Helping people is all that matters.. Liberal. Civil rights is a long arc. It's never in the past. I won't give MAGA the benefit of the doubt again. Pro-democracy. I will never go back. When you feel yourself slipping, I'll carry your load.
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When I was Christian & conservative, I ran into a paradox concerning race and religion. If slavery was the reason I was born Christian, did I owe slavery for my "salvation"? Religion was used to sever people from their other identities. Present-day, it can lay the foundation for racist apologism.
We all died last year from drugs... Scientists partnered with the UN found a way to hook every dead American's brain to a simulated environment based on the real world. We were not supposed to find out that 300 million Americans died last year.
Brazil supplied 35% of U.S. coffee in 2023, and there's a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports.
When I hear people talk of a war, it's not a war on gun violence or political violence. It's a war on minorities - on the LGBTQ community and people of color. But minorities have nothing to do with a Mormon from a conservative family in Utah. The problem is gun violence and political violence.
As much as people wanted to blame the guy's death on people of color or transgender people or faithless people, he turned out to be a similar profile to all the other shooters. This isn't a war. There is no other coming after you. This is you, hitting yourself over and & and saying that we did it.
Bolsonaro has finally been defeated ✊🏽
Bolsonaro has finally been defeated ✊🏽
So, the Supreme Court ok'd racial profiling.
Aspiring Florida Man, Eric Adams
👀 The redesign was bland, but they're giving away what they think their current logo is about.
The real news is he said that some people want him to be a dictator.
People claim bad outcomes for teens and young adults mean the child is bad, while good outcomes mean the parents are good. Youth are granted “agency” only when it shifts blame away from adults, never to respect their autonomy. This isn’t raising kids into adults—it’s about control and domination.
Leaving evangelicalism is realizing conservative sexuality never protected anyone. Evangelical leaders saw teen pregnancies & refused to teach contraception. They saw abuse & refused to teach consent. My abstinence came from undiagnosed anxiety & a deep fear of attachment—not from purity culture.
State owned companies?
Integration was the only path to survival after white flight and backlash to desegregation. When they left, they took the tax base and power. The infrastructure collapsed, leaving us hollowed out. Seeing the wreck of failed integration, I still wanted to integrate—though then I only assimilated.
Growing up in a town where classrooms were almost entirely one race, I longed for diversity. At times, I wanted it so badly that I tolerated racist views just to be around people from other backgrounds. But that wasn’t truly shared or integrated space—it was a white Christian space bound in spite.
I never knew racists were so mediocre. Growing up, I accommodated them, imagining they were rational people who had a misunderstanding. But they fail to understand because failing in thought is part of what they do. That's how they became racists. It was so obvious, and I never saw it.
When American tourism is losing money, it can always lose more money.
The guy in the video reminds me of how I was. Bc he still does all the rationalizing for white christian nationists that I did when I was still a far-right evangelical. I ultimately left religion after leaving the far-right. I realized it did things to me that it's doing to the guy in the video.
In school, I didn't spend time w/ ppl. I read a Bible. I read it literally. It wasn't balanced with any reality. The people around me encouraged literal interpretation. They said I was isolated bc I was a good person instead of maladjusted. Instead of treating me, they gave me a biblical fantasy.
Luke 12:49-56 was radicalizing for me growing up. The verses say Jesus said that he didn't come to bring peace but to divide people. It says he said that family members would turn against each other over him. It's concepts like these that rationalized my descent into far-right religious ideology.
This is why after leaving MAGA and leaving the right, I left my religion. The religion leads people to extremism. It turns people against their own interests with the allure of a heavenly reward for the denial of humanity.
No tax on half your tips.
The dictator did dictator things: "The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years."
You know, I don't know how someone is supposed to have "good genes". Define "good genes." What makes "good genes" and bad genes? If "good genes" exist, how do you promote "good genes" and discourage bad genes? There's no positive way to market "good genes."
Macron said in a post on X that he will formalize the decision at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved,’' he wrote.
Hopefully, he faces justice. Brazil resisted a coup and resisted a far-right resurgence. The people deserve to be free from Bolsonaro.
When you think about the prisoner swap -- neither of the sets of prisoners were supposed to be imprisoned. Authoritarians use wrongfully imprisoned people as bargaining chips because they're not sophisticated enough for legitimate diplomacy.
The Venezuela-US prisoner swap is bad. This isn't Maduro trying to free Venezuelans from El Salvador. This is Maduro trying to get back people who fled Venezuela. These are 2 authoritarians abusing people to their own ends and making deals with each other over whether the people live or die.
The matriarch of our family has passed on. We were lucky to have such a courageous woman lead us. Our family started in the Delta farmlands and rose up into professionals in the towering cities. She taught us the value of education, hard work, and moral character. She was well-lived at 102 years
I really like this piece from DW on the history of immigration in the U.S. Also, I didn't know that before things like the 14th Amendment, the Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted citizenship to "free white persons of good character."
