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Love this short thread by Toby Buckle.
Let me add, though, that in the USA it's never been the Left that was wrong. Around the world you can find ppl that were, e.g., radicalized by Monarchy or anti-colonialism who were wrong. Also there are individuals who have been violent.
So, to be obvious about this scam:
Actual racial/socio-economic diversity: BAD
“Viewpoint” diversity: good
Mhmm, ok.
The Supreme Court is fundamentally corrupt & after the NYT reporting there's a big opening for Democrats to make a huge stink about the shadow docket and that it was born to stop the first Black POTUS's climate agenda. We must talk about how the shadow docket has become a racially weaponized tool.
I don’t know how many different ways I can say “Phil Scott is a piece of shit” before people start believing me. Maybe this will help
There are no good Republicans. Any Vermonter who votes for him is voting to support fascism. You can excuse it any way you like but he’s a loyal Republican who gladly remains a member of an organization that has brought fascism to our country and is openly pushing a white nationalist agenda
The economists and billionaires were wrong. California has demonstrated that we can pay people better. Their economic doomsday scenarios were wrong. It turns out everyone benefits.
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I guess it's okay to drive drunk as long as you do your best to keep poor people behind bars?
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I have no idea about the details of this race or if he'd have won or not but the idea of a national party that won't compete everywhere nationally is just batshit, this stuff would have ppl questioning your right to call yourself a national party in other countries
Make a difference in #Vermont.
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On March 31, at a public hearing before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, community members gathered to share their stories and bear witness to the state-sanctioned terror that unfolded on Dorset Street on March 11.
Whenever progressive justice reform rears its head, sustained opposition is sure to follow — not only from conservatives, but from mainstream Democrats as well.
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This post makes me snort bc she is literally siding with special interest saying “fuck those workers specifically” bsky.app/profile/kati...
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
A retired journo I know SMS'd me before and reckoned the first thing that should be grounded are the private planes of the rich and famous.
"They can catch an interstate train/plane like the rest of us. That fuel is now needed for the whole of society, not rich pricks' private jets," he said.
DHS is using weapons-grade spyware to surveil the phones of US citizens, and they don't need a judge to sign off on a warrant to do so
Using "administrative warrants" issued by DHS itself, they operate with virtually no oversight
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there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes
@elienyc.bsky.social says the clock is ticking on our chance to stop Convicted Felon Donald Trump from committing more atrocities.
He explains how impeachment, conviction, and removal will stop future catastrophes from taking place & if we don’t try, we’ll be complicit.
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You should expect the Dems to WANT to have higher standards.
Every elected Dem who can't muster the integrity to say - with honesty - "I want you to hold me accountable for my behaviour in office" shouldn't be a candidate for office at all.
We have a party against accountability. We don't need 2.
“There was no authority that we could call on for help, no police, who would help us in that instance. We could only count on the support of our neighbors,” - Jerez Andrade
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this is a long, but really interesting read on the longer-term effects of the early covid pandemic on health systems. tl;dr it's across the board, regardless of political or funding model: patients are sicker and hospitals are slower because of it.
US Forestry is 121 yrs old. ICE is only 23 yrs old. If Trump can abolish it that easily, we can #Abolish ICE. Just saying.
Rarely has a people had such an *opportunity* to stop the evils of their government as we do right now. If we impeach and remove Trump, we will avert additional crimes against humanity. If we do not, history will judge us harshly. All of us. Yes, even me and you.
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Important documentation on US death camps. These are not immigration detention camps. They are camps designed to cause emotional, mental & physical stress to break human beings, the majority who have not committed a crime. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
This is so well done. 👌
In honor of Local News Day, one person's vision of a renewed, vibrant news ecosystem. Built from the bottom up, not the top down.
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
Some medications can help you feel fewer symptoms of colds, flu, COVID-19, & more, but symptom relief from medication does not mean you can’t spread sickness to others!
Feeling under the weather and taking meds to help you get through the day? Many medications can help relieve your symptoms, but this doesn’t mean you can’t still spread your illness to others! Continue to stay away from others as much as possible and wear masks if you have to go out.
I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.
