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Nonilex<p>Of course</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin launches probe into <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> sports participation policy</p><p>This is because Gov <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JanetMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JanetMills</span></a> dared to stand up to Trump.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/trump-administration-maine-transgender-sports-participation-policy-00205554" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2025/02/21/t</span><span class="invisible">rump-administration-maine-transgender-sports-participation-policy-00205554</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"This is a shortsighted, unfair, &amp; extremely undemocratic power grab. The elected reps of NYC &amp; NYS voted this program into existence to improve quality of life in Manhattan &amp; transit INFRA across the MTA. Take <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to court."<br>-S Biederman</p><p>"The Trump admin *will* face an immediate lawsuit from NY. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOT</span></a> didn't go through any orderly regulatory review to rescind the toll authorization. The program is meeting all of its objectives."<br>-M Chapman</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-news/nyc-congestion-pricing-axed-as-trump-pulls-approval-of-hated-toll/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-news/</span><span class="invisible">nyc-congestion-pricing-axed-as-trump-pulls-approval-of-hated-toll/</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VeroniqueB99</span></a></span> <br>There's a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGAt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAt</span></a> congresswoman who wants to add <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaziDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziDon</span></a> to Mt. Rushmore (why do <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> want to add every <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/potus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potus</span></a> to the monument?)</p><p>Add <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheOrangeMenace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheOrangeMenace</span></a> next to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lincoln</span></a>?</p><p>Lincoln fought a war to put the Federal gov't over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a>.</p><p>He invested in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> *during a war* to build the Transcontinental RR.</p><p>Went to war with the Deep <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/South" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>South</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> for black people.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictatorDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DictatorDon</span></a> couldn't be more opposite to Lincoln, Washington, Teddy or Jefferson.</p>
itgrrl :donor:<p>In the latest edition of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/itgrrlReadsLegislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>itgrrlReadsLegislation</span></a>, I’m down a bit of a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RabbitHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RabbitHole</span></a> 🐰🕳️ relating to the singular vs plural usage of “United States” [1] &amp; I’m fascinated /repulsed by this sort of article: </p><p>“The” vs. “These” <br><a href="https://theacru.org/2023/11/15/the-vs-these/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theacru.org/2023/11/15/the-vs-</span><span class="invisible">these/</span></a></p><p>The d00d is writing on the American Constitutional Rights Union website (🚩) but despite this mostly invokes the US Declaration of Independence 🤔 to “support” his “argument” – but it’s clear he’s only actually interested in “states rights”</p><p>He says:</p><p>“That brings us to the topic of this brief, “the” vs. “these.” We often hear people say “the United States of America.” I would offer that is not the correct way of referring to our nation. The correct way would be “these United States of America.””</p><p>He also fixates on capitalisation in the Declaration of Independence:</p><p>“In the closing paragraph of our Declaration of Independence, Jefferson refers to the gathered body of 56 as “Representatives of the united States of America.” In that phrase you will notice that “united” is not capitalized, but States is.”</p><p>Followed by some hand-wavy dismissals:</p><p>“Furthermore, you will see that Jefferson uses the language of “United Colonies,” and, yes, “United” is capitalized, and in several instances he says “Free and Independent States,” using capitalization. This is why reading the entire Declaration of Independence is vital to understanding the construct, foundation, which would establish our rule of law, the US Constitution.”</p><p>(but don’t worry about that bit ‘coz it doesn’t support his “argument” 🤪)</p><p>It’s super interesting to me that the US Constitution consistently uses “the United States” – not once does it use “these United States” (I checked 😩)</p><p>Nor does the phrase “these United States” appear in the Declaration of Independence [2], although the phrases “the thirteen united States” (once) &amp; “the united States” (once) are used, along with “these Colonies” (3 times), “these States” (3 times), “these Colonies” (once), &amp; “these United Colonies” (once).</p><p>The phrase is also absent from both the US Constitution [3] &amp; the Bill of Rights [4]. 🤔</p><p>For someone writing on a website allegedly devoted to upholding “Constitutional rights”, he’s pretty sloppy in his selective quoting… 🤔🤔</p><p>But of course, this d00d &amp; the org whose website he’s published on aren’t particularly interested in upholding the combination of Declaration of Independence, Constitution, &amp; Bill of Rights in their entirety. They’re doing what fundamentalists always do – cherry-picking the bits of “sacred texts” that support their bigotry &amp; biases to further their ideological agenda 🤢🤮 while rejecting anything that comes after their arbitrary purity cut-off date as being an something pushed by “the progressive socialist left” (lol, as if that actually exists in modern-day mainstream US politics)<br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <br>Interestingly, referring to the United States as a plural entity was much more common in the very early days of the republic – in the form of “the United States are…” Later, usage shifted to “the United States is…” This shift seems to have occurred after the US civil war.</p><p>The use of “these United States” was actually common until the late 1800s / early 1900s (as recorded in court proceedings), so that particular shift doesn’t seem to have been related to the civil war. I guess courts take a while to catch up with popular usage. 🙃<br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <br>[1] don’t worry, it’s for a joke in a presentation I’m writing that will probably be on screen for &lt;1s 🤪</p><p>[2] I’m referencing the “engrossed copy” as the source of truth here, which is the version that the Second Continental Congress ordered on 19 July 1776 be engrossed on parchment (hand-written by Timothy Matlack). Full text transcription at <a href="https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence_(engrossed_copy)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Unite</span><span class="invisible">d_States_Declaration_of_Independence_(engrossed_copy)</span></a></p><p>[3] full text transcription at <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">constitutioncenter.org/the-con</span><span class="invisible">stitution/full-text</span></a></p><p>[4] full text transcription at <a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">archives.gov/founding-docs/bil</span><span class="invisible">l-of-rights-transcript</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/federalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federalism</span></a></p>
MelancholicBear<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Missouri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Missouri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voting</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38eAhoTQoI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=l38eAhoTQo</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a></p>
Heretical_i<p>What well get with Trump? The same as Harris <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@AnarchistFederation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AnarchistFederation</span></a></span> Genocide and racism. THOSE ARE your choices this sElection cycle... Just like the LAST one, and the one before it and tbe one before it and...</p><p>Irl your choices are <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Federalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalism</span></a>... <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a>, or States Rights <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> creates legislative and legal <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> for the EMPIRE. I'm just fine with that. 😎 <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election2024</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/uselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uselection</span></a></p>
