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Brooklyn-based pest. Longtime volunteer with Sister District, a direct action organization working to create and maintain progressive majorities in state legislative houses. No automatic followbacks.
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"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now. This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence. Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

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Seeing lots of discussion about whether the U.S. military will go along or push back against orders to confront mass protests. Here’s my take on what other cases and prior research tell us about what might happen. 1/

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

You'd better read this thread, I think

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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PASS IT ON: If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

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🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

The California legislature and city & county governments should file injunctions and draft emergency legislation prohibiting the quartering of now-federalized troops on private property including hotels under the Third Amendment. Make the Guard bivouac on the ground on federal property.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Do not fedpost. And do not post photos/videos of comrades where their faces and other identifying features (tattoos, scars, etc.) are visible

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Don’t rank Cuomo. Do rank these folks:

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

A good option is for New Yorkers simply not to elect this man mayor.

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One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

June 5, 2025 will go down in history as The Night of Long Tweets

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I wrote about the "highly unusual" case of a midwife arrested for violating Texas' abortion ban. Maria Rojas was arrested 3 months ago & still hasn't been indicted for any crime — putting her in excruciating limbo & denying her any possibility of due process. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-hi...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Honest question for fans of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.... NYC mayor is one of the most challenging managerial jobs on the planet. How do you give that job that someone with no managerial experience? Even if you agree with his positions and his skills as a communicator?

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A retired coroner in Ontario was asked what he'd learned after decades on the job. "Always hold the handrail on stairs," he replied.

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