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hmm it's almost like the abandonment is... organized

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Two years later, we look back at the decades-old roots of organizers' fight to Stop Cop City. Cop City is a fundamentally anti-democratic project driven by a mix of powerful actors, while Atlanta’s residents have been utterly ignored. This is why “the Stop Cop City movement is here to stay.”

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just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

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Once a celebrated investigative news organization, The Asheville Watchdog has become a key player in the laundering of Far Right talking points into our community's mainstream.

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Wowowow

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This is something I intuited but didn't actually understand until reading this but YEP

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new Kim Hiørthoy drop, let's fuckin GO

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Something to understand about the nazi salute nonsense is that back during Reconstruction there was a cottage industry of Klan denial, where Democratic papers would pretend the KKK didn't exist or point to their stupid rituals as evidence they were a Republican delusion or otherwise harmless

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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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That was one of many, many peaceful protests. My Dad participated in plenty of them in the 60's. They arrested him, tortured him with electro shocks then kicked him out of the country

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“In recent weeks, Patriot Front has also targeted communities in Littlefield, Arizona; Ontario, California; Sarasota, Florida; Amicalola, Georgia; South Bend, Indiana; Reno, Nevada; Clarksville and Jackson, Tennessee; Herriman, Utah; and Rock Springs, Wyoming.”

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I think it's good to acknowledge sometimes you're just sitting in the archive quietly crying.

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DOING IT SO WRONG

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Maybe you didn't hear that Airbnb lists properties in illegal Israeli settlements, but now you have yet another good reason to never use that app

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It's just so important to look at oneself first. If you're asking why OTHER people aren't doing something that YOU aren't, you'll find part of the answer in why you aren't doing said thing.

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Love oldies ("Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz)

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Reupping this in-progress Resource of Digital World-Building Resources in case anyone has energy to fill in some of the holes this weekend!

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Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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There's the Tesla dealership but there's also just Lincoln Park

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Everyone needs way more coat

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"peanut butter jelly the long way" will not exit my brain

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Dealing with my stress by binging @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff eps about #anarchy and the Russian Revolution with @margaret.bsky.social & @miawong.bsky.social and idk if it's helping but it's definitely better than doomscrolling 🏴 open.spotify.com/episode/2GXe...

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We either grit our teeth, scale up our mutual aid, + brace to lose so many people to dungeons, exile, murder, and suicide, or we hit the streets so fucking hard we enter The Cool Zone, which will also require us scaling up our mutual aid, so, scaling up our mutual aid is a good call for right now

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We're past "troubling."

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Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today. "They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."

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I would like to give a shout-out to the nice people who helped me get my passport despite the fact that the system absolutely had me set up for failure

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If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at [email protected]. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.

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NEW, from me: U.S. border czar Tom Homan met with an associate of the Proud Boys on at least 4 separate occasions to discuss deportations, including one “closed door meeting” that took place Dec 11, 2024, in Chicago and included Chicago Alder Raymond Lopez (D). www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

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icymi: cook county sheriff tom dart quietly worked with freakonomics’ steven levitt on an algorithm that used shotspotter + police data to “match” people on electronic monitors to new crimes—even as their own research found the monitors were prone to false alerts.

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NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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this big flat box might be useful so I'm going to put it in the storage unit forever

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Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.

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pto note just says "fucking duh"

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Always grateful for Kelly but especially in the current moment. Appreciate her naming that we're in the midst of a Federal administrative coup and that at the moment the Right is winning.

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waiting for the adl to announce that Kanye is fine

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We've updated our tracker below with these 3 additions. If you have information about any of the people on this list, or know of other Musk associates who have entered the federal government, reach out on Signal at 917-512-0201.

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Was feeling wily this morning and went to the gym before work and spent the afternoon exhausted, headache, suffering. Lesson learned: mornings are for morning people!

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That’s not just a security guard, it’s a member of the Triple Canopy private paramilitary organization that merged with Erik Price’s notorious Blackwater group.

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Happening now: a protest organized by a large coalition of groups has sprung up outside of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. Allegedly, former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant is attending an event inside tonight. Banner reads, "genociders not welcome here!"

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it took a year and a half but my first reader cover story is finally out! it's a deep dive into how the cook county sheriff's office worked with the university of chicago to build a web of surveillance for people one electronic monitors. but there's so much more. strap in. 🧵

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Univ of IL Health, which runs UIC Hospital, has reportedly been quietly enforcing Trump’s illegal & discriminatory ban on gender affirming care for trans, nonbinary, & intersex youth under 19 yo. Join the protest: Thurs 2/6, noon, UIC West Campus (Hermitage & Taylor). #Chicago #ProtectTransYouth

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