utopianrebel.bsky.social
opinionated anticapitalist Southerner. pro-abortion. student of abolition. wordsmith. spicy. #nolatwitter.
practitioner of stylostixis.
borders are scars upon the earth.
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It’s wild that in the UK, researchers exposed 34 consenting people to Covid, half got infected & their cognition dropped measurably.
Apparently there’s no IRB-equivalent group monitoring research on humans there?
How informed can informed consent be about a novel virus? Especially for the 18 yr olds
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They’ve been letting war criminals write for the Times for at least half a century, & providing consistent stenography for cops, presidents, the state department, & other liars, so
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All these smug lib takes about farmers deserving to go bankrupt are depressing & cruel.
Y’all wish misery on farmers you assume voted for a fascist, but are unconcerned about the farmers’ families, much less the thousands of farm workers who depend on these jobs but can’t risk deportation to do them
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But none of us deserve any of this, except the corporate/tech elites & political class. Certainly not the farm workers who need those jobs to survive & provide for their families.
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What multi-faceted ignorance this naked stoner demonstrates
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Just this morning!
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He is keeping very busy being terrible
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Tysm, I did miss it, despite following other news about Milei, & having covered Argentinian economics & uprisings in 2001-2 during the crash.
This dog news is WILD
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Love blocking these genocide apologists
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That broke my heart, as someone who’s done disaster response in New Orleans for 20 years, & spent lots of summer vacations in Brevard, Montreat, Hendersonville, and still visits all around there whenever possible. Wildfires after all that was cruelty on top of so much suffering
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It’s best in spring when camelias (and azaleas, & much more) are blooming, & birds have migrated back to Bird City. But it’s magnificent any time
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🔥
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Omg this is the “mostly the same thing” dipshit who directed Fiddler once so he’s Jew-adjacent?🤦🏻♀️
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And the majority of hurricanes by far
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It’s so fucked up how no one remembers, in their regional roll calls, to name the South, where the majority of African Americans live &—to this post specifically—the vast majority of hurricanes in the US make landfall
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The entire gulf coast (minus Texas) would like to have a word with the author of this geographical malfeasance, or at least smack them on the head with a large book known as an atlas
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Too bad there will be no enforcement in the vast majority of the state
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Chester was adorable, rode around on my shoulder, & climbed up into my long mohawk (not spiked) when he was nervous or shy. I released him gradually over several days. All high schoolers should care for a baby squirrel (or raccoon), especially the punks
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LSU vet school laughed at 15-yr-old me calling about a squirrel infant whose mom was probably put a neighbor’s gumbo, but they told me how to dropper feed him so I brought him to high school in my shirt pocket & eventually released him in his birthplace oak canopy when his teeth/claws became razory
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Whose claim? What PAC?
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What i’d like to know is how much is @50501movement.bsky.social going to donate? To this grieving family & also to the young antiracist punk you slandered?
Who else besides yr group has “peacekeepers” w guns (but not gun handling skills) instead of deescalation skills? Y’all need to slow down & gyst
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“Peacekeepers” is absolutely a standard term for protests. Has been for 60+ years. Good ones are helpful, skilled at deescalation, answering questions, & don’t try to control people’s behaviors as long as they aren’t threatening or harming anyone.
Arming peacekeepers is nonstandard & utterly insane
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What even is 50501? An internet phenomenon that blew up & is who? Accountable to who? Has what experience organizing, community building, deescalation, security, antiracist praxis, messaging, talking to the media, not talking to cops?
Lots of ppl they could learn from, we been doing this for decades
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Any links you could share would be appreciated, as I have found nothing really sense-making yet
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It is so hard.
There’s a constant onslaught on here (& irl) of people spouting vicious hate on the south—that we voted our way into fascism, & so we deserve not to have FEMA, SNAP benefits, legal abortion, clean water, etc.
Lots of “f**k those people” & “let them die” so I’m a bit touchy on this
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Definitely the power guys & others you mentioned. Also, even trash collectors, to whom we gave tips & cold 6-packs when they finally were able to resume services 3-4 weeks after hurricane Ida & our rotten cans were swarming with bugs
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Yes, it’s so sad & unsafe for all involved. I’ve heard similar stories from EMS friends—navigating rotting steps & porches, carving a path through hoarded stuff, the ways poverty impacts people’s bodies & also homes, & then impacts folks trying to get to them & move them to definitive care
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2 days ago, June 13, in Newark
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Not sure where you’re from or where you live but I’m born & raised & still organizing in south Louisiana & certainly don’t need anyone explaining gerrymandering to me.
When I finished high school 35 years ago there was only 1 Republican in any sort of state office. I’ve witnessed the entire process
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That’s wack, lots of hospital workers with fancier licenses (many of whom do not need that discount) would be out of work if EMS didn’t risk their backs, knees, & lives to stabilize & transport people
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The number of times I’ve wanted to cross a police line to stop someone from bleeding out but was menaced & threatened with arrest while all the cops ignored the wounded person (who sometimes did in fact bleed out hours later) is inhumanely high
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YES! Almost always. Since I was 13 I’ve been the first on the scene of an extraordinary number of crises where someone needed some level -often extreme- of help before they could move safely. It’s why I started doing wilderness first aid/responder/EMT trainings in my early 20s
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Why the hell are they playing Lizzo’s music
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waves from Louisiana
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You make it sound so simple. Should we just vote from our gerrymandered districts to get them changed?
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Love to NWLA from SELA, I’m proud of y’all too!
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Wait they didn’t even have a band for these guys? What kind of good parade doesn’t have a band for each section
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New Orleans has those conditions all the time, & we did not suffer out there today
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Love a good alt text
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Nothing wrong with wanting to keep your housing, even if Medicaid was only for nursing homes which of course it’s not
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Exactly, sitting is rarely a good tactic for reacting. Sit-ins worked as a proactive pre-planned action, in large part bc the optics of cops beating passive people on the ground were a deterrent.
Clearly optics no longer matter & so idk if an organized, purposeful sit-in is even viable anymore
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A sit-in is an organized protest w a history, planned to occupy space. It’s proactive, creates obstacles *& optics* making cops look unhinged if they attack.
Sitting as a reactive tactic is lunacy & will result in injuries.
Don’t teach what you don’t know & haven’t experienced in the real world
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Thank you for the pics. I miss jacarandas, learned to love them when I lived in Mexico, & they do not grow in south Louisiana
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This is the sort of headline we deserve
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I remember when this ran!