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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5m

“If they can say, by legislative mandate, ‘We’re going to force employees to reference Gulf of America,’ then what else might they force us to say—or restrict us from saying—in terms of our teaching and research?” she said.”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7m

“Jason Senkbeil, a tenured professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa’s Department of Geography and the Environment, said he was told faculty have to follow the law.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 2h

Bagayoko is a fascinating and potentially very important figure. It’s been a long while—a generation at least—since the French left has embraced a non-white politician the way they have Bagayoko

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 3h

"He is also considering progressively limiting the use of certain weapons among municipal police."

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 3h

"After Bagayoko’s strong first-round election win last month, he was discussed with references to apes and tribal chiefs by guests on a debate show on CNews – the TV station owned by the Catholic conservative industrialist Vincent Bolloré, which last year was the most-watched news channel in France.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 41m

“The Homeland Security Department reviewed 82 organizations in Pennsylvania, including the Pennsylvania chapter of CAIR, one of the largest Muslim civil rights groups in the country.”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Yeah but we’re talking about policing.

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 1h

ICE are the most effective anti-police messengers in a generation, perhaps ever. It feels like a manifestation of the hyper-aggro masculinity the neoreactionaries are obsessed with. Daring us to call them out for how blatant they are. Terrifying that it might not be enough to move public opinion.

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 14h

While incarcerated people retain the right to vote in Maine, they struggle to participate in the political process ... "incarceration is designating you to a less-than-human status. So, yes, you have the right to vote. But being able to actually, fully participate? Eh, not really.” ✏️ @boltsmag.org

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Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

If Millennials don’t sing the Ballad of Ricky Bobby then who will?!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

This ripped Jesus story has been going for two weeks and I saw no Talladega Nights references, and I felt ashamed because I hadn’t made one.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Listen Millennials, we can’t let the young people scare us from the old ways and references.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Yeah the “banana republic” and “retribution” being the watchwords here show they’re clearly planning to keep pushing their fight against the left post-midterms as a struggle to contain dangerous state socialism from poor innocent institutions who worked with and paid Trump.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

The way I’d frame it is Trump is a permission structure. He gives both parties space to act or not act on policies they would’ve previously thought unthinkable. What we’re seeing now is an attempt to maintain that permission structure without Trump actually being in power à la Reagan.

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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 2h

What’s so frustrating is the Senator’s refusal to see how they’re linked. Health care costs: look at the fascists in the GOP cutting subsidies and Medicare/Meducaid. Energy: fascist war mongers directly responsible. Etc, etc. she can’t even see the probs as GOP-caused.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Now I’m getting all worked up early in the morning.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

I’m of the mindset that we need to address both Trump and the institutions that for at least two years endeavored to make his political vision a reality along with him which would include clawing back money for food, healthcare, housing and the like, but that’s just me.

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 3h

99 out of 100 times obeying in advance is not to protect your business / school interests, it just shows you were waiting for an excuse to do it in the first place.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

If we accept Masto’s premise, either Trump was so terrifying and authoritarian all of our institutions were forced to bend to his will, in which case he needs to go. Or he wasn’t that terrifying and authoritarian in which case we need to focus on affordability and hold institutions accountable.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

They include the universities here too and I’d love to hear how Trump made them all close their Black studies departments and give interviews to higher education publications on how they over indexed on diversity.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

They like the segregation, they just don’t like they aren’t in charge of it

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

Whenever we tell you, hey this is going to happen, a whole ass disinformation campaign kicks in to tell people they’re stupid or uncharitable and then the thing happens and it’s just crickets.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

“Our focus should be solving problems that we’re seeing happening,” she said, pointing to cost-of-living issues around health care, housing and energy. “That’s where our focus should be — not weaponizing the federal government.”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

We constantly demand the people with the least amount of social capital show up bravely every day but the people we laud with prestige and pay are never expected to be principled, we always must understand their plight.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

“A lot of the companies did things because Trump had a gun on their head.” Clockwork.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

First the Fat Boys break up then they start taking the graffiti off of the graffiti bridge.

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 13h

Note that the bookseller issued a statement denying a pattern of racist behavior that multiple ppl confirmed experiencing at the festival & *in their store*. They’re telling us who they are—believe them.

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 13h

“she decided to stick around the booth & watch how the person treated others because she worried she was overreacting & wanted to make sure there was no misunderstanding. She said she saw ‘a continuous pattern’ of Black shoppers being ignored while white shoppers were greeted warmly & engaged”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

Rhett Lashlee literally comparing college players being fairly compensated and allowed to work where they like to his kids eating too much ice cream.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

A bunch of college coaches literally infantilizing the workers who earn them millions in contracts so they can make sure those workers have fewer rights and resources is gross.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

Even the law they passed in California moved from “ICE agents shouldn’t be hired in state” to “federal agents who do something particularly egregious” the train is on schedule and will be in the station shortly.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

Every step along the way from “actually it’s not really ICE but Proud Boys who infiltrated” to “unmask ICE and we’ll hold them accountable” to “okay they may be ICE but they’re not they’re not the smart properly trained ones” to the current muted response to 287g points directly towards this outcome

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

These were already police officers who were now being trained on immigration enforcement.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

Everyone saw it coming and yet insisted this exact thing wasn’t precisely what they were doing,

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

We’re absolutely going to land in a place where “let the police handle immigration enforcement once they’re properly trained” as the response to mass deportation. It’s going to drive me up a wall and I’m going to repeatedly point out how this will only further entrench mass deportation as a policy.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

Yeah it’s why I didn’t just say ICE but state violence and the fact support is isolated to one particular brand name than addressing it generally doesn’t inspire confidence on that being done in a way that’s not simply rebranding.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

Nor am I the person arguing that it’s necessary to maintain the institutions doing so or saying that’s is “crazy” to suggest otherwise.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

People get upset when you state it plainly but I’m not the person bankrupting cities, and commanding billions in federal budget while targeting marginalized people with routinized violence.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

Might it be possible to push this to $220,000 by midnight? I don't know but it would be great. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) @dawnandr0meda.bsky.social · 15h

I think a lot about this quote from Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”. It’s no longer accurate of course but it was true when it was said and then famously football obsessed Richard Nixon took power and football surpassed baseball as the national pastime and here we are.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

To the point it facilitated sexual abuse at some of the most storied programs in the sport.

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