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Writer 🦉baseball fan ⚾ fighting for women's liberation Native New Yorker, now NH Dem Editor of "Bootheel Boy", Mark Littell's fourth book www.amazon.com/author/marklittell

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · Mar 4

NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE DECIDE IT'S OVER

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Bluto's Speech from Animal House

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R.I.P.ley is spooky 👻 @rileyisgood.bsky.social · 56m

"the generation of republicans before me are racist, the generation of republicans after me are racist, but there's no connection between these two groups, and my generation of republicans weren't racist and there was actually no way for us to know about all the obvious racism everywhere else"

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Roy @nexus-6.net · 52m

This is 1992. At the Republican National Convention.

Four years before that was the Willie Horton ad by GHW Bush.

Your claim is bullshit. This movement was never naive nor sincere.

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Pat Buchanan "Cultural War" speech

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 5m

Where did you go to college? Was it all-white?

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azuregardenbot.bsky.social @azuregardenbot.bsky.social · 2h

Young conservatives in the 90s were openly bashing queer people and saying racist slurs without pushback. They were no less shitty than they are now.

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ddiiggss @ddiiggss.bsky.social · 3h

how am i supposed to tell that people are racist if they're not constantly screaming the n word? by their support of racist policies and their inherent belief that rich white people are simply better and more deserving than everyone else? are you insane?!

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 9m

This is total bullshit. For example, Andrew Sullivan published this in The New Republic, and has doggedly defended "The Bell Curve" throughout the years. newrepublic.com/article/1208...

Race, Genes and I.Q. — An Apologia

From the archives.

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And this is total bullshit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30m

Neguse: "What Trump is attempting to do is create a perception that he has all the power & create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He's electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular POTUS at this juncture than any modern POTUS in history"

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 2h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 1d

Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 2h

Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House.

They shut down the government to slash YOUR health care.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 1d

Let Kamala have her fucking book tour

If y'all wanted to protest her, y'all should have elected her

Stop blaming Kamala, she didn't tank the economy and send stormtroopers into US cities

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

Reinhart lost me with this. Did the "paternal authority" (the patriarchy) really establish that racism and misogyny are bad and shameful?

For much of the modern era, this symbolic mediation was anchored by what Lacan called the “Name-of-the-Father.” This is not the literal father, but the fantasy of a paternal authority that stabilizes meaning and guarantees the law. This paternal function structured the symbolic order by defining what was real, true, and legitimate. It was reinforced by institutions like the state, the church, the university, the press, and the family. Shame worked because there was a shared, if hierarchical, moral universe in which judgments had weight.

HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

Hmm. I don't buy his assertion that the
"paternal order" (the patriarchy) was what kept the foundation on "sturdy ground". History shows that patriarchal structures have constantly fought with each other about rules and norms. Many wars have been quite bloody. He should rethink this.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

either way, glad to see serious discussion of the article, thanks to Eric for that. original here in case you're looking for it:

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Earthbound420 @earthbound420.bsky.social · 1h

Pathetic 🙄

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2h

All of a sudden we can’t engage in good-natured college banter like “I love Hitler”? The left’s cancel culture is out of control, I tell you what.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice secured indictments of Donald Trump, said it was "ludicrous" to suggest he was motivated by partisan politics, and condemned the Trump Justice Department.

Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

The former special counsel’s first extended remarks since resigning in January were released the same day House Republicans summoned him to testify.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

‼️ this was a striking moment, to me

Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

He's a lying sack of shit.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

Kavanaugh: "I want to note some common ground bc I think it's important in disputes like this one to identify common ground. Justice Jackson said the goal is equal opportunity for all Americans & I think we all agree on that, completely"

man shut your bitchass up with this conscience assuaging bs

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

Yup. The only thing she got wrong was that she said they were about half of Trump supporters. More like all of them.