Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialMatt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025just giving people money turns out to be really helpful 7319129
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/05/2025“You changed the meaning of that word!” No, we didn’t. Language is basically one big game of telephone. 281002123
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken. 2574881898
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialTananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 14/04/2025👇🏾 When Tr*mp, a convicted felon, talks about "home grown criminals," he doesn't mean himself. To him, "criminals" are Black and brown people. Full stop. This is why understanding HOW Black and brown people are treated differently by police and courts matters. This is not a drill. This is fascism. 831096
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialUnfriendly Black Hottie! 🇧🇧 @nikilatoya.blacksky.app · 17/03/2025Run Haiti their money back while y’all suddenly standing on this moral high ground! 😪 14415161
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/03/2025I'm an american and I'm worried about being stripped of my citizenship and tyrrany actually. 314814
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 27/02/2025This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...abcnews.go.comMeasles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decadeAn unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people. 1421322109029
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/02/2025If the US government doesn’t have to pay debts it had already contractually agreed to pay then why do I have to pay back student loans to the US government 1640379
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore 717122413473
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 18/02/2025it’s so cool that we are at the whims of this reactionary force of groypers that don’t understand anything, lead by the dumbest guy ever seen in history 370116651677
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power 305112892347
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake 206230263540
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that. 479320728159
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I can’t say I’ve thought about inflation that much since the US Attorney in the district you and I both live in had to resign because the President wanted to make a corrupt deal with the Mayor, backed by the threat of a dangling DOJ prosecution, to terrorize immigrants and people of color here. 753794682
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialBrennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/02/2025“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamourglamour.comThe SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to KnowThe bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to vote. 7613351068
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I am so tired of feeling tired and overwhelmed all the time from all the national garbage fires 2051938
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations? 467243296364
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialSyreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 10/02/2025If I send this to you know that I'm embracing my villain era. 224136
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialProf. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025If I send you this, I'm about to destroy you 223915
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialCurtis T. @cwt302.bsky.social · 08/02/2025don't say it don't say it don't say it don't say it So... a murder investigation? 834052
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Solomon is PREACHING today. Please enjoy his sermon. 17914
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 04/02/2025In the history of whiteness a minority group has never been able to “work” themselves into a protected status It will always chose its own bigotries and fears No matter how “good” you are 7509114
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I see that some of us are still infantilizing the people who voted for that mfer precisely so he would do the things he’s doing. They aren’t his victims. They weren’t duped. They wanted this. They will change or they won’t (most won’t) but you really do not have to give them the benefit of the doubt 431446
aieshatothemax.bsky.social @aieshatothemax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This Weeknd performance is the worst sounding (in terms of audio quality) performance of the night #Grammys 030
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialking crissle @crissle.com · 03/02/2025so the Grammys got better because they added DEI 💀 181361244
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialErica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 03/02/2025now why are they showing this?? folks out there getting retraumatized when they're just trying to watch the industry show. #Grammys 0151
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialking crissle @crissle.com · 03/02/2025Why… is this show good 🤨😒 2640636
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialNoah Michelson @noahmichelson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025While everything is being torn apart around us, at least we get to see Doechii celebrate her Rap Album win by celebrating Black women and watch Chappell sing a song about the radical joy and freedom of gay bars and witness Beyonce win Best Country Album after everything they put her through 119425
aieshatothemax.bsky.social @aieshatothemax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I can’t remember the last time I saw Beyoncé shocked #Grammys 000
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/01/2025at this point i believe that the dudes who come for the menswear guy are just sleeper agents whose entire lives have been orchestrated to give him dunk material 14683461029
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...kwch.comCivil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airportAs families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t... 2158534428645
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025And I posted this once today, but I'll add it again here, because most people don't seem to realize that Guantanamo has hosted mass detention for immigrants before, with some very grim results. And that history is a key part of how it wound up used for torture and other inhumane ends after 9/11.thedailybeast.comGitmo Started as a Detention Camp for ImmigrantsFrom the Bolshevik Revolution to 9/11, mass detention starts as a temporary measure and becomes an indefinite nightmare. 7950431
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others 331220295295
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025People could not access services, HIV drugs aren’t being funded, because the Administration wants to make sure programs aren’t including diversity work or aren’t inclusive of trans people. That’s the reason. You need to say that. Every time. 3986228
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Every single report on the Trump funding freeze — every report on Medicare portal, Head Start, homeless veterans programs — needs to mention immediately WHY. The freeze is in order to complete an ideological purge of so-called “woke” programming. This is IMPORTANT, y’all. 4639471025
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life! 434180521764
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialNoe Montez @noemontez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Give ‘em hell, friends. www.wcvb.com/article/tuft...wcvb.comTufts University full-time lecturers to strike Monday, TuesdayThe union representing the full-time lecturers said 10 months of contract negotiations have stalled out. 39614
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2025their view is that high status jobs ought to belong to white men, who exist at the top of a natural hierarchy 778152143058
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2025It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you. 89109233674
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Underlining, we actually should call people who use DEI as a slur segregationists as a norm.Talk plainly.The mealy mouth defense of diversity rather than simply talking about reparation, repair,& representation is what got us here.No more ambivalent euphemisms.Values, at full volume. 13716222
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Companies with entire marketing campaigns explicitly targeted towards Black Americans should be facing far more outrage for unceremoniously discarding their diversity efforts. Instead: Silence. 421346
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I was reminded tonight that there is a difference between “doing things to take care of myself” and “rest” — and that both are essential. And, also, that I won’t be able to do what I want to do for others, individually and broadly, unless I do all of that. A good reminder to many now, I imagine. 1662263
Reposted by @aieshatothemax.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Let’s be clear tho: pretending to make this about concern over the exclusion of Black and Latinos while simultaneously attacking affirmative action and DEI and suing groups that try to help descendants of slavery reveals that this is simply to whitewash the racism of the anti-immigrant stance. 822745
