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#OtD 7 Jun 2020 Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, UK, pulled down a statue of enslaver Edward Colston and threw it into Bristol Harbour. Colston's Royal African Company transported more than 100,000 enslaved Africans in the 17th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...

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LAPD shot him with a stun grenade made by Defense Technology LLC, a subsidiary of Cadre Holdings aka Safariland. Cadre Holdings munitions are also used by the Israeli military against Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza. Their CEO is multimillionaire Warren Kanders of Greenwich, CT.

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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I am so shocked 🙄 Trump pressured Lindsey Graham to water down the Russian sanctions bill. I highly doubt it will ever get passed despite overwhelming support in Congress but Trump yet again shows his fealty to Russia www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Eid Mubarak to all. May this holiday be a time of renewal and healing for your families, friends, and communities, and may it restore your commitments to each other, and the cause of justice. Especially for the least among us, as all the great faiths urge us to yearn for.

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Well #alaskasky I think I’m gonna have to settle in bc this is not an easy one. We aren’t sure if she’s in Anchorage or Eagle River. If you see her, call 911 for case 25-16312 Thank you 🙏🏼 #missing #alaska

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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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Democracy in action. Definitely not a plutocracy.

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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

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Reporters: ask how many GS-15s there are working in the government that have so little experience and are like 20 years old. Can't be many. Maybe not any.

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People around the world are starving now because of Musk’s cuts. They are dying of disease because of Musk’s cuts. They are being born with diseases they will carry with them for the rest of their lives because of Musk’s cuts. https://trib.al/bcwnBRR

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Factors that contribute to conspiratorial beliefs, featuring UCSF clinical psychiatrist @psychunseen.bsky.social. From the Cambridge Disinformation Summit webinar series. youtu.be/0v_v1XtCW-A?...

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WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.” A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE

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Donald Trump fulfills another Project 2025 goal by quietly attempting to rescind Biden-era abortion protections in medical emergencies. shero.substack.com/p/trump-trie...

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AI is reshaping power and democracy in harmful ways, writes Kevin De Liban. “It is clearing Trump’s path to authoritarian rule” through decisions “that deprive the public of the resources needed to participate meaningfully in democracy.”

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I refuse to stand idly by while Maryland’s federal workers are fired without cause. Our grant program will help these incredible public servants transition into new careers where they can continue to serve our state and make us proud. www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-p...

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NEW: Trump Administration Proposes Cutting Tribal College Funds by Nearly 90% @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

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Wrote about Trump voters’ and responsibility. People don’t vote for particular policies, necessarily. but they do I think vote for white identity/supremacy. and I think that is a moral fault. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/they-did-v...

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‼️Security Service of #Ukraine reports a new attack on the Kerch bridge! The operation lasted several months. Security Service agents mined the supports of the bridge and activated the first explosive device today at 4:44 am.

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This @washingtonpost.com headline, framing, and reporting is maddening. This is not a push to cut waste...it is a push to drastically cut health care, food assistance and housing assistance to pay for tax cuts. The reporting is ahistorical and misleading. It's stunning. 🧵

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Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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ICE in Moorpark, CA this morning. Subscribe to these local IG accounts. They are doing really good work documenting ICE activities in our area.

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📜 text SIGN PFOUSE to 50409 or share, “Don’t support a budget where billionaires win and families lose.” @resist.bot

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The Civil Rights Act, the law to prohibit discrimination, will heretofore be known as the Conservative Affirmation Action Act

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MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

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appreciate the New York Young Republicans adopting the same immigration stance as Idi Amin

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It’s about the money!

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Why read the puff piece in the NYT when you can read this?

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Sean Feucht’s political function is to recruit apolitical Christians into the MAGA movement where he molds them into a fighting force for anti-LGBTQ and anti-liberal hate, so it’s not that surprising that he’s remunerated himself quite handsomely for that work. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

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Minneapolis, eyes up!

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DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

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Palantir have 11 contracts spanning the NHS, the police, the Ministry of Defence, and the Cabinet Office. Alex Karp is CEO, Peter Thiel is Chairman and Director. Palantir tech is used by the IDF, with Karp expressing pride and support of Israel ‘in every way we can’ open.substack.com/pub/european...

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