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Donald Trump’s PR Stunt and Kendrick Lamar’s Radical Act — my latest. open.substack.com/pub/dantecst...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is on its face a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 11 days ago • 1185 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 3913 comments

can i just say that in addition to being a bad thinker this dude is just a bad writer as well. "axiomatically true." just say self-evident!

submitted 11 days ago • 213 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 11 days ago • 1141 comments

Get to your local school board and county commission meetings. This is where we fight.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I see Kanye West spaz out, I think about the day I wanted to be white, and how that haunts me about Kanye and what whiteness does to black men. andscape.com/features/dea...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

submitted 17 days ago • 1467 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 22 days ago • 4420 comments

Bingo.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A thought. Many of us are wondering why the Democrats are not taking a more vocal and hard stand? Maybe they’re wondering why we’re not marching outside the GSA, protesting the hijacking of our private information and that of our government by a private citizen. Maybe we all need to get moving.

submitted 21 days ago • 223 comments

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

submitted 21 days ago • 190 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 21 days ago • 770 comments

We are in one of the most dangerous and visible coups in American history. This is the ACTUAL 2nd Amendment moment. We are here. Somebody in power HAS to act. The American people are depending on you.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If you read nothing else today , please read this, by @stewartdantec.bsky.social . He says everything I’m feeling about the sadness of this day and the heartbreak of where we’ve all ended up. open.substack.com/pub/dantecst...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

So no one is going to stop Trump? Just going to let him and MAGA destroy our country one day at a time?

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Correct

submitted 32 days ago • 165 comments

We are not crazy, Elon Musk did the Nazi salute and if Americans refuse to believe that you must have forgot that Nazis, when fleeing Germany, found their home in America. They didn’t just come to this country — this country employed and empowered them.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

submitted 32 days ago • 1217 comments

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

submitted 33 days ago • 766 comments

Everything that Trump said and did today -- all of it -- was entirely predictable based on his campaign, character, and first term in office. If you're surprised, you were either misinformed or not informed enough. We deserve everything that's about to come our way. Buckle up.

submitted 33 days ago • 660 comments

You can take the boy out of South Africa but you can’t take the South Africa out of the boy.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 34 days ago • 150 comments

If the Nazis think you’re a Nazi, you’re probably a Nazi.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

new grift just dropped

submitted 34 days ago • 779 comments

At this point I think the Democrats have a masochism/humiliation kink going on. So much bad political strategy! All the time! About matters small and great! They keep thinking if they play by the rules they will persevere whilst Republicans dgaf about rules and do what they want.

submitted 34 days ago • 104 comments

It’s wild to think that the right wing has effectively accomplished a coup over our digital public square — with the expecting of BlueSky. And that is scary. That with Trumps own personal social media should be one of the greatest and loudest alarms right now.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

The greatest scam in American history: republicans getting white Americans to think they’re on their sides while robbing them blind dead in their faces. 🥴

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

They would rather blame everyone else but themselves for their mediocrity.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

We can ban Tik Tok but not provide a quality education or healthcare or safety in schools or decrease inequality or protect vulnerable people…. But we can ban Tik Tok. This country is backwards.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.? In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

submitted 34 days ago • 2299 comments

Many White men in America would rather ruin the country instead admit that they are wrong and just not cut out out for the job. There is no more entitled and fragile demographic in America than a white man. They are the coddling of the American mind.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

This man is the worst.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I am going to put together a thread covering Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing. Follow along for clips and commentary.

submitted 39 days ago • 457 comments

I am a military spouse. I talked to multiple service members. They all echo the same sentiment: Pete Hegseth does NOT represent the America or the military they want to be in. He thinks diversity makes the military weaker. It does not. Fragile men like Hegseth do.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

submitted 42 days ago • 43 comments

This is a fascinating turn of events

submitted 42 days ago • 4815 comments

Normalizing ignorance and imperialism — the American Way.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The world can be burning and some how they will still find a way to blame and hate black people.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

It just does not make sense that these people are treating the Trump presidency as hopes and wishes and not as conquest and authoritarian power.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The endless cycle of chaos and tragedy we’re having to endure is not normal. Don’t get used to this.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

These people hate racial progress so much they’re willing to destroy the whole country to keep America white.

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Those who refuse to deal with and change history are doomed to repeat and weaponize it.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments