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Marxian slack-key guitarist. Betty Crocker Homemaker Of Tomorrow Award winner. Holder of liberal arts and tech degrees. Parent of neurodiverse offspring. There is no thought without emotion and no emotion without thought.
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Spotted in the wild today

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Heading off to the local protest.

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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

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Let's all be very clear that ICE *and* regular cops refusing to identify themselves in any official or legible way is creating a situation that allows murderers and non-state kidnappers to successfully impersonate law enforcement. We had kidnappers do this in Philly this week in ICE costumes, too.

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The fascists are in charge and are sending the military to do regime change in California but a new season of Resident Alien just dropped so it’s not all bad.

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Enough of this flat earth nonsense. The earth is round-ish.

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At this point, any member of Congress that isn’t doing things that cause Johnson or Thune threaten them with censure isn’t doing their job.

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Done.

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go ahead, post another "both sides" take. tell me about cafeteria complaints and affinity group graduations at liberal arts colleges set the groundwork for today's DHS. write another essay comparing the domestic mobilization of the military to the social dynamics of leftist group chats.

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Brody King shared a post about what is happening in LA right now on Instagram. #AEW 🤼

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Presidentialism was a mistake

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"Our support and solidarity with people who are struggling for human dignity and justice should not depend on their knowing anything about us! Solidarity is not a market exchange. It’s not, you need to give us your love and we’ll give you ours!" black-ink.info/2020/01/16/s...

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🤣😆🤣

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Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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You know it’s bad when financial advisors are broadcasting advice to clients on how to live abroad.

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American politicians:

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pls share/RT There Are No 'Distractions' In A War, Only Fronts www.oliverexplains.com/p/there-are-...

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This is right out of the dystopian scifi we've long had. It was predicted by experts, art, activists, anyone who gave a damn. It was predictable because it was already present in existing forms of surveillance and control going all the way back (and beyond) to things like the Fugitive Slave Act.

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the idea of fingerwagging your way into protest discipline is deeply delusional for a number of reasons, chief among which is that the cops' decisions are among the biggest determinants of how protests ago. it's like being perplexed at people for using umbrellas while ignoring the weather

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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

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