Reposted by BEFHQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency. 297151513541
Reposted by BEFHKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The entire point of the complaints about Jeffries meeting with Kushner was that he had no official role and there was no official reason for meeting with him. But Trump is actually the president. That's a significant difference that should be visible to the naked eye if you're not insane. 13124675
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I engage in strategic voting and encourage anybody who is comfortable doing so to vote in general elections for either the best or least-worst candidate. But shaming people in vulnerable groups for withholding their votes for candidates who are actively throwing them under the bus is wild. 100
Reposted by BEFHjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperationyoutube.comWhat Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnellYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 15360241281
Reposted by BEFHEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026In the Wisconsin governor primary, I’ve seen enough. (Not predicting a winner, just going to sleep.) 11755
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026@mta.info I got a ticket activation warning today in pelham but I activated the ticket before the train left the station. You can check the logs and you'll see it's true. I want the strike removed since you're issuing actual fines after 3 strikes. 100
Reposted by BEFHDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It really does seem to be a telling test to ask if you consider McCathyism to me a) demands for social justice (possibly highly annoying) b) abuses of government power to force people from their careers for right wing ends 1031254
Reposted by BEFHBaltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 07/08/2026“I believe the birds are guardian angels for us all.” Vultures have descended on the Glenmont community in Columbia, where a woman won’t stop feeding them raw meat despite repeated orders. buff.ly/L7SPIp6 0143
Reposted by BEFHThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Democrats to me, a 40 year old to their left: whoa there junior, the adults in the room are talking. Why don’t you cool your jets and let common sense win? Republicans to a 17 year old in a bad suit saying slurs: perfect. Here’s a Ford F350. We will pay you 150k to record TikToks inside it. 71054263
Reposted by BEFHWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/202695% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts. 1572663430
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Chase Travel not covering themselves in glory today. They screwed up my reservation and the hotel had no record of it. They appear to have fixed the issues but it took a few hours and the hotel manager is having to manually enter the reservation on her side. 100
Reposted by BEFHBrian Cook @2ndadminstate.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I will just add, as I am sure many comments submitted to OMB point out, the statutory basis OMB claims for the proposed rules simply does not give it the authority to directly regulate the grant-making authority of the agencies that supposedly signed off on it. 16620
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can you please talk to those jokers at Port Authority about the consistent,flagrant violations of the street pricing policy? In no world does a mediocre small cheese slice cost $7 or salmon cost $50. 000
Reposted by BEFHErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/07/2026For the record I still resent everyone that forced me to engage in a single moment of discussion about him and I will continue to side eye every single person that defended and supported him. 219912
Reposted by BEFHKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.wfla.comRare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplantFT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,… 218351965
Reposted by BEFHTara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 05/07/2026I'm sorry to be *that person*, but I have grown to HATE fireworks. Setting aside the fact they symbolize cannon fire and explosions, they are effing awful for animals and anyone with PTSD or sensory processing issues. I don't remember hearing "trial" fireworks before a show, but 14865
Reposted by BEFHLia @liamendez.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Got mad. Made a thing. Zines are not a crime. Drawings made by hand with a Pentel pocket brush pen, and edited digitally. ✍️ 🚫🤖 24826
Reposted by BEFHderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ 3854111492
Reposted by BEFHAnil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"What you have at the moment is a system somewhat—yes—on par with Iran in which you have the structure of democratic self-government but with a Guardian Council that assures that the bad people (i.e. non-Republicans) aren’t actually allowed to exercise power." 512958
Reposted by BEFHA. Doofus @bitofadoofus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The court has always been this deprived for its whole history, with barely a brief pause n the Warren court. Literally nobody but actual fascists should respect or value the court or want it to continue instead of being outright abolished. 1261
Reposted by BEFHErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/06/20261. Major news. Mayor Mamdani has just announced $15 million in direct funding for trans youth care providers, the most concrete action his administration has taken since receiving significant criticism over its handling of trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comMayor Mamdani Announces $15 Million For Youth Care Providers In NYCThe funding will go to clinics that provide trans youth care, and could help fight back against federal pressure. 182432608
Reposted by BEFHRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Horney's (on Main) Clinton, IN 4835751018
Reposted by BEFHCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The leftist equivalent to MAGA wouldn't be a Democratic Socialist. It would be an anarchist. There are no anarchist candidates. America only elects extremists from the right due to the historical legacy of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The country spent centuries normalizing fascism for one race. 1569117
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026NEW: A Labour source says Keir Starmer feels “betrayed” “He gave everything to Labour, including sacrificing much of his children’s teenage years to help make the party electable. He feels deeply betrayed, especially by those he believed were loyal to him” Lol get fucked 100
Reposted by BEFHSen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I didn't even realize Muhammad had a late night show 629916
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026@npr.org this is why I don't donate. You've been like this for years and until you care more about truth than the appearance of "balance", my wallet stays closed 000
Reposted by BEFHNew York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Two Black #mothers from the #Bronx headlined a class-action lawsuit filed against the city, alleging the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) illegally took their children without a court order. amsterdamnews.comLawsuit claims ACS emergency separations specifically target Black and Brown familiesTwo Black mothers headlined a class-action lawsuit filed against the city alleging the ACS illegally took their children. 003
Reposted by BEFHSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 08/06/2026"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end" how about you mind your business on other people's uteruses, Bobreligionnews.comPope Leo uses Spain visit to press Europe on abortion, migration and peaceMADRID (RNS) — In a historic address to Spain’s Parliament, Pope Leo XIV offered one of the clearest expressions yet of his effort to frame abortion, migration and peace as interconnected questions of... 113835
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026It would be great if GEO and CoreCivic were shut down and their executives jailed for slavery 000
Reposted by BEFHNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This is a reminder that if you don’t live in Maine, YOU do not need to make any “tough choices.” And so your decision to hop on this app and defend Platner is just plain and simple misogyny. Half of you never said his name until you could use it to justify violence against women. 9376105
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026All of Us is a great research program! I am very grateful to all of the participants and organizers! 000
Reposted by BEFHIsaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act. 290292298271
Reposted by BEFHHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word. 8635269
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026@nyctbus.bsky.social you guys really screwed me over today. This morning the 9:04 m60+ never showed up at 125th and Park, then this evening, 3 whole m125 busses skipped Broadway and 125th. 100
Reposted by BEFHPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭 1183351682847
Reposted by BEFHAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade. 122131232855
Reposted by BEFHTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I don’t need this type of aggression in my life. 1151
BEFH @befh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Please cite the deep magic to me, witch; I forget who the authors are. 060
Reposted by BEFHMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it. 301181133748
Reposted by BEFHpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/03/2026excuse me what 451088182
Reposted by BEFHJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/03/2026100% of Trump supporters support Trump feels like pretty big news no? 1741311
Reposted by BEFHMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student. 240134624889
Reposted by BEFHRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 05/03/2026Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology. 6945171603
Reposted by BEFHJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all 242703429
![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
