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Sustained resistance - protest, boycott, strike.

Allowing these ICE kidnappings to become a common occurrence works to normalize this cruelty. This is how the “first they came” poem happens. No one speaks out or resists until, inevitably, they come for you. It’s up to our communities to look out for themselves when the systems meant to, wont.

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

Jeff Bezos systematically dismantled the Washington Post. Now, he’s looking to purchase Condé Nast and CNBC.

Paramount & CBS have bent the knee.

Tech billionaires are manipulating their platforms’ algorithms to favor fascists.

NPR & PBS have been defunded.

This is state propaganda in the making.

Mass question: Are you somebody I gave an explanation of the Five Petals of Thought? If so, please DM. If not, please rebleat (or whatever we're calling it).

I always found that if you said hello once, that was sufficient to weed out robocalls. That way, if whoever was on the other end was a real person, they'd know that I picked up. Otherwise, it felt like ESP.

Boycott Amazon Prime Days Economic boycott of Amazon during Prime Days

New blog post: brennancm.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/b...

fyi: please remember that 3.5% of the population nonviolently protesting has to be sustained. we. cannot. afford. to. stop.

nothing will instantly change. trump isn’t going away via a magic wand. we are in this, not for a day or two or even a month. this is a fight that will last for years. resist.

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Posters reading “Melt ICE” and “Due Process”

The posters Lori and I took to the Hands Across Chicagoland” demonstration today

Art and Culture: Señor Rafael, Coyoacan, UNAM, & Xochimilco We booked a ten-hour tour for Tuesday! Lori and I arrived at our meeting point, Cafe Miga, at 7 a.m., hoping to get breakfast before 7:50, when the tour bus was scheduled for boarding.  Aaand&…

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Protest sign reads: "Billionaires: The Only Minority Destroying Our Country"

Estimated attendance at the Hands Off protest in Lisle Illinois was 3,000!

Author, voice actor, puppeteer, AND translator? Damn, girl! Congratulations to you both!

Chilling

Home | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois The Official U.S. Senate website of Dick Durbin

Hey, @durbin.senate.gov , can we donate to you and get you to use the money to buy @booker.senate.gov dinner and some throat lozenges? Signed, one of your constituents

Mysterious Teotihuacan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site We can’t say Andres didn’t warn us. He said we wouldn’t see everything at Teotihuacan on a brief tour, and he was right. I’ve wanted to see Teotihuacan ever since reading The Dawn of Everything by …

New blog post about Mexico
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Mexico, Part Two: Take Your Time! The author describes their first full day in Mexico, highlighting a visit to the National Museum of Anthropology, where they interacted with the knowledgeable guide, Andres. Key exhibits included m…

New post about the Mexican vacay!
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Trump Admin sets up portal for polluters to get exemptions to clean air rules.
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LOL! Well, it was your story to tell.

Reproduction of art from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

I wrote a blog post about our first night in Mexico: brennancm.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/b... with
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Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common They're way behind the technological curve

While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs!
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Any type of personal grooming and food consumption do not belong next to each other

It would be impolite to do it anywhere!

Good thread. The more I think about it the more the "Zelenskyy shouldn't have made him angry" argument sounds like someone making terrible excuses to the partner of an abusive man.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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