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JamesBazan

@JamesBazan@mastodon.coffee

I used my real name on the bird site to keep me nice. It didn't work, but cishet male privilege meant I mostly got away with it, so I'm not too optimistic about being "nice" on here.
White supremacy is a terrorist ideology.
The survival of democracy is on the line, so "BothSides" = Instablock
#NCPolitics #NCPol #Charlotte #NCGA
Header is a lip balm. Balm for your soul may not be banana flavored.

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TonyStark, to random
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A lot of people didn’t want him to go but I’m glad he did.

Israel-Hamas war updates: Israel agrees to let aid into Gaza at Biden's request |
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine

JamesBazan,
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@TonyStark A lot of those people have been seduced by cynicism and can't imagine the power of moral courage. That courage is exactly what our President and Vice President saw in each other.

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    JamesBazan,
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    @marcelias They are right to be scared of the terrorist organization they once thought they were riding. That tiger smells blood, and they are too cowardly to dismount.

    TonyStark, to random
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    The U.S. should not accept white supremacist liar candidates for POTUS from Florida named Ron so there‘s that.

    Ron DeSantis says U.S. shouldn't take in refugees from Gaza-
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-says-us-shouldnt-take-refugees-gaza-rcna120457

    JamesBazan,
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    @TonyStark Dies he think his cowardice is what American voters are looking for?

    WecanbeGyros, to random
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    I find little to nothing about the forced removal of Lenape and Iroquois from the northeast. Much of the stories only depict the western tribes, but Indigenous Genocide occurred here in NY too. My Great Great Great Great Grandma didn't walk farther than Queens County. See how soon we lose history?
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/native-american-genocide

    JamesBazan,
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    @WecanbeGyros The Nazi Enabling Acts of 1934 (especially the Racial Purity Law) drew directly from Virginia's 1924 Racial Integrity Act. The involuntary sterilization provision of that Act was upheld 8-1 by SCOTUS in 1927's Buck v Bell. The miscegenation provisions weren't overturned until Loving v Virginia in 1967. (Coincidentally Virginia launched the "Virginia is for Lovers" public relations campaign the next year, & relaunched it in 2017 ahead of the 50th anniversary of Loving v Virginia.)

    JamesBazan, to random
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    An excellent time to revisit this:
    "Trump Indictment: Israeli Intelligence Fears Ex-president Compromised Top Secret Intel - U.S. News - Haaretz.com" https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-06-13/ty-article/.highlight/trump-doc-probe-concern-in-israel-former-presidents-actions-compromised-its-security/00000188-b621-d1d6-a7b9-fff57b640000

    georgetakei, to random

    Republicans are seeking to gain political advantage from a terrorist attack by falsely linking the Iranian prisoner deal with the attack by Hamas in Gaza and taking shots at President Biden.

    I remember a time, not too long ago, when American foreign policy was a bipartisan matter, and where we rallied around our leaders rather than try to tear them down in time of crisis. We need to return to that era so that we can be the United States of America to the rest of the world.

    JamesBazan,
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    @georgetakei That time was a long time ago. The GOP used Korea against the Democrats. Nixon (!) used Vietnam against Humphrey (with a big assist from the self-anointed "left." Reagan used Iran against Carter (while colluding with Iran against the hostages and the American people)...ad infinitem.
    The GOP is Party Over Country, and has been for my lifetime.

    IveyJanette, to random
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    This.

    It takes 5 hours to drive from Lubbock to Albuquerque.

    They'll use these roadblocks to check for migrants and to racially profile Black motorists,just like they did in the 50's.

    https://www.koat.com/article/texas-county-abortion-ordinance-impact-new-mexico/45434495

    JamesBazan,
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    @IveyJanette "The U.S. Constitution protects someone's right to travel interstate. That's why this is an interesting issue. We don't know how this is going to end," Day said.
    That's a lot of words to say, "It's obviously illegal, but it just might work."

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    If you would've told me 20 years ago that we would have to fight other human beings to stem the extinction of all of humanity over money, I would have thought you were insane.

    JamesBazan,
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    @StillIRise1963 No monstrosity happens without the collaboration and complicity of those who would count themselves as "not monsters."

    lilithsaintcrow, to random
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    JamesBazan,
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    @lilithsaintcrow But preventing murderous fraud might cut pennies off the balance sheet.

    JamesBazan,
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    @lilithsaintcrow Well, them and the people buying AI-created fraudulent mushroom foraging books, but they'll be too dead to sue.

    TonyStark, to random
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    Right now there is a severe shortage of FAA controllers. A will furlough all the trainers. Without them, the FAA can't replace controllers. Other workers won’t keep showing up without being paid.

    While Social Security payments will continue to be made for now, there won’t be anyone to make changes. You just retired and want to start collecting SS? Too bad. You want to sign up for Medicare or Medicaid? Too bad. Your situation has changed and you are entitled to more money? Too bad.
    1/3

    JamesBazan,
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    @TonyStark Yeah, but Margorie Taylor Greene is displaying dick pics, so what's a few million suffering Americans, amirite?

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Yes, Washington Post Editorial Board, this is by far the most important thing going on in the US Congress that you should be opining about...
    A casual new dress code doesn’t suit the U.S. Senate https://wapo.st/3Zm5jNC

    JamesBazan,
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    @jeffjarvis Agreed that this is a trivial focus. OTOH, it's a slippery slope. Does anyone really want Boebert showing up in the House "dressed" for an evening at the theater? Okay. Matt Gaetz might. But anyone else?

