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look even if ~crime~ was actually rampant in DC more cops and feds wouldn’t do shit. improving peoples’ material conditions is the only thing that actually affects the kind of crime about which people love to fear monger, not the actual crimes of causing homelessness and displacement.

Look, while these are the facts, you're still arguing within Trump's framing of crime. The facts don't matter here because Trump's base love seeing the military and police crack down on people they hate, which are liberals and, most importantly, Black people. It doesn't matter what the facts are.

I think it’s cool that my city gets to be 1970s Belfast because an intern got his shit rocked by a teenage girl

This post is inaccurate. This is the curfew zone established by MPD (DC police) and has been in effect in multiple spots across the city for weeks. There were similar curfews last summer and numerous times before that.

This is Mayor Bowser’s doing, not Trump’s.

he worked for McKinsey you say

LEAVE DC ALONE

Our tips for safety and solidarity this weekend

There are currently credible rumors that Trump plans to deploy federal law enforcement agents in DC tomorrow or this weekend.

Here are some ways we can all stay safe and stay strong if that happens 🧵

masking can feel futile, like throwing plastic into recycling that's just trash, but it isn't—you not only break chains of transmission, but resist the far right narrative that only criminals mask, thus: protecting your community.

you want a better world? what are you doing to make it happen TODAY?

indeed concern for preventing disease is much more convincing when you use all tools available that align with stated values. i understand the science & want to prevent disease, so i have had 10 SARS2 vaccines in addition to my use of masks in, at least, all public indoor spaces, among other tools.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Masking is anti fascist. It’s a way to resist.

It’s also a heck of a lot easier to fight fascism when you still have your health, and it’s important to commit to not harming others within the movement.

Wearing a mask shows you care about your health and the health of those around you!

Don’t look away from the implicit eugenics of “living with COVID" By lifting public health restrictions we are essentially subjecting immuno-compromised people to market eugenics.

If you're refusing to acknowledge the ongoing Covid pandemic and you're pushing Covid denialism by referring to the pandemic in the past tense, you have zero ground to stand on when it comes to spouting off about what is and is not eugenics.

Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade? The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...

Weird how herd immunity is desirable if attained through massive sickness and death but not so desirable if achieved through safe and effective vaccines

Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

If you’re concerned that Sydney Sweeney is facilating eugenics with her genes/jeans ad but not concerned that you’re facilitating eugenics by spreading illness in an ongoing pandemic that most harms marginalized groups…

Please connect the dots.

Wear an n95 in public. Give/get mutual aid:

Do you know if the match will be broadcasted via radio?

there isn’t a leftist way to talk about how to get sex from women, it is a fundamentally right wing view to believe women are the keepers of sex and they are withholding it from you because you aren’t coercing them the right way.

two people picking up all the dead animals in DC is absolutely bananas!!!

today’s newsletter is how I learned there are TWO PEOPLE who pick up ALL THE DEAD ANIMALS IN DC

I just bought a bunch for my Covid competent friends and I!

notable that Smalls is one of the most high profile labor leaders in the country and shortly before his abduction posted a video correctly naming US laborers as complicit in the Palestinian genocide. we as a movement have got to radically become more internationalist and anti-imperialist

Israel tortured Smalls because it is a racist apartheid state and knows that the US is now also a racist apartheid state and therefore it feels no impetuous in returning him. After you let Israelis murder several American citizens, why should they be afraid?

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

What the United States is doing is deciding on behalf of the many species of Earth that actually maybe none of us should still exist in two centuries

There are no - absolutely zero - “legitimate” concerns about trans people in any context. THAT is the only correct answer. The entire trans panic is made-up garbage. THAT is the only thing Democrats should be pushing. Anything less is unacceptable.

Beit Hanoun used to be home to more than 50k people.

You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone

There must never be any corner of the world in which we forget who is responsible for the live-streamed genocide we are watching.

+ while exposing them to a disabling virus multiple times a year

Bluesky post from @wmata.com advertising mechanic positions that come with a $7K signing bonus

Bluesky post from @wmata.com advertising metro police jobs that start at $71,249 with a $20K signing bonus

$7K signing bonus for the people who actually make wmata run but $20K for the people harassing and surveilling racialized people

another climate-immigration intersection: the government is using private jets to disappear people