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New @nuclearban.bsky.social analysis reveals that global nuclear weapons spending "could feed all of the 345 million people currently facing the most severe levels of hunger globally, including starvation, for nearly two years." By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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Reminder: Benjamin Netanyahu has an active international arrest warrant for war crimes and our weak, spineless elected officials keep sending him and Israel bombs. Arrest him and hold him accountable for his crimes and enforce an arms embargo.

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We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces. We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses. Hello?

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"There is no other choice," said @codepink.bsky.social as Israel launches an illegal war on Iran, "ARMS EMBARGO NOW!" By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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The @ccrjustice.org accused GHF of "directly contributing to or otherwise furthering Israel's commission of forcible transfer and other atrocity crimes." By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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"It would be a catastrophic mistake to be led into a war by the same neocons that claimed the Iraq war would be a cakewalk," warns @niacouncil.org. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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The air quality in Toronto is worse than any other city in the world right now. Wildfire smoke has had a stranglehold on us for days. Many more people are wearing respirators. Are they living in fear of smoke? Do they need to “just live their lives?” Of course not. Masks work!

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"Sanctioning ICC judges for doing their work on behalf of justice is a flagrant attack on the rule of law," said one critic. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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How is this not fascistic behavior?

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"This latest shameful U.S. veto—one in a long list—gives Israel the green light to continue its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza," said the head of @amnesty.org. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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"To end it, we must first be willing to see it," says the U.N.'s top Palestine expert of Israel's Gaza genocide. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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Lowe’s Dyson Nivea Tiffany Capital One UPS Disney Door Dash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo Pepsi Nissan PWC Citi Mastercard …all pulled their support for Pride. If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability. popular.info/p/pride-and-...

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1/ #PrideMonth began with heartbreak: Native American TV icon #JonathanJoss was brutally murdered on Sunday. 🧵

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"The most cynical aspect of it all is that he is deluded enough to believe that now admitting what he knew all along makes him look principled," one critic said of Matt 'Count Smirkula' Miller. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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This is what we get when the military sells its surplus to local LE. Half of your city’s budget goes to cops so they can cosplay like this

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The plea came amid Israel's killing of desperate, starving Palestinians trying to secure food and other lifesaving humanitarian aid. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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I’ve had so many people send me this picture the past few days. What a great day in Brooklyn that was! 🗽New York City—support Zohran Mamdani to be your next Mayor. Get involved with his campaign, too!

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Trans people and their families are fleeing the United States. This country is making refugees of its own citizens. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

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"No matter how dangerous this mission is, it's nowhere near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the live-streamed genocide," said climate activist Greta Thunberg, who is aboard the Madleen. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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Reparations aren’t radical. Enslaving people for hundreds of years, Black Codes, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration + more is radical. Denying the financial harms of that is unconscionable.

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"Musk's departure obscures but does not actually change the continuity of DOGE's staff and mission to destroy everything that protects the public from the depredations of the most rapacious oligarchs," says the head of @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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"Leading the Office of Special Counsel requires independence and experience," says watchdog @pogo.org. "Paul Ingrassia seemingly has neither of these things." By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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"Alameda County's new district attorney is rejecting her predecessor's recommendations to resentence people on death row." "[I]n prior decades, prosecutors from the office were [..] automically excluding Jewish and African American jurors in death penalty cases." #California #USA #Incarceration

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i’m here you fuckaas bitch

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"At a moment when U.S. democracy is threatened by MAGA authoritarianism and deep inequality, doubling down on private-sector solutions while ignoring redistributive policy is a dangerous distraction," says @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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"The pattern suggests not an effort to neutralize a threat, but a deliberate campaign to dismantle and depopulate Gaza—a process of forced displacement which is a war crime," said one @oxfaminternational.bsky.social campaigner. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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The vigil at Harvard University took place as UNICEF said that at least 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or wounded in Gaza during 600 days of Israeli bombs, bullets, and blockades. By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

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