Soraya Nadia McDonald

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I think what reveals how unaware of this they are is that they don’t realize that their lives actually hang in the balance here. They will be the first targeted. And they just seem to be completely unaware of this.

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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.

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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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All this AI shit is just plagiarism software. It's code centipede. The shitiest ouroboros imaginable.

Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app techcrunch.com/2024/...

Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com The Make Design feature is available within Figma's software and will generate UI (user interface) layouts and components from text prompts.

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Reconstruction 2: This Time It’s Personal

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universal basic electricity minimum for every human on the planet before AI gets another milliwatt.

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public services

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public servicesapnews.com The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. Schools like Excellent Moral in Ibadan, near Lagos, operate in darkness due to zero grid access, depriving students of essential tools like computers.

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"If the president is a king, then we are subjects, whose lives and livelihoods are only safe insofar as we don’t incur the wrath of the executive...if we find ourselves outside the light of his favor, then we find ourselves...outside the protection of the law." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | Mr. President, Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Readywww.nytimes.com The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.

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CNN's new poll: Trump leads Biden 49/43. Trump leads Harris 47/45. Some differences: —Independents: Biden -10%. Harris +3%. —People of color: Biden +21. Harris +29. The side-by-side:

"Many of the women who responded to an online callout or spoke to the Guardian expressed frustration with politics that had failed to address poverty, inequality, healthcare for women and children in particular, the climate and Brexit, and voiced acute fears for their and their families’ future"

‘This ain’t a culture war’: the UK women who feel politically homelesswww.theguardian.com Many are frustrated at failures to tackle inequality, the climate and Labour’s struggle to define a woman

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"This was meant to be a book review of the excellent if infuriating The Originalism Trap by Madiba Dennie. However, the Trump Immunity ruling, among others, have pretty much made her argument irrefutable." www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

"A Republic If You Can Keep It": A Review of the Roberts Court and The Originalism Trapwww.dailykos.com This was meant to be a book review of the excellent if infuriating The Originalism Trap by Madiba Dennie. �However, the Trump Immunity ruling, among others, have pretty much made her argument ...

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the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you won’t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else

thinking of all the underpaid capitol hill staffers who will get yelled at by constituents who want to Talk To Their Representatives

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

This is literally the same shit the Nazis did before industrializing murder. They would get soldiers to just shoot people into pits. They sent Jews en masse via train to camps to starve and die. It was disgusting in the 40s and it's disgusting now.

Ben Gvir "urged the passing of the bill in the Israeli Knesset for executing prisoners, saying they should be given just enough food to keep them alive until the law is enacted." There are thousands of "prisoners" in these torture camps. www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-p... thecradle.co/articles/ben...

Ben Gvir calls for execution of Palestinian prisoners with 'shot in the head'thecradle.co Israel is holding almost 10,000 Palestinians in its prisons and detention camps, where torture is widespread

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Should be read together IMHO

Here's a pretty great article about billionaires in the US. The Trump tax cuts are really doing their job. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

America's 806 billionaires are now richer than half the population combined—a lot richerwww.motherjones.com They have 57 percent more wealth, all told, than 65 million US households.

Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?www.propublica.org If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you’re more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for t...

This Trump supporter understands more about public education than Jay-Z “I’m for less government, but it’s government’s role to provide a good public education,” he said. “If you want to send your kid to private school, then you should pay for it.”

Rural Republicans Are Fighting to Save Their Public Schoolswww.theatlantic.com Many state legislators see voucher programs as a threat to the anchors of their communities.

Brb declaring myself a corporation so I can have some rights

"The ruling must be understood as a permission slip for the despotic power that Trump has vowed to assert if he is reelected. It is not just a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of the ones he will commit if given the chance."

The Supreme Court Puts Trump Above the Lawwww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.

This is patently absurd. He falsified records BEFORE becoming president.

Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decisionwww.nytimes.com Former President Donald J. Trump took the action hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted him immunity for official acts committed in office.

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Headline of the day: The John Roberts Guide To Doing A Coup And Not Getting Caught talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-ro...

The John Roberts Guide To Doing A Coup And Not Getting Caughttalkingpointsmemo.com The Court on Monday imbued former presidents with so much immunity from...

Bless her taste but damn, Lilian jacked my Boysmells perfume

HAPPY PRIDE NYC!! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🩶🩵🖤

Honey, for the good of the WORLD, he should report to Rikers yesterday. Unfortunately, he is a malignant narcissist.

For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

At least the cockroaches will have reply guys to keep them company after we perish in the next nuclear winter

It sucks having to out-argue these toads regarding one's own humanity, no doubt. But you can't concede. You gotta keep fighting.

Evergreen advice. It’s over when you give up and not a moment before. The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, too.

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Anyway, if Biden stays in, which seems likely, I don't think telling people "no, he's fine, actually" for the next several months is tenable. I don't know what you say instead. But openly lying to voters over and over again about something they know to be untrue probably hurts Dems long-term. So.

Which is why everyone should at least watch THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST (2022) www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-...

Circling back I do wonder what would happen if we taught WWII history not as the US "boldly daring to do the right thing" but really ending up doing the right thing by the edge of a coin toss, and even then it wasn't like the country saw Jewish people as fully human.

Watch The U.S. and the Holocaust | Full Documentary Now Streaming | PBSwww.pbs.org THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST is a three-part, six hour series directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the tw...

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“The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.