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Maroon Phoenix@maroonphoenix.bsky.social |
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It is all one fight. I’m on the side of the oppressed over the oppressor. Learn to tell the difference.
#LandBack #Enough #ProtectTransKids #TeamOrca #CovidIsAirborne #CleanTheAir #SayAbortion
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Joe Katz
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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I love how Paris puts all African boarding gates in the worst part of the airport: no charging stations, AC, working escalator, food or bathrooms. very colonizer of them
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juno. stump ($190/$250)
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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA
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Iron Spike
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Consider this your reminder to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix and juice the fuck outta its numbers and convince whoever needs convincing that there’s a place for amazing, adult-audience animation in the world. Thank u.
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Eb
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Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.
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Bilbo Yaga
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Unmasked leftists, are you “being shamed” when told to wear an n95 or feeling shame when realizing your actions & values don’t align? If you can’t tolerate discomfort, you can’t learn, grow, or resist systems of oppression. Expand your capacity for discomfort to expand your potential to liberate.
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Maroon Phoenix
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I love Paprika but didn’t know you can share!
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Jess Calarco
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This seems like a sweet story about a teen couple using a PowerPoint presentation to persuade their parents to let them have a (no sex!) sleepover. But it also says a lot about how our culture of fear around teens and sex helped erode the US safety net. 1/
www.scarymommy.com/parenting/te...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year.
Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Just stumbled on this Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, ca. 1865. Thought today was a great day to share an image of white men abolishing slavery arranged in a shape Georgia O'Keefe would recognize.
Happy 4th! Burn the white supremacist heteropatriarchy!
npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
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Maroon Phoenix
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I guess a lot of you were betting against a moment like the debate, when it should have been fairly obvious that the senile moment was always going to arrive. It was a matter of when, not if. He’s 81! He’s had Covid twice, and all the long-term, life-shortening, IQ-dropping that entails.
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Maroon Phoenix
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I don’t know what people were expecting 18 months ago from an octogenarian on the campaign trail. My partner was freaking out, I said “Remember I said he was going to lose 18 months ago because he is too old and it will become obvious.” Reply: “But now he’s really going to lose!”
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Gail Drakes
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I know where the “Say No To Doomerism!” is coming from, but I want folks to make sure they aren’t slipping into some toxic positivity remix. Shock and sadness are among the reasonable responses to the situations we face. And those feelings can exist with others, it’s not always either/or… 1/
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Maroon Phoenix
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A balance of acceptance and fight and getting people to use their individual strengths and also bringing other people around them to work together. And to grieve when those allies fall short. I am in awe of the women who are in command of this skill. I have never seen it from a man.
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Maroon Phoenix
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It is a real skill to usher people through times like this. I would compare it to the facilitators who run new mom groups, and to what I see some Black women do in their communities. I am so steeped in white supremacy that I cannot even identify what this skill is, but I know it when I see it. /1
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Maroon Phoenix
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I just read an article on Michael Dukakis and my God, every single name I looked up from the article was STILL involved in Dem politics. These people just need to die so we can move on to better leadership.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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One of the things Covid has made really clear is how many people are functionally unable to deal with what is.
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Bruno J. Navarro
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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Maroon Phoenix
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It really looks like Biden secretly wanted Susan Collins as his running mate. They could both be senile and concerned together while they do absolutely nothing.
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Maroon Phoenix
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I’m thinking this will be a featured event of the inauguration, yes
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Maroon Phoenix
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I’m kidding, but really would anyone be surprised?
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Maroon Phoenix
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We will never move on from the Bush/Clinton era of 90s politics. All candidates must have been prominent in that area. Ergo, this will be our option in 2024 if Biden steps aside.
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Maroon Phoenix
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They’re going to run Dukakis again, aren’t they?
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Jess Calarco
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"remote work allows [many more moms] to be in the workforce... but the challenge is that remote work is not a great substitute for child care."
Thanks to the AP's Claire Savage for this Q&A about Holding It Together and remote work's double-edged sword.
apnews.com/article/wome...
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Maroon Phoenix
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He was just handed an enormous tool, he has broad public support to do something drastic, and all he is going to do is hone, sharpen and shine that tool so that it can be used against him and us in 6 months.
