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Colby

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Woke, antifascist, scientist, very amateur gardner and photographer

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TheConversationUS , to histodons group
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60 years ago, LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with MLK there to celebrate.

The political achievement was also a reminder that money talks:

Economic boycotts in cities like Birmingham and Nashville played a crucial role. During 5 weeks of boycotts, Birmingham businesses had lost millions in sales. Business owners soon mobilized, dragging along politicians, school administrators, law enforcement.

https://theconversation.com/black-economic-boycotts-of-the-civil-rights-era-still-offer-lessons-on-how-to-achieve-a-just-society-228057

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Colby ,
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@TheConversationUS @blackmastodon @histodons and so I keep asking, where are the liberal-led calls for boycotts? Crickets. All those companies funding Trump are patronized by libs. The NYT survives on liberal subscriptions. Wake up folks!

Strandjunker , to random
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Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.

Colby ,
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@Strandjunker it also applies to those who did vote. In times of crisis, is “vote harder” a winning message or is it exactly what the opposition has planned for?

GottaLaff , to random
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President :

"For all practical purposes, today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle. And it's a dangerous precedent. Because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self-imposed."

Colby ,
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@GottaLaff and he’ll self impose restraint even if it sends us all to the gulags. I’m done. Block me too

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    Colby ,
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    @flexghost weak weak weak. Emblematic of Dem leadership these past decades. Weakness

    mastodonmigration , to random
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    So, the last few days the general public has seen conclusive evidence of what many already knew. CNN and the New York Times are corrupt organizations using their power and influence to get Trump elected.

    Going forward temper everything from these media organizations with the sure knowledge that they are not neutral arbiters of the news, but rather sophisticated political influence operations.

    Colby ,
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    @mastodonmigration
    don’t just temper them - BOYCOTT THEM. They exist because we subscribe and pay them. Stop it!

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "Meanwhile, the New York Times Editorial Board did not ask Donald Trump to step down. Not after he was held liable for rape or fraud or defamation. Not after he was convicted on all 34 counts by a jury of his peers. Not even after he vomited lie after lie at the debate and refused to admit that he’d accept the results of the 2024 election."

    ~ Left Hook

    https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/lets-ask-trump-to-leave-the-race

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy the left rightfully call at the times for bad behavior every major election. Then they continue their subscriptions

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy if now is not the time to boycott the NYT, then when ever could it be the time. Seriously

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🪡 via @emptywheel on NYT: 1/…

    NYT: must drop out bc he can't handle 's lies.

    Also NYT: The lies that we, the journalists whose job it is, instead call "boisterous."

    It's just confession after confession from NYT, about their own rank failures to do what they demand of Biden.

    Greg Mitchell:

    Disgraceful NYT headline: Trump merely "boisterous." Yesterday they said "Blustery." They do it every day.

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff @emptywheel yes yes yes. We rightly criticize the NYT every four years. They’ve brought us here. Yet most continue their subscriptions, year after year

    futurebird , to random
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    At first it is hard to believe that most people don't pay much attention to politics. Most people don't know what "project 24" is or the significance of the phrase "obstructing an official procedure" (maybe you are such a person) --but, when I think about how tense, nervous and occasionally helpless political news makes me feel I totally get it. Also, a lot of this stuff is boring and kind of technical.

    Colby ,
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    @futurebird I agree with you completely. It’s blatantly obvious the Democratic Party is not doing nearly all they could be doing, especially with regard to messaging. Your hypothesis is reasonable. Another is that the really big donors - those invested in selling arms to Israel for example - will actually do as well or perhaps much better if Trump wins. Those pulling the strings do not really want Dems to win big, if at all.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    I need someone to explain to me why Al Franken had to resign, but Matt Gaetz is still in Congress.

    Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

    Colby ,
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    @Strandjunker because democrats suck at fighting

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via Ryan Reilly:

    #Biden on the impact of #Jan6 on America’s standing in the world:

    = TIME I said, “Well, America's back.” Macron looked at me and he said, “For how long? For how long?” And then Schultz said to me, “What would you say Mr. President, if tomorrow you pick up The London Times and found out that thousands of people stormed the British Parliament, broke down the doors, killed two Bobbies to prevent the implement—the swearing in of a, of a prime minister, a choice of prime minister?” And it made me realize just how fundamentally what he allowed to happen sitting in this room, looking at that television for three hours and didn't do a damn thing, said about America, and how much confidence people lost in America. There's not a, there’s not a...I’m gonna, say, be careful what I say...There's not a major international meeting I attend that before it’s over—and I've attended many, more than most presidents have in three and a half years—that a world leader doesn’t pull me aside as I'm leaving and say, “He can’t win. You can’t let him win.” My democracy and their democracy is at stake. My democracy is at stake. And so name me a world leader other than Orban and Putin who think that Trump should be the world leader in the United States of America.
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    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff yet he, and Dems at large, didn’t have the cajones to break the norms and jail the MF on day one.

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff you don’t respond to a coup with standard legal options. Well you do if you want to lose. You just left the US. We’re leaving too. It’s over.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    As Chris Geidner reports, Washington Post knew three years ago about Alito's wife flying the insurrectionist flag of white Christian nationalism, and buried the story.

    "As Alito provided an essential fifth vote hollowing out the Fourteenth Amendment’s bar to insurrectionists’ holding office, the Post sat silent."

    He writes,


    /1

    https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy the media is complicit. They’re owned. It’s capitalism. Their primary mandate is not to inform. Let’s stop pretending otherwise and find a solution

    rbreich , to random
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    Every day the Supreme Court fails to make a decision in Trump’s immunity case is effectively a decision in his favor.

    They're acting like an arm of Trump's campaign by letting him run out the clock on his prosecution.

    Colby ,
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    @rbreich did the upside down flag clue you in?

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    I love columbine. Probably my favorite flower

    Colby ,
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    @loren ours are past peak but still going strong. They were amazing this year.

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