Katrina Beans

They want slavery and slavery was the model for fascism

Until that becomes a discussed reality we will stay in hell

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My childhood best friend is struggling right now really hard and could use literally any help you can give, donating, sharing, or even better both! They're a wonderful human with a child and could really use some love, any love.

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That's Nazis matching in my town, Indianapolis Indiana. Apparently it's not newsworthy but I disagree. The craven piss couches made sure not to warn us, and still managed to get police escorts. I'm gonna write @marisakabas.bsky.social and hope SOMEONE reports on it

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to...acclaim the bully as hero” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to...acclaim the bully as hero”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958
#poetry

To the big tough MAGA guys who don’t like the immigrants looking for jobs at the Home Depot down the street, ask yourselves: are your kids going to do the work those migrants have been doing?

I think people missed it amid Whiskey Pete's other faceplants in congressional hearings in last two weeks--but he struggled to distinguish the US from ISIS and al Qaeda two weeks ago.

It's amazing how much authority is conveyed by adding 'Defense Secretary' before a guy's name instead of 'Fox News host and big fan of the literal Crusades'

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

US Weighs Deeper Involvement in Israel’s Illegal Attacks Against Iran Trump says he will decide within two weeks whether to join Israel’s war on Iran.

Trump says he will decide within two weeks whether to join Israel’s war on Iran.

Japan cancelled a top-level meeting with the US after the Trump administration abruptly told Tokyo to boost defence spending to 3.5%, higher than its earlier request of 3%. (FT)

Bridges are burning.

Damn right you are! Powerfully. I desperately wish you didn't have to be, but holy shit you ARE

Ewwww. Just briefly saw an ad that said "Talk to Gemini about anything you see." Uh. Um. Gross.

“How the people who brought you Dobbs figured out how to get the NYT to carry their water” would be a great story but obvi the Times isn’t going to burn its own sources

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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I'm sorry but what the fuck

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too."

-Zohran Mamdani

“Yesterday’s reforms are today’s oppressions.”

“Here’s Malcolm X, speaking on how priviliged sections of the oppressed become important agents in the defense of oppression”

Trump didn’t order CMPD to pepper spray protestors in Charlotte, Trump’s Marines didn’t open up with tear gas in LA, Trump didn’t tell cops in Savannah to detain a protestor for wearing a medical mask. It’s worth asking why electeds in those heavily blue places won’t answer for any of that.

One thing I have not seen much grappling with: the Trump Administration has acted illegally with respect to the National Guard & Marines in LA plus the whole parade nonsense is a federal show of power, but cops ostensibly controlled by local governments in blue cities attacked protestors yesterday.

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

Way way more

We *have* to get better about gun safety. This guy looks safe to me.

Demonstrators wearing motorcycle helmets and padding on their arms hold up a shield wall.

A diagram depicting how to construct a reinforced banner, numbered 1 through 7, featuring 1.) Metal construction fencing 2.) Corrugated Plastic 3.) Zip Ties 4.) Handles 5.) Duct Tape 6.) More Zip Ties, and 7.) Banner fabric. A diagram depicting how to construct a reinforced banner, numbered 1 through 7, featuring 1.) Metal construction fencing 2.) Corrugated Plastic 3.) Zip Ties 4.) Handles 5.) Duct Tape 6.) More Zip Ties, and 7.) Banner fabric.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Reinforced Banners

How to build and employ reinforced banners that can function as a mobile shield wall, protecting demonstrators from police violence.

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Sometimes one person can quickly make a difference.

Just printed a bunch of copies in a rainbow of colors to give out at a local No Kings rally! 🌈

If you work with the police during a fascist takeover to target people you see as trouble makers, you are working with fascists and are a threat to us full stop.

“Putting on a Gas Mask.”

Tag or send to your friend Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Northern
Virginia, New York.

Sincerely, California.