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(He/Him) Human Paperweight. Compassion will be key in the harsh days ahead. We're all we got. I teach people how to grow food and cook it. https://www.twitch.tv/shakesfeed
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

FAFO discourse is fine and good as long as we realize FAFO'ers probably won't change their minds in any meaningful way. Because they will always think the next guy "will actually do it right".

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Discover the hidden secrets of making food pop up out of the ground. Plant a garden. www.twitch.tv/shakesfeed

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We're 6 months behind on everything and hungry. Any amount helps, reposting helps. Thanks and Solidarity. #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #MABoost #HelpSky ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

For all the Democrats who think they're gonna primary all the useless Dems who refuse to fight out of office: Remember all those times the DNC rigged primaries and funneled funding to block progressives from winning primaries? Remember how you loved the "pragmatism" of it all? Well....

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Its been a couple weeks, and I have lost a lot of self esteem. Alternative living spaces have changed their availability. The only sure thing is that I will be living out of my car... I bought some things to help insulate it and a pad for me to sleep on, but I still need your help! $1469/5000

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Has Spirit Halloween made a bid on America yet?

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Anyone who attacks the Gaza genocide protesters would gladly help send them to camps in order to save their own skins. They are not your allies. They want to harm you. Do not forget that.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding. Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…

submitted 10 days ago • 556 comments

The liberals smugly asking, "Where are all the student protests?" are intellectually lazy and incurious. There was an encampment at Bowdoin. Columbia students are literally suing the university for targeting them. There was a protest outside a UC regent's home. That's just in the past week.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

So, uh, this seems relevant to conversation today.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

all my pennies gone

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We're 5 months behind and looking at losing electricity in the winter. Any amount helps. RTing helps. Thanks and Solidarity. #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #MABoost #HelpSky ❤️🖤❤️ 🖤❤️

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just helping out.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Holy SHIT. Okay, this needs an "in mice" caveat, but the tactic they took means it's less of a caveat than usual and also HOLY FUCKING SHIT

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

Oh, wow. The US postal service completely suspending parcels from China, huh? I'm sure everyone's going to be really happy about that move and it won't backfire terribly at all!

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

This evening, every Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee backed the nomination of MAGA wingnut climate denier Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture, who admitted to a lack of basic knowledge of the department's workings. Every. Single. One. Led by @amyklobuchar.com. #Assistance

submitted 18 days ago • 169 comments

I had a dream that "buttered Whoppers" was a thing and the internet was full of videos of people slopping up and dunking their Whoppers in tubs of melted butter. And I was like "Of course this is what Americans would be doing at this exact moment. Makes total sense."

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

No one has to wait for anyone to take action. If you have ideas, execute them. Don't act like an East German Figure Skating judge or a red pen Karen. EXECUTE YOUR IDEAS. That's the bottom line. Let 10 million flowers bloom. No one is gatekeeping you.

submitted 19 days ago • 53 comments