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mashedtomatoes.bsky.social @mashedtomatoes.bsky.social · 6h

Worried about NJ.

VA seems a lock though.

mashedtomatoes.bsky.social @mashedtomatoes.bsky.social · 6h

Been trying to explain this to the "it's material conditions, not white supremacy!" portion of the left.

Trumpers live in McMansions in low-cost areas, with unnecessary $80k trucks they use for their HVAC businesses, and a boat that stays unused in their driveway b/c their kids never visit them.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h

trump voters aren't people who have been left behind or hard done by. they're mostly the people who have done pretty well and are enraged that others might possibly have a chance to do pretty well too. 1

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9h

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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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mashedtomatoes.bsky.social @mashedtomatoes.bsky.social · 9h

The absolute cowardice of so-called leaders.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 9h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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mashedtomatoes.bsky.social @mashedtomatoes.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP suffered no consequences for stealing the SCOTUS seat from Obama/Dems by refusing to seat Merrick Garland, so they figure they'll do it again.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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mashedtomatoes.bsky.social @mashedtomatoes.bsky.social · 2d

They saw one building burning, and a few cracked store windows, and that's all the fascists and racists needed to justify the narratives they already wanted to believe.

Fox, and unmoderated social media (but I'd argue mainly Fox) broke the country, as many predicted.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

Folks need to understand that when Trump says blue cities are burning down his supporters believe it cause that’s what Fox has been telling them for years, and no objective reality can penetrate that bubble. Otoh most normal people think that kind of talk is bonkers.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss would've of course worked for CBS without buying out her website, but the oligarch class wants to reward her for her years of service to their cause including her time as an infiltrator destroying the New York Times from the inside.

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mashedtomatoes.bsky.social @mashedtomatoes.bsky.social · 2d

Selling it to the majority on SCOTUS. Probably doesn't need to because he knows they'll rule in his favor.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

I think a lot lately about how so many Black folks were hesitant to come to this site because many of us figured this is where it would go and I have never seen one person so utterly committed to single handedly burning any and all good will their site has accumulated like a five alarm gas fire.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

There is no specific language in the Constitution that prohibits the president from using the National Guard to taunt his political opponents, so it's hard to imagine any reason for withdrawing troops from Chicago and Portland.

by Jonathan Turley

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

They are who we thought they were.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 3d

absolutely brutal

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4d

Somebody be mean to me so that i can use it as an excuse to grift by starting a conservative podcast.

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 4d

It's so important for people to understand that we really are all connected. MTA's mere existence contributes to the economies of states all across the U.S. Red, Blue and Purple states alike benefit from the largest transit agency in the country doing business.

www.railwayage.com/passenger/re...

Reinvent Albany: Investing in MTA Is Investing in America

Reinvent Albany, a New York-based government watchdog organization, has released a new report showing that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spent nearly $19 billion outside New York fro...

www.railwayage.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4d

a lot of people in this country voted to terrorize my neighborhood and my neighbors. a lot of institutions and leaders decided that was cool.

don't know what else to say.

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Josh @josh2028.bsky.social · 4d

Democrats have refused for years to accept the fact that local, state, and federal policing agencies will side with the right over the law, and over the legal chain of command. This will keep harming our country until it is permanently addressed.