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What Will You Do? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

"They looked suddenly like they’d just been served ortolan, like they needed to hide from God their ghoulish glee at disappearing a college student who, it was later reported, was walking to break Ramadan fast with her friends."

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I AM IN THIS POST AND I DO NOT LIKE IT

If Schumer is going to keep saying the public needs to “rise up” before he can do anything, this is the perfect response.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

I can't stress this enough. The country and the world is not being shown just how much pushback is happening. You have to share it when you encounter it. They all think we're taking this lying down and we are not.

when y'all talk about what the gov't is doing, don't forget the Black activists who suffered consequences no one deserves for resisting violent fascism in their own neighborhoods. don't erase their deaths. don't let them be forgotten. our gov't has been at this longer than this administration.

A lot of permaculture folks act like as long as a plant fulfills one of their "functions", it doesn't matter if what you grow is native.

The problem is that for a lot of insects, the only things that will fulfill the function of food during, say, the larval stage, are specific native plants.

Vitamin A deficiency contributes to delayed recovery and to risk of complications associated with measles infection. But it is not well proven to be a treatment for measles. In one review including 8 RCTs and more than 2500 children with measles, vitamin A supplementation did not reduce mortality.

DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE

It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology

Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi

This should be repeated in articles, regularly

With the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/

If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth.

The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.

When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.

When someone says something that surprises you, assume they have a valid reason for saying it and go from there with your verification process. And do verify! But don't start with the assumption they're wrong or making things up.

If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

Important advice for leakers

If you're protesting tomorrow:

"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present."

MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

I want to quickly and easily identify the helpers. Those with empathy + compassion beyond themselves. Because people w/empathy + compassion beyond themselves are not fascists.

Continuing to wear a mask is the quickest & easiest way to identify yourself to others as one of the helpers.

this is the type of simple shit you can just simply not obey.
Just fucking don't. Don't do it. Simply just don't comply.
If they can keep pushing the bar doing terrible shit and people have to take it- then why can't they? Are they going to risk the backlash in firing you? Just don't

This will ALSO help us with The Horrors

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Just remember there were still bodies in the river when Trump blamed Democrats and diversity initiatives for the crash, next time they say it’s too soon after a mass shooting to talk about our nation’s death cult.

This. Also, the choice vs. innate debate always bugs me because it usually doesn’t examine what a choice IS.

Transitioning isn’t one choice, but the same choice over and over again.

If you do that, it must reflect something deep about you, whether that thing is biological or not.

Everyone is saying that they want to 'fight fascism' and 'resist'. Great, that's a good start.
But do you know what you are fighting?
During WW2 the authoritarian British Raj in India starved 4 million Bengalis to death, but no one mentions that as fascism.
Why?

💸💕 #helpsky #fundfriday

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Mask Bans Are an Insult to Disabled People and Protesters Alike The bans threaten disabled people and protesters alike.

With Indiana becoming the latest state to put forward a mask ban & Trump ordering CDC, FDA and NIH to stop providing public health updates… it’s a good time to remind people to push back on mask bans

They’re discriminatory & dangerous. Everyone should have the legal right to protect their health:

They set up a snitch line for DEI in the federal government. If you feel like sending your best copies of the bee movie script or some queer smut, have at it.

DEIAtruth@opm.gov