celiaoyler.bsky.social
Life long reader of dystopian fiction and antiracist & ant-fascist history and memoir; still not prepared for this moment. Retired teacher educator: from segregated special ed to Rethinking Schools orientation. Dyke. Widow. Anti-imperialist.
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Now if they would just drop Citibank as their credit card. @thirdactorg.bsky.social
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1984
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My solace also
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I have the wild hope that other beings are coming to rescue us from ourselves!
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Eager to read this.....am horrified by how much traction racist, white-ethnocentric shoddy "research" gets......
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Yesterday in a solidarity salon I helped organize of long-time cross interest activists, I asked that exact question: What does the public rage about their positions vis-a-vis the extractive health "insurance" companies offer us in terms of anti-capitalist organizing?
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Sigh....indeed....I do think this Brian Thompson assassination moment offers a great glimpse into Americans' growing outrage at the scraps they are getting....and maybe starting to articulate a critique of capitalism? If so, what could we be doing to deepen this?
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Stating the obvious: Yeah, well, one victim was a white millionaire and one was an unhoused Black man......America is consistent: Okay to murder a Black man who probably never killed anyone; totally against the law to mess with white rich dudes. "Same as it ever was....."
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So excited to watch this later!!
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I feel the momentum also!
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NYTimes.
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Hope you are doing a book talk in Northampton!
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and he sold 15 million of his shares immediately before the Justice Dept filed against the company......Making theft legal...along with all the people he denied medical care and who died: making murder legal...and lucrative!
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"In April, Bloomberg reported that he was one of at least four executives at the company who...sold shares before the Justice Department antitrust investigation was disclosed to the company’s investors: about $15 million worth in Mr. Thompson’s case."....these scumbags get away with everything
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Did you read the Atlantic article? It had some factual errors about literacy but overall was more balanced than what I have seen....
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My mind is fighting with my gut on this one.....
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Lovely connection… thanks so much for posting
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Dont ex law enforcement often become professionals in private enterprise or mercenary work?
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These comments are seriously changing my mood and have me belly laughing. Thank you!
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So on point!!! I love clever people…. Connecting the dots for all of us: public service!
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You are so funny (isn't this an ethics issue?)....It is beyond clear that ethics interfere with extraction of resources and capital and have NO place in our new reality!
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There are no words to say about human capacity for evil, torture, murder, dismemberment and violence. But children as targets?!?!? My mind cannot wrap around this inhumanity.
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Who is defending the pardon? Are you referring to Biden’s greatest apologist Heather Cox Richardson? Or…? #freeleonardpeltier; #exonerateEthelRosenberg
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It is impossible to wrap my mind around such inhumanity
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High school already? What's their first choice?m
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I am looking forward to reading this!
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Targeted attack on journalists is a feature of the Israeli genocide in Gaza
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I love you
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That is exactly what I am wondering….I am weeks away from full retirement and I will have time to throw my shoulder to the wheel, but where? I am gathering with comrades to analyze together and share food and connection…
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10 children lose a leg in Gaza every single day
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"many thousands of children are facing malnutrition and starvation"
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"these children as we speak today, right now, they are hungry, they are thirsty....and all around them, they have witnessed death and destruction"