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More people need to understand that saying only β€œcriminals” should be subjected to expanding state violence around us is what led to the broader public being targeted by it, too. Criminality is subjective, and power determines what it is or is not.

29.09.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1004    πŸ” 350    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 15

Y'all really can't connect the dots between fascist eliminationist policies and actions and advocating for throwing Trans people under the bus by some Democratic elected officials? What's not clicking?

15.07.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 515    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0
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'The ultimate guerilla hating campaign:' DREAM helped beat Cuomo. So what's next? 'We were harnessing a different part of being a New Yorker, which is being a huge hater.'

"And while Zohran had this inspiring heart of New York campaign, we were harnessing a different part of being a New Yorker which is being a huge hater...and harnessed the renewable energy that is New York’s desire to hate some asshole."

nygroove.nyc/dream-campai...

10.07.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 12

Wait until NYT finds out there are people from India who grew up in the Carribbean / South America

05.07.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4193    πŸ” 459    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 58

the connection to capitalism is even simpler: no matter what propaganda is circulating, you and your neighbors - even the ones you think are most different from you - definitely share problems.

30.06.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Many years ago, Zohran attended a few meetings of Survived and Punished NY. When we launched our #FreeThemAll campaign to free people in women's prisons who were incarcerated for defending themselves against DV/SA, Zohran who was then working on Cynthia Nixon's campaign got us on her radar.

25.06.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1351    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

i don’t wanna say anything a future employer would think is crass but there is a sort of rage amid the catharsis. the amount of energy to lie and deceive and gaslight us. they will endeavor to make this a one-off instead of a turning point.

25.06.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 328    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Graphic with text reading " β€œNone of the information that the companies provide to landlords is of meaningful value. No studies show it has any real benefit,” said NHLP's Eric Dunn.

Graphic with text reading " β€œNone of the information that the companies provide to landlords is of meaningful value. No studies show it has any real benefit,” said NHLP's Eric Dunn.

Fair housing protections help ensure everyone has the freedom to live in a safe & stable home, no matter our differences. But tenant screening companies provide discriminatory data to landlords who then deny tenants housing. NHLP's Eric Dunn talked to @shelterforce.bsky.social about this issue.

16.06.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The NY Times Isn’t Endorsing Cuomoβ€”They’re Just Telling You to Vote for Him The paper that doesn’t make local endorsements makes a very weird and tortured non-endorsement.

Look, don't call it an endorsement, the New York Times editorial board is just saying it would be wayyyy better to vote for someone whose resignation the paper called for a few years ago than it would be to vote for the guy who wants to tax rich people.

hellgatenyc.com/nytimes-vote...

16.06.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

16.06.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5465    πŸ” 1199    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 43

People are in the streets attacking autonomous self-driving vehicles, but trust US leftists will come with fresh ideas from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century to copy and paste onto everything as the self-selected revolutionary management.

09.06.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œI Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings β€” including important documents and irreplaceable mementos β€” when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city β€œsweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

β€œThey took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

05.06.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2818    πŸ” 1439    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 173
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Another way out: Fighting back against inaction Revolutionary change is not ordered like a meal or some product online. It is fought long and hard and won through persistent struggle

I wrote about the confusion created by disgruntled voters who believe that voting is enough, and the trouble many have visualizing an alternative. Fear, frustration, and the work of those who came before us are not an excuse to promote inaction or resignation. prismreports.org/2025/06/03/i...

03.06.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 231    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 21

Neither. Anarchism as unity of means and ends in the perpetual struggle against oppression, domination and exploitation.

14.05.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œnatural birth” to extremist pipeline, a story, the anti-vaxx to anti IVF pipeline, a story, the anti abortion to anti birth control to anti IVF pipeline, a story, the anti-science to anti IVF, a story, forced gestation 🀝 anti-IVF pipeline, a story, only two genders to anti-IVF, a story.

18.05.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Effort begins to overturn decades-old drug convictions of Buffalo civil rights activists At age 80, Geraldine Robinson Pointer tries to clear her name 57 years after her arrest.

