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“No law, government, or decision-making process is more important than the needs and desires of actual human beings. People should be free to shape their relations to their mutual satisfaction, and to stand up for themselves as they see fit.”

There would be no now, without our over reaction to 9/11. The reason why UBL et al thought doing a 9/11 would be a good way to reach their stated end goals, is bc they figured it would be met with over reaction… it was. We gave autocrats impunity. They ran with it. This is empire. #empire

"Peltier’s freedom is priceless in its own right. But just as his wrongful imprisonment symbolized the systemic oppression of Indigenous peoples, his release embodies the liberation that’s possible through intergenerational organizing." anarchistagency.com/yes-magazine...

We live in a collapsing empire. Thats the #news.

Wonder what the data mining groupers are doing with all our private personal data? The VA houses data on people who’ve held security clearances, and worked in national security spaces…

"In this society, nearly all power is distributed according to the imperative to turn a profit. And since the essence of profit is the concentrating of wealth in fewer hands, it should be no surprise that the disparities in our society are intensifying so rapidly." crimethinc.com/antiwork

Government contractors are trying to buy iPhone hacking tech from us, 404 Media, but we're not hackers :( :( :( www.404media.co/why-is-a-gov...

If you tolerate this… your children will be next.

Really grateful For the work @404media.co are doing. I highly recommend everyone read and share “oxygen of amplification” by Whitney Phillips datasociety.net/library/oxyg...

Authoritarianism Is a Slow Coup. Hitler didn’t seize power overnight—he used existing laws to erode democracy from within. Trump and his allies in government, industry, and the church are doing the same. #politics #usa #fascism #coup #authoritarianism #extremism

Neo-Nazi and white supremacist politics is a through line from Musk to his DOGE team - and shows the degree in which the current Trump administration has opened the flood gates to people that want an authoritarian and fascist society.

“AI is about the capitalist's ability to assert a right to extract value, at scale, from a resource that each of us creates when we interact with the internet” @attackerman.bsky.social really Nailed it with this

Dig into empathy. It helps.