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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 10h

Essential thread. Read it. Sit with it.

EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 17h

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/

carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 10h

Well, lucky you anyway. We have them a lot where I live and I’m never tired of the thrill when I spot one.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 13h

Up close? They are gigantic. It’s hard to appreciate how big they are until you see them up close.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 22h

If you're a reporter in DC lobbing questions about who's gonna perform at the Super Bowl to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, you're just a shit stirrer and a hack.

Plenty of things in Mike Johnson's wheelhouse you should be asking him about. Bad Bunny ain't one of them.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 1d

When she first hopped on the Gaza bandwagon someone in the media asked her about the victims of October 7. Her response was “that goes without saying.” I was like, “bitch, that needs to go with saying.”

carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 3d

I’m convinced the most damaging stuff in the Epstein files is info that’ll lead investigators to solid proof of money laundering by Epstein, Trump, and others. That rich old dudes are big pervs isn’t that radical of an idea. I think it’s clear evidence of money laundering that’s driving this.

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Joseph In THEE OC @ocjoseph424.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this on FB. Ruins of a 1500-year old synagogue along with various artifacts were found in the Golan Heights. Yet dumb leftists think that Jews showed up in Israel in 1948.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 4d

I see movie studios push AI actresses and immediately think of how they blindsided Sharon Stone with the interview scene in Basic Instinct. She learned not to trust studios and directors and for that was labeled "difficult". Execs don't have those kinds of concerns with a bot.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my. The comments in the original post show that white progs STILL aren’t ready for the discussion on how deeply embedded white supremacy is on the left, especially how anti-black Berners were and still are. Need hoarders to get through all the excuse-making.

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Lori D. Johnson @loridjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

#writingcommunity 🖤✏️

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 6d

We really do need to collect our own and stop expecting others to do it for us.

Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 7d

When I see a white person say something that Black people have been trying to tell people, I don't get upset. It's just shows, y'all only listen to each other. Y'all need to be talking to each other about how you are going to fix the mess you've help create, by only listening to each other.

carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 6d

There’s no way to “both sides” this or criticize Dems for “letting this happen.”

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 6d

More important now than ever to remember that the most progressive place in the world can’t protect people who can’t afford to live in it, and can’t welcome people it refuses to make room for.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 6d

Yep. Who runs committees and who’s in charge depends entirely on how many Ds versus how many Rs. Ideological purity doesn’t matter. It’s strictly a numbers game.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 6d

CBS has been dead for a long time. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS”

"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," the CBS CEO said.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 6d

They were lost long before this. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS”

"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," the CBS CEO said.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 6d

Has anyone actually watched the news?? The media’s marching orders are to “both sides” this to death. The media would love nothing more than to giggle about Dems and Reps “trading barbs.”

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Colleen Flanagan @holistictips4u.bsky.social · 7d

"Fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power". -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd POTUS 🌊

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 7d

Ohhhh that last one. Reminds me of white evangelical churches. Always sending money and young people to “help” in places like Africa and Asia. That’s great. Helping communities of brown people in their own cities? Nope. Those ones don’t deserve it.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 7d

I’m confused. Kegseth is proposing NDAs for military. I’ve never heard of NDAs in this context. How do NDAs function in the context of the UCMJ and federal laws about retention and dissemination of information (esp FOIA)?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 11d

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt.

And that’s wrong.

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 10d

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carolynelsey.bsky.social @carolynelsey.bsky.social · 10d

That chyron is why I don’t watch CNN and MSNBC for news anymore. They shit on Dems 24/7 and turn politics into a giant parlor game (“both sides!!!”) and blame the party for a lack of enthusiasm after spending hundreds of millions in airtime bitching about the party.

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