It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children.
And they will never forget it.
Mary Wollstonecraft AGAIN CONDEMNS the scourge of bro capitalists we suffer under today:
“An ostentatious display of wealth without elegance, and a greedy enjoyment of pleasure without sentiment, embrutes them till they term…. anxiety about the welfare of others, a search after misery.” -1796
And why not.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?
This one hits hard.
INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.
They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.
“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be
I think we are a little frozen in shock and so not responding to this situation we are in . It’s time to face it.
What we’ve just done is created the capability for the federal government to violently control cities even if the local (and state) government is willing to resist with force and even if our military and National Guard would refuse to implement the violence. That’s new.
If you’re in PA, Dem committee seats open this spring. Now is a good time to find your local democratic committee, run for a voting seat on it, and fight to make the party what it is not, and absolutely needs to be.
"A list of things I'd rather do than ask ChatGPT Consult an oracle / Ask a crow / Dig out my old Magic 8 Ball / Call my grandma / Ask the void / Ask a brain inside a jar / Talk to the old stranger that feeds the birds / Ask the artists / Ask the scientists / Listen to the screaming wind / Search my dreams for answers / Flip through dusty, old library books / Talk to anything, anyone with a soul" Alex Dawson
Sadly, the subject is always timely.
There are people out there who legitimately hate violence and suffering, no matter who the victim is. Lots of us.
CHICAGO…
Fascism encourages you to think it’s a spectator sport and when it’s too late you realize you’re also on the playing field and always have been.
The is a technical social science term for what @adambonica.bsky.social has laid bare here, and that is "absolutely fcking insane"
Seriously. Read and weep.
Unpopular opinion: we were better off when American masculinity was defined in terms of stoicism and self-restraint then whatever the fuck the neofascists are peddling. And we should make a concerted effort to promote it.
GOOD PARENTS, BETTER HOMES & GREAT SCHOOLS Selling Segregation before the New Deal
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you're interested in why American cities are *like that*, you need to get this book.
Physically, even.
Authoritarianism 101-Detain educators & public servants; portray them as anti-American.
"Retes was...driven to...LA's Metropolitan Detention Ctr, where he was held by...US Marshals Service...
He was booked..& placed in a holding cell with a professor...detained that same day"
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You used to be able to google information and reliably get accurate info. Now you just have to swim through a soup of low quality websites (that also might be warped by AI) and try to figure out what's real
Update: We have now been at this for 22 hours and Republicans are still hard at work trying to kick 17 million Americans off their health care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
When I had my first baby we were kinda far from family and friends. New job, new place— small town Wisconsin. Got a government baby basket and man, it really made me feel good, like somewhere people were looking out for my baby and I. So the republican war on baby baskets is hitting me hard.
I can’t believe this is my country. If we wonder “what we would have done” during the holocaust, now we know.
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