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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
If you want to support the organizations that provide the resources to respond to the current moment, these are the publications, research collectives, and nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and provide analysis on the far right and extremist movements. go.bsky.app/Cyy1oTg
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Despite the right's ridiculous DEI conspiracy theories, the Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that immigrants are what makes America great.
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A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration | Will Bunch
Despite the right's ridiculous DEI conspiracy theories, the Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that immigrants are what makes America great.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
In "White Rural Rage" Paul Waldman and and Thomas Schaller finally wrote the book that stops treating rural white voters like children, instead of adults responsible for their choices. As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I'm thrilled. My interview with them. www.salon.com/2024/03/05/-...
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"They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters": How Republicans bamboozle rural whites
In "White Rural Rage," Paul Waldman and Thomas Schaller reject the narrative that treats Trump voters like children
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Studies of white supremacy in the U.S. consistently show the same thing: we cannot have a functional multiracial democracy if we cannot hold those actively trying to sabotage it accountable.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/03/2024
if you think of originalism as a kind of idolatry then it makes total sense that conservative originalists simply do not recognize the reconstruction amendments as having the same force as the rest of the constitution.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
This is maddening: New polling conducted by Dems finds that an alarmingly small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump's most blatant authoritarian threats, such as his "dictator" quote. This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/ Link: newrepublic.com/article/1795...
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Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats
A small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump’s most overt authoritarian outbursts. That’s frightening. But it’s also an opportunity.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
"the choice to obsess about Biden’s age... is equally a choice to participate in an information operation designed to dehumanize the President and drown out any discussion of his accomplishments," writes Marcy Wheeler www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/04/w...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
the journalistic failures surrounding Iraq were so vast and numerous that it felt hard to diagnose, but after Gaza it feels simpler. the institution is distinctly racist towards Arabs and Muslims - not in some abstract structural way but in the sense that NYT leadership views them as inferior
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
... But he got more support in rural areas in 2020 than in 2016 despite the fact none of their problems had gotten better. All he gave MAGA was a way to essentially give a big middle finger to Democrats and others.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
... When Donald Trump came on, he didn't do any of that stuff. He was just a conduit for their rage, their anger, their resentment, and that turned out to be what they wanted. And it wasn't about the material conditions of their lives, because he didn't improve their lives. ...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
... We've been told for so long, especially Democrats, that in order to get rural voters, to get them to listen to you, you have to go there, empathize with them, show them you understand their lives, put on a Carhartt jacket and have a beer. And it turned out none of that was true. ...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
... that there is a system that has not served them well. They're pissed off. And they have some reason to be with both parties. The trouble is that what Donald Trump gave them was not something that was actually not going to fix those problems but a way to channel their rage and anger. ...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
... They have more problematic education systems. They have poorer infrastructure. They've had a lack of economic opportunity. We see a lot of manufacturing jobs leave from rural areas. And that left them open to someone like Donald Trump who would come along and tell them something that was true...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
... and the strongest white Christian nationalists. They're most likely to excuse or justify violence as acceptable. << Tom, what else do they have in common? What makes them vulnerable? >> Well, a lot has to do with the problems that rural America has, which are very real and very profound. ...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
EXCERPT: MAGA are the most anti-gay, xenophobic in the country: QAnon supporters, COVID denialism, Obama birthism. Anti-democratic sentiments. They don't believe in an independent press, free speech. They're most likely to say the president should be without checks from the courts....
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Why do MAGA adore a spoiled elitist billionaire who mocks the working class and veterans, and who hates individual freedom? Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller provide the answers in their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsx...