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Alex Cruikshanks
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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Hopeful Chump
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If you have recurring monthly donations to, say, Planned Parenthood or the ACLU, please consider shifting that money to abortion funds where it can do the most immediate good
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Maroon Phoenix
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She would be no worse politically than many other options and I would be over the moon to see a woman in office, and a Black one at that. It matters to me. Any man that wants to mock it can just give up the next two hundred years to only women candidates, since it shouldn’t matter, right?
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Brendan Nyhan
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Category error watch. People keep assuming legal proceduralism will apply in an authoritarian state.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.
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Maroon Phoenix
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We pay just as much tax as they do, just not in a check to the IRS on April 15. I’d rather write the check. I hate the stress and private expense of all the things that are on me as an individual (summer childcare, etc).
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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I just. The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
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Peter Sagal
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Seems crazy! But just logical. If a President cannot commit a crime in the course of an official act, like giving an order to the military, how can you prosecute the person who follows the order? There’s a whole code of military conduct about “illegal orders.” All orders are legal now.
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Prisonculture
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he's surrounded by so-called centrists and moderates. and they can't help him right now. they don't have the disposition to fight and can't actually connect with people.
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Maroon Phoenix
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I’m absolutely not excusing it, you are right, but the structure works very well for what it is intended to do. I marvel at that bit. The innate inhumanity of a certain portion of humanity is a truth that we have poorly incorporated into almost any system we have built.
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Maroon Phoenix
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They could announce that ticket right now. Biden’s age is already a huge issue. Having Harris name her VP choice “just in case” is not going to make it worse, and they can basically campaign together in stark contrast to Trump, who could never run a “team” campaign.
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Maroon Phoenix
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Timing matters. Early July is not it. Joe should have a scary health crisis and step aside, but in October. At 81, does not require much embellishment. Do not give the media months to grind this woman down. Maximize sympathy. The short campaign should center voting for democracy, not a candidate.
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Maroon Phoenix
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Right, like their “evidence” is the gender/racial makeup of hires???? They presuppose that majority white male is the default measure of quality.
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@russms.bsky.social
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Six people did the thing that is supposed to require 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 3/4 of the states to do
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Atrios
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The worst ones are like political science profs who spend years lecturing The Left about how Republicans are Fine and Good Actually and people should be Civil and Not Shrill and Engage In The Marketplace of Ideas then one day wake up and demand everyone is outraged as they suddenly are
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Chantal James
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I'm trying to understand, but do white people not get what a huge moment that was for Black people? After George Floyd, the congresspeople gave only the corniest most performative gesture, while proceeding to brutally suppress protest & massively increase police funding. That's the image for us.
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Freyaa🍉❤️🔥🇵🇸
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Twilight Zone came out of Rod Serling's attempts to talk about the murder of Emmett Till but he kept getting censored
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Maroon Phoenix
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It is a successful construct though, that makes the evil easy. The corporate form is like the rope that swings them over to Terabithia.
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Maroon Phoenix
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It is hard to respect or listen to someone who has clearly excused themselves from grappling or spending any time with any of the tough questions. It was the same people breezily dismissing the age issue a year ago, etc etc etc
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Maroon Phoenix
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This one gets me too. Most people imply I have not thought through my decisions. Bet I have put more thought and historical perspective into it than they have. “Trump BAD” is not actually the nuanced, brainiac, morally pure option they think it is.
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Maroon Phoenix
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Not even 4 years! My partner was like “Biden needs to drop out now. He is too old and he is going to lose.” And I was like “No, that was 18 months ago. He was always going to lose, he was always too old. This was always going to happen. Now it is too late!” Can’t even game plan a 2 year campaign.
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Bethany Brookshire
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I am reading Hannah Arendt right now and she makes this point. Over and over. With a freakin hammer. There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the world very eager to pick a group and blame it for their problems, esp when they don't have a strong grasp of where those problems really come from.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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look I will crawl across broken glass to vote against Donald Trump but if you're trying to gaslight me that the guy who listened to calls to expand the court and formed a commission in order to kick the can down the road and then never did anything else is actually on top of this now, well.
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