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@redoubtagain.bsky.social

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Boring Gen X Cishet Neurotypical African American. South Shore to Coastal Empire. Extremely Amateur Historian. Flies the W. He/him/'nem.

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 17d

What doesn't get mentioned enough: Bondi literally took a bribe from Trump to quash an investigation into his business dealings while she was Florida's Attorney General (1/2)

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 1h

This is *precisely* what Andrew Wakefield did

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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 19h

When people say they don't understand white privilege. This is the ultimate example of white privilege. A 34-time convicted felon can become POTUS and then go after the Black Attorney General who prosecuted him for another case. No Black person, not even President Obama, has that privilege or power.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 21h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 21h

The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 8h

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 4h

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 2d

Unless we fight to rebuild the Black and Jewish alliance & fight against the antisemitism & racism in the DEM party. I worry what will happen going forward in the future. We must get all hands on deck to strategize to defeat the extreme Nazism and racism in both parties and take it back from them 1/

redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 4h

So tying up traffic downtown doesn't necessarily mean paralyzing the city. (5/5)

redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 4h

It's why your alderman and their ward committeeman are so important--they're your neighborhood-level government reps. There are fifty aldermen for a reason. (4/5)

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 4h

Because it's a city of neighborhoods you needed to go downtown only to work or conduct upper-level government business. Everything else was in your neighborhood. (3/5)

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 4h

It's almost 235 square miles or 607 square kilometers. What you are seeing in protests are places that only Chicagoans once knew. (2/5)

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 4h

A thing to consider is that Chicago is *big*. Not LA or Houston big but good sized for a city that hasn't expanded since about 1930. (1/5)

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 5h

I did not have "blaming autism on Jews" on my bingo card. That is word-for-word Nazi talk.

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#ContessaLucia superfan/ მე მხედარი, არა მეგობარი შენი. @mkhedari.bsky.social · 17h

Faux-gressives would do well if they confronted their GOP-voting relatives, instead of terrorizing Black people.

But that would mean, that they would need to confront their own anti-Black racist bias.

icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 1d

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 1d

We been knew about these pro Hamas assholes…

They are racist as fuck

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 5h

a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .

Alt: a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 6h

It's why he keeps saying "I ended five (or fifteen or eight or eleven) wars!"
The number keeps changing. (He got that from Joe McCarthy via Roy Cohn.)

redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 13h

They're OK with shooting Venezuelans because they will be OK with shooting Virginians

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2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 1d

One more time: White people were always on the menu. They were protected by the institutions & people they despise. Those guardrails are gone & now they are scared. Fuck them all. If you still call yourself a Republican after 1/6/21 you can fuck off. You are no American, you're just white.

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, there's "she's getting what she voted for". But even they are cracking.

“You have the power to do that. And as a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party, and I’m very disappointed in you, because you do have the power to call the House back.”
www.alternet.org/johnson-gop-...

'I’m begging you — my kids could die': GOP C-SPAN caller corners Johnson live on-air

A Republican voter — a military spouse and mother of two children with medical needs whose husband suffers from PTSD — called into C-SPAN to blast House Speaker Mike Johnson for refusing to allow vote...

www.alternet.org

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, Pam Bondi ☕️💅🏽

Photo of a blonde female pathological liar wearing a dark suit to match her dark soul, with the words:
“Someone should tell Pam Bondi that while Nixon didn't go to prison, his Attorney General did.”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Reinstate Link as a gesture of good will

Apologize

Hire a comms person

Hire a team of consultants

Tag in the multiple orgs who backed you

This is not hard

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 14h

Painkillers, Flomax, and lemonade.
IYKYK

THEE Leftist NP @theeblackleftie.bsky.social · 2d

Someone go and trip Dolly Parton’s sister. She had me scared that our girl was on her deathbed.

Auntie just had some kidney stones.

This ain’t the time to be dramatic maam 😭😭😭

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Also he burned specifically Black places and so many non AI places shared that narrative freely

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 15h

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t watched birth of a nation, you really should. Not only is it instructional on how white supremacist narratives work, it also showcases what James Baldwin talks about-

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23h

A lot of you never got punched in your damn jaw.

You’re used to being emotionally explosive and cruel and hiding behind “politics” to justify it

No you’re an abusive asshole

I’m not your mom, you’re caretaker or your peer

And it’s not “punching down” to reject you trying to be my overseer

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20h

Chris Rufo gets covers for talking about how he wanted to financially decimate Black women

And the same magazine didn’t even do an interview when I pointed out how academia was treating Black women and online. Research aided him

The white experts still only talk to white people

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redoubtagain @redoubtagain.bsky.social · 16h

ICE also attacked Bronzeville the next day--oldest Black neighborhood in the city and where my parents were living when I was born--and didn't say anything about that either

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