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A man who spent nearly a quarter-century in prison saw his conviction vacated in yet another case involving false testimony coerced by Albany Detective Kenneth Wilcox, who died in 2006. Brendan Lyons reports on the dramatic scene in the courtroom. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

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Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure? You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation. You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.

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The billionaire playbook is to divide us. We’re so much stronger when we come together to build a world that works for all of us.

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It’s one insane thing after another with RFK Jr….now it comes out that HHS planning to cut the National Suicide Hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth that gets 2,100 contacts per day….cruelty is the point with this heartless bastard www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Last American Road Trip is an exquisite gift by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social The wisdom is woven throughout the journey across our multifaceted landscape. “The real villains, the worst villains, are officials who respond to protests with performative applause while quietly continuing the crimes.”

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“And where there is oppression, there will be resistance.” -Assatta Shakur

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“[T]he last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.” — Hannah Arendt, ”The Origins of Totalitarianism”

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Ten prison guards were charged in connection with the fatal beating of Messiah Nantwi, including two charged with murder. Last month, New York Focus tracked down Nantwi's cellmate, who recounted the day’s events.

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We’re at a time of choosing. You either side with the fascists or you side with basic human decency. That’s it. The full truth of matter. Make the right choice and be ready to fight. It isn’t easy and it’s going to be tough. But the choice is simple. Make the right one so you can live with yourself.

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Last week, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, were collaborating to build a "mega API," WIRED has learned.

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Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

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Thank you @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.ted.com/talks/carole...

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Mahmoud's case is a litmus test for the right to free speech in our country. This ruling jeopardizes dissent. Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights. www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...

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Crimes in broad daylight. Trump and his friends are getting rich off this chaos. Market manipulation doesn’t even begin to describe this.

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A shorter version of my thread: for chrissakes can we pay attention to what fascism does instead of what it says? No, Trump isn’t trying stupidly and failing to revive U.S. industry. He’s trying quite effectively to burn it down so he can rule the ashes. Seriously. That’s the plan.

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Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere. Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ~Assata Shakur

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Trump and RFK Jr. just illegally terminated $11 billion in critical public health grants, including more than $250 million to Minnesota. Today, I co-led a coalition of 23 states suing to stop these cuts and keep people safe. Here's my statement on this illegal action.

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As a Jew my loathing for the small but significant number of my fellow American Jews pushing fascism isn’t just principled; it’s personal, rooted in the near-certainty that their obscene actions provide cover for all kinds of antisemitism.

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Trump’s changes to Social Security will slash 7,000 jobs, shut down offices, and make folks jump through hoops to get what they’ve already earned. Seniors, disabled people, and rural communities—y’all are the target. This is not efficiency, it’s straight-up cruelty.

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Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...

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Jesus this is a kidnapping video of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by plain clothes immigration forces. Remember that Columbia agreed to a "no masks" policy for its fucking students while these thugs keep their faces covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...

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Notorious political strategist, Lee Atwater, in 1981 explaining how the GOP can be more subtle with its racism. Stop using the N-word. Instead, talk about government cuts because racist white voters would assume (often erroneously) that this would hurt Black people more than them. Sound familiar?

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

We are going to be destroyed by the stupidest people on Earth.

submitted 30 days ago • 432 comments

When it was a Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil who was detained a lot of folks were silent. Now that Trump is going after everyone, people are slowly waking up. That's how it always happens in dictatorships.

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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down. Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students. There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.

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