Martin Sostre's comrade who was framed up with him is still thank goodness living, the movement elder Geraldine Pointer. She would like to clear her name for her family's sake in her remaining years. Learn more about her campaign in this great article.

buffalonews.com/news/local/c...

07.05.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anarchism or Socialism (A Nonsensical Question) <p>Offshoot Journal presents Anarchism or Socialism (A Nonsensical Question). Though plenty of educational materials address the history recounted in this short zine, it felt necessary to create. Many...

Debates about anarchism versus socialism reveal that many people are unaware of the history of the socialist movement. At Offshoot, we made a zine explaining how this nonsensical binary shows a need for more political education on these terms people misrepresent. offshootjournal.org/anarchism-or...

27.03.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8
Completing the new Anti Discrimination training module, mandatory for all Columbia University faculty, staff, and students. If not completed, you lose access to university systems. "Signing inflammatory petitions" is listed as an example of discriminatory harassment. 🧡

Completing the new Anti Discrimination training module, mandatory for all Columbia University faculty, staff, and students. If not completed, you lose access to university systems. "Signing inflammatory petitions" is listed as an example of discriminatory harassment. 🧡

Getting harder and harder to call Columbia a legitimate university.

29.03.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 336    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 11
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The number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, has crossed 50,000 as Israel intensifies attacks inside the besieged enclave aje.io/35kgqd

23.03.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 362    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 20

Every bit of bad news makes some people want to compare it to China, North Korea, Russia, etc. You don’t have to always insult other countries with US State Department propaganda. You also don't have to praise and romanticize them baselessly. The secret third thing is to speak about what you know.

19.03.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People in the US are so propagandized with US nationalism that even amid homegrown fascism, they find a way to make it about insulting other countries they've never lived in with shallow, ignorant comparisons and analogies. This ain't that; it's the USAβ€”blame who and what laid the foundation here.

19.03.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Luigi Mangione's lawyers say police used snacks to obtain DNA A new Pennsylvania filing from Mangione's lawyers accuses the Altoona Police Department of illegally obtaining his DNA with snacks at the police station.

www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...

Luigi fans, it looks like the DNA evidence is 'fruit from a poison tree'. Cops took DNA without consent from a slice of pizza they gave him. It also seems they likely didn't have probable cause for arrest initially.

Free Luigi!

21.03.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10406    πŸ” 2037    πŸ’¬ 397    πŸ“Œ 224

The energy got coopted by the Democratic Party and funneled into elections. Then the Biden presidency extended several Trump policies while moving liberal constituents to the right on issues like police funding, immigration, and foreign policy. Yes, let's never do that again!

16.03.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If the state isn’t even respecting its own legality to exercise violence against us, then no point in trying to overuse it as a defense mechanism. Wrong is wrong because we should protect our people by any means, not because authorities broke their own rules.

10.03.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Democrats instilled compromise in their base under the guise of bipartisanship. If people don't let that go quickly, more will be hurt badly. We need to fight for what we want, not for what wasn't even good enough from before. If the law, civility, and politics haven't saved us already, then...

10.03.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

There is absolutely no need to seek out better versions of inherently violent positions, classes, and institutions.

19.02.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump did not create the mess of inaccessibility of IVF for many patients. Overturning of Roe did not create that. Dems limiting their support of reproductive justice to solely Roe has long been a problem. Stop trying to "be clear" about what repubs think, *do* something & say what you're doing.

19.02.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Universities Have Been Doing Trump’s Work for Him The University of Chicago, despite its free speech reputation, has laid the groundwork for the president's threats against students who protest for Palestine.

One of our brilliant students wrote an analysis of how Universities laid the groundwork for Trump's repressive policies. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

10.02.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 458    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 18

Trump paused 25% tariff on Mexico, after Mexico agreed to further border militarization. Mexico already has one of world's largest immigration detention systems.

I repeat myself, but pay attention to migration policy! It's almost always compass for what's happening in both domestic & foreign policy

03.02.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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