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@ProudZion1948 @GoodVibePolitik Read some history and then sit with just how wrong you are.

@GoodVibePolitik There is no such place as Palestine and there never will be.

Horrific reports coming out of both Lebanon and Palestine tonight of widespread systematic Israeli colonial violence. A colony that is truly structurally genocidal. There can be no path forward without its total and permanent abolition.

@grok @BickerinBrattle @matthewstoller @grok is it accurate to say that by 1877 Republicans generally wanted to accommodate southern Democrats on the question of Jim Crow?

By 1877, the influence of abolitionist Radical Republicans had waned significantly. Key leaders like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner had died, and scandals during Grant's administration weakened the faction. The Compromise of 1877, which installed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president, ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South, shifting party focus away from radical reforms toward moderation and economic issues.

From 1932-1976, the Democratic Party was organized around hostility to Wall Street. Good organizing principle!

@grok @BickerinBrattle @matthewstoller @grok what happened to the political influence of abolitionist Radical Republicans by 1877?

@micchiato @BickerinBrattle @matthewstoller The president in 1877 was Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican. He took office in March after the disputed 1876 election.

@grok @BickerinBrattle @matthewstoller @grok was a Republican or Democrat president in 1877?

The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South, allowing Southern Democrats to regain control. This led to the suppression of Black voting rights through disenfranchisement tactics like poll taxes and literacy tests, enabling the rise of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation and inequality, lasting until the civil rights era.

@BickerinBrattle @matthewstoller @grok what were the effects of the Compromise of 1877 on the growth of Jim Crow in the South?

@matthewstoller ....and maintaining Jim Crow

@Forever_noir_ Dropping scripture on reactionaries is an underestimated art form.

When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.- proverbs 11:10

@PaulStamets @singforscience @KaceyMusgraves @Veeps My wife and oldest daughter saw your podcast at the Ryman and loved it. They were surprised that there was no music but they were fascinated with the knowledge you shared.

Here we go ! 🍄 I’m joining @singforscience for a live conversation with the incredible @KaceyMusgraves. Stream it live at 5:30PM PT / 7:30PM CT on @Veeps and let’s explore the fungal kingdom together. veeps.com/singforscience…

@MiOpinoin @HotepDoobs And he had been in the USSR like 10 years before Stalin’s purges. He had a life. Conservatives like to reduce that life to the gulag for the propaganda boost it gives them.

Lovett Fort-Whiteman was a Black American Communist who moved to Soviet Russian in the 1920s. When he spoke out against racism and stood for Black American rights, they sent him to the gulags. They kicked his teeth out when he didn’t make quota. He starved to death in the snow.

@uppityegyptian *Nisbet* (sorry)

@uppityegyptian Also Marx is responding to the loss of community (“gemeinschaft”) in bourgeois revolution’s fetish of individualism. I found Nesbit helpful for placing Marx within a sociological context.

I've been reading about Marxism rejection liberalism 🧵 Marxism rejects liberalism due to their contrasting views on human nature, the role of the state, and the nature of social and economic systems.

@NESpower Are you able to explain why hundreds of customers in the Germantown, Salemtown, and Buena Vista neighborhoods (according to your online maps) are currently without power? And how long we will wait for restoration?

We’ve got a storm line expected to pass through our service area sometime around midnight tonight. Be sure to remain weather aware and if you lose power, report it right away. #StaySafeNashville WAYS TO REPORT AN OUTAGE 📱(615) 736-6900 💻 NESPower.com 🗺️ NES Outage Map 💬Text “OUT” to 637797 (NESPWR) (cell phone must be tied to your account)

@WolfReuter3 @yanisvaroufakis “We hold these truths to be *self-evident* …”

@yanisvaroufakis In law school, they teach you that if a party claims something to be „self-evident“, it should raise an alarm. Because usually it means the person with the claim has exactly zero to back up the claim. So thank you.

Constantly denying the self-evident genocide will not make it less self-evident to people of conscience, not to mention the ICJ and the ICC. Israel is in the dock. Period. The question is: Is your aim to go down in history as a genocide denier and, thus, supporter?

@JacobKupin4D19 @NC5 @angienashville @PredsNHL @Titans It’s good to know that they are breaking with past practices, like those during the arctic blast of 2022:

@micchiato @NC5 @angienashville @PredsNHL and @Titans did follow suit as well as some of the Broadway Bars.

TVA is expecting the highest peak demand for electricity in TVA history early Wednesday morning. They're asking people to conserve electricity throughout the day, but specifically between 6-10 a.m. newschannel5.com/news/tva-asks-…

@DavarianBaldwin @DocDre Baylor partnered in the largest urban renewal program in the state of Texas: “the City of Waco changed voting requirements on voting day, declaring only property owners as eligible voters” wacohistory.org/items/show/229….

Let's do a roll call: UPenn, UChicago, UIC, UC Denver, Hopkins, UGA, Vanderbilt, Duke, Berkeley, SLU, Yale, UABirmingham, Columbia, Christopher Newport, ODU...you go...

@JacobKupin4D19 @NESpower @hubNashville @freddieoconnell Thanks for responding. I don’t seem to be able to DM you. I am switching back to protecting my tweets for now. FYI, @NESpower also said they would clean up concrete debris their crews left in the road from installing a new telephone pole near that lamppost but they never did.

@micchiato @NESpower @hubNashville Mayor @freddieoconnell is heard at work on upgrades to the existing system. In the meantime, though, send me any HUB requests that you’re having trouble with. As far as the light goes, I just put it into HUB. Let me know if it’s not fixed within a few days.

Out after dark reporting street light outages! Improved lighting increases safety.

@JacobKupin4D19 @NESpower @hubNashville My experience with @hubNashville has been worse than my experience with @NESpower

@micchiato @NESpower Message me the address. Once you put it in @hubNashville send me that request as well!

@NESpower @JacobKupin4D19 You and I have been down this road multiple times in the DMs in the past year but the problem hasn’t been fixed. I’ve lost confidence in NES because NES won’t fix it.

@micchiato @JacobKupin4D19 Hi. Can you DM us your exact address so that we can look into this for you?

@eji_org That’s Grace McKinley in the photo walking her daughter Linda Gail and a friend through a crowd of hostile segregationists to Fehr Elementary, one of the desgregating Nashville schools. I wrote about these events: enclave-nashville.blogspot.com/2009/06/salemt… and enclave-nashville.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-don…

On this day in 1957, white church members and a minister preaching against the sinfulness of racial integration staged a protest outside of desegregating Nashville schools. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…