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Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray. Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away. The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes, if you have an older dog, you'll be halfway through morning walk on a warm fall day and they will decide they want to flop down on a random bit of sidewalk or grass and bliss out for awhile.

If you possibly can, you should sit down on the grass and pet them for awhile.

Bogart lying on the grass in dappled sunlight watching and smelling the world go by.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Ricardo Fosado, a Latino Dodgers fan and war veteran, is America. But bigoted entitled asshole Shannon Kobylarczyk is America, too, and we‘re in this fix in part because we like to pretend she’s not.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 41m

To read

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10m

your regular reminder that Ben-Gvir is a proud war criminal who used to have a portrait of a mass murderer in his living room and in a remotely functional political culture would never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power

one of the worst people alive

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 9m

It sticks particularly hard in my memory because I spent a lot of time the next month trying to figure out which if any of the things we'd had thrown at us caused birth defects. Like ya do.

Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 15m

Or a sew-on patch with a red cross on it?

Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 15m

OK, this is idle curiosity but you sound like you could use a distraction. After Quebec City a LOT of people had late to very late periods. IIRC that was tear gas plus pepper spray, and I heard rumours of a vomiting agent but if so I dodged that. Is that a tear gas thing or was it one of the others?

Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 18m

To be scrupulously fair I, too, through ignorance or desperation have gotten away with some significant dumbfuckery in my time, but "the Lord looks after fools, children, drunks, and, apparently, protest medics" is not a reliable basis for your safety planning.

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 28m

Israel’s use of administrative detention, otherwise known as detention without trial, is part of the two legal systems that exist across this land – one for Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, and one for Israelis. (4/7)

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 28m

But Israel currently holds almost 4,000 people without charge. Four hundred of them are children. Testimonies from those who have been released are horrific, describing severe physical and psychological abuse while in detention. (3/7)

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 28m

As part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas, Israel just released 1,968 detained Palestinians. Some 1,700 of them had been taken from Gaza and the West Bank over the last two years and held without charge. Many of them are under the age of 18 or women. (1/7)

Nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees released in Gaza cease-fire, including 250 lifers

The Bulk of Detainees, Who Were Arrested in Gaza During the War Because They Were Classified as 'Illegal Combatants' by the IDF, Were Transported Back to the Strip With the Assistance of the Red Cross...

www.haaretz.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24m

And here's another snippet:

Unfortunately, feature filmmakers love left-wing violence plots, and there seem to be far more ecoterrorists and violent leftists in movies than in real life these days. One way to explain it is that secret commando groups of violent guerrillas engaging in shootouts, car chases, becoming hunted fugitives work really well for movies, which only need to capture our attention for a couple of hours at most. Changing the world usually takes years or decades, and it requires the collective work of building coalitions, shifting public opinion, winning court victories, or passing legislation, which happens through meetings, maybe some lawsuits, maybe some protests and public events, more meetings, definitely some fundraising, and more meetings. I’ve seen climate and environmental and Indigenous and feminist and queer-rights victories and followed the underlying shifts in public opinion. None of it at the point of a gun, all of it from the often tedious, sometimes exhilarating work of activism. I yearn for more films like Rachel Lears’s Sunrise Movement documentary To the End that show how the world actually does get changed—and less nonsense about violence on the left.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26m

Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence.

What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 24m

Tamir Rice was 12 years old when he was shot and killed by police within three minutes of arrival because he was “a dangerous Black man” so I will forever hate the “kids do stupid things” defence from conservatives.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

“Kids”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25m

There's a No Kings rally at the US embassy here in London this weekend. Does anybody know more about it?

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 25m

Doesn't that get sticky?

Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 26m

Round of pumpkin spice lattes for the table. For our nerves.

Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 27m

I encourage you to test your assumptions. Have someone type up your findings for you.

Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 28m

Keep us informed. Assuming you can still type.

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Doug van den Ham @dvdham.bsky.social · 30m

Time for Canada to align with European standards. We can't get dragged down with the US.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Sean Duffy: "We are gonna save billions of dollars by getting rid of the fuel economy standards that are set way too high, that no combustion engine can meet, costing each car to the tune of thousands of dollars for the end consumer. We're in the process of getting rid of those rules."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1h

Life happens. Through no fault of their own people lose their jobs, housing, and health every day and when those things happen it's very often appropriate and responsible to surrender pets. Those are all VERY common reasons why pets end up in shelters, not because they are defective animals.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1h

Can't believe how often I run into the misconception that shelter animals are all broken, deficient, or ruined in some way. The overwhelming majority of shelter animals end up there because of human circumstances, NOT because they did anything wrong.

For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 10d

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