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How the fuck is this “mind-boggling?” No one wants to come in here out of a very understandable fear they’ll be either shot or thrown into a concentration camp by ICE.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 10h

It’s coming up on a decade that the 🐐 has been out of office and these mofos still want to blame him for shit. They got nothing guys.

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 2h

#AMomentofJoy No explanation, just watch the genius. Too fabulous! @sedjroxx.bsky.social

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

“I kept begging for a divorce, and he’d threaten to kill my children.” “I was in a very abusive, sick relationship.” These women were imprisoned for crimes that stemmed from their abuse. A new law offered them a second chance. (Published Feb. w/ @nytimes.com)

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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom.

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

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Lonely Doll 💛🐝💜= 🪷 @lonelydoll.bsky.social · 4h

So. Israel exists. It’s existed for 75 yrs. It has a population of 9.65 million people and anyone under the age of 75 was likely born there. It exists. There are no plans for it to stop existing. Sorry about that.

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Adam Sessler 🇺🇦 @adamsessler.bsky.social · 2h

She has every reason to be apprehensive about putting herself out there in front of his supporters and not knowing what’s going to happen. It’s mild PTSD and it legitimately fucks you up.

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Adam Sessler 🇺🇦 @adamsessler.bsky.social · 2h

The other part about what JC went through which is under appreciated is the effect on someone when you get hit with a coordinated hate campaign. Even if you are a politician (or a cable personality in my case) it messes with your head and screws with your sense of trust and safety.

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Pope Leo's baseball bat 🇺🇦 @shitpostwizard.bsky.social · 3h

I think terrorist hijacking of planes is bad

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 5h

It's amazing the hoops this....*checks notes*...sorry, *lawyer*?...will jump through to justify terrorism.

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 2h

Americans never think about the fact that every other country has their own domestic politics that are not controlled in any way by our own leaders.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

(The idea that Biden didn't pressure Bibi, or only lightly pressured him, is unheard of in Israeli media. Opinions are divided on who was right in that dispute, but "Biden let Bibi off easy" is not a recognizable take from the other side, and quite a lot of people also get the timelines wrong.)

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

I get yelled at here whenever I describe what the political effect of Biden's very overt pressure on Bibi was and what worked and what didn't, because I'm essentially telling Americans that foreign media and societies matter and are useful to learn about, and Americans are incurious so they lash.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Biden correctly identified the center of gravity of the conflict starting early 2024 in Bibi's domestic situation; the arms cutoff in contrast did nothing. He made moves to weaken Bibi domestically, which initially worked, but then fucked up in ways that by mid-2024 were unrecoverable.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Ad 2, the natsec circles you boost have a track record of opposing the Syrian rebels and dragging down arms deliveries to Ukraine. They hate the allies. They will make excuses why Canada had it coming. They're not your friend. They're useful idiots for Putin who always cautioned risk around him.

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 4h

Just vote!! JUST DO IT—VOTE!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor deployed on USS Fort Lauderdale for 11 months dies by suicide

I would give my life to have her back.
I want accountability from the military.
I want truth.
I want no one to ever experience this."
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SISTER OF JAIMIE BETHEA, WHO DIED BY SUICIDE DURING NAVY DEPLOYMENT

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 3h

Ok, people! We’re gonna VOTE ALL THE WAY DOWN THE BALLOT!! Those down ballot people will have the biggest impact (local govt, policing, schools) on your life! You may have to do some research, but I believe in you! You can do it!

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 2h

Every country in the world would have to be in it because the flight was international with people from all over the world. It was a flight from Dubai, on Flydubai Airlines...But to a racist everything is Israel's fault. You're just like a MAGA Nazi, IMPERMEABLE TO FACTS & hateful beyond reason.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 2h

Boy oh boy are you coming off as a major racist! Are you aware of that? There's a plane full of people and the plane landed in Saudi Arabia, where the INDIAN pilot was hospitalized after being stabbed multiple times. I'm so sick of the racists who spread obscene conspiracies & victim blame.

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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 2h

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Jason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think there's a way to post really nasty and in my opinion unwarranted attacks on Jasmine Crockett without making it look like you're doing it for really bad reasons. She already endorsed Talarico way back when. She's not obligated to hold his hand all day everyday. You're not helping.

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 2h

We are not letting this go. #JusticeForNolanWells

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please please please please

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💥LazarTagWolf💥 @lazartagwolf.bsky.social · 3h

“Oh my god, she admit it!”