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'White Rural Rage' looks at the most likely group to abandon democratic norms
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller join Morning Joe to discuss their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy'.» Subscribe to MSNBC: https://w...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
HYPOCRISY: The patriotic MAGA base demanded vengeful and self-destructive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, even as they protected Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
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General Mark Milley: ‘Americans have kind of had it with wars’
The ex-US military chief who spanned the Trump and Biden administrations on deterring China, the ‘stalemate’ in Ukraine — and staying out of politics
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 01/03/2024
The correlation between support for Trump and support for Christian nationalism among Whites. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Owasso, OK police have declared - *before* the initial autopsy results - that Nex Benedict did not die from from trauma caused by being assaulted in an Owasso high school bathroom. This is the sort of PD misdirection we often see in "police related" shootings.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Two history-making Black TV news anchors reflect on Washington, D.C.'s evolution as a diverse community with a diverse history.
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DC News legends Maureen Bunyan and Derek McGinty join us live to look back at 75 years of serving th
Celebrating 75 years of WUSA9.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Reminder from 2021 audit: White Episcopal leaders are stubbornly unaware of how race has shaped their lives and their church, and how they have harmed their non-white fellow clergy and congregants.
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Episcopal Church releases racial audit of leadership, citing nine patterns of racism in church culture
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church publicly released a report on April 19 that assesses the racial makeup and perceptions of a broad sampling of the church’s leadership and summarizes ho…
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
You failed to cite a single example. You live in a hall of mirrors, a delusion of your own projections. Every accusation is a confession.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
GOP border-bill opponents are forcing the release of thousands of undocumented immigrants
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After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to slash the number of immigrants in detention because it is running a $700 million budget deficit.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Immigrants since 2022 are more likely to work than their native-born counterparts, largely because immigrants skew younger. This infusion of working-age immigrants will more than offset the expected retirement of the aging, native-born population. This will in turn lead to better economic growth.
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Opinion | The surge in immigration is a $7 trillion gift to the economy
Maybe all the hysteria about border security is based on a faulty premise.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
False. No one on the American left is promoting political violence. NO ONE.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Trump supporters never wanted democracy. They have always insisted that we are a “republic,” dropping the whole “representative” part.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Today’s social “conservatives” hate society, calling us satanic. As sociopaths, they will never invest in our common future, only in themselves.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Any time you argue in favor of giving the state more power to inflict more punishment, know that it inevitably is going to be used to inflict that punishment disproportionately on those who lack the status, resources, or capacity to fight it. Even when they did not commit the crime in question.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
MAGA is turning the U.S. border into a shooting gallery against migrant families.
latimes.com
As border extremism goes mainstream, vigilante groups take a starring role
Arizona Border Recon and other groups that patrol the border for migrants and drug smugglers are gaining followers and prominence, fueling far-right rhetoric and misinformation in national politics.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Trump's routine lies are important, because they form the core of the GOP and MAGA perspective of the world. MAGA believers are violently delusional. Free article:
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Analysis | Trump on Hannity’s show: 24 false or misleading claims in 5 minutes
The former president falsely claimed he could save Social Security with oil and gas revenue, among many bogus claims — an average of one every 12 seconds.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
For Democrats, the purpose of government is usually the public good. For Republicans, that purpose is harsh social regulation, with little apparent regard for the lives of those who have to endure these policies. Free link:
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Opinion | Red States and Blue States Are Becoming Different Countries
If you want a sense of what the future could bring if either party wins full control of the federal government, all you have to do is look at the states.
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
In my latest for @opendemocracy.bsky.social, I warn that the GOP’s moral panic may well escalate to the state-level overturning of no fault divorce laws. And perhaps even to an eventual federal ban. They clearly aren’t stopping with abortion www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/no-f...
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OPINION: Divorce laws at risk if Republicans win in 2024
Bans on no-fault divorces would be unpopular, but the Republicans may be too caught up in a moral panic to care
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Don’t give in to the GOP’s extreme immigration demands, @americasvoice.bsky.social's Vanessa Cárdenas urges. “None of what Republicans are pushing for equates to ‘border security’ or would promote an orderly and safe border ..." bitly.ws/34Qq4
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Democrats Shouldn't Give in to Republicans’ Extreme Demands - America's Voice
Washington, DC — There’s renewed attention to the Senate supplemental funding negotiations following a failed procedural vote yesterday and given the stakes and urgency of aid to Ukraine and other...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
This can't be right. The Manhattan Institute tells me it's a myth that these sorts of attitudes pervade police culture. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/n...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
For nearly a decade, US Coast Guard leaders have concealed a critical report that exposed racism, hazing, discrimination and sexual assault across the agency.
