More accurate headline: The Justice Department Protects Extremist Groups by Going After the Agencies That Investigate Them

What a week to be giving a lecture at Fort Ticonderoga on the Canadian campaign during the American Revolution, which was doomed by an outbreak of smallpox and mixed messaging on whether not soldiers should inoculate.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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The administration seeks to eliminate the National Science Foundation's main funding social science research. You can take action today to defend it.

Short post with tools, inspired @marthastarr.bsky.social

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This is the “personal responsibility” lie we’ve all been fed by big business for decades. We’ve allowed industry to convince us we’re at fault for their harms. And we’ve allowed them to turn us against each other so we spend more time finger wagging individual people then we do fighting bad actors.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

If you're engaged in organizing that needs more people to join, share those opportunities in every way you can. Invite people to join in. Keep making the invitations because most people don't join the first time you ask. For every 10 people you invite, you might get one person who will take it up.

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

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Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too

Maybe Baker should have spent less time complaining about black people winning journalism awards and spent more time accurately describing the man running the most powerful country in the world bsky.app/profile/carl...

The Warehouse: Opening Reception and Panel | Brooklyn Public Library Join Rachel Herzing, James Kilgore, and Vic Liu for a conversation on incarceration, resistance, and abolition through art and organizing. Bringing together perspectives from movement-building, writin...

Do you know that our Warehouse Exhibition about mass incarceration opens on April 4 at Bedford Library and that everyone is invited to join us that day and through June 27? Well it's true: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/war... - Free and Open to the Public!

a government for abusive men, by abusive men

The new thing is landlords using ai photos for their property listings. Totally legal. Total scam.

The whole economy is oil and scams.

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Yes to ending fossil fuels. The world is currently consuming more energy & more FF than ever.

But it’s really not as simple as no fossil fuels = no war. “Green” energy tech generates its own forms of violence, far from the eyes of media. When it ramps up, so will that violence, especially if

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They Called It Conspiracy: Joselyn Walsh on Federal Charges and the Criminalization of Protest "A conspiracy charge is deeply isolating, which I think is probably part of the point from the government’s perspective," says Joselyn Walsh.

In my latest, I talk with my friend Joselyn about the federal charges against her that were dropped yesterday, today’s guilty verdict for multiple Prairieland defendants, and what’s at stake when the definition of conspiracy is stretched and distorted to ensnare activists.

@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price

electricity water clean air knowledge

you name it

they should be treated like the common thieves they are

One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

In efforts to disrupt ICE, the whistle has become an instrument of choice On the streets, the whistle has become a means to alert neighbors and warn immigrants.

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As someone who works in a university, I am genuinely blown away by the number of people who want to exist in academia without having to think or write.

create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives

This girl from college who was known as "easy" showed up in my dreams. She was known as promiscuous & sleeping with all the men including partnered ones. She was used & abused by these men who thought her just a whore. She'd had a lot of trauma in her life & was so wounded. She was misunderstood.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor Hello Friends of Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor! Many of our neighbors in Minneapolis are being targeted based on the color of their skin, their accent, or their country of origin. From a healthcare standpoint, this is leading to very scary outcomes, as patients are terrified to leave home and are foregoing necessary care in an effort to stay safe. For moms and babies, medical professionals scramble to meet these needs and to ensure patient safety. As neighbors and community members, we want to ensure these moms and babies have their needs met in terms of supplies, personal care items, and infant and toddler items. While it's a far cry from a baby shower, we are doing our best to ensure that our neighboring mamas have what they need in times of massive distress. All items purchased on this list will be delivered to me and then immediately sent out into the community for maximum impact. On behalf of all the mama and baby teams, we so appreciate your love and generosity.

Black image with white text and white line drawing of a parent holding a baby. Text reads: "Mama + Baby donations needed. All items with an asterisk must be unused. Other items may be gently used. These items will go to immediate homes and be appreciated. [heart emoji] Thank you! ITEMS NEEDED: diapers (size 0-6)*, baby wipes*, pacifiers*, teething items*, free and clear detergent, baby shampoo, baby-safe lotion, infant clothing (all sizes), infant hats, baby blankets, burp cloths, swaddlers, hands-free baby carriers, breastfeeding guards*, feeding pillows, maternity pillows, belly bands, nipple cream*, pimps, infant safe toys, pack + play, epsom salt."

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid
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Tennessee GOP Intro Bill To Kill Women Who Get An Abortion Here's an update on the bill, on the men responsible, and how you can contact them to stop this bill

Hey, so, reminder that Tennessee Republicans are introducing a bill that would kill women who get an abortion.

I dug up the MAGAs names, numbers, emails, & a script to use when calling them. Men—we need to step up. Act. Inundate them. Shut this trash down ASAP.
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What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?