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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop over reacting

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand.

Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

It's deep denial. What about their actions this far could make anyone think anything is off the table? If they'll fuck with education, medicine, everything else of course they'll fuck with the money.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

The decline of the US empire could expose opportunities for Tribes to assert real sovereignty apart from the federal machine. That said, the decline of the empire also turns it's violence even more towards the imperial core, so we need to get our communities talking about mutual defense/support.

What's disrespectful is to talk down to and attempt to mitigate the existence of a man representing the fight for the sovereignty of their own land.

I am playing through the entirety of DOOM 2016 and donating one dollar for each demon I kill. All the money will go to fighting for immigrant justice. The choice of game probably has nothing to do with how I feel about ICE.
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i’m not a big Troop Respecter™️ but if members of congress took their oaths of office as seriously as enlisted soldiers do, the country would be in a much better place. and if we ever get power again, people who violated their oaths should be punished

I know things are bleak and scary right now. But I promise you that you - yes YOU - can get through this.

You don't have to fight all of this on your own. Find one person you can help, and help them. Make the life of one person better every day.

Hold onto your joy.

That's how we win.

Also, YOU don't need to be violent. Opposition is built on different people doing different things to uplift all of us. If you are scary, be scary, and if you are kind, be kind. Use what you have to the best ability.

There has always been an element to which peaceful protest and advocacy is backed by a threat of violence against an oppressor.

We dont need to glorify violence, but there is a place for making sure that oppressive forces are scared of us.

Fascists SHOULD be afraid. Robber barons should too.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin As he seeks to negotiate a peace deal with Moscow, President Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.

Vladimir Putin — an actual dictator — started this war by invading Ukraine. Don't let Donald Trump continue to lie to you — he is trying to rewrite history.

I stand firm in my unwavering support for Ukraine's independence and democracy. bit.ly/410x0Na

Why does efficiency to Elon Musk mean lean times, starvation, inability to save or spend. That's not efficiency, that's an exercise in financial abuse.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

Rand Paul has introduced a National Right to Work Act.

The bill is an attack on organized labor and workers across the country.

It would make it harder for workers to unionize, win good contracts, and maintain their unions.

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Trump's executive orders impacting refugees leave stranded in Afghanistan the children of a former U.S. military translator, the wife of a former Texas National Guard member, and the sister of two U.S. soldiers.

“We feel betrayed," said one.

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No no, it just so happens they become our territory in the process. It definitely doesn't come from a desire for territory first and then an attempt to package it for the gullible after.

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

watch out: there's a drug on the streets called "tagalongs". insanely addictive. this shit is everywhere. and the fucked up part is they're using children to push it.

And in reality, the threat of violence will be the same (or higher) with Trump on the ballot than with him off it. We know this because Trump was already on the ballot in 2020, when voters showed him the “correct” exit from the American political system by a seven million-vote margin. This did not forestall violence. Instead, Trump incited it. Someone placed pipe bombs at the headquarters of both political parties when Congress convened to count the electoral votes. That same day, angry rioters viciously beat Capitol police and stormed the building. One government witness said that, had they been given the chance, the Proud Boys would have killed Vice President Pence.

The passage of time has not made Trump supporters any less sanguine about the results. Two years after Trump left office, a man who believed Nancy Pelosi stole votes to elect Joe Biden broke into her home intending to kidnap her and instead attacked her husband with a hammer. Trump has promised “bedlam” and refused to rule out violence in the coming election; the special prosecutor who indicted Trump is currently under such credible threats that he is being protected by U.S. Marshals. When it comes to preventing violence from Trump supporters, “leave it to the voters” is quite literally the only approach that has a proven track record of failure, which is precisely why the Fourteenth Amendment is even available as a remedy here. Moyn, Marcus, et al.’s prescription for the disease currently eating away at American politics is no treatment at all.

Probably correct that at least some GOP senators have been cowed by violent threats (threats coming from people who stormed the capitol building and tried to kill them). I also think this is precisely why TRUMP SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO RUN AGAIN, I wonder if anyone made this point at the time

I will tell you what I expect from Democrats. If they do these things I will praise them to high heaven.

(1) Routine objections, even nonsense ones, in the Senate, and objecting to unanimous consent on *everything.* Grind the chamber to a halt. No progress on anything until Musk's goons are gone

Logic here is that they believe that what America needs is two conservative parties

"You know when we (the people, the "market") made fun of AI slop & said we didn't want it in our feeds, movies, searches, phones, etc? You know when we (the people, the "market") made fun of the obvious crypto grifts happening the last few years & said we didn't want to rewire our economy & our economic lives around it? You know when we (the people, the "market") made fun of M*sk for buying/tanking Tw*tter, people fled en masse & called him out online for being a fascist broligarch? The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a coup right now have all their money, business, power, & philosophy about society tied up in achieving unregulated control & forcing society to become irreversibly dependent on these technologies. It is the capitalists rebelling against the "free market" for rejecting its shit & taking over government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter. That's why it's happening. They truly, genuinely, openly don't give a fuck about you, me, or what we actually want.

The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a capitalists' coup right now are rebelling against the people & the "free market" for rejecting them & the tech they need us to become dependent on. They're taking over the government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter