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Iroise Tracy
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If you plan on going to any protests, please, please, PLEASE implement some personal digital security protocols beforehand and encourage others to do the same.

I recommend these checklists (next few posts in thread):
We are dealing with a combination of mass surveillance and fascism that necessitates caution. Exposure of your data puts more than just you at risk.

Please be smart, friends! We keep us safe.
If you plan on going to any protests, please, please, PLEASE implement some personal digital security protocols beforehand and encourage others to do the same.

I recommend these checklists (next few posts in thread):
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They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
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I have raised £277. I am so thankful. I have found a return flight for £1209! When/if I raise £500, I will go ahead and by this ticket and pray to make up the difference. I so appreciate you all.
I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam
Pay Rivers Solomon using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/riversandfam and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
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Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown.

They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights.

Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.
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"edgelord" is such a great coinage, because it sounds as if it's about to describe something really stupid and then it does
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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
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9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.

Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
www.gofundme.com
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USE YOUR FUCKING TURN SIGNALS

AND NOT 500FT BEFORE, NOR 1 FOOT BEFORE! FFS IT'S 100FT AND BEFORE YOU BRAKE OR 5 SECONDS BEFORE YOU SWITCH LANES

AND MY GODS LEARN HOW TO FUCKING MERGE!!
Ayo serious Question
Quote this with your biggest pet peeve about Driving
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Over 500 of y'all have followed @chrisrabb.com since he posted this video. Can we put him over 1000 followers tonight? Dude's the kind of Democrat we've all been saying we want. Give him a follow and support him in this primary, friends!
I come from generations of freedom fighters who taught us to fight oppressive forces. Whether it’s fighting for a livable wage, to make housing affordable for all, or stopping the genocide – I’m answering the call of my forbearers. I'm Chris Rabb, and I’m running for Congress.
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fucking awful. The kind of talent that alternative comics and only alternative comics could give a voice to. We're poorer for his loss.