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Syreeta McFadden
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Just incredibly moronic whatabouty reply guy crap. Keep that xitter energy off the skyline.
February 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I saw a couple of replies to 2 different accounts this am that 1) bad faith argument frame about the feels of black cops dipped in racism and 2) how in the year 2026 after documentaries, books, films, the Pentagon Papers could you ever say still believe it’s the left’s fault for the 1968 election?
February 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Gotta be a bot or an opp because just no.
February 17, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...
Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America. It Was Written by Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 ...
www.slate.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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I called Jackson again about a year later, in July 2020, on the day John Lewis died.

He talked about Lewis's moral clarity, what patriotism really means, and about the rebirth of democracy in the 60s.

"Our modern democracy was born in front of that bridge." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The World John Lewis Helped Create
Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”

Remember this history as we remember this man.
Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Agree. I kept up with south africa news on the other app and miss it
February 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM