Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis? 303102991360
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Term limits and an ethics code are as popular as ever, but Supreme Court expansion at 68 percent among Democrats and 56 percent *among independents*?? The first candidates to figure out that "I will vote to add at least four seats on day one" is a winning message are gonna absolutely clean up. 6632115
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423366711
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialBrent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Yankees' Game 2 ALDS performance in one picture 410322
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialJay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In other words, they haven't won a series in which they did not hold home field advantage during the Aaron Boone era. That's a pretty damning stat. 56211
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialJoe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Aaron Boone watching the tape of tonight's game with Brian Cashman 092
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialknickerbacker.bsky.social @knickerbacker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This team is built with the exact same flaws every year that bite them in the exact same ways, just in different playoff rounds depending on the season. 072
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialBill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026kinda strange how the yankees are usually bad at the same things under aaron boone. probably nothing to that. 04011
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11646951166
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026UPDATE: Florida killed Curtis Beasley this evening. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty noted this is the DeSantis administration's "44th execution." Beasley is "the 13th veteran, the 14th senior citizen, and the 27th person ... to die despite a non-unanimous jury vote for death." 1015468
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form 392138615
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him. 15084061896
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886282302
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026liberal democracies really need to unite in defense of liberal democracy to counter the global fascist movement that has emerged and is funded by tech billionaires 1442674
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026Anyone who has issues with Mamdani attending the commemoration is a bigot, Islamophobe, and/or racist. That's it. 161012162
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/09/2026The AfD is projected to win 39-41 out of 83 seats in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament after turnout jumped by nearly 25% compared to past elections. This is pretty much the nightmare scenario right there. 1721295
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Meant to post this two days ago, but it has been a year (and two days) since JD Vance said after a mass shooting that it's outrageous anyone thinks calls for prayer are a way to deflect responsibility for taking action against gun violence. Maybe action will come next year. 723280368
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026Quite a community note here. Reminder that your taxpayer dollars are paying for these Nazi social media accounts. 13471332020
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121515977
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way. 14083841120
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE 343148153447
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yeah, no negotiating with terrorists. bsky.app/profile/nyti... 613523
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million. That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration. 24332831505
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Scenes from a personalist regime; The President”s personal lawyer is sworn into high office by another of the Presidents’s personal lawyers, now a judge 552009571
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is 572 5 year biomedical research grants to study cancer, heart disease, blindness, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, diabetes, infectious disease, etc… 310561
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics. 37774232567
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026again think about the choices that are made in the media to cover Mamdani's call for Netanyahu's arrest as if it is extremist hate speech or an incitement to violence in context of both the domestic popularity and international elite consensus around the issue. 131429310
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008. 563175498
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Senator Lindsey Graham has died. His death was preceded by the death of his longtime friend and colleague John McCain in 2018, and by Graham's supposed principles shortly after. Known for saying "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it," then enthusiastically backing him. 411977377
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice. 8682261480
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers 19893532800
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Shabbat Shalom to everyone, and especially to everyone who refuses to compromise on anyone else’s humanity. 220723
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026oh for the love of exhibit 39248320 why when someone has a Nazi tattoo, you don't need to wait and see what else is behind the tattoo! 221183175
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 04/07/2026taylor swift is a corporate entity, and one of the most inhuman humans on the planet. literally believes in nothing except maximizing PnL 1614214
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Oh, and by the way, Trump is using $1.6 million from national park pass fees to pay for the fireworks. Because we can't afford to use that money to hire rangers or fix up the parks. We need it to pollute the air and water. 11381286
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes. 924011116
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/07/2026PSA: Had the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara this week gone the other way, Folarin Balogun, who just scored for the U.S. in the World Cup, would likely not be considered a citizen. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...bbc.comWorld Cup 2026: Folarin Balogun, the US star who would not be allowed under Trump's planFolarin Balogun scored two goals on his World Cup debut, but he is the type of person President Trump is trying to ban under birthright citizenship. 10550199
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026No firearms? Why not? "The overwhelming weight of historical evidence supported the right of the public to peaceably carry handguns for self-defense." So said SCOTUS six days ago. Then they struck down a law which "provided that no one carrying a firearm may enter without express authorization." 941879
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialderek 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 3854091491
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/07/2026 236128592794
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I mean, this is literally proving everything I said in my birthright post 351200270
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption. 16990346
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026there is no group of people who deserve quasi-suspect class status more than trans people. I swear to god, people need to read Carolene Products. They are a discrete and insular minority with zero political power as evidenced by the fact that they're being attacked left right and center. 4569137
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Anyway, trans rights are human rights. And as always: anyone obsessing over genitals writ large is a pervert. 6544110
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights. 3539811423
Reposted by @jackiemyswag.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record 11048281054
![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)
