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for my entire life i have simply never understood how anyone reading this can be convinced this is an antisemitic statement

submitted 1 day ago • 612 comments

Still masking in 2025? Absolutely. Because unlike “good vibes,” N95s actually filter viruses. A quick 🧵 on why I haven’t retired my mask (and neither should you)

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

I stitched this old tweet by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social and remind myself of its truth literally every day.

submitted 103 days ago • 19 comments

Rachel Corrie would have been 46 today. Israeli tanks ran over her with a bulldozer. Take some time to read her words explaining why she was willing to risk her life for Palestine - and of the insidious genocide there that long predates 2023. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ra...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

submitted 13 days ago • 442 comments

I see you. I love you. And I love to see you being you.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 25 days ago • 670 comments

I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis. If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

Going to share this absolutely CRUCIAL resource for people who want to create local ICE Watch Rapid Resource Teams. Head over to defendandrecruit.org, where you’ll find resources put together by Siembra NC. This includes an entire playbook on how to defend your community.

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

submitted 27 days ago • 77 comments

That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse

submitted 27 days ago • 801 comments

I think several times a week about how what voters were offered was this and “most lethal military in the world.” Arriving here has been a sincere bipartisan effort.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Hold onto every single reason for hope you can find. Jewish Voices for Peace gave you another one today.

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submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

submitted 49 days ago • 56 comments

I do feel bad for regular people who consider themselves Democrats :(

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

Sitting in quiet disapproval of the ethnic cleansing message

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Everyone needs to be asking themselves: what comes after silence…

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

submitted 62 days ago • 6 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 63 days ago • 484 comments

Every union should be echoing this statement.

submitted 64 days ago • 87 comments

Every day I wake up and check the news to see if it's The Big Day. I can't wait for The Big Day!!

submitted 66 days ago • 88 comments

The last time we got Dems to wholeheartedly support social programs was because of the threat of militant labor and global communism. Thus that’s the pragmatic thing to do

submitted 69 days ago • 22 comments

MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement.

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 74 days ago • 351 comments