Biden's rapid response has been top notch. The media may shrug their shoulders or even do Trump's stenography, but the Biden team is smothering him any time he opens his mouth. It's a good sign.

I enjoyed this testimony from these 2 elderly women who lived through Jim Crow.

They talked about how a Black woman breastfed their own father but the family never liked talking about it.

They also talk about the KKK and how they antagonize Blacks for no reason.

#velvetdoor

Normalize interviewing everyday white folks who lived during Jim Crow about their memories. Because we rarely hear from them, we mostly know the Black folks who survived this era. Who was on the other side of segregation? Real people — many of whom are still alive.

Can't believe the guy who wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton, lock up Obama, and lock up Joe Biden is railing against being locked up for his crimes

Is it a mainstream media rule that if someone like Trump is running for president, you have to pretend he’s telling the truth even though you know he’s not?

They weaponize this so well in Parks and Rec

Completely bizarre framing, and typical of Politico’s awful reporting/analysis. Trump *appointed* the justices who overturned Roe. He *caused* this crisis. He’s not some victim without agency. It’s women who are suffering, not Trump.

I honestly can’t get over this story. There have been countless vile laws passed in Republican states within the last few years targeting LGBT people because of BS “groomer” panic.

Meanwhile there’s a GOP congressman (hero in their base) who was banging teenagers. And… 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Really is amazing the double standards of what scandals would sink basically any Democrat in the country, versus the type of shit that Republicans regularly survive.

Feel like we should be talking more about the fact that Kevin McCarthy basically confirmed that Matt Gaetz has been banging 17yo girls & trying to cover it up.

If you push back with reporters that it's corporate greed and not some imaginary Joe Biden policy that is driving inflation, they look at you like you have three heads and then block you. It's beyond willful ignorance and drifting into actively trying to end Biden's presidency.

ICYMI: ‘Greedflation’ caused more than half of last year’s inflation surge, study finds, as corporate profits remain at all-time highs finance.yahoo.com/news/greedflat…

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People are allowed to dislike an album. But her racist rant isn’t that. It is once again dictating to people that they’d better know their place. Even scarier, she is a nursing student. Black patients she may encounter are at risk for her racism affecting treatment.

If you have time to bully people online on a daily basis in the name of activism…imo you have time to donate, push fundraisers, organise community events & movements, join an organisation, read and learn about the history of the genocide, connect with socialists & organisers.

Vigilante activism fools people into thinking they are achieving something through being hateful trolls. It makes them think that they’re being the best ally, the best activist, and so they end up stuck there…never learning or growing. Never joining an actual movement.

Falthron Finnegans Take So they’re aesthetically mimicking that chaotic late 60s stuff that mostly just steered normies to the Nixon/Reagan era while they imagine themselves to be like the Freedom Riders who very purposely were quite controlled & targeted in their tactics & hyper aware of the optics.

Falthron Finnegans Take Another detail:

I suspect young people can’t/don’t differentiate the late 50s to early/mid 60s Rosa Parks & lunch counter era protests (which accomplished stuff) from the late 60s / early 70s civil unrest (angry hippies, urban riots), which mainly created conservative backlash.

The far left 🤝 the far right

My only coherent ideology is pissing off liberals.

Finnegans Take Modern leftist activism is basically a cargo cult of previous era’s activism. The spoiled mind children of the civil rights movement.

The civil right movement was a well coordinated machine that combined public demonstrations with effective legal maneuvering and coherent…

I've honestly never seen someone so clearly express the central fallacy of modern leftist activism: 'Effective protest makes powerful people uncomfortable, so if you're making powerful people uncomfortable, it must be effective protest.'