i've started getting brutally honest about this in class: we should have finished Reconstruction. Most of our domestic problems can be traced back to that failure.
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2026
Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math
If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood
As the conservatives freak out over VA, a reminder:
BEFORE the 2022 midterms, federal courts found that multiple once-covered-by-the-VRA states likely illegally diluted Black votes. But because of Purcell, these illegal maps were used that fall.
So miss me with the pearl clutching.
Black women being the sidekick instead of the love interest.
we don’t need mega data centers, or billionaire joy rides to space or ai that makes our art or ancient oil. we need a climate that is stable. healthcare for all people. water, wildflowers, joyful music, art & stories made by hand, made with heart made by us, for us
Happy Earth Day.
OMG LADY WHY CAN YOU ONLY THINK IN CARCERALITY? Is there nothing NOTHING else that money miiiight be used for?
Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
The aggregate level results from Virginia’s election last night suggest that Black voters overwhelmingly rejected the disinformation campaign and put “yes” over the top. Hampton Roads and Richmond, the big AA population centers, had strong turnout and broke heavily yes.
Michael B Jordan all ripped and oily holding a sculpt of his own chest as if he burst out of it and in his left hand and on the left side of his body he has a cool trench coat on but the right side is just bare body with deltoids and pecs and triceps and obliques and forearms and then he has on these green pants made out of Rich Person Material, probably some kind of rare animal leather and the lighting accentuates all the creases pointing to his schmeat oh yeah by the way even his nipple is shiny Rolling Stone did this
Have we discussed this yet?
MAHA's leaders claim they want to end sickness, but they intend to do it by ending chronically ill and disabled people's access to the care that keeps us alive.
The MAHA plan for ending chronic illness is simply ending chronically ill people.🧵
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"Cleaning up the risk pool" is a euphemism for eugenicist depraved heart murder. When the Trump regime takes health insurance away from people who rely on it to pay for the medically necessary services that keep us alive, we die. RFK Jr knows that 🧵
RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵
I don’t have children and one of my top 3 red button issues is that children should get free, substantial food at school
They're saying it's the most unbiased poll question ever. echeloninsights.com/insights/apr...
um wat
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
Let's call this policy what this is.
It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.
It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.
It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.
Susan Collins votes yes to proceed to the budget resolution, the first step in the process of giving ICE and CBP another $70 billion of funding.
This is also why I check out when people minimize racism as a material & economic interest. Towns keep their taxes low by pulling over Black people. CEOs pump up their stock by selling technology meant to surveil us. Insurance companies meet their margins selling exorbitant policies in Black cities.
"White supremacy in America has always been a vehicle for transferring resources from typically poor black communities to richer white communities....
We see this pattern repeated in Ferguson, where black residents were targeted as an economic resource to fund the city..."
Dear Spring, FIGHT BACK!!!
The world’s richest man and a kid named “big balls” brought 6.7% unemployment to DC, put uniformed Fed troops in the streets and per conservative estimates cut programs that’ll result in the deaths of millions of people: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
NEW: Immigrants at the largest Midwest ICE detention center in Baldwin MI are beginning a hunger strike.
One person has died there since the privately owned prison re-opened in June 2025 from what his family believes is medical neglect.
#AbolishICE
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and all while complaining that the world is very unfair to him