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Happy #Juneteenth ??? Consent decrees in MN because cops are killing too many Black ppl, debates everywhere about public schools teaching anything about slavery, nevermind its legacy and baggage. From when Union soldiers came to TX on June 19, 1865, to free slaves a year and fucking half after Emancipation, we have not progressed enough. Juneteenth is an important holiday, but it is not a happy one.

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Lawrence O'Donnell just said he expects that TFG is offering a SCOTUS nomination to Judge Canon as a bribe if she helps him become President again.

#Politics #MSNBC
Reporting that for the whole entire time of the arraignment, Jack Smith stared, unflinching, at TFG. Oh that makes my little heart so happy.

#Politics - not really. #MSNBC - absolutely. Shall we start a petition to get the person who did the contouring on Rachel's nose, fired?

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The #MSNBC crew agrees with Trumpers that TFG is treated differently than other defendants, but supporters think he is treated worse and the pundits think he is treated better / more deferentially. Well duh. But the MAGAts are getting radical and saying stuff like Biden is a pedophile. WTAF.

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The most beautiful pundit brains have assembled on #MSNBC and we are off. #Maddow is opening with the unknowns regarding the legal team. Yeah, you ki da need one of those if you are TFG.

#Politics #TransRights #CoSoHumor
A friend had this on her FB and I wanted to share

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Some of you may remember that we have a group of local friends who went out to celebrate the first indictment of Cheetofuck. We are organizing another dinner. Some folks can't make it this time - so we are saying things like "don't worry, there will be more indictment dinners"

Big shit goes down in #Politics and I miss it because - get this - I am electrocuting myself. Unplugging laptop, not seeing properly what I grabbed, touched all three metal prongs still in the power strip. With left hand, closer to heart w a history of rhythm problems. Called community nurse line. ++

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As a political scientist, I see that democracy is not a given in the US any longer. As an analyst of American culture, I realize that progressive ideas are a minority in an overwhelmingly conservative context. Having grown up during the waning days of state socialism in Eastern Europe, my sense of urgency about this matter far surpasses the easy complacency so often encountered in well-meaning middle-of-the-road two-party systems in democracies.

Just wrote this. In a job application.

Good morning CoSo!
Fair warning: this is all tucked deep into comments and responses, but I have been writing about American political history. And there has been no hashtag is sight. I am sorry. This started yesterday and it is still going today - if you want to avoid #Politics please filter my responses starting Monday morning. My original content is always equipped with # because I don't want to give non-political-junkies indigestion 🤗🤗🤗

#Politics #MemorialDay

I honor the patriots who placed their bodies in the path of bullets to preserve the America of their time.

I also honor those drafted and conscripted to do the same.

Today, the conscripts are sent in the path of bullets to preserve the America of our day in elementary schools. As students.

#Politics #Missouri
Ermergerd MO born Jon Hamm is narrating an ad for #LucasKunce and I am pretty much in looovee. I know that trying trying to beat Josh Coward Horseface is an uphill battle but I so want it to work.

https://youtu.be/sK5pkNVEMd8

#Politics #TransRights #TransSafety
It breaks my heart that this org is necessary. I could also cry for joy that it exists. It is 2023 and we need a queer Underground Railroad.

https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/

#Politics #PoliticalPhilosophy #transphobia
One trans friend has already moved from MO to MN. Another is getting ready to also move to MN. Hobbes published Leviathan in 1640. Although he advocated absolute monarchy and extreme powers for the sovereign, he was also very clear: you owe loyalty as long as the sovereign protects you and you feel safe. If in your own mind your safety is compromised, you owe nobody no fucking thing, except to yourself to stay alive.

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#Biden absolutely will cause a fucking hissy fit among fascists if and when he bypasses Congress and uses executive / presidential power and the Fourteenth Amendment to keep 'Murica from defaulting. The good of the country demands it. It is time for him to showcase the tough skin he has grown on his long time in politics, and do it. Fascist calling him a tyrant are noise and mustn't stop the work of governing.

#Politics #Rape
Let's just review what the DOJ considers rape - because I had to refresh my own memory to know that penile penetration is not required

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition-rape

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If what happened to E. Jean Carroll was not rape, what is?! Also, what the fuck is this going to turn into as enabling other rape-y mofos?! I am not happy. Not even sure 2M is all that much. She has been unable to have a romantic relationship or sex. Two million?! Shiiiiiiiiiit.

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Tara Setmayer, former GOP comms director on #MSNBC this morning: "I am a person of faith but faith without works is dead. So says James in the Bible. Thoughts and prayers are BS at this point." And yet, every Republican politician in Allen TX said prayer is what is needed. Fucking sickening.

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Watched in horror last night how Maddow recapped reporting from 2009 where RW fuckers intent on killing queer folk exported ideas to Uganda. She had to recap cause w the current fascist bloodlust, they are at it again and Uganda put killing queer folk into law. #Colonialism used to mean extracting wealth. Now it also means extracting the high of murder.