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Nicci Obert
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Excited to speak this week at #ZAMM2025, a conference about the science, medicine, art, and culture of managing apocalyptic risks. It's refreshing to find a platform that provides a playful, de-siloed approach to the present polycrises. Can't wait to play and learn this week!
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This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time
You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
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Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
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The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
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Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account
This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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He was the leader of the youth nazi party of our era. It’s not rhetoric to call something exactly what it is.
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · Sep 10
no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
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I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid.

by RFK Jr.
RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
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From THEY KNEW, published in 2022, on how shared loathing of Epstein and desire for the truth unites the country:
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
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Like, repost and follow if you believe WOMEN 💙
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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So I can't help but notice that all this brouhaha about single sex spaces and trans exclusion from them is eliding the axiom underlying the panic.

Namely: taking the normalization of men's violence against women as a given that cannot be meaningfully ameliorated except through sex-segregation.
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I'm quite comfortable with abolishing deportations and giving every immigrant and refugee a home and food and education and a job and safety, and if you object on the basis that we don't give citizens those things, my answer is simply that we should be giving those things already.
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And that's why all of these issues are interconnected.

There's no environmental justice without social, racial & economic justice.

The struggle is between the super rich & those clinging to power and the rest of our society.

Solidarity with those oppressed. Today & always.
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If we are serious about opposing fascism is the US, then we must all do our homework about Christian Nationalism

URGENTLY
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Fathers of the year and non-fathers of the year all have the same constitutional rights
Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"
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The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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It is among the least horrifying parts of the administration's demand letter to Harvard, but lol forever at insisting the university "reduc[e] the power held by... untenured faculty"
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I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.
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The fact people can watch students dragged off campus & human beings sent to prison camps & say “trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country” is actually the #1 crisis in this country.
In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.