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Dozens of protests planned for Labor Day [for all of the people constantly asking where protests are. I assume they will all be joining] - maydaystrong.org

YouTube video by Simon Clark The least effective way to tackle climate change

Great video (2024, but SPOILER ALERT, we elected fascists who are now making climate change exponentially worse): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i0X...

#climatechange is *right now* costing everyone more in food prices, insurance, and more...

and yet

most people think impacts will happen "later"
1/n

Liberal label / Tourist tips Tom Scocca and Maria Bustillos on the latest media flimflam; advice for travelers from Trevor Alixopulos

This new publication for "the left" is funded by $4 million from people and groups associated with Peter Thiel, Mercatus, Abundance, and Third Way

Tom Scocca and I raged about this and related matters at @flaminghydra.com

flaminghydra.com/issue-386/

LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’ Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show

LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’ Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a BFD.

At least 71 people faced criminal charges after LA protests over ICE raids One woman died in custody after pleading not guilty to 14 counts enhanced by prior convictions.

The media must dig deeper. What exactly led to the arrests those mornings of Adrienne Villa? What evidence exists supporting the charges she faced? What happened after her arraignment? Did LASD interact with her? Is there surveillance footage at the courthouse?

We need answers! LAPP story here:

actionnetwork.org/events/thiel...

#ThielTakedown San Francisco

Take the fight with us on Friday, August 22nd to Founders Fund – one of Peter Thiel's primary venture capital vehicles and a key early investor in Palantir.

Seth Harp, author of "The Fort Bragg Cartel," says the public still does not fully appreciate how central drug trafficking was to the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Under U.S. occupation, the country was "producing more heroin than the entire planet could absorb."
www.democracynow.org/2025/8/14/fo...

IF YOU SEE AN ENCAMPMENT BEING CLEARED TONIGHT

DM us location & what details you have (what police, how many, movements, vehicles)

If you see someone being detained get as much info as possible:
- legal name
- DOB
- emergency contact/case worker
- where they are being taken (precinct or hospital)

America… GET YOURSELVES UP
HIT THE STREETS. 🇺🇸
Time for a #MillionAmericanMarch on DC!
A March in support of Democracy and Accountability!

Let’s have a million people marching on DC to have their voices heard and see how many of “politicians“ are willing to show up and march with us

Who is with Me?

Meme with a photo of the late Howard Zinn and the following quote: Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. Howard Zinn

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
This needs to be STOPPED!
Trump’s fascist, Nazi federal “cops” roam the streets of D.C. like brownshirts, creating a climate of fear and intimidation in minority neighborhoods. They’re now harassing people for smoking on their own porches, which the Nazi Trump regime sees as an “emergency.”

yard sign says "free DC"

Illustration of various woodland animals making pancakes in the woods.

Sunday mood

🎨 Astrid Sheckels

Blackout The System | Home Page BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM

BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM is a national movement born out of frustration, injustice, and the undeniable truth that the people hold the power - not corrupt governments, not billionaires, not broken systems.

blackoutthesystem.com

Sankofa Is Trying to Ensure It Remains A D.C. Fixture Plans are underway to expand the business and transform the bookstore into a worker-community-owned cooperative.

More businesses are looking to alternative models to preserve their community focus and identity. Instead of being shut down or sold to corporate entities that only care for profit, businesses can be owned by their workers and community members to equitably distribute economic power and wealth.

If the news feels like a constant onslaught that you’re trying to duck and run from, it might be time to take a pause.
It might be time to ask, how did we get here?

Read #XRGlobal Newsletter #97 at bit.ly/xrnews97

Freg Stokes et al. show how Indigenous resistance assisted in the conservation of South American tropical forests, acting as a significant factor in both regional and global environmental history.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

What's needed is for the rest of the world to boycott the Olympics. Will they? No, because the leaders are corrupt almost everywhere.

We are deeply troubled by apparent raids in Southern California, including one involving a Penske truck filled with agents descending on day laborers today. While more investigation is needed, we have serious concerns that the federal government may be in violation of the federal judge's July TRO.

Social Movements Are Physically Reclaiming Spaces to Replace the State More than a way of protest, social movements are occupying spaces to challenge authority and fight against oppression.

The more people are excluded from effective participation in traditional politics, the more it makes sense to pursue tactics like creating counteroccupations which aim to replace the state.

A sense of the sacred...

Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sex trafficking young girls on his mysterious private island. Over 40 years ago, a different millionaire escaped justice in a stunningly similar case. Jeffrey Epstein was accused of using his wealth, connections, and island to prey on minors. He wasn't the first millionaire to be accused of doing so.

Story from the 1970s.

"There are very dark rooms in the homes of the uber-rich," Appelman told Business Insider.

"Most Americans were in denial…Who would believe the abhorrent reality that children were being sexually abused for profit on such a mass scale?" #epstein #foxisland #rapetrafficking

Florida records more than 700,000 people as victims of human trafficking in 2024 Report from University of South Florida says total includes 100,000 children targeted for sex trafficking in state

The land of the lawless.
We now know why the wealthy flock to Florida.
Sex trafficking has replaced tourism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

America human trafficking again!!!