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and our government, tax dollars, and American bombs continue to enable it

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Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin. He should still be alive.

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A problem that runs all the way through men feeling insecure/lonely to women coming forward about sexual assault and being treated like complete shit to the way we treat the homeless and about 1000 other things is that we fundamentally view human vulnerability as something worthy of contempt

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

I really love Dark Phang! 🔥 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #MomSky

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

This is beautiful.

submitted 12 days ago • 179 comments

“Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

BRUUUUCEEEE!✊🏼 A- MEN!🙌🏻 youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Nelson Mandela #poverty

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This regime is gutting vital services relied upon by millions...all to extend even more tax cuts (and subsidies) to the super-rich. (Art work by @doodlebymeg)

submitted 20 days ago • 110 comments

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 175 comments

Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent. They want to intimidate, bully, and bankrupt everyone who doesn’t conform to their ideology. We will NOT be intimidated. We will NOT be silenced. We will DEFEND our freedom.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

When John Yoo is saying that you’ve gone too far, that’s a SIGN.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

submitted 28 days ago • 134 comments

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized. Mahmoud Khalil Rümeysa Öztürk Mohsen Mahdawi Yunseo Chung Alireza Doroudi Badar Khan Suri Kseniia Petrova Kilmar Ábrego García Andry José Hernández Romero Jerce Reyes Barrios + Hundreds More

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

ICE is deporting American children. AMERICAN KIDS. What the fuck.

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

Words matter. The Trump regime did not "deport" a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity—the Trump regime knowingly Human Trafficked a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity. That isn't just a violation of US Constitutional rights, it's a violation of international human rights law.

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

submitted 34 days ago • 19 comments

#MomSky Keep Reposting

submitted 35 days ago • 335 comments

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

submitted 36 days ago • 50 comments

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

submitted 40 days ago • 527 comments

I would like every autistic person in the US to write to the Department of the Treasury and demand their taxes back. Apparently they never had to pay them in the first place.

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

Israel’s total siege and bombardment of Gaza has left Palestinian children surviving on less than one meal a day, according to an urgent warning by leaders of 12 major aid groups in the besieged enclave aje.io/2px3a7

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This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 42 days ago • 46 comments

MORE OF THIS ALL THE TIME EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE PLEASE

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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

submitted 42 days ago • 1351 comments

A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

submitted 43 days ago • 189 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 43 days ago • 609 comments

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

submitted 43 days ago • 824 comments

Bring home Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 44 days ago • 161 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 44 days ago • 577 comments

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 45 days ago • 369 comments

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

submitted 45 days ago • 255 comments

Stop posting: A1 has won the Internet this week

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

submitted 46 days ago • 30 comments

Watching this two years later is chilling. The warnings are now reality. And the call for educators to embrace and embody educated hope is essential.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Henry Giroux - Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Fascist Tyranny "As a practice of freedom, critical pedagogy arises from the conviction that educators and other cultural workers have a responsibility to unsettle power, trouble consensus, and challenge common sense." youtu.be/4WM1G5Ovy54?...