This is such a weird way to talk about most of these places, which are not small-ish cities unto themselves but wealthy, close-in suburbs of regional megacities. Alpharetta, for example, is directly north of Atlanta and made entirely out of office parks and luxury car dealerships
We need to:
✅ overturn Citizens United
✅ ban Congressional stock trading
✅ get dark money out of politics
To get corporate influence out of our politics and return it to the people.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
This is the America I needed to see.
That was gorgeous and powerful. Wow.
I don’t think he code switched once, for real. Respect. 🫡
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
Kavanaugh Stops evolve into Kavanaugh Home Invasions.
Yet not one Democrat has filed articles to impeach that drunk frat boy disgrace.
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
“The vast majority of student debtors who seek discharges in bankruptcy are getting them, in large part because of a simpler legal process that was introduced three years ago.”
Democratic leadership has been trying to go back to the Clinton era when they should’ve been building on the Obama coalition. Socially, culturally, demographically, and politically, we, as a society, are not who we were in the Clinton era. Leadership has to move forward. bsky.app/profile/jlee...
It’s the racism, for sure. But I have also wondered if there is a certain bias I don’t have a name for — like, his natural athleticism makes him read as an action star even when he is doing drama?? So (especially white out-of-touch) voters don’t see him as an actor?
Or it’s just the racism.
NYT homepage of 5 stories about how SCOTUS "appears skeptical of key provisions of Voting Rights Act"; a graphic showing without section 2 of the VRA, democracy loses to Republicans in the South.
We live in a racist country and have racists who sit on the Supreme Court, making racist decisions that impact 350 million people for decades.
First they abolish the New Deal; then they abolish the Great Society - just so White men can stay in power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
So the Dem establishment has NO response to the blatant crisis that is happening with the FCC, Sinclair and ABC?? Nothing to say at all??
ah, well
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.
Class solidarity as per TMC and now I can’t unsee it…
I also think it’s part of them trying to play it say to to say “I’m scared don’t come for me” too
This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
look at my FBI director dawg we are never finding this man
Words are things!!
Going to mute his name, but Maya Angelou told us the importance of words. “Words are things…be careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance…words…get on the walls. in your wallpaper. in your rugs, and finally in to you"
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
Over 300K Black women have lost their jobs. That's a huge story with wild consequences for the economy. Your first priority as a progressive org should be to hire some goddamn Black women.
They’re too joyfully, but quietly complicit. I think this is what many of them wanted
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
20 mostly white private academies, all founded in the 1960s and 1970s, brought in more than $20 million from North Carolina in three years.
None reflected the demographics of their communities. Few even came close.
(Published Nov. 2024)
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this:
When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
