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"You are exactly right in your call for negotiation,” he wrote. “Indeed, this is the purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront an issue.”

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Grand jury recommends abolishing Alabama Police department because of a 'culture of corruption' after 5 officers were arrested

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he's not trolling. he means what he says even when it makes no sense.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

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Fun fact, there was a lightbulb cartel that utilized planned obsolescence to shorten the lifespan of bulb tech, creating needless waste, entirely for profit. The cartel was incorporated by US companies in the 20s.

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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COVID is not just a respiratory virus. It’s not a cold. It’s not “mild”. It’s a multi system vascular virus that can do damage throughout your body. The more we learn about what it does to the heart, the more convinced we should be to mask up.

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Maybe you should just have some actual values and fight for those.

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And there it is. Same holds for activists, writers, "free speech" orgs, arts institutions and everyone else who has been silent for 15 months.

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This is what Musk & Trump are up to

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The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

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WashPo [Feb 18] -- Kansas overrides Dem Gov. Laura Kelly's ban of pediatric affirming care bill. Follows a 2024 move in Ohio when lawmakers overrode Rep Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a similar ban. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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JUST IN: Minnesota declares ‘state of emergency’ after outbreak of three diseases. Minnesota declared a state of emergency after three viral infections were detected at commercial farms, indicating a widespread bird flu outbreak which will result in an even larger egg shortage.

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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What will you do to protect this world? The soil, the creatures, the fauna, the people? What is more precious than life itself?

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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.

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PJP's @profpasha.bsky.social talks about the importance of prison journalism and why incarcerated people deserve their stories to be just as loud as everyone else.

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On Luigi Mangione’s next state court appearance, People Over Profit has called a protest “for healthcare reform & justice for Luigi Mangione” outside Manhattan Criminal Court. Per POPNYC, demo is for universal healthcare, an end to medical corruption, & against the “bogus charges” against Mangione.

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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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Those swept up in raids are dedicated family members and employees, their lives deeply woven into their communities. None appeared to pose the risks to national security or public safety Trump promised he’d target during his campaign. #coup #resist calmatters.org/justice/2025...

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"These effects may be long-lasting. 'You won’t see the impact of that until 10 years from now, when you notice that there’s a gap of four years of data,' says Jacobs." www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1...

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A virus does not differentiate between parents who are anti-vaxxers and parents who just didn't get around to it. Make an appointment, it's still flu season.

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scoop: PBS is closing its DEI office in response to President Trump’s recent executive order. Note from CEO Paula Kerger

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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

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Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

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