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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 8h

If you're feeling ready, great! Learn about abolition and start talking to others about it:

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These are people and projects that have been essential for my own journey of unlearning capitalism.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 8h

As always this is because we don't listen to Black and Indigenous people. Can we start now

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 8h

Don't you see what's happening? There is no reason to give a bunch of traumatized, alienated, unaccountable people guns and then say "pretty please only use them on others, not us"!

We're all getting our faces eaten by leopards and some people are STILL pro-leopard and I'm extremely mad about it

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 8h

It feels insane to me to read headlines like this and still hear people say aboIishing the pοӏice goes too far. Absolutely losing my mind. Becoming the joker over here

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 9h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 9h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 10h

I suppose anything can be true if you just make it up

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11h

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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haggis222.bsky.social @haggis222.bsky.social · 11h

Agree! I'm reading this right now. We need ways to connect with people who hold other views.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 11h

Critiquing lyrics is not hating lol

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 13h

One thing I have appreciated about Futurism is the reminder that we can start disrespecting AI bros right now. There are still many uphill battles when it comes to organizing against "AI", but we can—and should—start dunking on these chuds, today

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 13h

Of all the videos to do this on, this one is just a really funny one to choose

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 13h

This has surely gotta be a right wing op account, but also why do they care specifically about my critique of Britney Spears lmao

A comment saying "leave Britney alone. She didn't ask to be included in this worksheet. And I'm a transwoman [one word] of color so if you say anything to me about it then you are anti-asian and transphobic"

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 19h

This is good, thank you. I think Swifties are capitalist bootlickers.

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 21h

The video in question!

Taylor Swift, the capitalist

YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 21h

Men, what are the hardest things about being a man?

(I will block anyone who jumps in to diminish the struggles people vulnerably share here, I'm trying to do something)

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 21h

I love this shit!!!

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 21h

The video in question!

Taylor Swift, the capitalist

YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄

youtu.be

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 21h

Yesssss inject this directly into my veins

Also really well made thought-provoking video. I never thought about how in order to get people to stop consuming corporate slop we have to have something to replace it with. It's not often a YouTube video leaves me with something to think about. It's smart to sneak it into a Taylor Swift video like this

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 22h

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 22h

I need to dance harder I can still hear myself think

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

This. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn't been in this long enough to know the reality of this in their bones or they are selling something. Possibly both.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

That fire comes from love, but sometimes, we need a moment to self-regulate, so we don't lose ourselves in it. If this moment is stretching you out or burning you up, please take care of yourself. Fortify yourself, honor your needs, and maintain your relationships. There's a lot more of this ahead.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

That fire comes from love, but sometimes, we need a moment to self-regulate, so we don't lose ourselves in it. If this moment is stretching you out or burning you up, please take care of yourself. Fortify yourself, honor your needs, and maintain your relationships. There's a lot more of this ahead.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

Not just elections. I still think back on doing traffic safety for a small march in a northern suburb of Denver and having the cops literally redirecting traffic back at us. When one of us went to ask them to stop actively endangering ppl, the cop said "can't, we've been defunded."

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Margaret @magnificom.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people like Chuck Schumer, it is abundantly clear that we need more of a plan than waiting for the politicians to do something. Anything.

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 1d

Turns out we actually need to talk to each other

youtube.com/shorts/AOnmA...

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