This is deliberate.
From the sabotaging of the 2020 Census, to racist gerrymandering done by the GOP all across the country, this is nothing but political disenfranchisement.😠😠😠
NEW from me: America's population growth in the last decade came entirely in minority communities. But after redistricting, there are now FEWER majority-minority state legislative districts than before – https://t.co/elblKaZtFv
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) November 27, 2022
YaFired! (@FiredYa) tweeted at 11:04 PM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
And this is what the VRA is supposed to protect. It’s why the radical conservative SCOTUS gutted it.
The only silver lining to this, is that it’s so blatantly racist that it will hopefully have an easier time going through the courts so it might be addressed.
Demorants (@demorants) tweeted at 10:43 PM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
Anyone still need a definition of “systemic racism”? This is done to purposely dilute the power of minority votes with reduced representation in Congress.
Lousiana…the state that LITERALLY CREATED THE ” ONE DROP RULE”😠😠😠
Do yourself a favor and watch this brilliantly done story by @OkayCharisse on the effort by Louisiana Republicans to impose a restrictive definition of Blackness on Black people to limit their political power and strip them of their rights https://t.co/ItuUVedOep
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) November 23, 2022
If someone had come up with this when I was in college, I would have been ALL IN!😂😂😂
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTRCXLurL/
From lynching to the Michigan Supreme Court…
The Arc of the moral universe is long…
She is her ancestors greatest dream realized
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTRCCXaWa/
💉💉💉💉 Flip the WI Supreme Court on 4/4/23 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 4:53 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
I identity with the struggle Zoomer kids have to deal with, because the older adults have left that emergent generation with literally nothing to build on: no hope of home ownership, no viable job opportunities. No wonder they are angry/apathetic in a way Millennials seldom were.
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1597181949084585984?t=TreWVhJvV80k566ZWzseoA&s=03)
😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) tweeted at 7:07 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
“America First” is a slogan both used by the KKK and Nazi sympathizers in the US such as Charles Lindbergh who wanted America to stay out of WW II. It’s no wonder today’s GOP has latched on to it.
(https://twitter.com/aintscarylarry/status/1597215669220933633?t=I6WpU8_5aw5SKWzCp9htpg&s=03)
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) tweeted at 6:33 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
The entire city of Houston (over 2.3 million people) is placed under boil water notice after system outage
https://t.co/uLP0SYGCMM
(https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1597207079298924544?t=bYuCZW_xaWhdvxLVqV4O6Q&s=03)
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) tweeted at 7:04 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
Talking with various people from his other companies, it’s clear that a key issue is that the other companies have built layers of insulation around Musk to allow company to function through his freakouts, tantrums, obsessions. Twitter doesn’t have that layer.
(https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1597214768070553603?t=FyYyb45AoYSQjDpRbHPBsg&s=03)
George#VotesBlueAlways (@Numbers28) tweeted at 3:48 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
When we’re young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as we get older and wiser, we learn that comfort and peace are more important. This is called SOS: Slower, Older and Smarter.
(https://twitter.com/Numbers28/status/1597165468246081537?t=yWz_3Z6P2_3jsz-dKdOKog&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) tweeted at 8:38 AM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
Schiff on CNN on Kevin McCarthy threatening to kick him off the intel committee: “McCarthy’s problem is not with what I said about Russia. McCarthy’s problem is he can’t get to 218 without Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and Matt Gaetz, and so he will do whatever they ask.” https://t.co/AR5nntoNYK
(https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1596876213322076160?t=nQbE3qHlX_V3jbl1OUv5aQ&s=03)
FixPuertoRicoUS (@FixPuertoRicoUS) tweeted at 1:28 PM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
“The government of #AmericanSamoa looks at #Hawaii and sees what has happened to the native #Hawaiians. Hawaii has become a playground for rich #Americans; Native Hawaiian people are looking at crumbs”
@LeaderHoyer @EliseStefanik @pedropierluisi
https://t.co/WbWeSc0n62
(https://twitter.com/FixPuertoRicoUS/status/1596949204630241281?t=QakCP2kEVnLSOlr2wxj6Uw&s=03)
😳😳😳👀👀👀
PoliticsVerse 🇺🇸 (@PoliticsVerse) tweeted at 8:10 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
JUST IN: World’s largest active volcano in Hawaii has started to erupt for the first time since 1984 https://t.co/kT9MPKiiBM
(https://twitter.com/PoliticsVerse/status/1597231577519763456?t=mcMcAEubZoSNVi1WmNuDYw&s=03)
💉💉💉💉 Flip the WI Supreme Court on 4/4/23 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 4:50 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
new recruits in the teaching profession would last far longer in the field if they weren’t tasked to maintain this country’s oppressive system of socioeconomic segregation but also pretend that the system doesn’t exist, while also ignoring its devastating fallout among students
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1597181168893718528?t=l2est3yPVu9dtcanGn4KvA&s=03)
UH HUH
UH HUH
What Biden Has Done (@what46hasdone@mas.to) (@What46HasDone) tweeted at 11:53 PM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
People on this app are wild. There’s not a single liberal here who says anything like this. There are a number of self described leftists on here who think we should sell out people’s rights and partner with the far right for “class consciousness” or some nonsense.
