July 23, 2019

How DARE NYT claim that what Trump is pitching is real nationalism!!

Also, I know NYT fired all their copyeditors and all, but they're missing an obvious word here. How DARE NYT claim that what Trump is pitching is real nationalism!!




https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1153654095611387905

July 23, 2019

"Go Back"

“Where I came from” is ionized hydrogen and interstellar dust
The sloughed-off remains of a giant star
Radioactive sparks in sunbeam suspension

“Where I came from” is a long-lost generation of suns
Those that lived and died and scattered their own remains
Nuclear detonations of compact matter, the death spiral plunges of neutron stars

“Where I came from” is the empty depths, the far-flung glints on the cosmic ocean

“Where I came from” is an eddy in an infrared-hot protoplanetary disk

“Where I came from” is a collision of worlds so violent it tore magma from the Earth to coalesce into the Moon

“Where I came from” is the sky, the ground, the sea, the very air we breathe

“Where I came from” is the infinite

“Where I came from” is the Universe

And one day, when I am good and ready, I will go back


http://www.astrokatie.com/go-back?fbclid=IwAR21SzlR9w9lK6DQNcNC0MO2rWBg8mt6kZ4DLnetY4ltse8yCmtZyXgSym8

July 23, 2019

The Republican racism quiz

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July 23, 2019

If Trumpsters don't like it that US citizens have the right to criticize their Potus...

July 22, 2019

Rashida Tlaib: 'I'm not going nowhere, not until I impeach this President'

Washington (CNN)Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan vowed to hold her ground during a speech in Detroit Monday, clearly responding to President Donald Trump's attacks on the four Democratic congresswomen of color known as "the squad."

"I'm not going nowhere, not until I impeach this President,"
Tlaib said at the NAACP annual convention in Detroit.


.............


In her remarks in Detroit, Tlaib did not directly address the President's latest tweets, but later in her speech she said, "We need bold action, folks. I know what's happening out there ... it's beyond just the four of us."

"The squad is all of you. I can tell you, you are all the squad, trust me. If you support equity, you support justice, you are one of us," she said.


VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1153328739482316801
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/trump-rashida-tlaib-squad/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Politics%29

July 22, 2019

Susan Collins is Disappointed, How Sad.

VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1152362308754186240

July 22, 2019

Testimonials from caged children read by other children:

“I am the third teenage girl who has tried to take care of this little 2 year old boy. I feed him and give him water. I also take care of another little kid. She calls me ‘mama.’ She is 6 years old.”

“We spend all day every day inside of that room. There are no activities. Only crying. During the two weeks we have been here they have let us outside 5 times. For twenty minutes. I would like to get some fresh air.”

“I’m hungry here all the time. I’m so hungry I wake up in the middle of the night with hunger. I’m too scared to ask the officials for any more food.”


https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1153166853021294597
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1153169266138669056

July 22, 2019

The Ugly Truth About Trump's Racism

You can locate a zone of plausible deniability, in which one can claim support for such policies on pragmatic, economic or “cultural” grounds, and not out of any desire to make the United States whiter.
It’s precisely this zone that Republicans now seek to inhabit.

That’s why the GOP panic about the “send her back” chant is significant.
It shines a floodlight into this zone and reveals why it’s so hard to credibly inhabit it.


https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1153264026081800193

July 22, 2019

Charles M. Blow says "Denying Racism Supports It"

Make no mistake: Denying racism or refusing to call it out is also racist. You cannot claim to be egalitarian and anti-racism and choose to be closeted among family and friends or even in your community for fear of rejection and ostracism, or as is often used as an excuse, to keep the peace.

There is no peace for the targets of racism, so your choosing of personal comfort and the comfort of racists supports the commission of racial injury.

If you are just coming to call Trump’s behavior racist — or, worse yet, if you still can’t bring yourself to do so — you are part of the problem. You are supporting that architecture of white racism.



More
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/22/1873515/-Charles-M-Blow-says-Denying-Racism-Supports-It?utm_campaign=trending
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/opinion/trump-racism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

July 21, 2019

Sharing - if you need a good chuckle

https://www.facebook.com/veryfunnyvidsdailly/videos/2891847437498080/