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It'll be interesting to see if one of the consequences of big tech's fascist turn is the nationalization of services (in some countries) which have been run by U.S. corporations up until now.

1/ Yesterday as the Tesla Takedown spread beyond my home country, writer @theodora.bsky.social and I organized a very small protest here in London at the Westfield mall. It was awkward but it is one of my favorite things ever to be a part of. www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...

I went to a #TeslaTakedown protest near Philly yesterday to report on a grassroots revolution: thousands of Americans mad as hell at an unelected billionaire oligarchy - and unwilling to take it anymore How taking down Tesla can save our democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

For the first time since 2002, Israeli tanks have been deployed to the northern occupied West Bank as the Israeli government ordered the military to prepare for an “extended stay” in refugee camps there. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

For the first time in over two decades, Israeli tanks have entered the occupied West Bank.

Back to reading Black Reconstruction. But two things: 1.) Today is W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday! and 2.) Everyone should check out Zinn Education Project's valuable report about how the state fails to teach complex histories of Reconstruction: www.teachreconstructionreport.org

"Unreason does not respond to reason. You cannot convince a white supremacist that they are wrong. You have to defeat them by material means." abolitionjournal.org/nazi-punchin...

BERLIN (AP) — Exit polls show Alternative for Germany on course for strongest far-right showing in a national election since WWII.

Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real and present danger that these camps will be erased. This genocide must be stopped. By us all. Now!

Israel has no right to exist as the genocidal apartheid state that Zionism requires it to be. #FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness

BREAKING: PM Netanyahu says Israel is prepared to resume fighting in Gaza “at any moment” while vowing to complete the war’s goals “whether through negotiation or by other means”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eo8lx1

This is fantastic 🥰

Dear OPM, 🔹️ Never on Sunday 🔹️ Monday's too soon 🔹️ Tuesdays and Wednesdays just won't do 🔹️ Thursday and Friday, we can begin 🔹️ But our Saturday love will never end, sugar

#BDS

Israel has no right to exist as the genocidal apartheid state that Zionism requires it to be. #FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

Making federal employees respond to something like this is an extraordinary waste of taxpayer money It is also surveillance intended to intimidate employees so that they quit from the stress

A good read for this moment. newrepublic.com/article/1916...

I’m becoming more and more sure that we as lawyers need to move away from sole-ABA licensing requirements let orgs let NLG allow for licensure again, as we did pre-ABA integration ABA has always been a tool of cishetero-white supremacy and we need more options to have more diverse lawyers

Two Palestinian children were shot in the back and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank aje.io/gbbln5

“The roughly 15 million recipients of Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance benefits — many of whom are severely disabled and destitute, or are orphans — are among the least politically powerful people in the U.S.”

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.

Hey, what is the opposite of diversity and what kind of people are interested in that?

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.

#DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness

In Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952 - not long after Nazi Germany was defeated), the Supreme Court acknowledged the history of anti-Black violence & oppression in upholding a state ban on white nationalist speech: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa... #NoPlatformForRacists #DismantleWhiteness

#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

It's also part of a longer historical pattern of extrajudicial violence encouraged by right wing politicians since the 1970s. George Tiller, a doctor who provided late term abortions in Wichita, was assassinated in 2009 while in church.

Thanks @yahoofinance.com for talking #TeslaTakedown!

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.

There were better covers 8 years ago

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“