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Correct the headline: John Roberts denies millions of poor human beings food and medicine. @washingtonpost.com has fallen so far from its proud roots. I'm literally watching democracy die in darkness while reading WaPo headlines

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Please take the masthead, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" off the @washingtonpost.com because Jeff Bezos owns it and doesn't give a flyin frack about democracy. He cares only about making money, more money, even more money. Oh and kissing trump-musk arse. I've canceled my subscription

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Aidan Harding, active neo-Nazi in the #Pittsburgh area associated with Patriot Front + other white supremacist groups has been arrested for "videos showing children being sexually abused." Harding also posted online about "his interest in...mass casualty events..." www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

While there are other amazing versions of this song, Robert Flack's set the standard. Rest in power! youtu.be/XG_RvYTfDk8?...

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Wobbly Justice: Guilt by Association in Progressive-Era Seattle by Andrew Varsanyi. How 2 Scottish sisters, members of the IWW, were deported in the 1st Red Scare. Considering the current political environment's increasing xenophobia, the past again will be prologue blog.shgape.org/wobbly-justi...

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We all need some more love these days. Enjoy this lovely, loving @npr.org Tiny Desk Concert from Thee Sacred Souls! @theesacredsouls.bsky.social youtu.be/-4J-f5lkCLo?...

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The GOP passed a budget resolution tonight that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Why? To finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

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Strike!!! Strike!!! Strike!!! On This Day in 1941 Dutch (Dock)Workers Said No to the Nazi Persecution of Dutch Jews. This essay of mine in @myhnn.bsky.social is a few years old but never has felt more relevant www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/stri...

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 4 days ago • 249 comments

While I've got plenty of criticisms of former Prez. Biden, letting Leonard Peltier live his final years on his home reservation truly is a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Let’s get something clear. The GOP has the power to keep the government from shutting down in March. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House. If they can’t reach a budget deal within their own ranks, that completely on them. Dems: Don’t lift a finger to help them. Not one.

submitted 4 days ago • 734 comments

Wise man…

submitted 5 days ago • 663 comments

He nails it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1556 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 6 days ago • 516 comments

This Camera Kills Fascists. In 1960s leftist filmmakers from France to Japan revolutionized the documentary. Great interview with Julia Alekseyeva about her new book by Kristen R Ghodsee in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/film...

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trump/musk doing their best to hurt the average American, every day and in every single way

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AFT members LaShonda, Stacie, Rodney, Gina, Renee, and Joel share their perspective on teaching Black history. aftvoices.org/how-we-teach... @nysut.bsky.social @utlanow.bsky.social

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Solidarity with Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna who were targeted by the IOF for selling books in Jerusalem at the Educational Bookshop. Bookselling is not a crime!!!

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New Brookwood Labor College has TEN Paid 1-Year Labor Fellowships! New Brookwood strives to address racial, social, and economic imbalances of power by educating workers and providing opportunities to gain practical organizing experiences. Based in St. Paul, MN form.typeform.com/to/nUla8WH1?...

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The Anti-Worker Party With the Working-Class Base prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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"A people who read are a people who build critical thinking; they are promoters of utopias," --Mexican writer Paloma Saiz Tejero. The joy of reading AND reading is resistance. The latest from @vijayprashad.bsky.social for @tricontinental.bsky.social thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...

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LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

Great news for Illinois bicyclists and all humans who believe bike riders should have equal access to public streets! chi.streetsblog.org/2025/02/18/a...

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 7 days ago • 1065 comments

Depressing if unsurprising that Sean O'Brien of @teamsters.bsky.social still carries water for Trump. In fact, he does NOT "have the right" to fire gov't workers--they have civil service rules! AND 100,000s of fed workers are UNION! ps what the hell are u getting for kissing trump arse? Not PRO Act

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OTD 1942 POTUS signed an EO that imprisoned 125,000 Japanese & Japanese Americans in one of most racist events in US history. Then very few spoke out but @ilwu.bsky.social did! Now Trump is ramping up xenophobia = my @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social essay still relevant inthesetimes.com/article/japa...

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Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 184 comments

Black Washingtonians in the Fight for Equality: An Interview with Maurice Jackson. I'm proud of my good friend from grad school, Maurice, whose latest book is uplifted in this wonderful interview with @robgreeneii.bsky.social in @aaihih.bsky.social www.aaihs.org/black-washin...

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Defend Trade Union Rights – Support Erik Helgeson! Firsing of Swedish Dockworkers Union (SDU) spokesperson and national deputy chair is a blatant act of retaliation for the union’s legally-sanctioned boycott of military cargo to and from Israel. Solidarity! www.workersinpalestine.org/news/defend-...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

Meanwhile in my hometown of Miami, Mordechai Brafman fired 17 bullets into a car injuring two. The shooter wanted to murder Palestinians but turns out he had hurt 2 Israelis (thankfully alive). Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab, Anti-Muslim extremism and bloodlust alive and well in USA wapo.st/4gKikaO

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Give Mayor Adams a no confidence vote @shaunrichman.org explains why the way universities govern has the potential to save New York City from a corrupt, indicted, unethical mayor www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/18/g...

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Truly touching Tributes to Dr Gail M. Gerhart (1943-2024) from daughter Leslie Gerhart and SA historian Clive Glaser. Gail M. Gerhart was a lion in the field of South African history and the struggle against apartheid. Presente! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

submitted 10 days ago • 284 comments

No, David Brooks, what has changed in last 50 years is the economy has gotten ever more unequal. That's why the uber rich control US govt. It's why people are so angry but they don't have the words b/c capitalism is the air we breathe. Another world is possible! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 11 days ago • 1059 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 11 days ago • 386 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 11 days ago • 2238 comments

Trump is an acceleration of everything that was already making our lives miserable.

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We all know it but Congress is like the ostrich with its head in the sand. Blue states pay more in taxes and Red states receive more in fed payouts. GOP hypocrisy knows no bounds and GOP plans to cut fed spending will disproportionately hurt red states. time.com/7222411/blue...

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5657 comments

Marco Rubio, the latest tool of Must-Trump who will harm the US, harm the world, and lose whatever vestiges of pride and honor he has. I don't know how he looks in the mirror. He went from praising USAID to being the person in charge of dismantling it. Why? to lick Musk's toejam wapo.st/4aZO4r0

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Previously I thought Mayor Eric Adams of NYC was a run of the mill corrupt a-hole. But he's proven himself to be evil, playing with Trump and his demonic minions--for personal vindication at the expense of the city and its people which he is supposed to represent. Frack you! wapo.st/4gDs8Du

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Labor Spring 2025 is HERE! Students, workers, unionists, allies, environmentalists & elected leaders who want to support workers’ organizing efforts in a broad range of events on college campuses + in the community! @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social is helping organize lwp.georgetown.edu/labor-spring/

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 14 days ago • 487 comments

I've seen Mavis Staples brilliantly cover the Talking Heads' classic, Slippery People, several times in 2010s and '20s. I falsely assumed it was a recent addition to her setlist but I'm wrong. Enjoy The Staple Singers perform this one in 1984 on none other than Soul Train! youtu.be/89Ee4WKYr-0?...

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The Musk-Trump admin. is trying to illegally destroy a US gov't agency that helps millions, probably tens of millions of human beings in need. @challabuck.bsky.social speaks out against this horrific, unethical, economically stupid policy choice www.sevendaysvt.com/news/vermont...

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Luis Feliz Leon: Labor must "overcome 2 sinister, mutually reinforcing dynamics now at play: opportunistic collaboration with Trumpism along narrow sectoral lines & the embrace of an 'America First' nationalist agenda targeting immigrant workers." Choose b/w deeper unity or shortsighted conciliation

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