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Also, our very own co-founder @tinavasquez.bsky.social has written this brilliant op-ed for @prismreports.org about the ICE raids in LA, and how communities are rising up to defend themselves. The Flytrap says FUCK ICE, to be absolutely clear. prismreports.org/2025/06/09/l...

As someone who *still* wears an N95 to protect my high-risk child from airborne viruses, I saw this coming weeks ago.

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I'm a believer in nonviolent resistance for moral reasons, and I think it can be incredibly powerful when well-planned and sustained, but don't tell me violence doesn't work. The people successfully rolling back my rights were sending bomb threats to children's hospitals.

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

There are so many scientific studies & articles warning about how dangerous COVID still is - I've yet to see a single one to support the conclusion that masks are unnecessary, or that there's no difference between the COVID Competent vs Mask Deniers in long term health.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

Boston, we need to step up.

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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

THIS. Also, to just be horrified at the idea of the “Department of Homeland Security”. I literally said the word “Nazis” at the time. People born this century, there didn’t used to be a Department of Homeland Security.

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Love HTML? Love CSS? Love Web Components? I'm launching a thing soon! kelpui.com

As I’ve gotten older, one of the things that’s become painfully obvious to me is that men are just as emotional as women, but seem to have a greatly reduced capacity for actually regulating it. And their emotions often only come in one flavor: anger. It’s not biological. It’s culturally ingrained.

Honestly, cancelling Space X contracts feels like a net win. The shuttles keep blowing up, an issue we solved in the 60s with NASA. And Starlink is blighting the night sky and ruining the commons. Fuck it!

If I never see another fucking Kanye West tweet again it will be too soon. Stop taking screenshots and posting that stuff here. If I wanted to see Nazi content, I'd join Twitter again.

Do y'all like your Discords with lots of channels, or just a few?

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i really can't impress enough on young people that if you commit to not using AI you will be blessed by the promethean fire of knowledge and everyone around you will think you are a god for being able to do shit on your own and use your brain to have critical thoughts like a functional human being

"i asked chatgpt to…" brother i ask you to shut the fuck up please

It is truly surreal knowing the research on COVID-19 and being in a doctors waiting room filled with high-risk and elderly patients and seeing no one else masked. And hearing multiple people coughing. It is shameful how little public education there is on COVID-19’s ongoing risks.