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🚫DMs w/out invitation. FDR Progressive, political agitator, rabid feminist, Crone, exvangelical, science nerd, former prof, unionist, medievalist fangirl, writer, poet, dabbling bookbinder, mouth like a sailor. https://leekottner515780.substack.com/
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Don't confront, just sit. Non violent de-escalation makes the agents provocateur stand out like sore thumbs. Let the cops haul their buddies away in pretend arrests, no real arrests or injury for you.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

We @lawfaremedia.org will hopefully publish something on this soon but fwiw the legal authority invoked is NOT the Insurrection Act — it’s 10 USC 12406, which is much more limited than an Insurrection Act invocation. (Reporters: Chris Mirasola is the expert to talk to about this)

submitted 10 hours ago • 48 comments

Reminder that this country had an insurrection on Jan 6 and Trump refused to send in the National Guard.

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan should be among the first in the dock when the Nuremberg 2.0 trials begin. They have egged on and in some cases ordered the brutalization of American citizens and legal immigrants. And if you're carrying out those orders? You're prosecuted next.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Okay, they just opened up on the unions. That is not going to go well for the masked cowards of ICE.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Folks in the NG and military, remember your oath is to the Constitution not a corrupt, bigoted president, to the right to free speech, to the right to protest against the government's actions. Don't start shit. Question your orders. Pete Hegseth is a fascist shitbag.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.

submitted 11 hours ago • 181 comments

Fuck ICE and every single politician and person in power not stopping them.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Pass this info on!

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 11 hours ago • 563 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 12 hours ago • 682 comments

cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

submitted 14 hours ago • 177 comments

Statement from Gavin Newsom: “The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 156 comments

In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

Have a beautiful day..

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...

submitted 1 day ago • 555 comments

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

submitted 1 day ago • 1085 comments

Boosting for the author. Go buy the books. Pissing off the narcissistic 🍊💩🐒 is just a bonus.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Both true and hilarious.

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🖋️ “Codify EMTALA: Protect emergency abortion access and women's lives” hit 100 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PIXSEW to 50409

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Absolutely. Tell the cops more than they ever wanted to know about women's biology. How're they going to know it's not a miscarriage?

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submitted 1 day ago • 310 comments

#BookSky

submitted 2 days ago • 354 comments

ANYONE who thinks ANY group should accept fewer human rights than everyone else is totally unfit to serve as an EHRC commissioner.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 652 comments

A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

submitted 2 days ago • 715 comments

About fucking time. Bring the rest back too.

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Help draw the line on book bans in Huntington Beach, California. action.everylibrary.org/linehuntington via @everylibrary.bsky.social‬

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

19 companies pulling back their support for Pride because they are chickenshits.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously, we have a lot ot learn from the French about protest.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Mother Gaia to celebrate Pride Month tonight after sunset

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

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Tesla Takedown in Boston.

submitted 5 days ago • 779 comments

Letting my freak flag fly until maybe it's not a freak flag but a state of the world.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Pride month to my LGBTQIA+ friends and acquaintances!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is so true. Nothing brings me more joy than looking at the books that I have chosen to have on my book shelves.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Nice shirt!! 😂 Correct answer: d

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submitted 7 days ago • 207 comments

Yes. Yes we do.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What a condescending fuck. What a heartless cunt--and that is not a word I use lightly. In fact, I take it back. Cunts are lifegiving. This piece of shite? She's just part of the Republican Death Party who wants everybody who doesn't think/look/believe like her, dead. Vote her out.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments