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Chris Hocker

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Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Tibor M. Kalman@kalmantibs.bsky.social · last mo.

Beautiful gesture from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, illuminating the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv in Stars & Stripes of the American flag. May the world continue to stand firmly alongside the resilient, courageous people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom & liberty. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🕊️ #4thOfJuly

The Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv illuminated with the projection of the American flag's Stars & Stripes. Photo via the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The WHCA Dinner gunman didn't seriously hurt anyone, but his actions exposed a depraved and decadent America with a president and a corrupted elite media that doesn't think a few more gunshots in a nation drenched in violence should stop a good time My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump dinner shooting defines a violent, unserious America | Will Bunch

Another Trump assassination try leaves dinner guests wanting to party on, in a laughingstock America, numb to violence.

inquirer.com

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The US press is going to hide this from you but the reason there are "strikes on Lebanon" and "confusion over the strait" is that TRUMP RANDOMLY AGREED TO THE CEASEFIRE TO ESCAPE HIS OWN BLUFF WITHOUT WORKING OUT ANY OF THESE DETAILS

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo ago

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

Fred Guttenberg@fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT!!! I refuse to acknowledge anyone in the White House who is hellbent on destroying our Democracy and the America I love. Whatever he does or does not do tonight, just putting the message out was deranged and warrants the 25th amendment.

Shikha Dalmia@shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Iranians are feeling sheer terror today. Americans are feeling sheer helplessness that their mad ruler is terrorizing them and they are powerless to stop him. Those who voted for him despite being warned that he would generate crisis after crisis and bring the world to a brink, are you happy now?

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 4mo ago

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We live in an era where factual recounting of leading figures’ (Musk, Trump, Hegseth) words and actions plus the most rudimentary dot connecting sounds incredibly evil, so many people assume it can’t be true, or don’t want to deal with the implications of it being true, and therefore simply do not.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

Tom Hearden@followtheh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These Cabinet meetings actually serve a useful function - they loudly demonstrate 1. Trump has lost any semblance of a connection to reality 2. He’s surrounded with fools and sycophants 3. He has no plans and no ability to deal with any pressing matters before him