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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Wow, I'm still trying to post here as a comparison to Threads, but I mostly get either no response at all or hostile, troll-y responses. What's that about?

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

is better at communist name-calling--to see how the horseshoe theory is real when anti-democratic, dictatorial rule is the common denominator between far-left and far-right?

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Chinese People Say Trump Is Acting Exactly Like Chairman Mao

Donald Trump's authoritarianism and rise to power is drawing comparisons to Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Now that people in China are calling Trump the Mao Zedong of America, and Musk's takeover and purge is being called reminiscent of Stalin, can we get all those 1st and 2nd generation Americans who were duped into voting for Trump--because their families fled communist regimes and the GOP

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Turns out a lot of libertarians weren’t actually against government — just government by the people, for the people.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

They could say stuff like: "Didn't know he'd turn into a Bond villain when I bought it" "Can't afford to ditch it for an Ioniq 6 yet, but I'm working on it" I actually know someone in this situation. They'd love to pull a Sheryl Crow, but they can't afford to...yet. Thoughts?

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hi @teslatakedown.com! I have an idea to add as a mini-campaign. Create a range of loud, snarky bumper stickers for progressive Tesla owners (like Sheryl Crow) who bought theirs years ago for environmental reasons but now want to signal contempt for Elon and help tank further sales?

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I replied on Threads but will here, too. I know you can't call out the obvious pattern we're watching play out in real time, but plenty of us see it. Can we PROVE it? Nope. (See @adamserwer.bsky.social's recent mention of "plausible deniability.") But that's why it's so pernicious. I am so sorry.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This part is genius: "What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation...They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity...

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This was so informative! If I can mention one point of disagreement, though, it's your comment that the DEI stuff is a distraction. I think it's anything but. It's core to the agenda. Pls read @adamserwer.bsky.social's article yesterday in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When the state takes over a private industry, we call it communism, but what do we call it when one private industrialist takes over the state?

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm thinking about the movie "Au Revoirs Les Enfants" today. I wonder why.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Oh, no! Please don't, @whitehouse.senate.gov! I so admire you and your work exposing corporate capture of the courts and our political system. But I believe this would be such an error in judgment!

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Am just listening to this on delay. My heart is with you, @libradunn1.bsky.social (and Officer Fanone, and @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social, and all your colleagues). I'm so, so sorry.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Headline: "Felon pardons felons."

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Can Trump really end birthright citizenship with an executive order? The 14th Amendment says otherwise. Breaking it down here: youtube.com/shorts/dBLSn...

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Can Trump really end birthright citizenship with an executive order? Breaking down the legality.

YouTube video by Eliza Orlins

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thank you, @mjsdc.bsky.social. I so value your opinion and your work at @slate.bsky.social (together with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social!). I hope you're right. I'm curious to know what you think the actual breakdown will be, though. 9-0? 7-2?

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Thank you, Ali @velshi.bsky.social, for this segment. It was very moving.❤️

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just finished reading thenewpress.com/books/scheme and it makes me appreciate @whitehouse.senate.gov all the more. Breaks my heart, though, that he's like a (male) Cassandra whom not enough people listen to nor believe. He's been warning us for so long.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

“Indeed, but for Mr Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”

theguardian.com

Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, says special counsel

Report by Jack Smith says evidence ‘was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ had Trump not won re-election in 2024

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I hear a lot of criticism toward @arimelber.bsky.social because he's interviewed a lot of unsavory types (Matt Gaetz, for one), but he's good at calling out Mark Zuckerberg's disingenuousness and hypocrisy.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Dear K-drama English translators: Please brush up on your knowledge of the perfect and past perfect tenses. Thank you.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 27/12/2024

The fossil fuel industry wants to move oil by train from Utah alongside the Colorado River, down to Texas and Louisiana. The Supreme Court could use the case to gut key health and environmental protections nationwide.

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Supreme Court Poised to Gut Bedrock Environmental Law in Oil-Train Case

Conservatives on the Supreme Court could use a case over a proposed oil train to gut crucial health and environmental protections.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I think the right word for this moment is EGREGIOUS: Egregious wealth & wealth inequality Egregious greed Egregious cowardice, cravenness, & capitulation in advance Egregious corruption (think SCOTUS) Egregious ignorance, dishonesty, & disingenuousness Egregious cruelty, indecency, & indifference

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The threat of a "runaway" constitutional convention is not hyperbolic. In 2022, @strictscrutiny.bsky.social talked to @gracepanetta.bsky.social about the conservatives' interest in a state-led constitutional convention. It was chilling. Link to the episode below. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

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A Constitutional Convention? Some Democrats Fear It’s Coming. (Gift Article)

Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue. Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same...