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US Coast Guard leaders long concealed a critical report about racism, hazing and sexual misconduct |...
For nearly a decade, US Coast Guard leaders have concealed a critical report that exposed racism, hazing, discrimination and sexual assault across the agency.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Republicans caught committing election fraud -- again.
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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
It is incredibly hard to hold police accountable. Joanna Schwartz wrote an incredible book, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, that describes all the barriers. legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/sid...
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How Did the Police Become Untouchable? With Joanna Schwartz - Legal Talk Network
Before killing George Floyd, Officer Devin Chauvin had at least 18 misconduct complaints lodged against him. Despite this history, Chauvin was elevated to
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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Counties in states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA saw a 25% decrease in drug arrests, a 19% drop in “violent offense” arrests, and a 24% decrease in “low-level” offense arrests (Simes & Jahn 2022). Expanding public benefits leads to lower crime rates!
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Under new management, Univision serves the oligarchs instead of its audience. The way that Latin American media behave is not something that sane Americans want. Univision's American viewers are being guided to their own ethnic slaughter.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
How privatization destroys transportation and American infrastructure. Via @joemygod.bsky.social
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"Vulture" Investment Firm Closes Greyhound Stations - Joe.My.God.
Axios reports: Greyhound bus stations nationwide are closing and relocating outside central business districts after being acquired by an investment firm that rose to infamy for its acquisition and gu...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Biden is doing more to curb immigration than Trump ever did.
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El Salvador slaps a $1,130 fee on African and Indian travelers as US pressures it to curb migration
El Salvador’s government has begun slapping a $1,130 fee on travelers from dozens of countries connecting through the nation’s main airport.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Biden should stop the flow of aid if Netanyahu is not going to listen.
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Right-wingers are coming after Mike Johnson because he had the audacity to acknowledge that George Floyd was murdered and that his own adopted black son faces more obstacles than his white son. www.mediaite.com/politics/spe...
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Speaker Mike Johnson Condemned by Far-Right for Comments on His Black Son and George Floyd: ‘Under...
The far right is mad at Mike Johnson for suggesting that his adopted black son was treated differently than his biological white son.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The Jewish teacher tried to turn the student's question into a learning experience. “I told them I’m ‘Team Humanity,’” she says. She told her students that she thought both the deadly Hamas terror attacks in Israel and Israel’s ongoing bombing of Gaza are horrific.
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A student asked a NYC teacher which side she’s on in the Israel-Hamas war. Here’s what she said ...
Across the US, teachers are grappling with how to discuss the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war in their classrooms. Some teachers are trying to explain the complex roots of the conflict, while oth...
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Pro-war politicians are warning pro-peace Jews to stay away from their own protests.
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centerrite.bsky.social @centerrite.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
My mother scared me out of moving back there 30 years ago. She had nightmares of Pacifica falling into the sea. :-( But I'd now move back without hesitation, if I could afford it -- and assuming I could find quake-resistant housing and workspace.
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kevin nye @kevinmnye.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
My latest for Sojourners was months in the making. It was important to take the time to get it right, and I'm really proud to say we have. We need to talk about Rescue Missions, and what it means to do homelessness work right. Please read and share! sojo.net/articles/too...
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Too Many Christians Are Fighting Homelessness the Wrong Way
We can’t end homelessness by prioritizing “soup, soap, and salvation.”
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com · 20/10/2023
a brilliant and beautifully written by Sojourners editorial fellow @ezc.bsky.social!! sojo.net/articles/que...
sojo.net
The Queer, Christian Yearning of Sufjan Stevens
On ‘Javelin,’ Stevens continues to draw on the inherent longing of both Christian spirituality and queer experience.
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