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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

SCOTUS has been focused on chipping away at civil rights laws and policies for 20 years.

Today, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent not just another chip, but a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: The 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights Are on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

www.motherjones.com

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 13h

Kinda like the word “populist“ is somewhat equivalent to “white supremacist.“

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 16h

It’s why I basically quit listening to white men.

Look— nearly 2/3 of them voted directly for the white supremacist Birther in Chief; and the rest are always complaining about the “uselessness” and “fecklessness” of the Black and Jewish and female led Democrats.

White men should simply be ignored.

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 16h

I’d pre-order it.

Bring the Agency right up into the 21st century… where they fail; Brexit occurs, and Boris Johnson becomes PM and the Agency has to go underground because that idiot might accidentally expose them…

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 16h

I’d pre-order this. “Upper Class Twits” and all. 😂

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

If a post says “Black sky” or “Black people” only and you aren’t Black there’s zero reason to respond other than being purposely antagonistic. It’s not cute or funny. It’s disrespectful and tone deaf. Learn to respect boundaries and mind your business!!!

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 1d

It is a public site, and I publicly said I only wanted Black opinions, and here you come with your lily white skin. Again, KNOWINGLY UNWANTED. You're not going to convince me I'm wrong here. I don't mind being a bitch.

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C. Ratched, MSN, RN @cratchedrn.bsky.social · 20h

Hey fellow People of the Paste … not sure which of y’all need to hear this. But here it is. Your daily reminder that not everything is for us. Mind your own damn business.

Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

If a post says “Black sky” or “Black people” only and you aren’t Black there’s zero reason to respond other than being purposely antagonistic. It’s not cute or funny. It’s disrespectful and tone deaf. Learn to respect boundaries and mind your business!!!

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 1d

It is a public site, and I publicly said I only wanted Black opinions, and here you come with your lily white skin. Again, KNOWINGLY UNWANTED. You're not going to convince me I'm wrong here. I don't mind being a bitch.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Vive le Duc et la Duchesse!

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Tristan Langford @tjl24.bsky.social · 1d

No it doesn’t say anything about non consecutive terms but it also doesn’t say anything about consecutive terms either because it doesn’t need to! “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”
Couldn’t be any more clearer.

Tristan Langford @tjl24.bsky.social · 1d

The 22nd amendment is not vague and it’s not open to interpretation. It’s actually very goddamn clear.

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives will burn the Constitution they claim to revere because it let a Black man be elected President over them.

And here we are.

Tristan Langford @tjl24.bsky.social · 1d

The 22nd amendment is not vague and it’s not open to interpretation. It’s actually very goddamn clear.

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ThePrincessPea @theprincesspea.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a crisis of unimaginable complexity.

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

I don't expect them to be "allies," but I DO expect them to fulfill their ***CONSTITUTIONAL*** duty and at this point major media are *completely* failed.

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

What drives me crazy is how Americans* will vote for policies like cannabis legalization and bodily autonomy but turn around and vote for the Republicans who immediately work to reverse them!

*"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." -Toni Morrison.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Far more intuitively correct— but you know, boyo, you do you.

I have already wasted too much time on your stupidity; and make no mistake, you are just *embarrassingly* fucking stupid.

So, white man, *go fuck yourself.* We’re done here. 🖕🏾
>mute!<

Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

yeah and so? You got anything that says the white people who didn’t vote would vote any differently than the ones who did?

You are absolutely fucking *thick,* aren’t you?

Or are you just another white male troll?

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

My dear friends… Dianne lived a good long one and left us with SO MUCH to remember her by that I am reminded of what Patton said:

”Don’t be sad that this woman died. Rejoice that this woman **LIVED**.” ❤️🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾🥹

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Behold the stereotypical American white man.

Charlie Kirk with a different face. 🙄

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

400 years of straight white male supremacy have made your demographic, *as a demographic,* the dumbest, most gullible, least reliable and least capable demographic in America.

Nearly 2/3 of you voted directly for white supremacy but then refuse to actually acknowledge it.

LIKE WE CAN’T SEE YOU. 😂😂

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, yeah, whatever, white man.

You can deny ‘til you’re blue in the face but lived experience tells us just how privileged you actually are.

Your whiteness shields you from SO MUCH, but just like a fish, you simply cannot see it.

Sad, really.

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

We SURVIVE by trading our labor and time for the money that pays our rents, mortgages, utilities and groceries and everything else.

This is how completely out of touch todays conservatives are. Nepo babies or otherwise the beneficiaries of inherited wealth, *they don’t understand work at all.*

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just sayin’… 😂

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps it would be better to refer to WHITE SUPREMACY.

The same white supremacy that is systematic in this society and this culture, that provides privileges and advantages to YOU as a WHITE MAN.

Any further questions?

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, he said leftists because they're really all the same.

"There is no horseshoe. There is only white people who are at best uncomfortable with any power being held in Black hands. Those white people are at all points of the 'left-right' spectrum."

Also Natives, Jews-- anyone "not white."

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