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20.07.2025 17:54 β π 56 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0@garrisonhayes.bsky.social
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Thinking about this today π«ΆπΎ
20.07.2025 17:54 β π 56 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0Progress 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.
26.06.2025 13:23 β π 4385 π 1060 π¬ 190 π 67The βliberal mediaβ said this would happen.
09.06.2025 02:14 β π 42 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1Anyone else kind of annoyed by this outcome?? Good for democracy, no doubt. But where were these people 5 months ago? America is weird.
03.04.2025 11:18 β π 68 π 9 π¬ 4 π 2Rebel Spirit is so so good. Deserved!
02.04.2025 12:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!
02.04.2025 12:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ahhhhhh!! What an honor to be nominated alongside creators I genuinely admire. You deserve this, Kat!
01.04.2025 18:55 β π 38 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything weβve seen in this country in a very long time.
26.03.2025 17:41 β π 36730 π 16408 π¬ 1866 π 1054The βDEI Contentβ purges are insane. Latest w/ @motherjones.com
youtube.com/shorts/QbRJ7...
Appreciate you, fam!
07.03.2025 18:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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
π£οΈπ£οΈπ¨π¨ Are you thinking about running for public office?
Iβd 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.
05.03.2025 03:09 β π 302 π 50 π¬ 12 π 20Democrats are rowdy. Rep. Al Green removed.
05.03.2025 02:26 β π 45 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Begging Black Republicans to explain how this is good for our grandparents. QUICKLY.
01.03.2025 01:21 β π 62 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1Omg?
28.02.2025 18:07 β π 39 π 10 π¬ 8 π 0What 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
25.02.2025 15:01 β π 17873 π 3223 π¬ 574 π 186This white female Boomer is pissed!
25.02.2025 00:40 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This white lady isn't either!
25.02.2025 00:28 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs not just people of color who are upset. The rest of us have eyes as well, even if some choose not to use them. Iβm pissed. Wrong is WRONG. Full stop.
25.02.2025 00:04 β π 29 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The final episode of @joyannreid.bsky.socialβs award-winning show, The ReidOut, starts in just a few minutes. Black folks arenβt happy about it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Math is hard
19.02.2025 02:11 β π 47543 π 7985 π¬ 1947 π 590Absolutely. 100,000 poor whites deserting the elite/planter classβs war was the nail in the coffin. A lesson in there somewhere
18.02.2025 17:50 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Boooooo let me fix the typos @bsky.app
18.02.2025 17:45 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0(from Black Reconstruction by WEB Du Bois)
18.02.2025 17:43 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When 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 theyβd just turn around and start shooting the rebels π€£π€£π€£ Black people are funny
18.02.2025 17:43 β π 67 π 8 π¬ 6 π 1Step one: break the government
Step two: shout "see? Government doesn't work! We need to privatize!"
Step three: profit
Even if this isnβt βcorruptionβ (it is), it is deeply corrupted.
18.02.2025 14:11 β π 95 π 17 π¬ 9 π 1I think we should avoid reinforcing the co-opted and corrupted use of βDEIβ 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...