Bill Arnal

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

On Genocide, Canada Doesn’t Get to Be a Bystander Some lives matter.

This is my message to David Lametti - newly appointed ambassador to the UN. There is no such thing as a bystander int the face of genocide. His claims that Canada waits for all the evidence before doing anything is a falsehood.

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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.

thinking about this this morning and the version of me that was carrying the scrupulosity and the undiagnosed, untreated adhd

Great list! Love to see the DKs and Dropkicks in there, but it's all great stuff.

I’ve been reading Manufacturing Consent this week and OOF does it ever validate so much of what I experienced during my years spent working in national mainstream media!

The model is painfully accurate, and I’d argue it’s been exacerbated today by digital adtech monopolies and mass layoffs.

y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right?

y’all know why they did it

y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else

y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?

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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

I really feel like most of this wouldn't be happening if Black people wouldn't have expressed so much public joy over the last few years.

When the French 🇫🇷 government misbehaves the French call up Macron’s new favourite restaurant, tell the owner to double the fire 🔥 insurance, wait a month, and burn it down. We need that energy or we will not survive monopoly man.

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88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms New polling conducted by Abacus Data confirms that nearly 9 in 10 Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants’ fight for fair pay – and they want the federal government to back off and let them neg...

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

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🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company

🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company

🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company

🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company

Meanwhile their workers have been living in RVs and going to food banks to try and make ends meet

I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.

Roe vs. Wade (abortion)
Obergefell (gay marriage)
HIPAA (medical record privacy)

All of these depend upon right to privacy laws which stem from the 14th amendment.

All of these connect to each other and are being systematically torn apart.

All of our fates are connected.

This guy has more courage than all congress, the courts, universities, and media organizations in the country.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.