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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 18h

💯. So many blue politicians rely on police union contributions and endorsements to win elections. In other words, law enforcement owns them. And it’s redundant to call a police state and police state. How does the state remain in control…?

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 1d

I like a lot of Diane Keaton movies. I also HATE that she defended Woody Allen. I believe that he is a serial CSA perpetrator and DK shielded him from accountability. That’s also part of her legacy.

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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 1d

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!!

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It was inevitable that, without needed change and reform, the War on Terror would swing back to America

It’s the march of capitalism and its reliance on hidden and then overt authoritarianism. We can see where this is going by looking at what we did to others, and so we must band together with them

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 2d

It was local law enforcement who gassed me, local law enforcement who shot a rubber bullet at a friends heart, local law enforcement who cracked a woman’s skull and local law enforcement who trampled a person with a horse.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 2d

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A woman poses with books piled on a table

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 2d

The horse trampling was crazy.

Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 2d

I know people are freaked out by the arrival of troops in blue cities but I can tell you that here in LA, the worst abuses that happened this summer didn’t come from them. They were mostly here for show. The big ugliness came from local law enforcement.

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 2d

Still looking for a place to live in Southern California (Irvine, LA, Long Beach) 🏘

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom and Pritzker are in a 🍆-wagging contest with the federal government.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 2d

They’re in a dick wagging contest with the Feds

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 2d

I know people are freaked out by the arrival of troops in blue cities but I can tell you that here in LA, the worst abuses that happened this summer didn’t come from them. They were mostly here for show. The big ugliness came from local law enforcement.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 3d

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3d

he's right and I hope he backs this up by addressing the immense wealth the Catholic Church holds, especially in very poor countries. lead by example!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 4d

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 4d

“Miriam Grub” 🐛🐛🐛

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 4d

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: ‘She is surrounded by love’

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'

Trans campaigner and author Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has been moved to hospice care following her hospitalisation earlier this month.

www.thepinknews.com

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 4d

So weird to listen to people that the US is transforming into an oligarchy. Who do you think drafted the Constitution? What was George Washington? The wealthiest men of the colonies cooked up this scam.

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