"who controls municipal law enforcement there" dawg *the police* control municipal law enforcement literally everywhere in this country, and they stopped pretending they were under civilian control a loooong time ago

Trump tells the FBI (or issues an EO instructing local police) to seize the ballot boxes of those districts to prevent vote-by-mail "fraud." No idea if he'll do it, but it is insane to me that right now, right this second, people are arguing it's not plausible or could never happen lol

just want to say ty for doing these @skookses.bsky.social, every year I use these lists for niece/nephew presents and they've all been bangers 🙏🙏🙏

This type of extremism isn't helpful. We need moderate, practical policies, like allowing them to apply for the franchise again after ten years farming in Shaanxi province

the neighborhood devil has been funding, promoting and protecting exactly this type of player for *decades*, though, regardless of the degree of repression or the state of the opposition

are you under the impression that intersectionality was invented by white people

No. Racism and capitalism are *deeply* intertwined, and the idea that you can fundamentally combat racism without also combating capitalism is utterly hollow- and why liberalism has totally failed to stem the rise of racist fascism. This is literally what 'intersectionality' means

somebody gave that junior youth pastor WAY too much white monster

Yeah if anything, after the sustained, years-long multibillion dollar hate campaign, those numbers are actually kinda surprisingly static, considering the 'pushback' from the ostensibly liberal establishment has ranged from 'tepid dithering' to 'full-throated endorsement of bigotry'

"democratic socialist" wasn't coopted, really, it was just Michael Harrington trying to assuage his terror of being associated with the soviets via word games lol

"social welfare state" is to the right of neoliberalism, what in the world? Neoliberalism developed as a rightwing reaction _against_ the postwar welfare states ushered in (mostly) by SD parties. Perhaps you're thinking of christian democracy? (Which would still be wrong, imo, but a lil less so lol)

do you think babies are out here spontaneously reciting the 14 words