Candace Smith

Trump came down an escalator calling Mexicans criminals and got elected.
Out Supreme Court has blessed racial profiling. The President posted a pic of former POTUS and FLOTUS as animals.

Unfortunately we are operating in a world where this and worse has been normalized and State sanctioned.

She manages with even the most difficult ensembles not to look like the clothes are wearing her.

Phrase, not phase. 🤦🏾‍♀️

The failures of democracies is a chose your own adventure for the real root of the problem phase that doesn’t lead to people really understanding the policy choices and structural problems created that are truly at issue.

I’m one of the 92%. The problem is not my cohort. We understand the assignment.

I’ve been at this for a long time. I’m not saying anything new or deep. I’ve been preaching this gospel since folks voted 3rd party and we got GW.

Biden was defeated by the continued problem of some Dems making perfection the enemy of the good, constantly giving up on the group project under the guise of “sending a message.” Republicans practiced over half a century of patience to get here. Some Dems can’t manage to show up every two years.🤦🏾‍♀️

Jeffries’ thwarting Johnson on the ACA and Schumer slowing noms. down are egs. of them using the ltd tools at their disposal. Grousing about the half empty glass rather than doing the hard consistent work of ensuring we have water at all, much the opportunity to fight for more, is why we are here.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

There’s a dumpster fire every 5 mins. and Dems issue statements, speak online, at the legislature, to crowds and on TV constantly. That big accounts keep trying to summon them on cue rather than naming and shaming the Republican federal and state officials letting this pass has gotten stale.

Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You mean in that there’s a lot of yelling and misdirected feelings?

This is a ridiculous, unhelpful take.

“America” barely blinked an eye when little kids were killed in an elementary school and Heather Heyer’s murder was followed the “good people on both sides” speech. The decency ship sailed a while ago.

Lies travel faster and farther than truth, and newsrooms tend to adopt right wing talking points to appear “fair and unbiased.” Propaganda requires an ecosystem to travel. The left doesn’t (and didn’t) have the infrastructure.

Journalists also remain largely white, male & from middle to upper mid. class backgrounds. Nonwhite journs. are few in newsrooms & still oft seen as “biased” when covering their own communities, when the w.m. lens has its own unhelpful biases. See, eg, Ezra Klein, David Brooks, Barry Blitt.

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”

Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Even if these boats were trafficking drugs, that isn’t cause for firing at the boats. This should be added regardless of whether the claim is truthful.

People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

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I think people are already setting up purity and impossible to measure tests/tasks while claiming that’s not what they’re doing. I don’t think they mean that “I’m looking for primary candidate who.” I think they mean what they say, know its suppressive effect, and do not care.

Democrats will still not have the presidency, the Supreme Court, the majority of governorships or the MSM sanewashing edit. Let’s put some realism on what is possible and stop punishing Dems for voters’ failure to see this as the crisis created over several election cycles.

Wrong. It is having GOP governor’s mansions taking orders from Trump, both houses of Congress doing almost anything Trump wants and a Supreme Court co-signing - and fast tracking - nearly all of it. Plus it’s MSM print and tv sanewashing the admin.

You may not, but you are or should be well aware of what kind of takeaways come from “If they don’t… they don’t deserve to win.” The constant framing in the negative or that suggest magic words or actions are required has an unhelpful effect.

Then you aren’t concerned enough, or affected enough, or care enough about who is.

The constant drumbeat of conditions and “if they don’t do, they deserve to lose” when we are here is just a permission structure for purity tests and glass half empty mindsets that dampen enthusiasm and focus.

Given all that’s going on, what a privileged and silly take.

Dems had no leverage bc R’s are fine w/ suffering. When people got desperate over the next weeks, we might’ve seen Trump invoke martial law. Once people started lining up for food banks in droves, it was only a matter of time.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.