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Happy book publication day! Writing and researching Unforgettable Sacrifice was a journey. I am forever grateful to my family and community kinskeepers who inspired the book and ensured that I narrated their past with accuracy, dignity, and respect. 1/3

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I've never seen so many mobilizations, rallies and actions, honestly. They're happening pretty constantly, in cities but also in small towns and in every single state. They're not getting tons of coverage, but they're happening, and they're growing. Join one, or start one, you're not alone in this.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

I’m sorry but this is fucking hilarious, I’m dead 😂😂

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Hope Trump crashes this pissant's plane.

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The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.

submitted 9 days ago • 192 comments

The weird part about this moment in history is the modern version of Nazi book burnings is just pushing updates to websites and erasing information digitally. Information that people have already created multiple independent archives of and can be restored just as easily as it was erased.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 11 days ago • 411 comments

ok! www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 12 days ago • 1012 comments

Something I wish more people would internalize is that the vast majority of people who will be most harmed by this man and his minions did not IN FACT vote for him. They either didn't vote at all or they voted for the other candidate.

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

reminder that this is on Tuesday!

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

every inch of progress in the US is like this. BLM, defund the police, trans rights, etc — all marginal, sometimes nonexistent gains followed by massive rightward pendulum swings born of the (false) assertion that by gently prodding an issue, we’ve gone “too far”

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Oh, I get it. You're out of touch, self-important, & ignorant about cost of living because it doesn't actually affect you. That's at least part of the reason you blame The Left™ for everything. If you hate The Left so much, why don't you just be honest about where you are: on the right.

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That’s Bad

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Don’t obey.

submitted 15 days ago • 115 comments

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

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The world’s richest man stands in the Oval Office fielding questions from the press. Sitting beside him at the Resolute desk is the President of the United States—ostensibly the most powerful man in the world. Except everyone there knows who the real power in the room is—and it’s not him.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

When you don’t understand how anything works, everything is a conspiracy.

submitted 16 days ago • 202 comments

No one in my city makes a pastime of badmouthing bus service quite like the people who never ride the bus.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

American coins used to be so much cooler than they are now. This is an 1852 3cent silver coin called a trime. One of the smallest coins ever minted. Smaller and thinner than a dime. Found in the middle of the woods in Maine.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

This was buried somewhere in my downloads folder and somehow has only gotten more true with time

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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good job Stancil picking this intercoalition fight for literally no reason when I’ve been trying to convince folks to focus less on dunking him and more on the nazis crawled up inside the government. sure showed me

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Doesn’t get said enough, but hating women will ruin your life. I have never met a happy misogynist. The most frustrated, emotionally unstable people on earth are Men Who Hate Women.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

A right-wing dark money group backed by some big names has launched a new public health “academy” complete with its own medical “journal.” The editorial board of this new publication is stacked with COVID contrarians and misinformation spreaders. www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments

We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.

submitted 20 days ago • 87 comments

From Oct 2022 fyi. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”

submitted 20 days ago • 225 comments

Trump was certain to do everything he’s doing now. Instead of taking the threat of his reelection seriously or putting any effort to carve meaningful differences btwn them & him on this, they backed genocide to the hilt. Those trying to frame it differently see Palestinian lives as talking points

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I wrote about how the ping ponging of trends, and the mess of the whole world, means we're back at recession comfort big dumb lol isn't it so funny there are pizza rolls on the menu food. www.eater.com/24353782/lol...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

the “who goes Nazi” metric that has not failed me yet in the 21st century is: were they obsessive assholes to sex workers and/or trans women like ten years ago? yesterday?

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only...

submitted 22 days ago • 96 comments

We never made classrooms COVID safe. Schools were hotbeds of COVID transmission. Kids died. Teachers and other school staff died. Family members living with kids died. Many who didn’t die—including kids—got long COVID. THAT is what we didn’t reckon with. All we ever hear about is harms of closure

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease. "Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 23 days ago • 50 comments

Authoritarian strongmen around the world are cheering the shutdown of USAID because USAID funds independent journalism that those regimes are trying to silence.

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NW: Space Is the Place (1974, dir. John Coney) #Filmsky 📽️

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Hey liberals, if you want leftists to stop seeing you as willing collaborators, maybe you should stop replying to us with things like this. Thinly veiled threats of state violence towards the same marginalized people being targeted by fascists is collaborator shit.

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