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the era of neoliberalism is over, and realpolitik is dead. you have to grow a spine. you have to have morals. you have to have red lines. you have to develop a sense of right and wrong that is not based in pragmatism or law, but in your heart and empathy for your fellow man. then, we can win

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my grandpa was illiterate so i have no idea if this ouija board is working or not

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Reports coming in that people managed to break out and escape horrific ICE prison in #NewJersey. "About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room..." www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...

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the Dreadful POINT no.59 Read for free and subscribe to the email edition at thedreadfulpoint.com/2025/06/10/59/ Subscribe to the broadside edition at ko-fi.com/s/df090ca6bb

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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Good morning! pix11.com/news/local-n...

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W.I.P.

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wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.

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How I take criticism

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In hindsight there were perhaps some subtle hints in some media that perhaps the Imperium was not entirely meant to be viewed as straightforward good guys.

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Every western country has absurd news bias that favors the ruling classes and yet Sheinbaum, Lula, Petro, and Sanchez were able to build leftist majorities. We don't need media hegemony to win and it may even be harmful to have our every delusion verified that way.

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The “largest landback deal in California history” was just completed, and it could be a model for the future.

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a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump

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The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.

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"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights." inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

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the anti-protest arguments don’t exist to persuade protestors to change their behavior; they exist to be had, over and over again, costing as many sympathetic bystanders as possible their conviction and their gumption

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Walt Disney's head must be spinning in its cooler at the thought of anyone exploiting the labor of Disney animators besides him

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How can I sleep with scenes like these in LA

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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

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Like I have been saying for years the MSM is actively harmful to movements.

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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I would like to remind everyone that the outcome of the events laid out below was the president going to The Hague.

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Value Palace 16 Concourse

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NOW — I’m at the ICE OUT OF NEW YORK protest in Foley Square.

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🚨 PHILLY VS. ICE 🚨 Five of our neighbors were kidnapped by ICE today. Folks have called for an emergency protest at the Federal Detention Center at 700 Arch St. beginning at 4pm. Come prepared, mask up, stay safe, raise hell. Let’s give these fascist monsters a real Philly welcome 🧊

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Full House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more...

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Chatgpt is down and The Dreadful Point is up!

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There is a new issue of The Dreadful Point thedreadfulpoint.com/2025/06/10/59/

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BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

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"...Jack Kirby is the only major cartoonist to have killed Nazis. And he didn't do it from a distance -- he killed Nazis using the same hands that later drew Thor..." bars from this discussion on the comics journal: www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-h...

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The reality is that people have peacefully protested deportations for decades. The reality is that we're here now because neither Democrats nor Republicans did anything but deport more people. A riot is the language of the unheard, MLK said that.

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NEW: Over a thousand people are rallied in Downtown LA in support of SEIU, after SEIU President Pres. David Huerte was arrested days ago after an ICE raid (ABC7) Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some

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LAPD out there like

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It's weird how everything "gives the fascists exactly what they want" except giving the fascists exactly what they want

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lmaoooooo hell yeah LA

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The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.

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Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

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