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It’s still defund and abolish the police. When any interaction has the potential to become a kidnapping at the hands of the state, we need to keep organizing to reduce police presence, power, and resources, to decriminalize potential offenses and help stop folks from coming into contact with them.

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Sly and the Family Stone “Stand, they will try to make you crawl And they know what you're sayin' makes sense at all Stand, don't you know that you are free Well, at least in your mind if you want to be” youtube.com/watch?v=GpUf...

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The crew of the Madleen deserves all of our love and solidarity. They knew they were on a dangerous path, but also understood the necessity of trying. The siege of Gaza must end, aid must be delivered, and the crew of the Madleen must be freed.

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what we lose when we stop teaching poetry

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The most fundamental characteristic of fascism is its cult of violence. Where there is no pre-existing violence to exploit, violence must be manufactured.

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African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say theconversation.com/african-pris...

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Many of the “most serious” places in our society are actually the least serious. So unserious, that they reduce the capacity of ordinary people to understand the concept of seriousness.

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Abolish ICE.

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Thank you, protestors, for your attention to this matter.

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Heard some mainstream country for the first time in a while, and it really is wild how it has nothing musically to do with country. It's just pop and rock with right wing cultural signifiers, and has been for like 25 years

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I think it’s an especially important time to to organize around the reality that it’s all connected: the ICE raids, the crackdown on campus speech, the Zionist insistence we not trust our eyes, the corporate overlord insistence that AI is actually…good. Say no. Fuck no.

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Posting this for no particular reason. #CocoGauff, French Open champion, on her grandmother who desegregated schools in Delray Beach, Florida: www.npr.org/2023/10/12/1...

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“Jonathan Greenblatt also said protests against Israel were driven by ‘same kind of nihilists’ who participated in Black Lives Matter.” Just naked racism from the head of the ADL. What a shande.

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I miss King Kong

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somewhere, a ghoul who has never known love is agonizing over which billionaire to transvestigate

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What people know is product of social relations not individual characteristics.

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Merit-based viewpointedly diverse death cult for whitey

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The callousness with which politicians move grosses me out.

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People say poverty is the leading driver of crime but they also say wage theft is the largest category of theft so I think we should clarify the former claim to indicate that it’s only the driver of “crime people care about trying to stop” or something like that

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Turns out I was misled. The fascists do not have the outfits

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Updates on the project I've been so excited about! I'm finally able to develop an online, asynchronous Cree course which I hope to launch by September: apihtawikosisan.com/2025/06/maki...

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Defunding the police was the basement and commonsense.

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👇🏻

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The interesting thing about people dragging the folks in that NYT piece who said that they didn’t vote for moms to get deported is that the article is about how these women are organizing for a member of their community, aggressively and openly, and actually, that’s good.

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«Today, as we struggle with fascism's afterlives and repetitions, it helps to remember that it came to power ... not as a form of ‹totalitarianism› fusing the political and the economic, but as a particularly violent strain of state-led anti-statism.» Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism, 2023

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maybe death cults shouldn’t run government

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If your heart is in the right place, you will make an effort to use language that is respectful, even if it doesn't altogether make sense to you

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Now I'm just a humble country lawyer but it seems to me that a government that has an Office of Ethnic Cleansing can have no just authority or legitimacy or anything

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lol I have news for Rubio wrt this little requirement for ascending to the second grade in China.

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Another reason why Rubio’s announcement is ridiculous: so many people have these kinds of connections to the party that are basically formalities or requirements for study/employment. This is not a carefully vetted security operation. This is an indiscriminate ban, and it’s incredibly bad policy.

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RFK Jr. is nothing more than a eugenicist death-merchant, and as classically racist as the universe is old...

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Been thinking lately about the fall 2023 meeting where I heard a Barnard College administrator instruct a librarian to take down a “Gaza” poster on their office door because “the College has determined that this form of political speech is not acceptable.” hyperallergic.com/1015184/high...

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This is what fascist state capture looks like in practice—a pervasive blurring of the boundary between state & vigilante violence under the aegis of the law.

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I am constantly reminded of how Aaron Scwartz was treated when he treated the knowledge w/in textbooks as if it should be available to everyone. Schwartz wasn’t promising the heads of industry billions in profit and savings. We should drag these ppl through the streets.

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