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They’re going to hit up devil’s dogs and learn the power and love of Chicago’s mexican driven services industry

🗣️PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

If it’s starting now, we are all fucked.

Neat idea

Well good thing it’ll all be “necessary” to run whatever this week’s AI scam is, indefinitely, so that we won’t have any recourse when we live in the fallout zones. As if we can afford lawyers to begin with 😆

Southern California peeps: Looking for a spare laptop donation for a 45-year old Black woman comrade who is going back to school.

Laptop just needs to work reliably and run Microsoft Office and connect to her school's Google workspace stuff. Thank u!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Americans have a long tradition of looting being perfectly fine as long as you look a particular way, and so do your targets, when you do it.

We spent our whole lives learning what that looks like when it’s fine and good and moral and nothing to blink about, courtesy of Dick Wolfe.

They target those with no resources for a reason.

Wild how these yahoos haven’t figured out that this happens daily, already. Every single one of the murdered have always been some “threat” to the poorly trained kids with guns on their hip after that C average peaked in high school. We will be, too. Our fellow Americans will nod along, it appears.

Ha, I mean, sure.

If you can afford a lawyer.

They know we can’t afford lawyers. Or days off.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

It is.

A photo of Jane Goodall, in her later days with a quote from her: "The greatest danger to our future is our apathy. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other."

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91.

She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world.

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‘Kidnapping’: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla; detains activists, Thunberg Activists on board Global Sumud Flotilla report interceptions after Israeli vessels approached.

Thunberg kidnapped along with others, but the aid still proceeds to the starving, for now

Because you’re looking at American propaganda instead of credible international journalism.

All eyes on the flotilla.

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It’s like people enjoy not dying and stuff. Weird.

via @lincolnsquare.media

🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence.

Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

"once the Dems have the House and Senate in Congress they can..." reads like "as soon as we figure out Cold Fusion we'll be able to..."

Funny, that just used to be called “respecting the will of the people,” when we chose that “unicorn.”

But hey, I get how it’s not WE peasants who should do our own choosing, after all.

Prolly best that those in power make sure to pay for the one they like, then tell us who they picked, for sure.

The Supreme Court is slowly stripping Congress of its power. This isn’t just about Trump, precedents like this don’t vanish once he’s out of office. When the political winds shift, the same unchecked authority could just as easily be turned the other way. It’s a dangerous game.

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish

"That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity."

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...