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Thank you, Capt America! 🫡

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

DiCaprio pointing at TV: "I KNOW THEM" meme.

Aw really @weayonnoh.bsky.social? One more reason to regret missing the thing today.
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To make history you have to risk something, to fight fascism you have to *fight.*

An authorized march demonstrates opposition but does little more.

Please get that straight or else this march tomorrow is doing nothing but absolving your guilt about being part of a system brutalizing millions.

Block and move on. Don’t engage with filthy little trolls who have no game. Let them wallow in their squalor and they’ll get bored and leave back to their Nazi bar.

“Print is a rent strike,” as somebody wise once said.

Luckily you only teach a 2/2, right? LOL JK !!!!!!!!

Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva Why have so few athletes spoken about Gaza? Fear of backlash, lost sponsors and being branded antisemitic all help explain the silence

Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza?

We did too... so we asked some to find out.

Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."

👏🏼👏🏼 Majors? No way I’m doing that in Intro.

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Close-up (to show no handwriting) of a stack of papers on a wooden table; iced coffee cup atop.

Behold the ChatGPT-free midterm exams. 👍🏼

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

Nice White Ladies BUY THE BOOK!

Also (re: above) shout out to www.jessiedaniels.net/nice-white-l... by @jessienyc.bsky.social, who admirably states a shared lineage (me too) with the "Karens" of society.

Normies absolutely have no idea that there are any of the concerns or negative externalities with the major AI platforms, because media absolutely refuse to cover the topic.

Bad apples come from rotten trees in policing | Brookings Rashawn Ray writes that to better identify the bad apples in policing and justify their removal, policymakers need to restructure civilian payouts for police misconduct.

Prior post inspired in part by the story of the Central Park Birder, as retold by @sociologistray.bsky.social here: www.brookings.edu/articles/bad...

Yes. Fully grown white women get infantilized too, as permanent "damsels in distress," needing protection ... often from men of color. Sexism & racism in mutual support of each other.

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

Or they could just, you know, fucking pay taxes

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason

I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

Views north to downtown, and south to the I-way, from the Point St. Bridge in Providence RI

Scenic traffic jam: looking at the I-way bridge from the Point St. bridge while we wait to cross the (half-broken) Washington Bridge.

A 3-box graphic on screen: Definition of *Human Subject" + Definition of "Research" = Human Subjects Research

I’m having so much fun - you jealous?

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

It's so tempting to get defensive.
I really respect this:

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.

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I have a kid in college and on a parents' facebook group, a father reposted a flyer for a campus anti-fascist reading group. He called it un-American. Hellllloooooooooo.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Rate Dogs & • Follow ... 2h • This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers. According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-834-8400 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

What if we could channel all our frustrations over our country’s rapid slide into authoritarianism into advocacy for policies that work for all of us?

We can. Welcome to @americandemands.bsky.social #DemandBetter