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A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

How Public Health Discredited Itself To earn back the respect of Americans, the profession needs to return to its original principles.

One of the most bonkers articles I have ever read @theatlantic.com - outright disinformation and revisionist history top to bottom.

Myth making at its best, so deeply irresponsible of @theatlantic.com to publish this.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

Reconciling our past, assessing our present, reclaiming our future. What could a sovereign Canada mean, and how will we get there? (1/6)

MAN WHAT THE FUCK

I'm in favour. I thought the pandemic was going to re-set how society felt about paying workers adequately, but nope.

“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Solidarity with sanitation workers! Unsung heroes.

A general strike would be incredibly effective. If every person who showed up for the No Kings protest didn't go to work, that would scare billionaires more than Mamdani.

The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision didn't just affect abortion – it's now endangering access to contraception. Some lawmakers are pushing to restrict birth control methods by classifying them as abortifacients.

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The law is powerless against stochastic political violence The misuse of media power to promote harm needs a cultural, not a legal, solution

The recent spate of political violence in the United States, as well as elsewhere, is not a novelty, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
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Three actions to consider...

Find allies—find community, link up, like, or lurk
Fight with purpose—even small acts of defiance matter
Take a breather—doomscrolling feeds the fear they want

The Trace Is Hiring a Multimedia Producer The new Multimedia Producer role will help guide The Trace’s presence on video-focused platforms.

We’re hiring! The Trace is looking for a multimedia producer with fresh ideas, excellent production skills, and a willingness to grow with the organization as we build out our video presence from the ground up. Accepting applications through July 1. Details:

Ha! I already have that poster blocked.

Best way is to play with a team, because someone will know even if you don't - I'm hopeless at NFL or MLB trivia 😭🤣

Love pub trivia! I went on Tuesday.

Defeat US fascism:
👟 mobilize.us
🤝 Indivisible.org
📣 www.fiftyfifty.one
🗽 aclu.org
⚡ GeneralStrikeUS.com
🛠️ www.buildtheresistance.org
🛑 www.americanopposition.org
🕊️ WagingNonviolence.org
Also, consider reposting this and possibly adding the links to your own profile or pinned post.
#USDemocracy

It was a life changer! And trivia fans are my people ❤️

Thank you!!! I'm honoured!

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#OtD 24 Jun 1980 a two-day general strike began in El Salvador protesting against the US-backed military dictatorship and its death squads. 85% of the economy was paralysed and 80,000 people took to the streets stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9669...

Firing on starving people waiting for food? Don't we have rules about that? Maybe a Geneva Convention one?

I like the Fred Hampton method. Organize mutual aid, community support, grassroots social programs. Rent parties, legal defense funds, help organize farmers markets and flea markets, neighborhood watches, childcare groups. And every step of the way: "This is socialism. This is what we do."

Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

It strikes me that if we had swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming Wall Street chasing down tax cheats and white collar criminals, many Americans would respond differently than they are to swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming the streets of LA chasing down brown people.

Trump illegally bombed Iran without Congress's approval. Might want to add that.

The President of the US illegally bombed Iran without the approval of Congress. It will cause an infinite number of risks to most of the world.

Do you have an editorial requirement for the most milquetoast, passive voice headlines?

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.