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Rocinante
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Trekkie, MiS’Tie, Whovian, Greenie, Atheist, Antifa, Anti Zionist, Socialist, Fuck Ice
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This is a take no one asked for, but the amount I prefer the Wall St Journal to NYT or WaPo right now is off the charts

They know who they are and they're open about where they come from. Their journalism is rock-solid. Their op/ed section is nuclear waste, but it's easy to simply avoid it
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If you learn about US history, we have always had an oligarchy, its political power has varied depending on how well organized and effective labor movements were. The birth of organized labor in the US was among the most violent in the world. These people will kill us without any remorse at all.
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This is the evidence given by Joseph Mahon at the trial of Soldier F who wa found not guilty today. He was 16 when he was shot on Bloody Sunday, read it and digest the reality of British Justice when the victims aren’t classed as fully human
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we have to stop worshiping politicians on the left. god forbid you tell someone Newsom destroyed homeless encampments.
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“90% of the civilians killed in the last eight decades of this so-called conflict were on the Palestinian side, and not the Israeli side. And who killed them? The Israelis. And they’re never called terrorists.”

— Arab Barghouti, son of Marwan Barghouti
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There never was any ceasefire. The whole thing was a scam to try to get Trump an international peace prize whose winner—as surely they should have known—had already been selected prior to the 48 hours during which the scam unfolded.
BREAKING: Israeli forces have carried out massive bombing operations southeast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report from the ground.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oiwpck
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Time to be proud of our very own Grand Negus Zek!
(DS9 nerd only post)
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"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"

Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.
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He speaks the truth, and so must we. Always speak truth to power.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Expands Extrajudicial Killings to Pacific Waters

The U.S. military launched two more strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the eastern Pacific, killing at least five people in 48 hours — the eighth and ninth such attacks since September. The operations mark a shift from the Caribbean...
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ICE clearly does not, in totality, fear observation. When you stand by and dutifully observe the horror they enact, all that is proven is that you will watch as people are brutalized and do nothing aside from shout or film. Your deference to observation fuels the expansion of this horror.
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Writing up my thoughts on this into a long piece. The one thing that worries me is that large scale protests in competitive authoritarian regimes often precede authoritarian consolidation rather than a reversal of autocracy. Russia, Hungary, Turkey also saw large protests before backsliding further.
Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.
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Dear White People,

You may mean well and I hope in your heart you do, but your first realization has to be that black people can’t do and get away with the shit that you can in America. We can be jailed, beaten or unalived, all in your presence and without missing a beat.

Thank you,
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People who rejoice at people being snatched off the street and separated from their families, disappeared with no due process, are evil Nazi monsters.

Period.

Full stop.

No excuses or exceptions.

They are hate-filled bigoted assholes.
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They voted for that asshole out of bog-standard racism and sexism.

It had NOTHING to do with the economy.

Our media kept feeding the economy line BECAUSE it gave cover to the bog-standard racism & sexism at play.

People interested in the economy ask QUESTIONS about economic plans.

They DO NOT
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Yup.

A few months ago, I pointed out that part of the reason for ICE employees covering their faces, was that some of them were likely government contractors and not law enforcement, and so has no legal authority to detain.

People that know nothing about criminal justice reform yelled at me.🤷🏿‍♂️
The Supreme Court is about to decide whether private contractors can break the law—and get away with it.

After being sued under state human trafficking laws for forcing immigrant detainees to work for free, the nation’s largest private prison company, GEO Group, wants blanket immunity.
ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity
After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like its...
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