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Engineer with a moral spine. Complacency is complicity. Complicity is crime. https://www.youtube.com/@TheKnackPlanet

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · Jun 14

#militaryparade
A 2016 throwback, in case you missed Taco's first presidency term:
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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 7m

Of. course. Cause there's nothing like doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. But, who cares, as long as we get paid.

And there's nothing like criminals self-praizing for peace after the killing.

#onePalestineistheonlysolution
#votingRorDmeansgenocide
#voteGreen

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 11m

Help us elect Mayor Mamdani! Join one of our multiple field events this month, learn more here: jfrej.org/field

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 2d

🚨So many exciting Jews for Zohran field events coming up!! 🥳

🗳️We are less than ONE MONTH away from election day on 11/4‼️ Join us at our next event by heading to jfrej.org/field📋

P.S. make sure to wear your J4Z merch if you got it 😍🧢👕👜

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 20m

Cause she has the moral standing to lead by example. Nothing more saddly hillarious.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27m

Rather than it being a “hate-America” rally, Saturday’s No Kings rally is an opportunity for all of us who love America to express our determination that our nation’s ideals not be crushed by the Trump regime. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/theyre-calling-it-a-hate-america

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 23m

#goodtoknow
#pegasusterror
#pegasusspy
#pegasusinfiltration
#pegasusillegality
#Zionistsareevil
#Nazisareevil

If you are receiving messages on your phone, regularily, just saying, nonchalantly, "Hi!", you probably wondered who spends time to do that. I was surprised to find out that Venice knows:

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Liz Krueger @lizkrueger.bsky.social · 40m

Today we recognize and honor the Indigenous peoples who have inhabited this land for millennia. Manhattan was once home to over 20k Lenape people. Today, New York City has the largest number of American Indians and Alaska Natives of any location in the US.

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 38m

Every time I see reports like these, I can't stop myself from thinking that we deserve the satus quo

For failing to see that neither party works for the people, that the genocide is a bipartisan horror, that Democrats, w/ very few exceptions, are just Republicans in disguise,

that we have options

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 45m

After months of backlash, the Biden administration stopped detaining immigrant women there in 2021, and the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations embarked on an 18-month investigation. interc.pt/4okFqcd

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 47m

Imagine being so afraid of produce.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 55m

Supermarket chain Publix announced it will now allow customers to openly carry firearms inside its Florida stores. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/p...

Publix to allow open carry in Florida stores, prompting mixed reactions from shoppers

Under Florida law, businesses and private property owners can choose whether to allow or ban open carry on their premises.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 45m

#goodtoknow
In a world ruled by compassionate leaders, the carnage would've ended as soon as it started & the Pope would've been on the 1st flotilla to Gaza. Instead, we have the genocide perpetrators & enablers kill w/ pleasure (see videos) & erase Palestine completely, self-declaring peace-makers.

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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 1h

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1h

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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 1h

#WolffBites: Capitalism's decline inside rich nations is matched by gross international failures to end poor nations' underdevelopment. Unspeakable utterly unnecessary suffering while capitalist billionaires amass still more rather than use it humanely.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Urgent calls for debt relief as study shows health and education cuts in developing world

Influential economists want replenishment of funds and new ways to define countries in need before this week’s IMF and World Bank meetings

www.theguardian.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1h

160 scientists from 23 countries:

Climate tipping point reached, Coral reefs are facing extinction due to climate change

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 7h

Climate change though. Absolutely insane lack of panic about this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1h

Minneapolis deserves a champion for working people.

This is our opportunity to build a city where every single resident can thrive. I can’t wait to cast my ballot for my friend and colleague, Omar Fateh, as my first choice for mayor by November 4th, and I hope you will join me.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1h

Donate to support Omar Fateh’s grassroots campaign here: secure.actblue.com/donate/fateh...

Ilhan Endorsed Omar Fateh - Give Today!

Donate to support Omar before 11/4

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1h

Finally got a statement on the destruction of a critical sewage plant in Gaza and widespread arson amid the withdrawal this week: “The IDF is aware of the incident and it is being reviewed.”

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 22h

Incredible journalism here, documenting a scorched earth withdrawal by the Israeli military after the ceasefire announcement.

A last effort to render Gaza uninhabitable—including torching a key sewage treatment plant

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.

Drop Site spoke to the actual families.

✍️By Maha Hussaini & @ryangrim.bsky.social

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss...

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s disrupt the global chain of complicity that enables Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

The BDS movement is calling on you to join the Week of Action against F-35s from 13-18 October.

Send an email to your elected officials now ➡️ loom.ly/qypYlvM

#DisruptComplicity

Join the Week of Action Against F-35 fighter jets

F-35 jets enable Israel to murder Palestinian women, men and children on a daily basis

loom.ly

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s escalate pressure, including peaceful disruptive actions, against states, companies, and institutions complicit in the F-35 program. They have to exclude genocidal Israel from the F-35 sales, maintenance and supply chain.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 16h

They left their ICE masks at home for this event...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 17h

"Like an incantation, they call the notion of insurrection into being to justify the Insurrection Act’s invocation when no such justification exists in material reality."

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

interc.pt

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The Knack Planet @theknackplanet.bsky.social · 18h

Zohran makes reparations with true, honest sincerity, and true and suportive examples. We need to look back to see the future.

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 1d

This is possibly the only political ad that made me cry. If only this sort of vision, humanity, and COURAGE existed at the DNC.

If only Centrists weren't attempting to crush this sort of heart from the the Left.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...