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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 15h

This is the whole thing I swear to god

God @thegodpodcast.com · 16h

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12d

A post by @ebonyteach.bsky.social made me realize a lot of people don’t know this: Places that were more racially segregated experienced *more* Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence, it enabled it.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching - Volume 42 Issue 4

www.cambridge.org

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 13d

We are in hell.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 22d

It’s wild when the Economist is pulling their card. Shows you how far gone we really are.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 24d

Yeah man. Also, this isn’t real life. What did I do this crazy week? Talk to like real actual friends and family. On the phone. At the bar. People that I trust with my thought and emotions. I suggest this for you too.

Social media is cool for some shit, but talk to real life in person loved ones.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24d

There’s a lot of pressure to react to stuff instantaneously and it’s ok to sit back and first of all decide how you actually feel/what you actually think and then also actually the entire public world isn’t owed your reaction, so ask whether you need to give it

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 24d

These were the same ones three years ago literally crying in meetings about racial injustice and bragging to everyone about how much work they put in “to be a good ally.”

Now they are yelling at these same black folks in defense of fascists literally arguing to the mass murder of homeless people.

Vote Angel 2028🏳️‍⚧️ 👉😎👉 @benotafraid.bsky.social · 24d

Resist libs love to talk a big game about what they d be doing during World War 2, but if what we saw last week is any indication, they wouldn't be resisting the nazis theyd be defending their right to call for genocide

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 24d

“If you have a Ferrari, you gotta drive the Ferrari!”

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 25d

Man I think it’s time to go dawg.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 25d

I am sad. Why do we still live in this country? Family I guess. But things are bad and getting worse. It is hard to imagine this doesn’t end in a lot more violence. And I am near the top of the list of enemies of the state.

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Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 25d

No, no, no. It's not about the white guy who shot the white guy. It's about the white guy who got shot. Any time a white guy who hates Black people gets shot, it's the fault of Black people. That's even/especially true if the white guy who shot the white guy also hates Black people.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 25d

Man this.

Especially people normally alienated from politics man. There are black folk from the south side of Chicago that don’t like racism and are deeply suspicious of white folk but are so anti vaccine and xenophobic that that will lay it all on the line for the klansman that wants them dead.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25d

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tillis finally acting with decency and speaking out now that he’s not running for office is telling. Our political parties are captured.

I think this is much bigger than Trump alone. There are powerful institutions throwing their weight behind fascism that they feel like they gotta do this.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thom Tillis (R) really lays into RFK. Goes after him on everything from vaccines to the Big Beautiful Bill, gently pointing out that he's effectively, and repeatedly, lied. Wants a "written statement" from RFK on his view of Warp Speed and RNA tech. RFK not getting overwhelming support from GOP.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Notably, after this screed claiming vaccines cause autism, RFK closed with this threat, "We're being lied to by these agencies, and we're going to change that right now" by spouting conspiracy theories and using them to justify ending vaccines access for children.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 4

My fat ass just made a southside of Chicago food mural in my office.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 3

JFC man

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Sep 2

This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates.

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The unemployment rate for Black college graduates 25 years and older reached 5.3% in July, according to seasonally adjusted figures from Haver Analytics, based on Labor Department data. That was up from 3.9% in May and 2.7% in February. (Unlike the figures for overall unemployment, the Labor Department doesn’t adjust these figures for the typical seasonal swings that occur from month to month.)

The July rate was 1.7 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for white workers with only a high-school diploma—the biggest gap since Labor Department records for this metric began 1992.

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The 51st @51st.news · Aug 31

Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...

With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE

How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.

51st.news

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

They know good and hell well that if you give a bunch of Mexican kids a path to citizenship and an opportunity to work hard an advance that they are gonna turn on the tv and see a bunch of Mexican folks with big ass watches and nice ass cars. That’s too much lol. So back to the dark ages we go.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

I just don’t think any of this rhetoric about our supposed criminality or laziness or whatever is at all good faith. It’s the opposite. They don’t believe that shit deep down. It’s a lie that pacifies their rage about their own position inferior to the rich. It keeps them bought into the system.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

This obviously isn’t like innate to white folks as some natural shit. You get any group of people convinced that they have a naturally superior place in the social hierarchy, below the folks who actually run it but above some group they can shit on with confidence, and they’ll often kill for it.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

I don’t think this is just a thing the outwardly fascist people do. I swear I’ve seen bleeding heart liberals every bit as troubled by black intelligence and self determination. MFs love your charity case ass, as somebody they can mold and mentor and shit. But fuck around and outdo their ass? Lol

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

No one was talking about “go back to Africa!” during slavery lol. It was clear that you were a slave. That shit kicked off when…they thought anyway…your ass might actually have a way of making something of yourself. Running for office or owning land or some shit. Fuck that, you gotta go.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s the hierarchy man. Don’t fuck with the hierarchy. I think alotta white folks drink this “I am part of the master race” kool aid to cope with the fact that the ruling class shits all over them too. It’s that psychic wage of whiteness shit Dubois talks about.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s the perceived gains that trips them out. The idea of some family struggling coming up from Mexico and working 2 shifts a day cleaning and cooking shit for the ruling class and then send their kid to MIT drives them bananas.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’ll go to my grave believing this shit: if droves of people came here and quietly took their place beneath middle class whites in the hierarchy, didn’t try to better themselves or onto school or save up and invest in their kids…if black folks smiled and yes massa’d them to death…they’d love our ass

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Sep 1

This might be unpopular but I’ve always felt yelling back shit like “immigrants create jobs and pay taxes!” and “we aren’t all thugs!” is mostly pissing in the wind.

Black and brown people doing well with opportunity is actually the thing that bothers those mfs most.

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