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There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.

Opinion | Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

“Far beyond just saving riders money, free buses deliver a cascade of benefits, from easing traffic to promoting public safety. Just look at Boston; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Kansas City, Mo.; and even New York itself, all of which have tried it to excellent effect.”

Love this piece by @dreanyc123.bsky.social. Such a necessary intervention.

Meet the Young Organizers Survival Corps Young organizers from around the country gathered at Haley Farm to study past social movements and train in the tactics of nonviolent resistance and grassroots organizing.

Young organizers from around the country gathered at Haley Farm to study past social movements and train in the tactics of nonviolent resistance and grassroots organizing.
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YouTube video by NPR Music Sarah McLachlan: Tiny Desk Concert

Enjoyed this tiny desk concert by Sarah McLachlan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ND...

Ammori: This is a monumental victory for fundamental freedoms and for Palestine Ammori has released a statement describing the high court’s ruling as a “monumental victory” and that the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terror group “in a Trumpian abuse of power”. She said: “This is a monumental victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain and in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history. “Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes. This ban was unlawful, resulting in the unlawful arrest of nearly 3,000 people - among them priests, vicars, former magistrates and retired doctors – under terrorism laws for simply sitting in silence while holding signs reading: ‘I oppose genocide – I support Palestine Action’. Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, stood outside with a police van seen in the background. View image in fullscreen Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action. Photograph: Abdullah Bailey/Alamy Share

A UK court has just ruled that the ban on the Palestine Action Group is blatantly unlawful - EXCELLENT news

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

colonial solidarity at its finest. There is no reason to expect representatives of illegitimately established colonial institutions to stop representatives of illegitimately established colonial institutions at the gate. White laws are made to enable them, not to stop them.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

This is the clearest admission I've seen for what I've said all along: The entire conservative movement is animated by a fever-dream to return to the white privilege levels of 1950.

I’m so tired of these nazis. And fragile white men who are afraid of others because they are so mediocre and can’t stand it.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is a bonkers, brilliant return for Lisa McGee Lisa McGee’s eight-part Netflix show about a trio of thirtysomething friends navigating careers, motherhood and the untimely death of a schoolfriend is refreshingly idiosyncratic

For later

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...?

If it's so fucking useful then go do that useful thing with it! Make something that doesn't look like lazy shit! File a bunch of legal briefs that don't make a judge want to vaporize you where you stand! Fuck off!

The Magic Kingdom | Sarah Marshall Capitalism, like all abusive relationships, creates a sense of learned helplessness in its victims. We are complicit in what it makes of us.

To understand the most pernicious fantasies of late capitalism, one need look no further than the physical and intellectual properties of Disney. From the Archives: Sarah Marshall considers life on the margins of the House of Mouse:

Like it's got to the point of free-fall in Albanese and the rule of Law that the most law abiding people I know are now being criminalised for being decent human beings.
Like sorry guys. You have to be this evil to ride on the deathstar.
It's a fucking mafia

Oohh I didn’t know that - I work at a CLC so I’d be very interested to read what you wrote!

We will all feel nostalgic for Labour again because we think they‘d be different - but this is what they’d be, we know that now. Which Abbot / Morrison policies and laws has current ALP govt undone/removed/amended to better the most vulnerable peoples‘ conditions, who were most affected by A and M?

I hear you. I guess my thinking is: maybe we wished it was a Labour PM during the Abbott and Morrison years but now Labour are finally in power and not governing for the people? Just inflicting more and more fascism on us? So if Taylor somehow becomes PM some day and

Sure, I get that. I guess there are already many people who are already in quite dire circumstances due to funding cuts in services etc. Maybe Taylor would spread that up the chain and more of us would suffer.

Exactly this. No one cares about who is the irrelevant leader of an irrelevant party except the media.

Also tho how would this be that different to what we have now?

Our ability to compartmentalize and also to frankly lie to ourselves are survival mechanisms as human beings. Because if we truly let ourselves consider how unhinged this man is and how he could end up blowing everyone up on the planet, we'd never sleep again.

no our police have always been extremely violent racists in every jurisdiction.

Like I keep saying, the scope of who they are allowed to visit that violence on has just grown.

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

one of the few outlets to publish an accurate account of NSW police brutality. Most media seem very confused by the fact that police blocked the exits and then police attacked people with pepper spray, fists, and steel cap boots.

michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

"They're the same picture."

Victorian skywalkers Whadayareggon?

Antisemitism Envoy admits she 'wasn't focused on' unequal protections in 'hate laws' seeking to protect only one religion. The bias isn't a bug it's a feature.

the ABC also went out of their way to present the murder of Renee Good by ICE thugs as a vague and unknowable debate, even as the new york freaking times couldn't deny what happened.

The institution is fundamentally pro-fascist now - how else can you describe going out of one's way to do this?