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Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

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The Trump regime is using all the carceral tricks Democrats and Republicans created — gang databases based on tattoos and vibes.

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I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

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The people of Rojava worked so hard for their trees, they plant them for Apo’s birthday. This really is a conscious choice to just destroy for the sake of it

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

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A little story about repression and why I've never treated arrests as something anyone should do: for those of you who don't remember, Occupy Wall Street was a massive movement that was centered around encampments that popped up in city centers across the US (and Canada and UK) from Sept to Nov 2011

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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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Lynne Marie Stewart, who was the most beautiful woman in Puppetland as Miss Yvonne on ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,’ has died at 78. She also starred as Charlie’s mom, Bonnie, in ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

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i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

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Can't decide which of 25 comics to share, settling on this one.

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drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

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#tdih 1943, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, & Christoph Probst -- members of the White Rose -- were executed 💔 for their role in urging students to rise up & overthrow the Nazi government. #Resist In face of evil, "why do you not rouse yourselves?" they implored. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wh...

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Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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Wrote a little something in the mighty @rollingstone.com about #TeslaTakedown. In anticipation of our upcoming second weekend of protests! Join or create an event for ANY day and ANY country at Teslatakedown.com. Download our flyers and background to get informed and get involved!

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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace crimethinc.com/becomeananar... Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own initiative, on a decentralized basis—in other words, to become anarchists. 🏴

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"A major riot broke out [at] Upstate New York [prison] on Thursday" following another "major riot...on Wednesday..." Revolt follows growing strike by guards angry that 7 co-workers now face murder charges for savage beating death of Robert Brooks in December. www.corrections1.com/riots-and-cr...

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Malcolm X was murdered 60 years ago today. He's still spot on about how the media operates.

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Note that Bannon and Musk represent opposite sides of the US far right (Traditionalist populism vs technocracy). The fascist salutes aren't coming one faction of the "Conservative" movement, this is now a powerful cross section of its leadership.

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This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

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The Justice Department is deleting a database tracking federal police misconduct. This is how a fascist police state operates.

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Comedy is Legal Again (again)

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i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

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‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

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Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

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i just want to write my little stories of lesser known figures of the white power movement who are already dead or in prison. i want to read old forum posts, court cases, & 1980s klan newsletters. but i can't ignore what's happening now, as republican lawmakers carry on the work those men started.

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Kind of hating myself for liking what a billionaire is saying, but what can you do

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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An important update on my imprisonment in 🇨🇭 gogetfunding.com/journalist-a...

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Easy. Lightweight. Portable.

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A good thing to do if you are flailing a bit right now (as who is not??) is to get in touch with your own values, the things that you find life affirming and necessary in the world. Read some inspiring works about things you value - labor solidarity, scientific achievement, social justice.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy

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I talked with Live Like the World is Dying host @margaret.bsky.social about preparedness, collective survival, and challenging ourselves "to let people be better."

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