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If you are interested in getting your ham radio license, let me break it down for you. If you're coming to ham radio for the purposes of mutual aid and preparedness (like many of us do) it can be very daunting to make sense of. Let's start with the basics.

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people regularly ask me what they should do to prepare for the possibility of mass violence and civil unrest. we give this advice often on It Could Happen Here but this is my list of advice in no specific order:

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"There is no more middle ground. If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary… If you care about climate change, about labor conditions, about the well-being of children in warzones, there is nothing else for it—you have to become a revolutionary."

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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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Alaska schools are a mess. Consider: * A roof left to leak for 19 years; the school is about to collapse * A school w/o running water; kids ride the "bathroom bus" home 2x a day * Exposed wiring near flammable insulation “Our cries for help haven’t been heard.” www.propublica.org/article/rura...

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Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.

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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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Listening to this week's Behind the Bastards on Bruno Bettelheim. In 2003 I watched the documentary "Refrigerator Mothers" by David Simpson. This was my first real introduction to Bettelheim, despite having read "The Uses of Enchantment" a year earlier.

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This absolutely fucks me. This absolutely fucks me. This absolutely fucks me. I NEED telehealth. Please contact your reps and tell them to fight this. This is going to harm so many people. Do this for me.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 34 days ago • 1009 comments

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

submitted 35 days ago • 632 comments

Nazis. These people are Nazis.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

Every union should be echoing this statement.

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no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

submitted 40 days ago • 97 comments

"I love you!!!" "Oh, say it with paving stones!!!"

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now this is the cyberpunk dystopia i signed up for

submitted 42 days ago • 19 comments

Love this. Like, I literally cannot help it.

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want to feel old? there is a single specimen of the mushroom armillaria ostoyae in oregon that stretches over a range of nearly four square miles and is estimated to be 2400 years old. this has nothing to do with your age. your age is not important. you are free

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NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

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we got ICE snatching up people’s loved ones away and a BearCat rolling through a neighborhood yesterday but the local news is like “have you seen this dumpster that got fire damage from an anti-ICE protest.” do yall feel shame

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 52 days ago • 213 comments

i know times are hard on a lot of folks, cruel to a lot of groups, but that doesn't give you an excuse to hold a small talker in contempt. for all you know they have a galaxy of pain inside and they're trying not to spill on anyone. polite low stakes conversation is a glue that holds us together.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights. they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones

submitted 53 days ago • 22 comments

Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one: Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are. Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group. Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.

submitted 54 days ago • 26 comments

Stuck between 1.) wanting to express my anger about everything we knew would happen actually coming to be and 2.) not wanting to be yet another voice without any new insights freaking out and adding to the overwhelm my loved ones are already experiencing

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I'm almost done with this doily restock. These pieces are taking me forever.

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a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy is that i'm getting emails from my kids' schools assuring me that the teachers are dedicated to protecting my children against the federal government

submitted 57 days ago • 120 comments

I have a note from my doctor that says everyone has to be nice to me

submitted 57 days ago • 287 comments

ICE raids across Austin today. Confirmed by local news and DEA Houston office. Keep your head on a swivel, know your rights, help your neighbors prepare for it as well.

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

The wonderful @eff.org has an equally wonderful guide you can use to make it MUCH harder for Meta / Facebook / Instagram to collect and monetize your personal data. It's not super easy - offer to do this for family & neighbors who might not be able to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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laws aren’t real. solidarity is.

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Leonard Peltier www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

submitted 64 days ago • 85 comments