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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 48m

Question: Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?

Trump: Suspending who?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 51m

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Glenston Churchill @glenlongwell.bsky.social · 2h

#Ohio is the 7th largest economy in the #USA but 37th in median income. Roads are a D+ costing their underpaid residents a small fortune every year. #Cleveland #freepalestine

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSNxpTL/

got cut off at thats a miracle it was that high. my fellow Clevelanders know what im talking about #usa #ohio #leftist #cleveland #Glenstonchurchill

TikTok video by Glenston Churchill

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Bike Cleveland @bikecleveland.bsky.social · 1d

Here's how Random Acts of Brightness works: We split up into groups and ride through popular areas looking for riders without lights. Within minutes we start intercepting & lighting up riders in need! Join us at 2 locations on Thurs and take part in the action. www.bikecleveland.org/bike-cle/eve...

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rome. @romewithadot.com · 1h

It would have been a glitchy buggy mess and it still would have sold ten million copies.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2h

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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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 3h

This is amazing.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

Is there a black politician that at some point or another Trump hasn't called "low IQ?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Karen From Finance @blkreparations.bsky.social · 1h

The people who make fun of English and Literature degrees are having trouble reading

We’re not even talking about comprehension. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT READING

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 1h

Racism stifles creativity.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2h

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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

Step 5 of the plan:

Rig the rules and the information. Tilt the election playing field your way and destroy the idea of truth.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

Step 3 of the plan:

Use the military to perform political intimidation in places with high levels of opposition to the regime.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

Step 2 of the plan:

Use government power to compel the media to tell only the regime's narrative and to silence critics.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

Step 1 of the plan:

Turn the justice system into a political witch hunt operation that punishes critics for free speech and immunizes loyalists for actual criminality.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Tazz (YKNiece fan account) @tazz.bsky.social · 2h

Aye that would’ve been lit

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 4h

Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE

Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 3h

Trump is taking money from universities that enroll large numbers of Latino students and funneling it to high-profile HBCUs. It’s a cynical ploy designed to divide marginalized communities. From Naomi Bethune: trib.al/YjYbSmg

Competing for Crumbs

While adding funding for historically Black colleges and universities, Trump’s Education Department is simultaneously cutting funding to colleges that primarily serve minorities.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

When the students at this Maine high school got detention, they would sit in a classroom for a few hours after school.

A counselor had the idea to offer students an option to hike instead. After their first hikes, they found it improved their moods.

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 11h

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rome. @romewithadot.com · 7h

The Nazis in charge are once again admitting that they’re Nazis, while also being generally terrible at trying to convince everyone otherwise.

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