(https://twitter.com/What46HasDone/status/1597106477432307712?t=PZ53l_vupGlpGP4IMX17Zw&s=03)
Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) tweeted at 8:02 AM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
Maybe I’m connecting the dots wrong, but here’s what I got…
-Russia is losing the war in Ukraine
-Mass protests are roiling Iran
-Bolsonaro loses reelection in Brazil
-2020 Trump-backed election deniers lose en masse in this fall’s US elections
-Protests breaking out in China
Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) tweeted at 8:04 AM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
I don’t know about y’all, but it looks like the cornerstones of potential authoritarianism aren’t having a good year. Not that it’s a clean sweep for the alternative, but it appears that the seemingly insurmountable forces of strongman politics are taking big hits globally…
Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) tweeted at 8:07 AM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
None of these are a reason to smile just yet but it is cause for some less than cautious optimism. Even in places where the authoritarians are “winning,” their grip on long term power is tenuous. Especially if they’re client states to regimes that are being weakened by protest…
(https://twitter.com/vexedinthecity/status/1596868298402299907?t=Xt7WdyYY6mWSaLIoCRk_YQ&s=03)
truth
Oliver Willis (@owillis) tweeted at 6:49 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
What mainstream journalism hates to admit is that bigots are a major element of the gop base (prob the biggest). They like to delude themselves into believing republicans are the nice people they meet in dc who merely have good faith disagreement on taxes etc, not the bigots.
(https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1597211005779554304?t=dTIRlxBUg4bxJ–pb-pWGg&s=03)
not one lie told
Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 (@KwikWarren) tweeted at 8:19 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
Herschel Walker is a throwback to Reconstruction Period in the Old South when black voters had some political power and racist white power brokers found black candidates to run who were merely their hand-picked puppets. Same thing is happening here. https://t.co/doppJXIOaf
(https://twitter.com/KwikWarren/status/1597233642388029448?t=xancdSD-ggVHLuIK_-mPlQ&s=03)
This is actually a good idea
Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) tweeted at 10:48 AM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin has suggested Biden replace Chris Wray with Val Demings as head of the FBI.
RT if you want @POTUS to dump Federalist Society Wray for a real patriot who will protect America.
(https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1597271298811777024?s=02)
UH HUH
UH HUH
😠😠😠😠😠😠
Robert Littal BSO (@BSO) tweeted at 0:21 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
Caden Smith Was Arrested for Murdering Three Black Men in Cold Blood But a Judge Decided It Was Fine to Release Him on Bond to Spend The Holidays With His Family Only For Smith to Be Found in a Drug House With Stolen Guns Celebrating His Birthday (Video) https://t.co/RhV0SCywN5 https://t.co/9vFLST9YpJ
(https://twitter.com/BSO/status/1597294579404906497?s=02)
As a Gen Xer, I think that this is true. My parents were of the Greatest Generation (they were both 40+ when I was born) and thus, being from the South (Mississippi and Tennessee), their entire lives were shaped by growing up in the Police State known as American Apartheid.
💉💉💉💉 Flip the WI Supreme Court on 4/4/23 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 9:57 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
My personal opinion is that Gen X broke along racial lines because our parents were Silent Generation.
Silent Generation white people generally went to the grave angry that anything had changed since 1957. Silent Generation Black people lived through late-stage segregation.
💉💉💉💉 Flip the WI Supreme Court on 4/4/23 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 10:26 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
@Budda_in_Shadow and I have had conversations about the difference in the lives it makes in white Gen-Xers, if your parents are Boomers versus your parents being SG.
So it turns out that Boomer parents tended to be more liberal than SG and likely transmitted far less bigotry.
💉💉💉💉 Flip the WI Supreme Court on 4/4/23 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 0:07 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Black & white Gen X also diverged because Gen X was the first generation to live completely in a world where significant civil rights movements had not only begun, but were on a slow path towards fulfillment.
💉💉💉💉 Flip the WI Supreme Court on 4/4/23 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 0:10 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Depending on what kind of family one grew up in, either your parents were the types who welcomed change, or they were the types that resisted & resented it. If your parents resisted & resented any & all social change, that attitude was passed to the next generation.
Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) tweeted at 6:27 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Shockingly, Elon Musk’s strategy of berating and coercing private companies into handing over advertising revenues, rather than making Twitter attractive to them, appears to be backfiring in remarkable new ways, according to the Financial Times:
https://t.co/a25mAFDmDj https://t.co/HSCcITBlrQ
(https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1597567818479927297?t=gXSVqXb94pqjg02-jfegxQ&s=03)
We need to find candidates RIGHT NOW for these districts, and start hammering them from the moment they take ANY vote in Congress.
