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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
None of us take pleasure in being right: But we are in the Second Nadir. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...
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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress
In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close ...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/11/2025
A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
They supported apartheid in South Africa as the manifestation of a “natural” racial hierarchy. They adored Franco-Spain as a model of white Christian patriarchal order. They hailed Mussolini for his “reactionary modernism” and his manliness.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Such a long tradition on the Right of supporting foreign autocrats and longingly admiring rightwing regimes in other countries It has always been a way for American rightwing intellectuals and politicians to affirm and communicate their preferred vision of societal order at home and abroad.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2025
i am currently reading jacob heilbrunn’s great book on the American right’s love affair with foreign dictators, and one thing that is very apparent is that these people have always celebrated racism. no backlash required.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 26/03/2025
Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.
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U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison
Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
The U.S. government claims on Reyes Mota's I-213 form, a document the Department of Homeland Security uses to support that someone is deportable, that he "may be a Tren de Aragua associate." But in those same documents, the government says he has no criminal records or immigration history in the United States. The government also uses someone else's last name in several parts of the document, identifies him with female pronouns, and uses two different unique identification numbers that immigration authorities use to keep track of individuals, raising questions about the reliability of Trump officials accusations against him.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The path to authoritarianism starts with "they're all corrupt," "they all lie to you," and "everything is a scam." It lets you pass off feeble-mindedness as sophistication and substitute objectivity for subjectivity. Liberal democracy requires that certain things be true and certain things be moral.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2025
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)
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School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state…
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Donald Trump is the most unpopular president at the start of his term in modern American political history. Don't let anyone talk to you about a mandate. Don't let anyone talk to you about there being support for his agenda. Don't let anyone tell you that anything about this presidency is normal.
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