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When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

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When the history of this period is written, the refusal of legacy media to allow people to even hear from people opposing genocide will be a study all its own. www.yahoo.com/news/view-qu...

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Cannot believe I have to say this: IF YOU ARE ORGANIZING ON THE GROUND OR WORKING ON ANY SENSITIVE MATERIALS DO NOT IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE CHATGPT. EVER.

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Of course asking someone what genitals they had at birth is a breach of the right to privacy. They’re called “private parts” not “private unless you suspect the person is transgender and then be as invasive as you want parts”

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The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

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me, a savvy politics understander, as the masked goons line me up against the wall: this is a distraction from the real issue, egg prices

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What's wild about this is that it doesn't even appear to be corrupt - it's just about getting tainted drugs into the US for the sake of getting tainted drugs into the US. Depraved on every level. www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

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🎶 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free 🎶

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America's secret police just detained a guy who might be Mayor of New York City and his NYPD escort. We have to abolish ICE. That should be the baseline Democratic Party position.

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"You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens who are asking to see a judicial warrant." NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander being arrested along with a member of his NYPD security team by ICE.

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Lord Haw-Haw

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This is the last thing the BBC needs

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? There is no such thing as “the law,” the answer to 99% of legal questions is “it depends” and what it depends on is entirely ✨vibes.✨

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This is one of the things I used to talk about a lot. One of the characteristics of Whiteness is that it cannot be interrogated. It cannot be assigned traits. Whiteness and its works are treated as "default". Never part of a trend that can be identified. Especially if that trend is negative.

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the only good "prompt engineer" is when the train driver shows up early for work

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Twitter Thread, Feb. 16, 2023: I've talked about how newly Disabled people with Long Covid differ from the "typical" newly Disabled people. Typically, newly Disabled people find Disabled communities on their own in their own time and work through issues in their own time. This is different. 1/13

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Here’s the thing I’m not totally sure we aren’t in the midst of a civil war

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A party that tells people to vote for corrupt, sexual assaulting politicians can't be surprised when people vote for corrupt, sexual assaulting politicians.

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Bill Ackman just donated another $250,000 to the pro-Cuomo super PAC. He's now the third-biggest donor to Fix the City. 1. Mike Bloomberg: $5,000,000 2. Doordash: $1,000,000 3. Ackman: $500,000 4. Daniel Loeb: $350,000 5. Matthew Hulsizer: $300,000 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

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Happy Father's Day!

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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis — ie, all the living Democratic presidential candidates — have all been completely silent about Israel's attack on Iran. They haven't said a word.

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respect to the reporter who's about to get fired by msnbc for failing to blame protesters for police violence

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Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

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Video of a protester being carried away unconscious after law enforcement tear gassed and shot crowd control weapons at the crowd.

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All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.

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As of 2025, Seattle's population is approximately 764,753. 10% of Seattle showed up at /this/ protest and there were more than just this one.

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Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

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a 21 year old drove an SUV intentionally into a crowd of protesters at a No Kings rally in Virginia www.fox5dc.com/news/man-dri...

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Israel is bombing Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria

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You absolutely can care about and fight for Palestine and trans rights and racial justice and environmental justice and land back and abolition and reparations and intersectional feminism and economic justice and healthcare and housing and education for everyone. It's actually all the same fight.

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The man who tried to assassinate Trump was a gun-loving Trump supporter who later turned on him. Right-wing media blamed Democrats, because of course. The alleged Minnesota shooter is an anti-abortion Christian nationalist w/ a list with other Dems as targets. They're still blaming liberals.

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#nokingsclt In Charlotte, NC, the official No Kings protest is over. But protestors aren't done. The cops clearly aren't either; they're using pepper spray now.

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The number of fucking times “there’s a carve-out for medical use” has been thrown at me by ableds trying to justify mask bans…. We literally fucking told you REPEATEDLY that was bullshit. And now we’re watching medical maskers get arrested. EXACTLY WHAT WE TOLD YOU WOULD HAPPEN.

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He is supposed to day "I've mobilized the National Guard to protect you from the assassin cops."

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