Gigi

Gigi

@berdee.bsky.social

MdWst 🌾transplant,from NE 🍁, via N.O.🦞. America's history is Black History Slava Ukaini 🇺🇦 The United States shall NOT deprive ANYONE of life, liberty or property WITHOUT DUE PROCESS of the Law. Article IV, sec 1 U.S. Constitution

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🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)

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When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

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JaeB@jaeb.bsky.social

I’m wondering if Felon Trump attacking female reporters is less about his obvious misogyny and more about female reporters being more courageous journalists than their male counterparts.

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The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis. Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.

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Replying to @judah-grunstein.bsky.social

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

lol! So, prior to Nazi Germany, there were no antisemitic laws, anywhere in Europe?

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com

There are books which specifically outline, in painstaking detail, how the Nazis drew inspiration for their antisemitic laws from the Jim Crow South.

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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Here's Nigel Max Edge and Thomas Jacob Sanford. Both committed mass shootings within 24 hours of one another. Two more cases of White on White crime. Is it the fatherlessness in the White community? Are they Inherently violent because of their race? Or, is it the guns? Sip it slowly. 🔥☕️

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I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

I love how far afield this is from any problem government can address. “Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.” bsky.app/profile/yash...

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Trump Always Chickens Out. Donald Trump just cancelled a high stakes meeting in the Oval Office with myself and Leader Schumer. The extremists want to shut down the government because they are unwilling to address the Republican healthcare crisis that is devastating America. Hold the line.

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Quinnipiac in recent poll asked: Do you think that the way people talk about politics these days is contributing to violence in the United States, or don't you think so? 82% of voters agreed with this including majority of Dems, Independents, and GOP. I said basically this and got fired.

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Reminder that Mahmoud Khalil is still being deported for his 1A protected speech.

Jill Wine-Banks@jillwine-banks.bsky.social

Kimmel is back. Destruction of 1stA and authoritarian rule averted (for now). And it’s due to the power of we, the people. Same public protest that got Nixon out of office may succeed here too. Keep up the fight. #Reist.

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What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML@mlpoole.bsky.social

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Kraut@derparrot.bsky.social

I will remember these last two days. How this mob went from throwing raging tantrums of calling for the mass murder of those who they deemed unfit to share a society with them, to now whining about how much compassion and understanding should be shown for a murderer. Freaks.

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You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

apnews.comLaw enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in AtlantaWeeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...

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Replying to @gtconway.bsky.social

You have to be blind NOT to see the following as political violence: - poverty is a political policy decision - women & trans, & immigrants stripped of rights - j6 the insurrection (missing from Ezra's list) - medical treatment denied is violence - opposing MedicareForAll - " GreenNewDeal

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Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

NEWS via the Associated Press Charlie Kirk’s casket will be flown from Utah to Arizona via Air Force Two later today. Vice President JD Vance will be visiting Utah today with Second Lady Usha Vance.

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The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

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Ok farmers, we’ll bail you out. You just have to pay it back with compounding interest at 8% over ten years. No forgiveness. And it can’t be discharged in bankruptcy.