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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

"Purity tests are what brought us MAGA." No that's white people, actually.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

so the thing about going on a strike is you have to withhold something people *want* from you

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Bitch.io: Don't Play WIth Me @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

The fun part about a representative democracy is that it's the job of citizens to speak up when their representative isn't representing them. Telling folks not to critique the flaws of your favorite politician because they are your preferred party is cop shit.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

however much you hate billionaires is not enough

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Sundrop @sundropc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I don’t live in Maine, so haven’t been actively following the online Platner saga. I have been following Shay for years and respect her writing and analysis and hope people really listen to what she is saying here.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 09/05/2026

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

Painting: "The Last Moments of John Brown," by Thomas Hovenden (1884), depicting John Brown being escorted from his cell to the gallows. He kisses a black child being held up by his mother as he descends the steps.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

I need white people in hella white states to think about what they are saying when they insist redistricting blue states will solve the problem that Black people in Memphis just got disenfranchised. Redistricting Colorado is not gonna solve the problem. There's like 16 Black people in Colorado.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/04/2026

I keep coming back to the idea of "Optimistic Passivity." It’s that collective sigh of relief the broad liberal-left coalition seems to feel in between the waves of acute, highly visible crisis. I think the media environment plays a part. The lack of a coherent theory of social change does as well.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/04/2026

Been thinking a lot lately about the "physics" of broad social movements. It feels like we’re in a strange lull, and I’m trying to parse whether that’s a sign of recovery or a symptom of a deeper tactical cycle we keep getting caught in.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

the Voting Rights Act was a plainly appropriate exercise of Congress's constitutional authority to rewrite the VRA, the Republican justices had to rewrite the Constitution itself that's a threat to ANY future congressional effort to build a multiracial democracy ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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Samuel Alito Didn’t Only Gut the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too

The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

to be clear, this isn't something that the Constitution requires it's something the white supremacists on the Court made up you can read the Fifteenth Amendment for yourself: it's a concise yet capacious grant of authority to Congress to protect voters of color ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

text of the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which reads as follows:

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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–

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The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

In Callais, the GOP justices said Congress *exceeds its authority to protect voters of color under the 15th Amendment* unless a law is precisely calibrated to address ONLY conduct so obviously racist that even Alito admits it's intentional racial discrimination ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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Samuel Alito Didn’t Only Gut the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too

The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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Samuel Alito Didn’t Only Gut the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too

The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We don't have an independent Supreme Court that has the power and credibility to stand up to tyranny. We should fix SCOTUS by permanently weakening it as an institution because for the vast majority of US history it has been a bastion of oligarchy and white supremacy--and still is today.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

One earnest and sincere question I have for folks who position the restoration of "the social contract" as the way out of this: How can you restore a social contract among people who no longer experience a shared reality? This is not snark. I'm asking.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/04/2026

The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If we absolutely positively know who’s destroying the country. And we know they won’t stop. And we know HOW they do it. Why do “WE” have a crisis?

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I’m not saying there is no crisis. But here’s the question: IF the only thing that changes is WHO gets to vote. And if white people ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS vote the same way… And they elect people to uphold Jim Crow, mass incarceration and anti-democratic principles And NO ONE ELSE EVER DOES…

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Fucks Supply @fucks.supply · 13/04/2026

Are you completely out of fucks? Now you can let people know! Like the appropriate post in this thread to add its badge to your account. Unlike to remove (see below if you want automatic expiry). Do you want to know when somebody you're about to reply to is out of fucks? Subscribe to this labeler!

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 15/04/2026

Don’t know about you, but we’d like our tax dollars to go toward programs that benefit us, our neighbors, and our communities.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 15/04/2026

Is this how you'd distribute your tax dollars?

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 15/04/2026

$1,870 of that $4,049 went to defense contractors. More than twice as much as what went toward troops’ pay, even as many troops rely on food stamps to feed themselves and their families. Meanwhile, the average CEO pay at the top Pentagon contractors in 2025 was $24,632,610.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 15/04/2026

$4,049 from the average taxpayer for weapons and war. That's... -32x the $124 paid for school lunches and other nutrition programs. -213x the $19 paid for the U.S. Postal Service. -119x the $34 paid toward public transit. -253x the $16 spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 15/04/2026

The federal government took $4,049 from the average taxpayer to fund war and weapons in 2025. When you compare that to what went toward programs that actually help us… the gap gets hard to ignore: 🧵

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15/04/2026

The actual doomerism is scapegoating responsibility for him on some deus ex machina like he fell from the sky. He is part of your world. Especially if you're white. You take part in his attitudes all the time. You actually get rid of him by restructuring your society that made & fully endorses him.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The thing I think many peeps resistant to the idea of open borders fail to remember? The world already basically has open borders. If you have money. Seriously. Those with wealth can generally live wherever they want. Maybe everyone should have that opportunity.

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 08/04/2026

Impeachment? Hell yeah. Arrest and prosecution? Yup. Calling him a pussy for not hitting the nukes or attacking and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people? Maybe put a check on that one.

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 08/04/2026

Idk if "president caves" and "lmao TACO" is the discourse we really want to be having. Especially when narcissists want to feel big and strong and powerful. Just an hour ago, we were all really worried about nuclear war and/or the commiting of horrific war crimes.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/03/2026

The way some of y’all have spoken to and about Black women who are offering a fact check about political conditions in a very white state with active Nazi and white supremacist militias is very telling Black women are easier to swing at so you’re producing us as social media punching bags

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026

So many people on this app operate like being a racist isn’t like being a Nazi and that’s interesting

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026

Y’all can talk about Platner’s problems without minimizing the fact that Mills, an actual elected official right now, refused to protect citizens from the gestapo, has had bad relations with Indigenous folks, and doesn’t show up for communities of color in Maine That’s Nazi shit too, you fucks

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026

And yes the way people talk about Platner’s tattoo and the antisemitism associated with Nazi symbols while never discussing Mills’s racism is problematic and speaks to the way that racism is not treated as disqualifying and antisemitism is treated as uniquely bad Signed, A Black Jew in NH

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026

Platner doesn’t need endorsements and Mills does Nazi policy as a lawmaker So I think folks should stop with the external endorsements and let Maine‘s voters — including the POC who are deciding between shit and shit — figure out what they’re gonna do

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Rather than talking about "horse shoe theory," which is bogus af, couldn't we just name that certain bad isms exist across political spectrums and that grifters are a thing?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

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The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

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