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I'm a writer focused on energy and the just transition.
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Portland, Oregon
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"BREAKING NEWS PORTLAND HAS FALLEN. AS WE SPEAK ANTIFA TROOPS ARE AMASSING TO TAKE THE LAST REMAINING MILITARY BASE IN OREGON. THEY'VE STARTED EXECUTING THE LANDLORDS AND MILLIONAIRES. GOD HELP US ALL."
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Mmm, that's good consent manufacturing.
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Thank you for your coverage.
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I’m at a protest with a whole bunch of octogenarians leading chants about how transphobia has go to go and I wish the paid consultant class who are always trying to triangulate the party into meaninglessness would talk to a few of them.
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"Coming out of 2020 when there was so much radical energy for something different, having that energy co-opted by electoral politics...
"It tricks people into thinking that voting for someone whose actual interest is in preserving the current system is gonna free us."
— Jasmine Burnett
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(By "taking" I mean they're getting hit with each other's rubber bullets!)
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Indies are trouncing Big Media in protest coverage.
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Thank you for The Palestine Exception. Jan Haaken's work is critically important.
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Oof.
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The institution of policing has proved impervious to reform. You can assign all the training you want; in the moment, cops *do not care* about the law. They care about control.
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Team Blue decided long ago that leftists were more valuable as scapegoats than as potential voters.
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Thank you. Stories get twisted when national outlets play Telephone instead of reporting firsthand.
Like here in Portland three years ago.
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It was the compromise position.
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That Horn makes me flip through an Acme Co. catalog full of instant karma ideas. I've imagined retractable bollards, trap doors, and car catapults.
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Today we had calls before dawn from kids tracking their dads heading toward detention facilities, where they remain.
Full statement here:
ufw.org/ufw-calls-bu...
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Does he? Also, why use politicians currently in office as a benchmark for anything? Our standards are too low.
Throwing whole blocs of people under the bus, as Newsom has done, is the opposite of coalition building.
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No damn cat. No damn cradle.
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Chris Cillizza is a reliable source of bad takes.