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Anthea Butler

@antheabutler.bsky.social

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MSNBC Columnist, Penn Prof. Rabid football fan, news and comms junkie, traveler and gin drinker.

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Ugh

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that man is TRASH.

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yea, cause I'm tired of them for real.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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what if we have a little moratorium on publishing the opinions of adult converts to Catholicism in the American news media, just for a year or two

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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African Americans will tell you that this country has never been fully a democracy, and white people are about to find out how the little democracy left is about to go up in a puff of smoke should Trump get back in the White House.

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.

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I know no one "on here" thinks this but if you think that the man who said ""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" won't use his power if he becomes president to kill a rival or even an annoyance.. just wait.

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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"A republic, if you can keep it." Plot twist: we can't.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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I'll be in touch because we need to do this!

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Thanks I didn't know he was here! And I need to start posting my stuff here too!

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Ali Velshi's avatar Ali Velshi @velshi.bsky.social
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“This is an ongoing project by Christian nationalists to turn this country to a theocratic state,” says Anthea Butler. Their goal, she says, is to “ make everyone else live under their kind of moral codes which they don't live under themselves.” #Velshi
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

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I would love to ...but trying to get ready for whatever black job I will get in the new regime🤬😭

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I'm not counting the weekend!!! And congrats as well!!

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Thanks maybe I can get some OTHER STUFF DONE ya know? 😁

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😆. Wonder what black job I'll be offered next.. but thankfully I will not find out until August of 2025!

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Today is the last day of my black job as chair of the department.

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Jamison Foser's avatar Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Trump, Who Incited Insurrection After Losing In 2020, Refuses To Say He Will Accept Outcome of 2024 Election there's your fucking headline.

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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC's avatar Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC @reverendjesus.com
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YOU HAVE THE MORALS OF AN ALLEY CAT

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Joanne Freeman's avatar Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social
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Oh, folks. This is so sad. Trump: "I didn't have sex with a porn star." He's not answering questions. He's blatantly blatantly lying. And Biden isn't coming back strongly enough.

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this would be a good time to call him Trump mushroom but I digress

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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Not watching the debate but very much enjoying the Bluesky timeline live analysis.

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J.M. Berger's avatar J.M. Berger @intelwire.bsky.social
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I thought they were going to be muted when it's not their turn

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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The moderators have lost control. Why did Bash ask Biden about states with legal abortion, as if to prop up Trump's "kill the baby" lie?

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If he says after birth one more time.... SMDH

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My condolences. Thanks for sharing a little bit about him.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Awful. Stanford Internet Observatory, a fantastic effort studying online misinfo & related topics, dismantled after "a sustained & increasingly successful campaign among Republicans to discredit research institutions & discourage academics from investigating political speech & influence campaigns."

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I had the pleasure of meeting Rev Lawson when I was in grad school at Vanderbilt. His expulsion from Vanderbilt was a huge catalyst in the sit in movement in Nashville and almost caused Vanderbilt Divinity school to split because professors wanted to resign because of his expulsion

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The passing of Rev James Lawson is a moment to remember how many of the important figures of the Civil rights movement are dying at the moment of some of the greatest rollbacks of the racial equality in America.

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