and your pet 🦝 won’t leave us alone in our own spaces. Crazy shit.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 1d

Now Abbott will get away with this but Pritzker zing his ass in response and the media will hit the fainting couches with the quickness.

Two sets of rules guys.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 1d

The Media Tone Police will go crazy.

Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

If Pritzker said “Man roll away from me with this” everyone would surely be in an uproar:

KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 1d

Now Abbott will get away with this but Pritzker zing his ass in response and the media will hit the fainting couches with the quickness.

Two sets of rules guys.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 11d

Regular White people are learning how special they aren’t

(And never were TBH)

Elphabussy Thropp @dayoftheweek.bsky.social · 11d

White people still believe that regular white people and WEALTHY/powerful white people are created equal. We been trying to tell them, they ain’t.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 11d

Again, Republicans control the entire government. They don’t have to shut down the government. They’re choosing to.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 10d

So when this all goes completely to shit no one can credibly blame Democrats for it.

Out of Mike Johnson’s own mouth all credit goes to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Mike Johnson on the shutdown: "It can provide an opportunity to downside the scope and scale of government, which is something that we've always wanted to do. So in a way Chuck Schumer has now handed the keys to the kingdom the executive branch under President Trump."

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 10d

The founders never planned for a future where the checks and balances that exist in our constitution would simply be hand waved away by one party that controls everything.

GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 11d

Seems we always can find a rule, statue, procedure or law to “reel in” black folk, and history bears this as fact. Where are ANY OF THESE, to reel in a man hell bent on revenge and destruction of America as we know it?

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Matt @mattmurph24.bsky.social · 10d

Trump and Noem just defunded the police in NYC.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 10d

This snickering chud handed all the power to Trump to do whatever the hell he wants a long time ago. He gleefully surrendered and ended the authorities of his co-equal branch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Mike Johnson on the shutdown: "It can provide an opportunity to downside the scope and scale of government, which is something that we've always wanted to do. So in a way Chuck Schumer has now handed the keys to the kingdom the executive branch under President Trump."

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 10d

Why when the voters didn’t fight hard to keep Trump from a second term and Republicans from controlling both chambers of Congress?

The voters didn’t fight hard enough so take it up with them.

EJ @kimberlion.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t want her to lead the resistance.

I want her to do whatever she needs to do, but I would have liked to see her order an independent audit for the election and fight a little harder rather than believe he won legitimately and didn’t cheat…

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 10d

But they’re perplexed when the majority of us say we’ve checked out. Black folks up to and including Kamala Harris busted our asses to stop this shit and they took it as a joke.

Now they want us to lead their goofy ass “resistance”

They can go to hell right along with MAGA.

ewilson30.bsky.social @ewilson30.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so sick of the arm chair quarterbacking from these people. They don't wanna do the work during election season for any black politician but then constantly and I mean constantly want us to fight for them and inspire them and make them feel better when they inevitably get fucked.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 10d

And there’s no excuse for this. Not a one.

Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 10d

all of this is happening because some stupid, lazy, and selfish people refused to vote for Kamala Harris.

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