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If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo.

If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators

Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Paris Schultz tweets: "Illinois State Police and Cook County DOT officials now setting up barricades outside the Broadview ICE facility to create "first amendment zone" for protesters. ISP officer says he hopes it will mitigate a lot of the problems.

This WILL NOT mitigate any problems, and the state should not be pulling this shit. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you've talked a big game about opposing Trump, and now the state is pulling this? "Free speech zones" exist to make protesters irrelevant. Everyone knows this.

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

People have been and are warning that AI is a bubble and that the bubble will burst. With the facists currently in charge, that means maximum pain for those already struggling and maximum gain for their rich friends.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

The fascists have, are and will continue to cause great damage. I am clear eyed but they are NOT invincible if people ACTUALLY stop being ridiculous and take regular and concerted action.

Most people who disagree with me aren't Nazis. They're just people who don't share my opinions or fundamental convictions. But some people have fascist politics. I will call those people Nazis, because fascist politics should be named, stigmatized, and shamed.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

🎯 When Trump said, “There’s no harm in not taking it,” that was incredibly inaccurate, as we know that fevers can cause birth defects and even fetal death.

It’s yet another reason why health recommendations 1️⃣ should come after careful & sufficient study 2️⃣ should come from actual health experts.

by presidential decree words no longer have meanings. I am a fish. the sky is green. yesterday was christmas. chuck e. cheese did COINTELPRO

I know we clown strongly worded statements but every medical professional in the US needs to issue one by tomorrow morning saying "we're not following the bullshit guidance of a lifelong antivax activist & his senile boss"

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

I think a lot of what people are calling "capitulation" would be better understood as "support"

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

I'd be OK with them actually destroying the FBI. That's not what they are doing. They are weaponizing it for use against their opponents.

oh thank god

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

There was already a plan to dismantle the organized left. They haven't managed to pass the nonprofit killer bill, so now they are latching onto a murder that a leftist didn't even commit and talking about RICO charges, etc., for groups that call Nazis what they are.