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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

These Philadelphia police scanner reports from the end of the Super Bowl are like a "novel in three lines" à la the anarchist journalist Félix Fénéon. It's important to remember that the police do not have the capacity to control the general population—especially a raucous, joyous crowd.

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

If you are still out here trying to blame your neighbors for what is going down in the government WAKE THE FUCK UP it didn't help avoid this and it's not going to solve it

This is a scary time, but also one where people across divisions could in theory link up and offer real solidarity and support to each other. We have a choice - allow different groups of people to be targeted, or show up and stand with everyone under attack.

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & distro freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

Of the ~780 people sent to Guantanamo Bay 750+ have been released. Only eight have ever been convicted of anything. And four of those had their convictions overturned. Only 16 were even charged with crimes. So much for the Writ of Habeas Corpus. It had a good run.

CRUCIAL: I went back to the D67 building, where Vietnam ran the war against the Americans. I can now CONFIRM the adorable kitten thermos is historically accurate, which means Võ Nguyên Giáp was drinking tea out of it in a bunker while crushing the U.S. military.

See this?

#fuckthecorpos

if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."

Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!

THIS! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Dangling more than a years salary in front of people to do their jobs for them only to turn around and cite the terms and conditions to deny it is wild. It’s wild how the police can still shock.

And yes here's a bunch of other actions you can take for reproductive justice AND what people who are doing this work are saying is urgently needed IS MONEY. docs.google.com/document/d/1... - I'm not telling people not to do other things too. But $$ is urgently needed.

Pressure is growing on President Joe Biden to free Indigenous activist #LeonardPeltier, who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. www.democracynow.org/2024/11/26/b...

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