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Transformative mediation and (clumsy attempts to practice) principled nonviolence keep me from despair. Also, this: "The oppression of children is the wheel that keeps all other oppressions turning." —Aurora Levins Morales
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Had a good time at a No Kings protest, but some of the continued edification of the American flag and founding fathers certainly was uncomfortable. It is a good start, but we need more radical solutions to stop this from happening again a few election cycles from now. (If there still are elections)

Excellent piece on protest and self defense in LA from @melissagiragrant.com in @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1963...

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every time I have said this on here I have had people [usually the same ones who cite Chenoweth's 3.5% statistic (which she points out isn't to be interpreted in the way many people interpret it)] screaming that this isn't true. It isn't true 2 them because it doesn't FEEL like people are protesting

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One of my favorite Haneke films

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"Too many media, governments, companies, universities, too many guilty consciences and dirty hands." "Genocide is a process, not a single act. A collective act. [..] To end it, we must first be willing to see it." "I call it genocide because IT IS a genocide." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Children’s rights activist Ruth Beaglehole taught generations of Angelenos how to parent with empathy and nonviolence. After her death in April, her many students and mentees say her work will continue to ripple across L.A. and the world.

Parenting with nonviolence led me to prison abolition. It also helped me raise a kid that thinks for themself and who understands the relationship between empathy and justice. Thank you Ruth. Knowing you radicalized me. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

Miller definitely running this cruel and inhumane show.

Nobody should be driven into debt because they decided to go to the hospital and receive life saving care.

Assault with a deadly weapon (ICE vehicles)

No Facist USA

With Love and Rage ❤️✊ XR Global stands with LA and the protests happening across the United States. #LAProtests #DefendHumanRights

Let’s be clear about who’s running this horrific, hateful nightmare.

This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.

Show solidarity! #abolishice

Police in LA have been attacking protesters and press for the last 5 days straight. More people have been injured at these protests than any other I’ve seen. The brutality isn’t just likely against agency policy, it’s also potentially lethal. capitalandmain.com/police-viole...

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The speed with which the country is disassembling! I keep wondering how the regime thinks the US will function without Black and brown people, in a white fantasia. The people left won’t be able to feed themselves, heal themselves, build their homes, or flavor their food. What a choice!

DO NOT RANK CUOMO.

The rich must be taxed. Politicians who say this should not be the case are your enemies. You should grow up and stop accepting lies.

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I don't care about kings. I'm going to a protest with my Abolish Ice and Free All Immigrants signs. Where is THAT protest #indivisible?

"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Abolish ice

Property damage is not violence.

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Healthcare is a human right

“This massive system is the result of millions of little incentives and choices and it's not that any one person fully intends everything that it's doing or is responsible for it.” — @equalityalec.bsky.social speaks with @premthakker.bsky.social.

We’re speeding towards the moment when one of these ICE kidnappings ends in bloodshed.

Cruelty is the point

NPR @npr.org

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Done! Easy!

Just keep it on repeat, “The Bill for Billionaires” or “The Billionaires’ Bill.”

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NYers, time for new senate reps. Gillibrand and Schumer gotta go.