Thinking about this today 🫶🏾

Barack Obama on the 24 Hours that changed America forever YouTube video by Garrison Hayes

Progress in this country never comes easy or quick. For every few hard-earned steps forward, we might stumble a couple steps back. But sometimes, the slow, steady effort of generations is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

The “liberal media” said this would happen.

Anyone else kind of annoyed by this outcome?? Good for democracy, no doubt. But where were these people 5 months ago? America is weird.

Rebel Spirit is so so good. Deserved!

Thank you!

Ahhhhhh!! What an honor to be nominated alongside creators I genuinely admire. You deserve this, Kat!

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Trump’s “DEI Purges”? Yeah, It’s Just Racist Bigotry YouTube video by Mother Jones

The “DEI Content” purges are insane. Latest w/ @motherjones.com

youtube.com/shorts/QbRJ7...

Appreciate you, fam!

The ten Democrats who voted with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green:

Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Marcy Kaptur
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi

clerk.house.gov/Votes/202562

🗣️🗣️🚨🚨 Are you thinking about running for public office?
I’d love to hear from you.

Fully anticipate that a new crop of democratic candidates have been born tonight. Born of rage and disappoint. Expect competitive primaries.

Democrats are rowdy. Rep. Al Green removed.

Begging Black Republicans to explain how this is good for our grandparents. QUICKLY.

Omg?

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

This white female Boomer is pissed!

This white lady isn't either!

It’s not just people of color who are upset. The rest of us have eyes as well, even if some choose not to use them. I’m pissed. Wrong is WRONG. Full stop.

Black viewers rally around Joy Reid MSNBC canceled her primetime show as part of a major overhaul of its programming.

The final episode of @joyannreid.bsky.social’s award-winning show, The ReidOut, starts in just a few minutes. Black folks aren’t happy about it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Math is hard

Absolutely. 100,000 poor whites deserting the elite/planter class’s war was the nail in the coffin. A lesson in there somewhere

Boooooo let me fix the typos @bsky.app

(from Black Reconstruction by WEB Du Bois)

When the Confederates were debating whether or not to conscript enslaved Black people into fighting for them during the civil war, Black folks met secretly and decided that if they got put them on the frontlines they’d just turn around and start shooting the rebels 🤣🤣🤣 Black people are funny

Step one: break the government
Step two: shout "see? Government doesn't work! We need to privatize!"
Step three: profit

Even if this isn’t “corruption” (it is), it is deeply corrupted.

I think we should avoid reinforcing the co-opted and corrupted use of “DEI” to mean something undeserved given at the expense of the deserving.

@garrisonhayes.bsky.social over at @motherjones.com did this great clarification on DEI and "meritocracy."

bsky.app/profile/moth...