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Prophetess Monique said it best. “When you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite.”
Tap about three people and tell them the clown is coming.
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Hoe, But Make It Sanctified. Duke Alumnus.
Columbia ✈✈✈Durham Katılım Ağustos 2010
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@DannyDGlover He’s proven his value as a part of the SC delegation many times over. Should he step aside? Yes.
But let’s not be ahistorical and act like the man never done nothing. And let’s be more honest about WHY he’s worked to shore up the district.
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@DannyDGlover For all Clyburn’s faults, he has secured a lot of funding for the Black folks in his district (which is why he sails through primaries). And, he’s used his positions of power well for SC overall, which is why there are Republicans sticking their neck out to save his seat.
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Let me add another layer to this…He spent 30+ years protecting that seat so no other Black person could seriously challenge him… only for it to eventually be stripped away by the same people he kept making concessions to in exchange for political protection.
Nas@nasescobar316
Clyburn spent his time in office doing nothing tangible for Black Americans, will be interesting to see how this turns out
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I mean the people behind this money often limit the potential effectiveness of the money being deployed and only fund pet projects that make no sense.
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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@eternallyRaq The 1st got barely got blue once and quickly reverted. And the racial/regional politics of the state would (likely) make a blue 1st district a less effective advocate for the state’s Black belt
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@eternallyRaq Ehhh. As someone from this district, it’s a tad more complicated.
Yes, it was a power move. But the majority of his district is dying rapidly, and the only way to sure up the district (and ensure at least one Dem wins from SC) would be packing the 6th
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Years of collaborating with republicans to gerrymander South Carolina ended up backfiring on Jim Clyburn.
As I’ve said before, Clyburn absolutely deserves this. However, the people he betrayed in his quest for power do not deserve to have their voices snuffed out.
VoteHub@VoteHub
The South Carolina House of Representatives has passed a proposed 7R–0D congressional map that would likely eliminate Rep. Jim Clyburn’s Democratic-leaning district. The bill now heads to the South Carolina Senate.
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@ettingermentum I mean this is explicitly why GA has those elections designed like that and why Repubs are making Metro Atlanta elections nonpartisan.
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This is the entire explanation imo. The Supreme Court races came after a long partisan ballot and didn’t really specify that they were a general election. I can imagine a lot of Dems imagining it was for a Dem SCOGA nomination and defaulting to the incumbent/the Black candidate.
Robert Jimison@RobertJimison
I have been shocked by the people I checked in with yesterday and early today who (on both sides of the aisle) thought their ENTIRE ballot was partisan. And did not realize that the first part was the party primary and the second part was nonpartisan general elections
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@AlHendiify The funny thing is that many of them do have folks who CAN take over. They just refuse to step down lol.
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What I find the most frustrating is that all these old folks have been in office long enough to have mentored at least a dozen people who they SHOULD feel is able to carry on their legacy into the new era but they just cling to power instead.
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
87-year-old congresswoman Maxine Waters refuses to rule out a 100-year-old running for Congress.
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South Carolina accidentally being the sensible ones (for now) in the rush to redraw maps is a tad comical.
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Shane Massey is smart. Even if you disagree with Clyburn's politics, he has been a powerful voice for SC, particularly under Dem administrations. And the man secures a lot of funding for a variety of projects all around his district.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R) is firmly opposed to South Carolina redistricting Massey on the floor: "Too many people in power want to do whatever it takes to stay in power. But I ask, to what end? What do you with it when you've attained it? I believe the legitimate use of power in this context is to make people safer."
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Kinda wild how the Dems have successfully filibustered ICE funding without much fanfare.
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@TahraHoops You can see this growing sentiment where people want high-quality government services that they don't have to pay for through any form of tax whatsoever.
Property, sales, income, payroll, excise, etc.
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Is there some internal polling that was floating around as the reason we were getting slopulism tax bills at mass because there are people out there who sincerely believed that Trump winning would have led to no taxes.
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@winwhite97 And the jury still out on (parts of) the northern of the two, if we keeping it a buck.
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You say you’re from the country, but that’s questionable if it ain’t a Carolina.
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@MikeBeLike "Who had been saying that" is a core part of my lexicon lol
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Example: This is how iconic RHOA is! No other franchise has this kind of impact on the world.
KB@purehijabey
I have watched all the Real Housewives franchises and I’m sorry RHOA can NEVER be topped 😭😭😭😭
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This new Thrasher movie on @netflix mispronounced Beaufort, SC and, it pissed me cleannnnnn off lol
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It was a blend of both. Peter & Andrew and John & James were sets of brothers, so they probs was tight.
There was clearly friction at times cause they wanted to know who was the greatest (clearly Peter).
And then there was hating ass Judas...
ally@missmayn
do you think the twelve apostles were friends or was it more of a coworker situation.
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Every time I get bored enough to watch this Mormon wives show, I’m like…there is one brain cell in this group.
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@MelechThomas She stole that Black man’s church and aint never looked back!
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If the Black Church should repent for anything, it should repent for platforming Paula White.
Acyn@Acyn
White: You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It's a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us. You will be victorious in all you put your hand to because God is using you.
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@SolRadiant7 You know! I’m down to try 👀 I’ll report back with my findings.
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@My__Rebirth It’s really not. you just don’t get it, and that’s okay lmfao
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the northerners gon’ kill me…
did anybody else (SOUTHERN ONLY) grow up with breakfast rice? it’s white rice with butter and sugar, and you eat it with other traditional breakfast foods (sausage/bacon, pancakes, eggs, potatoes, etc).
I made some this morning, shit FYE.
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