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 2h

What if #NolanWells had been white and his friends were all Black? We are still not letting this go. #JusticeForNolanWells

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It worked as intended. The constant threat of being blacklisted, losing employment, facing criminal charges and enduring relentless harassment caused the group’s ambitious plans to fall apart. Under immense pressure, the Sojourners for Truth and Justice were forced to dissolve by late 1952. /end

Louise Thompson Patterson, 1960. Patterson was the operational backbone, executive organizer and administrative engine of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. After the initial Washington mobilization, the collective voted to establish a permanent national framework, appointing Patterson as the Executive Secretary. She took on the task of transforming a three-day protest into a sustained national movement. She traveled extensively to raise money and establish local Sojourners chapters. Because she was the administrative nerve center of the organization, the Department of Justice and the FBI subjected her to relentless surveillance. They eventually seized her passport to cut off her ability to connect with international leftist and anti-colonial organizations. However, Patterson never renounced her leftist commitments. She carried the same organizing blueprint into the 1970s, where she served as a leader in the successful international movement to Free Angela Davis.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The FBI viewed the Sojourners for Truth and Justice as a national security threat because they combined Black nationalism, civil rights and communist ideology. The Bureau compiled a nearly 500-page file on the group and used surveillance and intimidation tactics to crush their operations. /9

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (left) and Attorney General J. Howard McGrath confer on the government’s roundup of Communist party officials in Washington, 1951. An informant notified the FBI during the first meetings of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, triggering the creation of their official file. Informants attended their strategy meetings, monitored travel plans and identified the core leaders. During their initial D.C. mobilization, special agents in dark suits followed the women everywhere they went. Agents physically blocked the women from entering pre-arranged meeting spaces. To justify their surveillance and alienate the group from mainstream civil rights organizations, the FBI manufactured alarming narratives about the women. By painting them as violent insurrectionists, the FBI successfully stoked public fear and scared away moderate allies.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A major effort was the defense of Rosa Lee Ingram, a Black mother sentenced to death after defending herself against a white attacker. They framed Ingram’s imprisonment not just as a miscarriage of justice, but as state-sanctioned violence against the bodily autonomy and safety of Black women. /8

Rosa Lee Ingram (left) and her teenage sons in jail. In 1947, Rosa Lee Ingram, a widowed Black sharecropper in Georgia, and her teenage sons were sentenced to death for killing an armed white sharecropper who had assaulted her. The immediate, explosive backlash from civil rights organizations, legal defense funds and grassroots coalitions, including the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, forced the trial judge to commute their death sentences to life imprisonment a few months later. The family spent more than a decade in prison, during which time activists persistently campaigned for their release and continuously applied pressure on the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. On Aug. 26, 1959, Rosa Lee, Wallace and Sammie Lee were finally granted parole and freed. Rosa Lee relocated to Atlanta, where she lived until her death on Aug. 5, 1980, at age 78.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The group formulated an early form of Black left feminism, blending anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist perspectives. They sought to expose state complicity and violence directed against Black Americans, pointing out the hypocrisy of the government promoting “democracy” abroad. /7

Shirley Graham Du Bois. Du Bois was the chief intellectual strategist and public voice of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. While history frequently frames her through her marriage to W.E.B. Du Bois, she was a radical force in her own right, working as an accomplished opera composer, playwright and political theorist long before 1951. Alongside Louise Thompson Patterson, she conceptualized the organization as a radical defense front. She recognized that the government wasn’t just attacking an individual. It was attempting to decapitate Black radical leadership during the Red Scare. She leveraged her extensive network to bring together the 14 founders, framing her husband’s defense not as a private grievance, but as a collective fight for the survival of Black intellectual freedom. Because of her uncompromising leadership, Graham Du Bois was monitored by the FBI and blacklisted.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The founders only gave themselves two weeks to pull off the mobilization and were surprised when 132 women managed to travel to Washington, D.C., on such short notice. Fueled by the momentum, they formally established a permanent organization and immediately scaled up their efforts. /6

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On days 2 and 3, the women marched to and held meetings with officials at the Department of Justice, the War Department and the Pentagon to demand the protection of Black lives. When President Harry S. Truman refused to meet with them, they staged a silent vigil on the White House lawn. /5

Charlotta Bass speaks at the inaugural meeting of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, Sept. 29, 1951. As a veteran journalist, publisher of the California Eagle and a fierce civil rights leader, Bass was known for delivering speeches that targeted state-sanctioned violence and connected local struggles to global movements. She emphasized the vulnerability of Black women under the American legal system, using her platform to proclaim that Black women could no longer afford to play a secondary or quiet role in politics. She argued that because Black women suffered the brunt of economic exploitation and state violence, they had to be at the vanguard of the civil rights struggle. Bass refused to moderate her radical, anti-imperialist views for mainstream appeal. Her address established an early foundation for Black left feminism, intertwining the dismantling of racism, sexism and war.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the women arrived in the capital, they gathered for an inaugural convention in which young poet and playwright Lorraine Hansberry read the group’s indictment of racial capitalism and state violence. She said, “We cannot … sit by and watch our lives destroyed by an unreasoning hate.” /4

