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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

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The unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil is one of the most extreme threats to free speech in 50 years. Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too. We'll see you in court.

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🗳️ If you don't see your Member of Congress on this #FreeMahmoudKhalil letter, you should call them up and ask them what they're doing to ensure that free speech and due process rights are respected following this steamrolling of the constitution.

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these are the names of young Black men who were "found dead" after the Ferguson uprising following the murder of Michael Brown in 2014. Edward Crawford Jr. is in the famous image below. his death was ruled a suicide. our gov't is not new to silencing activists. the least we can do is remember them.

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Southwest Airlines to end free checked bags policy for first time in its 54-year history

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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Went outside last night and saw the most magnificent “moon dog”. I remembered, for a brief moment, that I do like being alive.

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jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!" tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"

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ok friends. we kept seeing people on here be like "wow, democrats should go host town halls in republican districts". so we made this thing to try to make that easier. find the 🔴 to your 🔵 or vice versa, and contact forms and call scripts for both:

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For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

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I swear the non-binary voice in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora used to have the most hilarious reaction line of “WAHOO!” when you made swift actions during flight. Where did it go. Why have they been silenced

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tiger sharks stuck in early 2010s nostalgia web-core 🌐

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At what age did you stop wrestling/grappling/having full contact physical play with your friends (or fam)? I’m so curious after having a convo with my partner where we had radically different age answers.

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REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

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Believe it or not, emailing/faxing your representatives to say "I am deeply unhappy about this for the following reasons" gives them ammunition to use on the floor. They quote constituent letters all the time. It won't do squat if he declares martial law + shreds the constitution but here we are

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My partner and I had different blankets on. They pointed to mine and said “why, Miss Glinda…” What a color combo

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A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 36 days ago • 21 comments

I used the 5 Calls app to call my senators and someone from the offices of Judy Chu and Adam Schiff picked up. The script was helpful but dang i didnt expect them to pick up loll

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I’ve never seen the phrase “draconian sycophant” used in the same sentence to describe powerfully rich people who conform to the interests of another corrupt rich person, but I feel like this is an appropriate usage of the expression.

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Route 4 in Paramus, NJ, yesterday. Posted on Facebook by John Weir @jweirdo.bsky.social.

submitted 35 days ago • 82 comments

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

submitted 35 days ago • 48 comments

I find myself thinking this a lot these days.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Dude shame on @apnews.com for publishing this article on the same day Drumpf removed sources for climate change research. Its malicious and manipulative to imply something like 😩global warming is too big for for an individual ugh and it hardly does anything 😢 It’s corporations. Thats why, Sibi.

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My two cents is that a protest, like anything, takes a wide scope of people. Some folks WILL face larger repercussions if detained and some HAVE faced death during initially “lowkey” demonstrations. Not gonna scoff at their intense protest prep. Golden rule imo is not to do anything alone. No heroes

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I hate this HARDCORE ACTIVIST, “do NOT attend a protest without a gas mask, Level 3 ceramic plates, and 6 fake IDs” shit so much. successfully protest is done by regular people, not people LARPing as antifa Jason Bourne

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When them tariffs hit, here’s some quick tips; - ADHD kids: stop bullshitting. “Out of sight, out of mind” is real but this is not the time to let groceries go bad. Do what I do now and set a reminder in your phone calendar based on expiration dates. For fresh produce, set a week reminder.

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NEW: At his Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, Robert Kennedy Jr. defended the discredited claim that vaccines are linked to autism, citing a recent study from a new medical journal. We looked into the study and the journal. Strap in. This is wild. www.importantcontext.news/p/about-that...

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For anyone who’s written a scientific paper, this makes absolutely no sense unless your goal is to censor science.

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BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."

submitted 37 days ago • 342 comments

Members of Congress going into the US Agency for International Development!

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Remember when Amazon built an AI filter to handle incoming employment applications, and ended up rejecting any app with any indication that the person was a woman? Because they had just fed it their previous apps and decisions. Yeah, good times.

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turns out when transphobes said we need to “follow the science” what they meant is delete it and hide all traces of it

submitted 38 days ago • 74 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

submitted 38 days ago • 86 comments

Literally just right wing propaganda for news. Like there wasn’t enough of that 💀

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These crack downs on schools are so nationalist in their wording it’s like I’m watching the orange oppressor speedrun fascism straight from a dictators handbook

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Just in case: If you are in the Seattle-area and need a document notarized to protect yourself and your family from this fascist regime but are too afraid/lack the funds to go to a UPS store or similar, I am a notary and I will notarize your documents for free.

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UPDATE: The Trump admin has expanded systems showing if a person applying for a passport renewal has EVER had a passport with a different gender marker. Trans people should avoid even routine passport renewals until there is more clarity about the updated policies.

submitted 44 days ago • 26 comments

yelling at people to not give into despair is not actually an effective strategy imo. let people feel their feelings and when they’re ready they’ll jump in. generally we need like, 500% less admonishing of people who are living through hell.

submitted 46 days ago • 44 comments

Once again pounding the "support local, independent, worker-run newsrooms" sign

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This is excellent advice! Canada sells many of the same products as the U.S. and we import a lot of produce etc… We’re still issuing public health alerts for recalls and threats to safety. Sign up below.

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