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Interests: democracy—is it crumbling beyond repair at home🇺🇸& where I live🇩🇪,history, ethics, science, foreign policy, education, communication, art, leadership, food… Big fan of 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments My dog’s name is Ginsburg
FL deems intro textbooks in my discipline illegal.
It's bc Sociology analyzes systems...it gives people the practical thinking tools to dismantle the master's house.
As a fmr English Lit major, Sociology is the most powerful thing I've ever learned. I see why the Temu Savonarolas are scared of it.
This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
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🚨 ATTENTION GEORGIA! 🚨
Come protest ICE's human warehouse in social circle, GA, where they plan to concentrate up to 10,000 humans in what we know will be inhumane conditions.
🗓️ Sunday, March 8, 2-4pm
📍 100 Court St Monroe, GA 30655 USA
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I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.
Not one of these ghouls knows a trans kid, understands anything about the actual circumstances or humanity of trans kids, or gives a shit. To them, trans kids play a purely symbolic role: they are a Weak Other that can be abused as form of collective self-soothing. So fucking gross.
Post Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com VARNEY: The midterms are months away. How soon can we expect the jobs picture to pick up sharply with more jobs coming into the economy? LORI CHAVEZ DeREMER: I think we have seen that tick up a little bit. Overall, we're still better that what we inherited from the Biden administration
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Last 14 months of Biden's term: +1.74m jobs First 14 months of Trump's term: 150,000 jobs (total! for the whole 14 months!) www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The facts on Earth 1 are eating these Trump admin lies alive...
It’s my understanding that Axel Springer media is quite strongly right wing but not really in that frothing at the mouth spent too long surfing 8chan incognito way that the telegraph has cornered so this could be interesting
The Twin Cities still need help. Men brandishing guns are still roaming the streets. Families in hiding are struggling to pay rent.
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tuesday was one of the year's biggest election days. i made a thread that day about the 10 most interesting (local, non-federal) elections i was watching so they get more attention.
but that means i should do a thread to bring you their results!
so my follow-up 🧵:
1️⃣ Last summer, a Democratic lawmaker in North Carolina gave the GOP *the* decisive vote to pass a pro-ICE law.
She faced a primary from a local progressive pastor, active in the Moral Monday movement.
The challenger ousted her, 70% to 22%.
2 other Dems who helped the GOP ousted too.
Context:
Arkansas’ 70th House District March 3 This Arkansas vacancy is a rare GOP-held seat in a district that Kamala Harris carried in 2024, an opportunity for a Democratic gain. The Republican governor initially called the special election in June, but a court ordered the contest rescheduled, and Democrat Alex Holladay now faces Republican Bryan Renshaw. (The GOP will retain a supermajority regardless.)
2️⃣ Democrats flipped a legislative seat in Arkansas.
This was a special election, not a primary—and the Democratic nominee won very easily in a seat that had gone for Harris by a few points in 2024 but was held by the GOP.
Adds to a string of Dem flips.
Context: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
4️⃣ NC has cracked down on the discretion of local prosecutors, sheriffs, & judges; laws are forcing sheriffs to comply with ICE, and ballooning jails. But in the liberal enclave of Asheville, candidates are navigating how to flex their discretion.
Martin Moore won and will be the next DA.
Context:
6️⃣ Terry Johnson, a staunchly anti-immigrant sheriff in office for a long time in North Carolina's Alamance County, has long drawn accusations for intensely racist practices and rhetoric.
He faced his first GOP primary in a while tomorrow—he survived, not by a lot. Maybe faces an indy in November.
👀 Every Single Vote Counts
Interesting🤔comment
I don’t know exactly how/what will happen
I do know that 100s of 1000s of Americans are at work—strategically, creatively w ever new tactics to thwart the authoritarians, fascists, oligarchs, misogynists & racists, that the resistance grows stronger daily & my 3/3 ballot counted
Capitol rioter pardoned by Trump given life sentence for molesting two children
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"Strict" new Nuremberg laws force Jews to...
"Strict" new Jim Crow laws force Blacks to...
Strict new Kansas law forces trans drivers to hand over their licenses
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Bezos' #BrokenPost editorial board bravely defends ... crinkling sound of rustling through pages of newspaper ... sugar.
In defense of sugar
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“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said.
“This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.”
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Marana/Tucson AZ fighting:
"I’m proud of the fight our community has waged against this horrendous detention center... Hundreds have protested in Marana and they join with millions across the country."
"We will continue to look for any way to shut it down."
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...
“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”
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Noem must be held accountable for these deaths — every single one of those 32 people who died in ICE custody last year & the 9 who’ve died in ICE custody so far this year deserves accountability.
Williamsport, Maryland:
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Some in Budapest, Washington etc. modify NATO's purpose formulated by its first General Secretary Ismay in 1949: "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down."
NATO's new mission: "To let the Russians in, the Ukrainians down, and the authoritarians blossom."
A meeting with Iran‘s ambassador in Berlin (2004) comes to mind. He was venting about evil America bringing war to the region.
I stopped him: „Let’s be honest, the US got rid of your 2 worst foes, the Taliban and Saddam.“
He smiled knowingly and kept cursing the Great Satan.
The House just defeated the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution on Iran.
Crosses, reportedly, were-
R's voting yes: Massie, Davidson (R-OH)
D's voting no: Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas
Running to flip District 11,
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