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BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

Note from a human rights lawyer to members of the U.S. military: If directed to execute illegal orders, remember, declaring “I was just following orders” was not a valid defense during the Nuremberg trials, & it won’t be here either. Your oath is to the US Constitution—not to a 34X convicted felon.

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA HAVE AGAIN AND AGAIN TOLD YOU WHAT SCARES THEM AND IT IS NOT ONE BIG PROTEST, IT IS MANY SMALLER ONES

I worked with a Black elder at the Charlotte MEPS who had been a member of SNCC and people really discount the amount of planning and training that went into the Non-violent protests of the Civil Rights era. It started with selecting who could show up to the action.

The regime is looking to provoke violence so they have an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, criminalize dissent, and federalize the National Guard. The movement can win with mass participation if we maintain non-violent discipline and win defections from the security forces.

Regular reminder that it doesn't have to be like this and you can deactivate AI overviews in your Google searches!

THIS

Only someone who was ordering tea from under a rock could not know how queer this tea is 😍

The young intact orange cat was at our back door again. I have dubbed him Noob, for Not Our Orange Boy. I'll check community groups for owners.

Canadian here. In addition to news like @cbcnews.ca and @aptnnews.bsky.social, I’ve started watching news from @en.france24.com , an English news channel from France. BBC, Germany, Australia, Al-Jazeera… Recommend Americans start diversifying their news sources to non-US sources asap.

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

End the #GestapICE

people should realize that raising entire generations of kids with active shooter drills and the threat of being murdered at school while also telling them that there is nothing they could do because the Republicans deserve their AR 15s more than they deserve to live readied them for these fights.

Good time to remember Hong Kong’s excellent protest gear: Helmet, goggles, gloves, sleeves, long pants. Masks (one on your face, at least one sealed in a zip bag or still in the wrapper. More if you can.) Pocket umbrella. hongkongfp.com/2019/08/09/e...

These brave civilians stood up for their fellow humans. They said “No” to the Gestapo. An entire community banded together to fight back. And ICE rammed the crowd. They escalated. They chose even more violence. ICE is the problem. Not migrants. My god.

Today has sucked giant glacial erratics through bitty coffee straws. I would appreciate support through my ko-fi ko-fi.com/eleritmlh

NO MILK FOR TEAR GAS

I really want to be excited... but I can't play FPS games, and there was so much *more* to #TheExpanse than shoot-and-kill. It's like as soon as a story has guns, game companies don't know how to make anything else.

“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

Oohhh this is good www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...

Only fascists hold giant military parades for their Glorious Leader.

DAMMIT. a-ha.com/news/morten-...

another Catherine painting, inspired by the #Riven remake 💖

What if we made post HS education about *learning*, instead of job training?

They are the #GestapICE

Slab pottery work.

Because of this financial aid mess, I'm going to have to use the $$ from my ebike I sold to pay bills, instead of getting the etrike I wanted. Responsible Adult vs Adult Independence, woo.

You have no value to the GOP except as an indentured servant to capitalism.

AUGH

📌 This emoji doesn't come up for tack, pin or thumbtack... but it does for pushpin. Sheesh🙄

Just because Elon is taking potshots at TFG, doesn't mean he's not a hemorrhoid on the arsehole of an incontinent Grizzly. #MuskStillSucks

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. *Way* too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

I think Congresspeople should have to pass an exam on the contents of bills before they are allowed to vote on them.