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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 6h

The importance of this question cannot be overstated: Trump has been communicating directly with Bondi through Truth Social about indicting his enemies. How this question is resolved is critical.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

www.documentcloud.org

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 9h

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 10h

This is exactly how I explain rich people to my kids.

Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 10h

I sometimes find "nice" and "kind" to be at odds. Nice requires a level of fakeness and veneer of politeness/respectability that simply isn't possible to deliver if your goal is to be kind, in most cases.

I often think of "Minnesota Nice" when I think of niceness. It's truly NASTY WORK! 😒

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: I wrote about the dozen-plus MAGA influencers who have been flocking to Portland, how they are shaping perceptions of anti-ICE protests, and how they and the Trump administration are playing off one another. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Portland's anti-ICE protests have become a magnet for MAGA influencers

Right-wing influencers and media figures have flocked to Portland, helping bring national and Trump administration attention to ICE protests in the city.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI — bumbling ICE stooges finally chased off by Chicago folks after a humiliating attempt to grab a man they racially profiled

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 14h

Serious evangelical huckster vibes with all the faith healing & pyramid scheming side hustles that come with the package. If you know, you know.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about Mike Johnson is if you were casting "unctuously insincere politician" you really couldn't do any better with an actor.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a play on the “faithful slave” trope that was crucial to Jim Crow era white supremacist ideology. A famous & much clearer example from the same period here.

The Good Darky - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

With two white children she had cared for, yes.

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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 2d

Whole thread is well worth reading.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really the same set of interests acting against everyone else using contextually specific tactics, but always towards the same end. The enslavers are the Redeemers are the Second Klanners are the Business Plotters are the White Citizens Councilers are the Southern Strategizers etc etc etc.

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ICE=Inbred Clown Employer @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 2d

IMHO ya don’t need to go all the way back to 1920s & Second Klan as a lens through which to view/understand Trump 2.0. Not to say that history is not relevant & important. Ofc it is. But ya cld just throw a dart & see on what subsequent decade it lands & from then find useful insight on our present

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.

The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.

This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! In the first parade photo, the CT chapter of the Klan is front & center.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 2d

I keep hearing about Graham. Saw a video on him today

I do NOT agree that not shaming racists, bigots, & idiots for their ACTUAL HARM towards minorities and their continued willful ignorance is the way

We are not hugging our way out of this and docility from the oppressed leads to MORE oppression

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Dennis M. Hogan
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Disagree. Platner and Zohran are not simply unheard of generational political talents who happened to emerge at the same time. Our country is full of people like them: smart, decent, normal, likable. Most of politics is structured around keeping them out.
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he's one of the best communicators l've seen in years. I'm genuinely gobsmacked.
Graham Platner for Senate &
@grahamf….3h
People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.
The answer is empathy and compassion.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! It’s the least consequential question esp as the remedy in either case is institutional transformation.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

It’s true that our education system could do a much better job with this material & that we should treat it with much greater funding/care as a society. Still, it’s the institutions that fascist seek to capture & weaponize bc they correctly understand that these produce outcomes.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate that, esp as an educator, but the problem is that these people *know* the history. That’s why they use the same slogans, for ex, even after their origins are pointed out. The problem isn’t individual moral or educational failing—it’s institutional.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! We don’t come out on the other side of fascist state capture & return to the same old “compromise with the people who view you as illegitimate & hope to eliminate you by hook or by crook” song & dance.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

The history shapes the vastly insufficient world we inherit, but it should also inform how we *respond* to this world. That’s the point of all this.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

I keep harping on this point bc either 1) this system has been designed to produce fascist outcomes when the interests of the propertied & powerful are threatened or 2) it has been designed with such incompetence that it has consistently produced those outcomes accidentally.

K @appiah.bsky.social · 2d

Far, far, far too many still operate under the notion that the Second Trump Administration is some sort of profound aberration. That’s far from the case. This thread by @wihorne.bsky.social is vital for us to understand the reality in which we are inhabiting.

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