Adam Parker
@aparkerwriter.bsky.social
Writer, sailor, XTC fan, author of “Outside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr.” and “Us: A Journalist's Look at the Culture, Conflict and Creativity of the South.” In a constant panic.
This was an extremely unpopular tweet, partially because people misunderstood the intent & partially because Bluesky is a tiny homegenous hothouse filled with libs who establish their relative status by using the most heated & extreme rhetoric. Notheless, let me explain what was on my mind.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d agoI would just beg everyone, very much including elected Dems, to vigorously reject the words "retribution" & "revenge." Do not say them. Object when others say them. That's not what's happening here. The words you want are "accountability" & "rule of law."
The GOP & MAGA media and too much of the mainstream press want government oversight by Democrats to be framed as revenge when it's actually accountability. A very good thread from David Roberts on why the distinction matters.
Things realistic and unrealistic I hope for (part 1): 1. That Congress will defund every Trump vanity project. 2. That the next prez issues a sweeping exec order that renders ALL Trump executive orders moot. Every one. 3. That Dems block every Trump appointment. Every one. More soon…
I fear the more we call Don a l’orange a “lame duck” the more vindictive and abusive he will be. Gonna be a rough couple of months and a difficult two years with an embittered old crank clinging to the Oval Office, shouting at the workers outside his window to hurry it up…
For reference — This is what leadership sounds like. cc: @RepJeffries @SenSchumer @dscc @dccc @TheDemocrats
This is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)
This is the Ku Klux Klan's same slogan and the WH knows it. The Germans first modeled their eugenics efforts after those in the U.S. See the Ku Klux Klan pamphlet from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago“Germany for the Germans” was the slogan of a political organization that existed about 100 years ago.
The AG Sulzberger @nytimes.com continues to normalize a dangerous white supremacist movement. Compare NYT vs @lemonde.fr editors describe one of the Trump regime's most blatant white supremacists. "fiery hard-liner" (NYT) is at best a wildly deceptive euphemism for "white supremacist" (LM) 1/n
A bunch of people have noted how much more accurate this is than US media headlines etc. it’s true! But don’t think the French press covers its OWN national politics with more clearsightedness than the US press covers ours (it does not). It’s always easier to be honest about someone else’s country
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 3d agoStephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration
You probably don’t want to be pissed off on a Saturday morning, but I insist that we keep front of mind the ordinary people whose livelihood has been ruined and dignity compromised by this Administration and their cohorts. What will we do for them? Gift link: wapo.st/4enhBy5
Trump fired him. The ‘DEI Watchlist’ shamed him. Then came 500 job rejections.
Efforts to purge the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs have taken a major toll on Black workers who now struggle to find comparable jobs.
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The Framers of the US Constitution guaranteed the freedom of the press to write things that politicians find inconvenient. But such direct use of that freedom remains rare. People interested in the factual basis for this headline can examine it for themselves—> www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 3d agoStephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration
I swiped this from Facebook and I think it's useful info, especially for the magical thinkers among us.
Utter bullshit. Progressive is mainstream, and Americans want progressive solutions. They just said so. WaPo is publishing propagandistic junk.
Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · 4d ago"If Democrats lurch far left on policy, the voters who gave them an enormous victory on Tuesday will probably be strongly tempted to switch back to the GOP or stay home in future elections." Read more from the Editorial Board: https://wapo.st/4z0x1j8
The election drama in Mississippi arises from the Mississippi GOP's last minute vote fraud, declaring, on the most absurd of pretexts, 230,000 mostly Black Mississippi voters "inactive" just hours before the midterm vote in order to block their votes.
Over 230K Mississippi voters marked inactive days before midterm elections
Mississippi Public Broadcasting is MPB. Mississippi is Our Mission. Get the latest news on Tate Reeves, the Election and updates on Television, Radio and Online
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One name I’m not hearing enough of in the accountability discourse from the incoming Dems is Stephen Miller. We need a special committee to investigate and hold hearings on his immigration policies alone.
🧵: I think gerrymandering cost Texas Dems roughly 10 House seats despite the GOP losing 6 intended seats and nearly several more. Texas’ geography would be awful for them without gerrymandering. Suburban Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston would have been a bloodbath like in the statewide races
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 6d agoTHIS. Gerrymandering blocked Dems from gaining unified control over state government in GA, NC, TX, and maybe OH. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live in those states. Many House races remain uncalled, but my very prelimiary estimate is gerrymandering cost Dems 2 dozen seats—only NC’s map fully fell apart
This man is a white supremacist, plain and simple. Nazi trash.
We have to assume Trump will veto everything now, and Dems are not likely to find a supermajority to override vetos. So best first steps are to INVESTIGATE, IMPEACH and PROSECUTE. Focus on pursuing real justice. And do what can be done with simple majorities.
Even a midterms correction, welcomed though it will be, won’t correct the country’s deeper — indeed, intractable — ailments. And The Times will simply watch the pendulum swing, mesmerized by the motion and not very concerned about the nausea of the body politic.
This headline tells me two things: The New York Times is increasingly useless, and the United States is increasingly lost. #endofempire
Identity Politics Have Entered a New Phase
Since Trump’s return, discussions of diversity have gone quiet. This year’s midterms have shown that Americans could be ready for something new.
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