Lorraine Hansberry. Years before she achieved global acclaim for her 1959 masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, a 21-year-old Hansberry was immersed in radical, left-wing journalism and organizing. At the inaugural convention for the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, she took the stage to read the group’s proclamation to the 132 assembled women. Working as a writer and editor for Paul Robeson’s progressive newspaper, Freedom, Hansberry subsequently published a groundbreaking report titled “Women Voice Demands in Capital Sojourn.” This piece documented the group’s actions for the public, bypassing the heavily censored mainstream media of the McCarthy era. Organizing with the Sojourners shaped Hansberry’s early grasp of “the woman question,” helping her weave early intersectional feminist and anti-colonial themes into her later literary works.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The effort was spurred by the indictment of 83-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois on charges of being an “unregistered foreign agent” due to his peace activism and anti-nuclear stance. Black women leaders were alarmed by the government’s weaponization of the Red Scare to silence civil rights leaders. /3

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In early September 1951, 14 prominent Black women penned the manifesto “A Call to Negro Women.” They invited Black women nationwide to join them for a “Sojourn for Truth and Justice,” using the name to honor the legacy of Sojourner Truth and describe a brief, targeted trip to Washington, D.C. /2

The cover of the zine titled A Call to Negro Women: A (Little-Known) Black Feminist Manifesto, with an introduction by Mariame Kaba, an essay by Ashley D. Farmer and design and illustration by Jordan De Loach. It centers on the 1951 founding document written by the radical civil rights group Sojourners for Truth and Justice. The manifesto moved away from polite civil rights rhetoric and replaced it with a fiery, uncompromising indictment of the U.S. government. It put the concept of “triple oppression” into raw, emotional prose. It argued that Black women bore a unique, devastating burden under American capitalism because they were simultaneously exploited as Black people, as women and as workers. The manifesto refused to blame racism on “ignorant individuals” or Southern extremist groups. Instead, the authors accused the state of being complicit in racial terror by failing to pass anti-lynching laws and using the legal system to cage Black families.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1951: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice begin a three-day assembly in Washington, D.C., with a march and silent vigil on the White House lawn. More than 132 Black women from 14 states arrived in the capital to demand federal action against racial terror. /1

Members of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice gather during their initial mobilization, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, 1951. More than 132 African American women from 14 states descended on the nation’s capital to demand an end to racial violence, Jim Crow laws and the systemic oppression of Black women. While the poor quality of the photo makes it difficult to pinpoint every face from left to right, several core organizers and notable figures are prominent in the center-front cluster: Louise Thompson Patterson, Charlotta Bass, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Other trailblazing figures who participated in the Washington, D.C., delegation included legendary activist Mary Church Terrell, journalist Claudia Jones and a young Lorraine Hansberry, who read the group’s manifesto aloud during the convention.

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LANana #🟦 Punk Bitch @lanana421.bsky.social · 5h

Since he blocked me, screenshot:

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 2h

Because they always hated Biden for beating Bernie/not being a socialist. Logic doesn’t matter, they’re running on emotion. They’re look for any reason to hate Biden because it feels good to hate. The more justified the hate, the better it feels. It’s all fandom bullshit

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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 2h

The entirety of the replies is just full of people who are insisted that Biden loved Bibi and personally wanted all Palestinians dead, and every bit of info that says otherwise is treated as actually proof of Biden's evil. There's just no shaking this belief somehow.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 2h

They simply cannot comprehend that Biden was engaged in harm mitigation (inasmuch as the President of the United States has any actual influence over the Israeli military) because they have spent the past 3 years screaming about the harm that wasn't mitigated.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 2h

But they don't see it. They've memorized talking points about how many homes were destroyed and how many Palestinians were killed, and the minute you ask them to think about the UPPER limit on how many Palestinians could have been killed or homes destroyed, it's an instant block.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 3h

Somehow none of this will matter, because, again, all folks *actually* wanted was to feel morally pure. They did not *actually* want fewer dead Palestinians. They wanted to feel free from culpability.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4h

just checking the till here Pete, and i think you're missing a rather important one

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 11h

The left has DONE THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER. IT ALWAYS leads to the nation moving further right. More mass death. More pain.

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Renée in L.A. 🐦‍⬛ @reneepatrice.bsky.social · 12h

It's so hard to believe that so many people are THIS stupid.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

More dopes who got roped. "About 8 in 10 rural voters — an important voting bloc for Trump and fellow Republicans — said the Trump administration’s policies have had a negative effect or no impact on the health of people where they live." apnews.com/article/rura...

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Rural MAHA followers say Trump hasn't improved health of their communities, an AP-KFF poll finds

A new AP-KFF poll finds that the Make America Healthy Again movement has a substantial following among rural voters, but most don't think President Donald Trump's healthcare policies have benefited th...

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Grumpy Auntie 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩵 🟦💙 @1technodiva.bsky.social · 12h

For reasons my good friends @alyssonfergison.com @spryoldlorax.bsky.social already outlined, this is a poorly thought out and dangerous approach for anyone with a big social media account to take. We will not have the votes to convict; if we remove, we get Vance, who is worse. Dear God, stop it.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19h

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

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