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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 4h

Breaking: NBC fires teams of journalists focused on marginalized communities, axing NBC Out & NBC BLK staff

NBC News has fired journalists who reported on Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.

www.advocate.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 5h

Trump confirms he authorised CIA action inside Venezuela

But the president would not be drawn on whether the CIA had been told to topple Nicolas Maduro.

www.bbc.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 6h

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants

ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.

truthout.org

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 6h

No One Is Sure If It’s Illegal to Accept a $50,000 Bribe Stuffed In a Cava Bag, Thanks to the Supreme Court

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 8h

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

The Anti-Fascist Handbook

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 8h

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Amid Trump's "Antifa" Fearmongering

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 9h

Cheryl Hines roasted by The View co-hosts over husband RFK Jr’s health claims

Hines’s forthcoming memoir is set to be released November 11

www.the-independent.com

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 9h

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 9h

Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine

After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …

www.techdirt.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 9h

«Evil isn’t just banal, it’s also petty and childish
Greta Thunberg has been released from Israeli captivity, and she talks about her capture. What’s surprising is just how childishly stupid and misogynistic the Israeli soldiers were.»

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 11h

The Nobel Peace Prize has been meaningless for some time now, from Obama getting it for doing nothing to this right-wing idealogue getting it for "fighting oppression" when she just wants to be the oppressor.

Peace Prize Winner Has Supported Trump’s Military Actions in the Caribbean

www.nytimes.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans Aren't Just Gutting Health Care. They're Taking Your Sick Leave, Too

Republican-controlled legislatures have rolled back state-level sick-leave policies, leaving gaps in access amid the party's attacks on health care.

www.rollingstone.com

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

Caught on camera: ICE tactics intensify despite disturbing videos surfacing across the U.S.

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

«We Need to make Leftist Atheism Popular Again»

Atheism needs to make a COMEBACK (and New Atheism needs to Die)

YouTube video by The Kavernacle

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

ICE may try to hack your phone at a protest. Here's what you need to know.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

Why Did Norwegian Teachers Wear Paper Clips During World War II?

Educators Endured Torture to Keep Nazism Out of Classrooms

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 1d

«Angry at how forced discounts are implemented, at least one broker has said he won’t inform clients of the new plan options, which could violate state law.»

Nevada’s new public option health plans face a hurdle — insurance brokers. - The Nevada Independent

Nevada’s new public option health plans face a hurdle — insurance brokers. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

thenevadaindependent.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 2d

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 2d

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines

People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves that RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows t

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 4d

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Dean Austin 🏳️‍🌈 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤 🐾 🐻 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ @austinfidel.bsky.social · 5d

«According to the DHS head, the government has a girlfriend of one of antifa’s founders in custody and she is being grilled to hand over “more and more information” on the organization's finances, membership and structure.»

'As odd as it sounded': Kristi Noem's 'weird' accusations fall apart under scrutiny

Comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a so-called antifa roundtable on Wednesday seemed not only questionable but divorced from reality, according to one MSNBC analyst.In an ...

www.rawstory.com

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