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'd said for years that we should talk about Trump in mafia or mob terms. I thought that might get through to more "mainstream" Americans who don't understand authoritarianism but at least have "The Godfather" and other mob movies as a shared cultural reference.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Inequality is so extreme, it’s growing even among billionaires—seriously, even billionaires. The best predictor of a billionaire’s 2024 gains? How much they already had. This is how markets work: left unchecked, they’ll keep concentrating wealth at the top. It’s wild—and it’s unsustainable.

A scatter plot showing the relationship between billionaires’ starting net worth (in billions) and their year-to-date gains in 2024. Points representing technology-sector billionaires are blue, while others are dark grey. Labels highlight key figures like Elon Musk, who saw massive gains, and ‘mere billionaires’ like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who gained less. The plot demonstrates that the biggest predictor of gains was starting wealth, with the top 10 billionaires now owning half of all wealth among the 100 richest Americans.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/12/2024

Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk and French President Emmanuel Macron mock Donald Trump and then post it on social media

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Great discussion! (NB to the moderator: maybe avoid saying, "You've passed with flying colors," next time? I know it wasn't intentional, but it does diminish your authority in a subtle way--as if he's the teacher, and you're his student.)

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/12/2024

NEW: Trump has selected Harmeet Dhillon to lead the DOJ's civil rights division. In the past few years, Dhillon — or an attorney from her law firm — has been involved in more than a dozen lawsuits challenging voting rights laws across the country.

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Harmeet Dhillon, Trump’s Assistant Attorney General Pick, Has a History of Attacking Voting Rights

Read more here.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In this case, in particular, I’m trying to say, “Despite what may appear to be true, many of us were/are on your side in this fight." I'm not sure why that's so wrong.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In that--like all minorities--we've had narratives imposed on & applied to us (vs. being given opportunities to write our own), Asians shouldn’t be told to “sit down and shut up” as if we're the same as whites. Ultimately, I’m trying to challenge misperceptions about us as a group.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

(& ultimately hinders greater understanding & coalition-building, which to me is the goal). Until recently, e.g., Asians weren’t even identified as a demographic voting bloc. We’re still sometimes ID’ed as “Other.” We’ve barely begun to have a voice or representation in contexts like Hollywood.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

are NOT, in fact, white. They’re not the default in the way men are. While I agree that OVERALL they/we benefit from not being Black in America, I think as a blanket statement this ignores context and leads to a singular, incomplete narrative that lacks nuance

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I understand your point, but I don’t agree that this is equivalent for a few reasons: The point of @tarikmoody.com’s post was to show that Asians who sided with SFAA on the assumption that they are in the same boat as white people are now receiving a rude awakening and finding out that—oops!—Asians

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Had this on my "to watch" list, but the events of last week served as an extra nudge. There's some dramatic license taken, but much of this really happened. Hwang Jung-min as Chun Doo-hwan is SO good (in the worst way!). This Korea's entry for the Oscars this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zr...

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12.12.: THE DAY Trailer | TIFF 2024

YouTube video by TIFF Trailers

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

THE expert explainer I have been looking for. Deployment of the U.S. Military for Immigration Enforcement: A Primer Posse Comitatus National Emergency Declaration National Guard under Title 32 Insurrection Act Alien Enemies Act www.justsecurity.org/105321/milit...

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Deployment of the U.S. Military for Immigration Enforcement: A Primer

Expert backgrounder explains the laws that regulate the domestic deployment of the military for mass deportations and immigration enforcement.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/12/2024

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I most certainly did not say Black people did anything to Asians. I agree with you 100% that Black people have been unjustly denied educational resources for centuries.

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Actually, it wasn't a majority. 70% of Asians supported Affirmative Action. I understand being p***ed at Asians who sided with Blum. (I was, too!) All I'm trying to do is get people to see past Asians as a monolithic THEY with one point of view. Also, I was born & raised here, so this is my nation.

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