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🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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This is exactly step one of the same strategy Russia and Hungary used to criminalize dissent. After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.

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imagine putting your body between an angry crowd and a place that sells electric cars to email workers

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And y’all taking your masks off are complicit— You are letting them, you are hand in hand in that push toward forgetting by pretending there is no ongoing risk to yourselves or others. You, your loved ones, get repeatedly infected, brush off ongoing symptoms in pursuit of a 2019 normal long gone.

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One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.

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Whenever anti-trans panic gets whipped up, more of these stories happen.

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WTF 😳

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I just did this. It's very easy and so important. Please click through, submit your three comments, and share!

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It's never hypocrisy, it's ALWAYS hierarchy.

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You cannot take these pundits seriously. Chris Cuomo was just railing against Columbia and tax dollars and elite this and that. He went to private school K-12 and attended Yale. Any of these conservatives or moderates who don’t talk about their own schooling first should be ignored.

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Ms. Sharon lives near here. I met her last year. She’s been fighting this for a long time. She can’t sit on her porch midday and read her bible because of the stench from the plants. She can’t have a garden because the soil is poison. Her grandchildren can’t play in the grass. She’s exhausted.

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"Whether we are urged to be civil to racists, polite to patriarchy, or obedient to decorum when opposing a fascist, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy, to maintain the power of fascism." ~ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social

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"The U.S. Department of State is threatening trans people’s ability to obtain accurate passports—creating dangerous barriers for travel, identification, and basic rights. We need your voice to stop these harmful changes!" - transequality.org/news/freedom...? - This is a small ask

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We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

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The thing about prisons is that US/Canadian society knows they are sites of additional state-sanctioned extra-judicial violence, such as physical and sexual assault - and not only do most ppl support this, they get mad about places where that isn't true.

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This is a Facebook post by Missouri State Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia). Rep. Mark Alford is one of the members of Congress who got rocked at a townhall in late February. So now they're not just refusing to hold townhalls. They're apparently demanding people keep their office number a secret.

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“This isn’t the America I know.”

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Tbh you all should have gleened how this country feels about disabled people from the fact that anytime yall are nice to one of us it goes viral. Like that’s extra ordinary behavior.

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Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

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We now have generative AI to hallucinate a past that never was, while simultaneously purging the digital archives of traces of a history that doesn't fit the white supremacist ideology of our new techno-fascist overlords. It‘s getting darker every day

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The FAA is halting flights into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando airports because of "falling space debris” after the failed launch of SpaceX's Starship, CNN reports.

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Social Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns

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Job candidates at federal agencies are being questioned on their loyalty to Trump. Among the questions: Would you be willing to serve as a spokesperson for mass deportations? Which of Trump’s executive orders is your favorite? Who won the 2020 election? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Reminded that Butler was not a prophet, rather she was someone who paid attention. She constantly read newspapers & academic research articles on cults, climate change, racism & sexism. She saw the patterns & signs & tried to warn us.

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Let me tell you this, bud, a majority of your rights are tied in with disability policy because not only can they weaponize it against anyone, but they know Nondisabled people won’t pay attention.

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@imanibarbarin.bsky.social always explains things in the best way. Please listen because disability rights are human rights.

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This is absolutely horrific and yet again another in a long line of examples of the GOP engaging in eugenics of disabled and chronically ill people.

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FOR A LIBRARY SIT-IN?!?!

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Making sure you see this thread here: I feel like a lot of you don’t know why this is happening and are simply marveling that it is happening at all. So allow me to tell you: republicans invest a shit ton of time and money into the political organizing of disabled people because disabled people

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WATCH: @RepJamesComer loses it and threatens to have @RepPressley removed when she tries to read an article that shows 🇺🇸-born Americans commit more rape & murder than immigrants Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG1PIOc...

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Hey everyone! I’m on NPR’s “It’s been a minute” talking about the R word. www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1...

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Listen to this. Especially if you think you don't need to. Thank you to Imani for this education.

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The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.

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Anti-vaccination rhetoric is also a policy failure. Healthcare is so expensive people turn to alternative healthcare settings and groups which lead them to conspiracy theories and the alt-right.

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A way you can tell that cops are not workers but rather instruments of the state, is that the state doesn’t shut down their wildcat strikes

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There's a SCOTUS case for that: City of Grants Pass v. Johnson Grants Pass is in Oregon, as well. Good to note that criminalizing unhoused people and consigning them to preventable illness and premature death are on the same spectrum.

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"Trump’s taxes on imports (tariffs) from Canada, Mexico, and China will cost people in the United States somewhere around $400 billion a year, or around $3,000 a household."

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In books: New federal drug prohibition laws were reshaping the societal and penal landscape. It’s against this backdrop that Texans took a central role in the attempt to balance punishment with treatment for the growing percentage of the U.S. population addicted to drugs.

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Trump threatened students and universities over campus protests, calling for the arrest or deportation of those involved in “illegal” demonstrations. Critics say this is an attack on free speech and academic freedom.

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There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

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I did an interview about Trump and transnational organized crime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehqp...

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GOP Leaders Are Telling Lawmakers to Simply Stop Hosting Town Halls Republicans have been bombarded by backlash. The party’s solution is to turn and run.

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