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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · 9d

So how do we feel about Platner?

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · 28d

Lmaoooo

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Sep 29

An important thing to remember in this political moment is that most people are not as angry as the characters on social media and blanket statements on turning down the temperature and telling people to chill the fuck out will probably be received well by independent voters

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 29

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 28

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Sep 28

Exactly - Lincoln never conceded slavery was acceptable, but compromised on timing and implementation. He could have demanded immediate abolition in 1861 but issued the Emancipation Proclamation strategically in 1863 for rebellious states only to keep border states loyal.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Sep 28

As the thread points out, Lincoln never compromised on his core principle that slavery was morally wrong, but he made endless tactical compromises to actually end it. He delayed emancipation timing, and cut deals with border states. Moral clarity + political pragmatism = results.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Sep 28

This is a great example because the issue right now in left wing politics is that a sizeable portion of the left doesn’t want to make any concessions and argues that making concessions *is* compromising on principles - when really compromise is how you win.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 28

you'll notice two things. 1st, that lincoln made repeated concessions to the public's anti-black racism. and 2nd, that lincoln never budged on his view of the declaration ("all men *are* created equal") or compromised on his opposition to the extension of slavery

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 18

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · Sep 18

“The FCC under Brendan Carr uses mergers and business interests of media companies as leverage to extract concessions, extract bribes, and extract censorship.”

Brendan Carr Isn't Going to Stop Until Someone Makes Him

In the wake of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct is flatly unconstitutional. They also expect him to keep going.

www.wired.com

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Sep 18

He did this before in 2020

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 17

These are completely consistent tweets so I’m unsure of your point. I am frustrated that people on here, rather than observing reality and reacting to it, are demonstrably unable to process facts that are politically inconvenient.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · Sep 16

Which one of these does @whstancil.bsky.social object to?

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jul 28

What’s so interesting is that my family did genealogical research years ago and found that while most of the slave rebellions were unsuccessful, there were three that succeeded, and one of them is how my ancestor made it back to Nigeria.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jul 28

One of my great great great grandfathers on my mother’s side was taken from Nigeria to Brazil as a slave. He fought in a one few successful slave rebellions. The freedmen and women stole ships and returned to Nigeria. My family stayed there until my mother immigrated to the U.S. years later.

Rol de Canela @xinna.bsky.social · Jul 8

Share a piece of lore about yourself.

Little drawing of a stick figure with terrible posture leaning over to read a computer screen closely.
This bitch probably bisexual b/c he don’t know how to sit right.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jul 26

The IDF just ended one of the most common talking points used to claim Hamas was stealing aid from Palestinians. Now that we know Israel was not telling the truth, will the people who spread that lie here take accountability and apologize?

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jul 9

Uhhhhhh

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · Jul 6

Lately I just keep thinking about how much comes down to wanting better for each other and acting accordingly.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jul 6

I want to go back to a time when kids dying wasn’t treated as a moment to score political points. How did we lose that basic sense of shared humanity and how do we get it back?

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jun 27

abundance trotkyism is better than maga maoism by far imo

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 22

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 22

Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 14

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 13

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · Jun 13

It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jun 14

I’m sick of the false equivalency. I’m sick of the political violenceone side wages while the other writes op-eds begging for calm. I’m sick of pretending murder and protest are the same. And I’m sick of a media too timid to name what’s in front of our eyes.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jun 14

In the coming days Republicans will say: “What about BLM?” But destroying property during a protest is not like murdering politicians and spouses in cold blood. One is destruction of property, the other is taking a life. If you can’t see the difference, you’re choosing not to.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jun 14

The goal now is not only to normalize political violence, to make it just another partisan issue. But this isn’t about left vs right. It’s about whether we let extremists with guns decide who lives or dies based on their political views. That should terrify every American.

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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · Jun 14

And you’re going to see Republicans try to equate this with the BLM protests, as if serious property damage from five years ago is somehow the same as political assassinations, the cold-blooded murder of two public servants and their spouses. Don’t let them blur the lines.

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