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RickiTarr</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statesRights</span></a> might have made sense at one time, but it's largely outdated now.</p>
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@uspolitics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uspolitics</span></a></span> Hundreds of years ago, before modern communication methods and rapid travel existed, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statesRights</span></a> made more sense. Today there are state and local laws that should be at the national level instead. The legalization of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> is an example. Left to the states to decide, it is dividing the people of the country with outdated thinking. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> laws, specifically the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a>, are also outdated and need to be replaced with national laws.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@uspolitics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uspolitics</span></a></span></p>
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> makes a "bigly" deal about moving responsibility for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> laws into state legislatures. That's NOT a good thing. Abortion needs to be legalized throughout <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> via national, federal law. Women in America don't want to limit their movement in the country to avoid backward, antiquated laws enacted in some states by religious, old, white men.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@uspolitics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uspolitics</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statesRights</span></a></p>
Weltschmerz à Gogo<p>“Europe of nations” has basically been Euro-fash for “states rights” for a long time now. So delightful that they’ve got a caucus for that now. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/noAfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noAfD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeOfNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeOfNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/german-afd-launches-third-far-right-group-europe-of-sovereign-nations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euractiv.com/section/politics/</span><span class="invisible">news/german-afd-launches-third-far-right-group-europe-of-sovereign-nations/</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>br00t4c</span></a></span> <br>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a>" has always been the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a>'s cowardly cop-out to avoid PUBLICLY taking a stand on an unpopular position they secretly support.</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <br>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a>!" AmIRight?</p><p>If states can ignore the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCotUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCotUS</span></a> and forbid the U.S. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BorderPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorderPatrol</span></a> from entering, then states can <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CodifyRoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodifyRoe</span></a>, Ban <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AR15s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AR15s</span></a>, and keep <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarthTraitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarthTraitor</span></a> off the ballot. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOPHypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPHypocrisy</span></a> 🤔</p>
Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉<p>Whatever Nikki Haley wants to claim, southern states did indeed secede over slavery. It would seem to follow from this that northern states fought to end slavery, but this is absolutely not true. At the time there were some northern abolitionist politicians, but nationwide abolition wasn't on the mainstream agenda in the 1850s. Lincoln's 1860 election precipitated secession, but he was no abolitionist. </p><p>The immediate issue was the expansion of slavery into newly admitted territories, which Lincoln opposed for economic reasons. Like all capitalists, slaveowners needed to expand their reach in order to survive and thrive, and at least since the 1820s they'd struggled to bring new slave states into the union and Lincoln's election threatened their ability to do this.* This is why one of the confederacy's major policy goals immediately after secession was the imperial conquest of parts of the Caribbean and Latin America in order to increase their slave territory.</p><p>Northern states didn't start out fighing to end slavery. Northern finance and industry made huge profits from slavery. They eventually realized that they had to end it, but only because their hands were forced by circumstances and strategic considerations, not least of which was the immediate widespread ongoing slave revolt the war inspired. </p><p>So while it's essential to remember that the confederacy seceded over slavery, the North didn't oppose secession to free slaves. Like most modern wars the American Civil War is most fruitfully seen as a dispute between factions of the ruling class over the most sustainable ways to exploit labor. It resulted in abolition mostly due to the determination of the slaves themselves, who forced that goal on the federal government.</p><p>________<br>* Slaveowners had many reasons to push for the expansion of slavery in addition to capital's ongoing need for growth. Another major one was that the North's faster population growth threatened to undermine the disproportionate political power the South enjoyed due to the fact that each slave counted as 3/5 of a free man for the purpose of determining representation.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Secession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Secession</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SlaveRevolts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlaveRevolts</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NikkiHaley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikkiHaley</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Only to some in the media is Haley a 'moderate.' In reality, Haley is as dangerously right wing as they come from her support of laws that deprive women of human rights to supporting restrictions on freedom of speech, to her extreme anti-LGBTQ agenda and her opposition to providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians.</p><p>Again, there are no good Republicans."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/NikkiHaley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikkiHaley</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Some in the media have labeled [Nikki Haley's] response [to a question about slavery and the Civil War]a 'flub.' But in reality, this was no mistake. Haley’s answer was actually defending state’s rights—the same argument used to defend slavery, defend Jim Crow and today to defend state’s enacting laws to force women to carry a fetus to term."</p><p>~ Dean Obeidallah</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/NikkiHaley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikkiHaley</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StatesRights</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/nikki-haley-again-reminds-us-that" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">nikki-haley-again-reminds-us-that</span></a></p>
bobchauvin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/statesrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statesrights</span></a> ? Nah. One judge is unconcerned.</p><p> "...In his opinion, Raschio disputed the defense’s claim that banning large-capacity magazines would help make mass shootings less deadly. He recognized that mass shootings “have a significant impact on the psyche of America when they happen,” but said they “rank very low in frequency.”</p><p>“The court finds that 10-round magazine bans are no panacea to prevent a mass shooter,” he wrote. ..."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guns</span></a></p>
Antifa International<p>Happy Juneteenth!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/juneteenth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>juneteenth</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/statesrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statesrights</span></a></p>