Reposted by LizMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 19/08/2026OUR DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR THE US SENATE! ANGIE NIXON! Let’s get to work, Florida. Let’s win in November. 312027390
Reposted by LizNovember Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026okay so just checking in on the UK media. learning lots. being trans isn’t real. ADHD isn’t real. being disabled isn’t real. but what is real is Harry Potter 433034553
Reposted by LizLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Back in early 2025 a bunch of centrist Dems got spooked by Trump's win, turned on their base, and decided voting for Laken Riley was the smart political move. Next time, try just having a moral compass and acting on it consistently! 11745148
Reposted by LizRacket @racketmn.com · 03/08/2026Craig is arguably the biggest Democratic champion of the most widespread fraud of the century, and perhaps in modern history: cryptocurrency.racketmn.comIs Angie Craig Fighting for Minnesota or the Crypto Industry That's Enriching Trump? - RacketThe crypto industry spent over $1M getting Craig reelected. In turn, she has become its best friend in Congress. 918448
Reposted by LizBill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 03/08/2026pretty damning overview of Angie Craig's career: racketmn.com/is-angie-cra...racketmn.comIs Angie Craig Fighting for Minnesota or the Crypto Industry That's Enriching Trump? - RacketThe crypto industry spent over $1M getting Craig reelected. In turn, she has become its best friend in Congress. 25526
Reposted by LizIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/08/2026A real Democratic fighter needs our help! AIPAC, data centers and other special interests are spending millions to stop Peggy Flanagan’s people-powered campaign. Before Election Day on Tuesday, let’s call MN voters and secure another win for the many over the money: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... 4365178
Reposted by LizIndivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 09/08/2026We endorse Peggy Flanagan and encourage everyone to vote for her in Tuesday’s primary!! 14511
Reposted by LizCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026remarkable that the United States has made it official policy to only accept white refugees and people still think it's up for debate whether or not they're white nationalists 10763741705
Reposted by LizEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Yes. Liz Cheney shifted the Jan 6 Commission to protect Clarence and Ginny Thomas, and Liz Cheney supported Brett Kavanaugh. Cheney has, using her political power, done much much more to help Donald Trump’s Project 2025 destruction of American than Hasan Piker. 628446
Reposted by LizHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility. 302513460
Reposted by LizGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This — very much this. It’s crazy how Platner yields “Dems in disarray,” when action is taken, and crickets about the right when nothing is done with Miller. Another great example about how the media’s default frame is actually right-friendly. 19872227
Reposted by LizSam @samd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs 2357122789
Reposted by LizOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It’s also a massive double standard considering that for three+ decades Rush Limbaugh was the most influential conservative in America, the gop bent the knee to him and he was a racist, misogynist, serial liar and all around piece of shit and the msm kissed his ass 731165
Reposted by LizAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins 927297466436
Reposted by LizDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026I think one reason the public has such a shallow understanding of the extent of the damage Trump is doing is that *US political & media elites* have such a shallow understanding. Douthat's pleasant upper-middle-class life hasn't been unduly disturbed, so really, what's the big deal? 492532536
Reposted by LizChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.futurism.comThe Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak. 380112476089
Reposted by LizRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“Bowe suffered injuries to her face, head, right knee, right arm and right hand. An MRI identified a kneecap fracture and torn meniscus…” www.newsweek.com/nurse-allege...newsweek.comUS nurse alleges ICE agents broke her kneecap in $500,000 legal claimNorma Bowe, a nurse and professor, has filed a $500,000 claim against the government, saying ICE agents threw her to the ground. 20154772296
Reposted by LizBrawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027 158363716430
Reposted by LizBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress. 434120402615
Reposted by Lizm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 23/07/2026As the owner of several AMC theater franchises, you can imagine I'm extremely left wing. But I bet you didn't realize I'm so left wing that I'm willing to bleed thousands of dollars every time I show the Odyssey to an empty IMAX theater to create the impression that a black actress is pretty. 454373414
Reposted by LizBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not! 15860601239
Reposted by LizNBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comAfghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custodyMohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows. 962100736082
Reposted by LizBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Mamdani and Trump giving speeches on the same day where Zohran will be like “the philosopher George Santayana once said that To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career” and Trump will be like “Keebler Elves…they live in a tree and they make food, yes they do” 191528267
Reposted by LizGodspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026it's not really important in the grand scheme of things, but finding out the 250th anniversary of the country was going to be a nation-wide party with infinite food and concerts in major venues and Trump canceled all of it so he could hire shady contractors and pocket the rest infuriates me so much. 13872128
Reposted by LizKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/07/2026If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...nytimes.comColorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier 78185903271
Reposted by LizAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/07/2026My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭 204848645
Reposted by LizHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/07/2026if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right 342534545
Reposted by LizAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/07/2026AOC has changed the trajectory of American politics and inspired a generation to believe that government really can work for working people. I am deeply honored to earn her endorsement for US Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...nytimes.comOcasio-Cortez Endorses Abdul El-Sayed in Crucial Michigan Senate Race 220119572148
Reposted by LizSenate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 02/07/2026BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking 52 deaths since Trump retook office. 118158
Reposted by LizJohn Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties. 262649750
Reposted by LizMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This was correct in 2014, as was "Sotomayor & Kagan should immediately retire in Jan 2021," as was "Thurgood Marshall should have retired in 1978" etc. Pretending Justices were irreplaceable geniuses instead of aging partisan votes in a 9-member super-legislature has been Democrats' fatal error. 21947145
Reposted by LizShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It was 5-4 on the constitutional question and the fact you are unable to recognise this as a problem is why you are unfit for the purpose. You have to go. 452774498
Reposted by LizRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Yeah this is not the tone of alarm I’m looking for, try again. 102498323
Reposted by LizTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom 113846800
Reposted by LizAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd... 393046635
Reposted by LizDeath @insatiableone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026🚨 Urgent | Heartbreaking Update 💔 Ahmed is dying… The virus is destroying his tiny body, and painful dark sores keep spreading every day. His condition is worsening, and the hospital has no medicine or proper care. We urgently need your help now. Please save Ahmed 🙏😭💔 chuffed.org/project/1839... 203164
Reposted by LizJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.ballsandstrikes.orgThe Constitution Is On Life SupportFour justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it. 4938061030
Reposted by Lizderek 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 3854101491
Reposted by LizTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Updated count: Over the last 8 days, I'm counting 15 Democratic incumbents who have lost to, or for the CO races are now trailing, a challenger to their left. —3 congressmembers (2 NY, 1 CO) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —8 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD, 2 CO) (Will update tomorrow) 261148228
Reposted by LizElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT? 13459781544
![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)
