Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.
Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas.
Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
@markwarner.bsky.social people are being kidnapped by ICE in your state, within 15 minutes of your house. How dare you celebrate *anything* this administration is doing on immigration.
Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.
Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn
Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:
I almost argued with someone on here about their blame-dealing election takes. Almost. I have opinions about the election too. Strong ones. And you know what? It doesn’t fucking matter. Look around. Pointless division is a death trap. *That discourse* is a death trap. It’s collective survival time.
This is not a scold or an insult: Some of us need to step away from our screens for a minute and recalibrate. This chaotic news cycle, people's intense reactions, and people's reactions to other people's reactions, are dysregulating af. I am about to take my own advice. Time to breathe and stretch.
“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
Historian of Reconstruction here this is disqualifying even though SCOTUS has given up on the 14th amendment.
