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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

Why no general strike?

Please ask how long you are willing to strike from your current job? Are you an at-will employee? How much savings do you currently have?

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 11m

soundcloud.com/citationsnee...

for newbies:
"calls for investigations or studies...are psychological tools to compel activists...to take a break, bc now the professionals are handling it. The effect: the political equivalent of a 5-day cooling off period...that never upsets the existing order"

Ep 123: How Liberal Meta-Demands for

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Candi Risk @candirisk.bsky.social · 37m

I really appreciate Shay's (Black Girl in Maine's) viewpoint and value her writing (I've chosen Patreon)--check her out.

Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 18h

Yesterday's post on Substack, where I talk about the inequity embedded into the Substack and Patreon model at a time when Black women are being silenced.

open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Cite your sources, or The inequity of writing in the era of Substack and Patreon

The uncomfortable reality is that resources matter, and in these divided United States of America, access to resources has never been equal.

open.substack.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25m

If you are trans and rely on Fenway Health for gender affirming care, I recommend seeing if you can shift your care to other providers in Boston. I have no faith that FH simply won't drop all gender affirming care in a bid to remain a FQHC. You cannot trust them to have your best interest in mind.

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 32m

Sparta?

Taking up RW-GOP talking points again?

the fuck dems.

Sparta? Historically, WTF kind of vision is this? Thiel's? Bannon's?

stop this copycat bs.

could you possibly come up with a democracy-adjacent vision, instead of trying one espoused by the proud boys?

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.

My latest in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act

The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.

www.thenation.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1h

What can I say other than everyone should be listening to @hypervisible.blacksky.app not just on smart glasses, but on everything else too. One of the most insightful tech researchers out there. Don’t miss our conversation!

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 1h

Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.

This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 58m

Oligarchs like feeble men; they are so easy to control.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1h

Karen and Barbara Fields reference spotted in the wild. You love to see it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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NABJ Black News & Views @blacknandv.bsky.social · 3h

You won't find the 1946 film "Song of the South" on Disney+ after allegations of racism from years past. But now, Oakland playwright Ishmael Reed is publicizing that the story, credited to a white writer, was based on interviews with Black people. bit.ly/3Jcoupj

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3h

1/ Good morning from Chelsea District Court, which has jurisdiction over more non-citizens per capita than any other MA court. Just thought you should know that ICE has left the prosecution unable to proceed against dozens of cases scheduled for this morning, including the one I am appearing on

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3h

The lifetime risk of breast cancer among trans women is 47x higher than cis men. Frustratingly, studies typically don’t calculate risk ratios between trans groups, but most reported incidence per 100k of breast cancer are higher among TW than TM, and obviously much higher than men post top surgery.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 16h

Because the civil rights movement WASN'T A MARCH. It wasn't a series of marches. That's just factually, empirically, fundamentally not what the civil rights movement was.

To say No Kings is "bigger" because of crowd size, you must first adopt an incorrect definition of the civil rights movement.

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 16h

R they tho?
why just one thing?
this is mueller & garland all over.

Dems stall, fascism rises.
Dems know this.
Dems keep doing this.

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balderdasher.bsky.social @balderdasher.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone needs to read the gospel of Mel Brooks and remember to mock the fascists.

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 16h

If it were a mass movement, it would MOVE, not just appear for a few hours every few months.

That the organizers have NOT organized, or arranged for others to organize for daily struggle, says it all.

This is a delay tactic, motivated by fealty to a Vichy DemParty.

eyes are opening. finally.

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 18h

This is the Western Alaska animal nonprofit working to rescue the pets in Kipnuk.

The residents of Kipnuk are under a mandatory evac order but can not bring their pets with them. Supporting this group will help with charter aircraft, etc.

www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com

Bethel Friends of Canines

Bethel Friends of Canines is a non-profit dog rescue based in the rural Alaskan village of Bethel. Not only do we rescue dogs in Bethel, but we also rescue dogs all over the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta...

www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 17h

yr 2 kind.

timidity = complicity
civility = Vichy manners

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 17h

more time-wasting deferral as Newsom shepherds CA into fascism.

Newsom needs to GO NOW.

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The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 18h

As public hospitals start to feel the strain of federal funding cuts and lay off staff, Clark County Commissioners OK 7 percent raise for CEO.

Read more about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/umc-...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 18h

I can only control what God has given me dominion over.

I’m going to pay as many women’s rents and mortgages as I can. I’m going to pay as many women’s tuition as I can. I’m going to give healthcare to as many women as I can.

ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

The Thurman Perry Foundation | Creating An Equitable World For Women & Girls Impacted By Incarceration

ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 18h

imagine if the economy was being floated by investments in green infrastructure instead of planet-destroying data centers

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19h

I find it grimly very funny that Ben Gvir spends his time going around to witness famous people being tortured and to go scream in their face that they are terrorists. It's like he can't grasp the abstract concept of human suffering- he needs to see it himself. And dole it out

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

The Voting Rights Act has done more than perhaps any other statute to build a multiracial democracy

which is precisely why the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have spent decades casting the law as constitutionally unsound

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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