A newly completed investigation by Wyoming’s largest county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undercutting claims used to justify the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Musk tried to undermine the Brazilian Supreme Court last year. It got X suspended in Brazil until Musk complied with the court's orders regarding the removal of extremist accounts on x. These guys are targeting Brazil.
I hate this because Brazil survived a right-wing coup attempt in 2022. Brazil moved on from its far-right authoritarian government and survived attacks from remnants. The U.S. is trying to rile up extremist movements in foreign countries. The U.S. is trying to destabilize Brazil.
Maguire, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, posted on X over the weekend that Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last month, "comes from a culture that lies about everything" and is out to advance "his Islamist agenda."
Almost 600 people have signed an open letter to leaders at venture firm Sequoia Capital after one of its partners, Shaun Maguire, posted what the group described as a "deliberate, inflammatory attack" against a Muslim Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City.
This is a catastrophic failure. Over 100 people died without an evacuation warning. In Mitlon, a category 5 hurricane spawning 40+ tornados, there were 45 known casualties. These floods have more than doubled that, and no one was told to evacuate.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBTQ rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now rolling back such protections.
He really came up with the dumbest name possible. It smells of grandiose delusion.
I hope the prosecutors can at least get him a while on prostitution. The prosecutors screwed up with going for Rico. His violence goes unpunished.
The mural is titled "The Statue of Liberty's Silent Protest" and was created by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw. In an interview, Leeuw revealed to Storyful that it is meant to reflect shame for the United States over President Donald Trump's immigration policies. www.rawstory.com/statue-of-li...
I'm sorry, but racists don't go to heaven. You're not getting an eternal reward for this stuff. You live a POS, you die a POS. There's no higher power to welcome you. If there is a higher power, it wouldn't want you.
Now, to be honest. I didn't celebrate today. I've just really been thinking: I really hope we're really free someday.
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
America started with a declaration. We're still in the implementation of that declaration. I'm grateful we can push forward together toward that perfect union - a future where we can all truly be free.
Are you saying that it wasn't liberals and progressives but Republicans and right-leaning Independents that elected Zohran?
He characterizes his chosen religions as "traditional religion" even though he only considers denominations of Christianity and Judaism
These are the weird parts that I'm referencing: One's under "alternatives that Americans have been picking" The other is under "why these particular religious formations enjoy Smith's attentions instead of others." Smith prioritizes Christian denominations & plays them against the easiest targets
There are people who slip into right-wing extremist movements and people who are raised into them. The people who slip into them can slip back out if their reality changes. The ppl raised into them cling to them more and would more likely limit their reality in order to stay in the movement.
I spoke to a white acquaintance still in MAGA on Facebook. He was giddy abt Alligator Alcatraz & the BBB for "taking illegal immigrants off Medicaid." He asked why I care abt immigrants since I don't know them. Even when I was in MAGA up until 2020, I was oblivious to the cruelty. He's drawn to it
This guy ignored every other religion to focus only on denominations and called denominations religions. Then, when he discussed alternatives, he ignored atheism, secular humanism, and others for New Age religion and crystals. He could only make his point by cutting the complexity of reality.
Healthcare cuts in Washington and a new hope in New York.
More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the Big Ugly Bill she just voted for: “Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests, but I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
That bill is so ugly. The ugliest thing for me, as someone in risk management, isn't just the suffering it'll cause, but that there's no upside to the suffering. If you're going to take on excess risk, you need a proportionate reward. But here, there's no upside. So it comes off as self-harm.
Legal grift
Wow!! So healthcare cuts in Washington, and a new hope in New York.
Is this the same charm she was saying her mother had when she faced challenges? 'Cuz I don't find it charming. And I don't see how her mother did anything but endure if this was what Murkowski learned from her.
It really is a death bill
Healthcare cuts are the blue-chip, gold standard method for killing people. AI moratoriums were where they were really innovating. We were going to die in ways we couldn't imagine.
I think this rationalization was a way to get the kids and people who hadn't yet lost their ability to empathize to start or continue down a path of increasingly unempathetic actions towards LGBTQ individuals.
When I was still religious, there was this idea authorities would teach us that LGBTQ people weren't really happy & that we had to help them find real happiness. As evidence of LGBTQ people's "faux happiness" were the social and psychological challenges they faced [that religious people caused].
Israeli settlers are in a perpetual rampage. Now, they rampage against the military that enforces their ill-gotten possessions. The IDF cheers when Palestinian natives are subjected to violence but perks up when it's subjected to settler violence. The base instinct of settlers is aggression.
This was back before I was diagnosed. Not only did this approach demonstrate love in a way that didn't feel like unconditional love, but it also made me question if I loved other people because I couldn't do things that would make the "I love you" condition-less.
The whole "I love you, but not what you do" approach doesn't work with disability. For me, it made me think that the person saying that did everything they could for me and that now I needed to demonstrate my love in return by changing behaviors that I could never figure out how to change.