    MJ, to random
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    And it’s not a serious proposition. Booting a woman from the Democratic ticket, booting a Black woman (the most important Democratic voting block), isn't anything more than pundits grasping for subjects to write about instead of the real stuff. As usual.

    Same for anyone else pushing for it. Knowingly or unknowingly, they’re helping the right.

    Opinion: The ‘replace Kamala Harris’ chatter is off-base. And futile.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/18/harris-replace-media/

    JamesBazan,
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    @MariaHill I'm excited about a Biden/Harris ticket in '24 and Harris at the top of the ticket in '28. The GOP dividers know they can count on misogynoir to get their message amplified in both elections, just as they hyped misogyny in '16.

    JamesBazan, to random
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    Yesterday was Charlotte Great Strides fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. (Go Team Violet!I) I've never seen fundraising on Mastodon, so I'm not now. I do, however, want to share this picture of my granddaughter taken by her Aunt Jillian.
    At Foundation events, the CFers wear the purple "I Am a Fighter" shirts to make it easier for them to keep at least five feet apart.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Jim Cramer/CNBC's rhetoric about UAW is very fucking citizen ugly with a treasonous edge.

    JamesBazan,
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    @StillIRise1963 Counterintuitively, the war against workers has become far more open as the pool of available workers shrinks. It seems to me that if big business doesn't need workers, then strikes shouldn't hurt them.

    JamesBazan, to random
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    I see a lot of people mocking Lauren Boebert for asking the theater usher, "Do know who I am?"
    From what I've heard about that Colorado vape oil, that may have been a sincere question:
    "Who am I? Where is now? Why can't I feel my face?"

    dougiec3, to random
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    New Mexico in Top 10! Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions: New Mexico had 479 gun deaths in 2020. Of those, 63% were suicides, 31% homicides and 6% other.
    In a recent road rage incident, someone in a pickup truck fired 17 shots at the car of a family leaving a minor league baseball game. They killed an 11 year old and seriously wounded his 23 year old aunt. Gun right advocates will tell you that if that family had been armed it could have defended itself from that hail of bullets.

    JamesBazan,
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    @dougiec3 When your only tool is a gun, all solutions are bullets.
    Those complaining are terrified to go buy cookies at Satellite without wearing their murderous accessories.

    austinkocher, to geography
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    @geography

    JamesBazan,
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    @austinkocher @geography Cesar Caviedes, my Geography of South America professor, acknowledged that my interest in international migration was better suited for human geography, but advised me to approach it from demography through sociology. He correctly predicted the turn to remote sensing would drive funding in geography.

    oh_that_courtney, to Texas
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    You may have heard that Houston schools plan to convert libraries to disciplinary centers and fire the librarians.

    What you may not have heard is that the State of Texas took over the Houston school district and installed its own superintendent.

    That's the guy who is closing libraries. This is not something local residents want, and the superintended is not locally accountable,

    JamesBazan,
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    @oh_that_courtney Mike Miles is a privateer brought in from the Charter School educorporate industry. His particular expertise is plundering school systems.

    aspiringcat, to books

    Reading Log: Rereading this book because I can’t still get over how important so many things that Sara Ahmed says in this book are and I need to keep a highlighter and notepad handy while reading this.

    @bookstodon

    JamesBazan,
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    @aspiringcat @bookstodon Thank you! I had missed this.

    KimPerales, to random
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    Aldean’s song has resonated with ppl who idolize small-towns, but he’s actually legitimizing vigilantism & violence, blaming Black people & more diverse big cities for crime. leads to unity & respect, & a stronger nation: There’s a reason that Black people still talk about “sundown towns” in the South & Midwest, places that aren’t safe for us to be after dark -it’s precisely bc of a kind of glorification of small-town tribal violence that’s in Aldean’s song & video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/tulsa-race-jason-aldean-true-crime/

    JamesBazan,
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    @cat_static Vero Beach, Florida was never officially a sundown town, but there was a "Welcome to Vero Beach" sign at the north city limit. People who lived there before the Fair Housing Act remembered Black folks waiting for their bus to Gifford on the other side of the sign every afternoon. I got there in '74, and the largest bank in town had a huge redlining map in the lobby. Today, Vero is 5.6% Black, Gifford is 10.1% White.

    Free_Press, to Ukraine
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    Most of the Kadyrovites are still stuck in traffic outside of Rostov

    Just think of the soon to be dead Wagner and Kadyrov fighters that won't be returning to rape and murder in Ukraine!
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    video/mp4

    JamesBazan,
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    @Free_Press What does it say about the Ministry of Defense that they don't dare put armed Russian air assets in Russian airspace?

    mcnees, to random
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    The next Samuel Alito op-ed in the WSJ is going to be him arguing that it's okay to accept a cartoon bag of cash with "$$$" written on the side, if it would otherwise go unused

    JamesBazan,
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    @mcnees
    Ahh, the old Alito, "Not true.":
    "With all due deference to the separation of powers," said Obama, last week the "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections."

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Can’t warn about this—the greatest problem of our age—too often

    JamesBazan,
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    @thomasfuchs "We're on it!"

    shoq, to random
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    So now we learn that DoJ was willfully not pursuing the treason of Jan 6th. This is treasonous in itself, and heads should start rolling. But they won't, because we've lost our taste for democracy. But they should.

    JamesBazan,
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    @shoq Today has been a deluge of populist contrarianism being passed off as "special knowledge" for the easily duped.

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