Daily Kos Elections (@DKElections) tweeted at 2:10 PM on Mon, Nov 21, 2022:
There will likely be 18 Republicans in Biden districts in the 118th Congress—far more than the 5 Democrats in Trump districts. That gives Dems more targets in 2024. Pres-by-CD data from @DKElections
(Four races are still uncalled but all current leaders will likely prevail) https://t.co/Y9OHdq88pd
(https://twitter.com/DKElections/status/1594785225657225228?t=01G-y5FBOwf2J1a6g2_Hcw&s=03)
Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) tweeted at 5:53 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
The same people arguing for Prince Andrew to keep his police protection were saying Meghan and Harry should lose theirs few months ago, even though they wanted to pay for themselves.
(https://twitter.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1597559329028464640?t=4iGREmS9o8LtXZwCystO1A&s=03)
Catherine Rampell (@crampell) tweeted at 6:01 PM on Sun, Nov 27, 2022:
“Musk, meanwhile, has sought to personally call chief executives of some brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them, according to one senior industry figure”
https://t.co/8DDHYWSnlm
(https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1597017724139737090?t=ZbsLS25j3bjnjymXj5rlhA&s=03)
Chester A. Arthur (@ZacAKAMadu) tweeted at 4:59 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
Normal-ish 2024 Republicans
– Larry Hogan
– John Kasich
– Asa Hutchinson
– Liz Cheney
– Chris Christie
White Nationalist 2024 Republicans
– Donald Trump
– Josh Hawley
Trying to Play Both Sides
– Ron DeSantis
– Mike Pence
– Mike Pompeo
– Ted Cruz
– Kristi Noem
– Glenn Youngkin
(https://twitter.com/ZacAKAMadu/status/1597364641084149762?t=5i7Uykt6VX7jy9ZiapzwCw&s=03)
Mike Sington (@MikeSington) tweeted at 4:51 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
New York Times: Trump will not hold a rally to support Herschel Walker in Georgia, because he can “motivate Democratic voters and turn off significant segments of moderate Republicans”. https://t.co/FHugAdmXy5
(https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1597362608364957699?t=OVxhqonoX2Cnbe6ZoDG5Rw&s=03)
Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) tweeted at 5:45 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
Why do we need 51 senators rather than 50? Because right now at 50/50 every committee has a tie. Moving anything out of committee requires a superhuman effort. If Dems win a 51st seat, they’ll have committee majorities.
The Georgia runoff MATTERS.
Re-electing Warnock MATTERS.
Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) tweeted at 5:49 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
And why else? Because in 2024, out of 33 senate seats up for election, Dems will be defending 23, the GOP only 10.
So any seat we pick up now gives us an edge in 2 years.
(https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1597377158372274176?t=UIulSWdNfJYg-mJBMoRgVQ&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) tweeted at 8:52 PM on Mon, Nov 28, 2022:
“That’s why we need a dictatorship … force the people to believe what we believe” — Maddow put together quite the Nick Fuentes montage https://t.co/f9mYq4z2fU
(https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1597423243106914305?t=SmlkB_ar1Wb1YPBUXGKSbw&s=03)
When Frum sees the scam…
David Frum (@davidfrum) tweeted at 8:15 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Big-money Republicans are not switching away from Trump because they condemn his dinner with antisemites.
Big-money Republicans are condemning the dinner with antisemites because they are switching away from Trump.
Latest in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/tPzo3A7r93
(https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1597594998052208640?t=qhAPQyTYD23e57dxT9ZOpQ&s=03)
RIP
The New York Times (@nytimes) tweeted at 0:00 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Representative Donald McEachin, a Democrat of Virginia who had just been overwhelmingly re-elected to his Richmond-area district, died on Monday. The cause was colorectal cancer, his office said. https://t.co/An4asZH95l
(https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1597470441525940224?t=f3Ym98pb8ipMSRvhjxlh2g&s=03)
Not my business…please proceed GOP
Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) tweeted at 6:58 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Blake Masters under-performed every other statewide GOP candidate in Arizona, including Finchem.
Now he’ll advise the GOP on the path forward.
(https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1597575693797392384?t=qlgERsiRO9aZsNaDtDgZvQ&s=03)
Mike Sington (@MikeSington) tweeted at 8:20 AM on Tue, Nov 29, 2022:
Yesterday, 300,000 people voted in Georgia. That’s more votes cast in any single early-voting day in Georgia history. Georgia, counting on you to bring it home for America. https://t.co/8V4jptTLvB
(https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1597596260646948866?t=g2vTH5Sv6lQXWJ7d8F3kig&s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