They showed out! Even with the new ban on public assemblies supporting LGBTQ rights, they showed out for Pride.
How little sense this makes: Threatening Israel on behalf of the Israeli prime minister.
The times are bringing racial trauma to new generations.
Wladimir Vera Villamizar, a 33-year-old welder, had a whole lung removed — an uncommon procedure that requires months of intensively managed recovery, according to doctors.
OMG... Days of trying to explain it away and insults, they are trying a veiled insult as an explanation.
I feel like the low-engaged voters calling themselves the Democratic base are burying the efforts of women of color. Then, they try to gaslight ppl that women of color get the same outcome no matter which party wins to rationalize their decisions. But we see our women suffering disproportionately.
"Anti-Israel?" Is NYT afraid of Muslims?
The state denies its own intelligence.
The United Nations' human rights office has slammed Israel for the deaths of hundreds of Gazans trying to get aid through a new delivery system. The UN says over 400 people have been killed near aid hubs since the Israeli and US-backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" started operating.
I'm relieved that New York City said "no" to sex pests.
That's what "obliterated" means these days.
That wasn't a ceasefire. That was "concepts" of a ceasefire.
There aren't any.
Ikr Yeah, as autistics, we never talk about moments when we're not autistic 😑
The European Union says there are ″indications″ that Israel’s actions in Gaza are violating human rights obligations in the agreement governing its ties with the EU — but the block was divided Monday over what to do in response.
There's a rationalization that takes place when people try to figure out why they're hated and as they try to figure out how to avoid being hated. These rationalizations make it so that white supremacists can torture vulnerable minority communities long after they are gone.
My first love was a Latina who was colorist against brown skin Latinos. I've spent my life a part of communities marked by internal racism & high stratification. There was colorism in the segregated town I was raised in, too. White flight & supremacy leave deep marks on minority communities.
Particularly when it's comes to religious conservative environments where married women might not speak freely. It's weird seeing how some religiously conservative guys I knew fell deeper down a sexist rabbit hole after getting married.
I think that a lot of these guys' journey to find a "woman of god" is really them looking for their chief enabler. I'm glad I didn't find a "woman of god" when I was a religious conservative. Under certain circumstances, family formation seems to lead men to understand women less, not more.
When our circumstances are poor, our values will be our wealth.
It seems that the pastor welcomed black people to his church but didn't advocate for full equality. It was rare to have a church where I was born that had both races. I didn't think at the time to ask for more from people.
I remembered this now because I just saw one of his posts today praising the administration for bombing Iran, and I realized I haven't heard the pastor who was against race mixing say that I was smart black man in a long time.
I didn't know until later in life that the white pastor of the church my grandmother attended was an outspoken opponent of race mixing. But this was when I was already down the religious conservative pipeline and was getting praised by him for being a "smart black man" for supporting his politics.
If peace doesn't come quickly, we will keep escalating. We will escalate our way to peace.
If you're going to go to war for a dumb reason, at least make it your dumb reason. Going to war for someone else's dumb reason makes it even dumber, and what Bush did was already dumb enough.
After more than three months in detention by the Trump administration, a judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil released on bail. He was met on Saturday at Newark airport by his wife, their son and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other supporters. nyti.ms/44sUa1y
You don't give birth when you're dead. If anything comes out of you, it's because someone reached into your corpse disturbing your rest. Of course, the way to get a dead woman's body to produce a baby is to preserve the womb and cut a child out when you're done. This was a sick experiment.
When I talk negatively about Arkansas, it's not for fun or with delight. It's with sadness. We both wanted to work with the system. Neither of us wanted to leave the state where our mom, aunts, uncles, and grandparents grew up and have lived for generations. We were forced out. This is fleeing.
I have a younger brother still in Arkansas, but he recently said he's planning to leave, too. He explained he wanted to make it a better place for others like us. But attacks on DEI and the current wave of discrimination leave him vulnerable as one of the rare black professionals in his industry.
It was that way with me. Only in a different food environment was I able to safely and healthily explore what I am able to eat.
I wonder if it's not that autistic individuals w/ food sensitivities prefer junk food, but that, in an environment with poor food diversity, junk foods end up being the most accessible foods w/ the texture, flavor simplicity & weakest aroma. Those things can be explored in other foods if available.
I have mood disorders. Black people with mood disorders have always existed. But in the antebellum period, it was taught that it was impossible. They tried to explain away the absurdity of the idea of slaves lacking the mental health needs free blacks have by saying it had to do with property.
These were the views of white southerners of the time. They believed that because we didn't have property, we couldn't experience mental illness.
Seeing some older family member's visible anxiety around white people, they didn't get to have the blue city experience or the coast experience I'm getting. They were forced into a smaller world and isolated from potential allies of many races and backgrounds. Please don't forget us in the South.
Why use Schumer's picture instead of Thune's here? The Republican Congress is what's handing power to Trump.