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Start w/ the Golden Rule. Identity traits we're born w/into don't determine character. Nationalism makes neighbors into enemies to benefit the ruling classes. Equal rights for ALL, everywhere. Migration = survival adaptation. Anti-migrant = psychopathy.

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Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 11h

We like to cordon evil off to make evil the domain of a few demented individuals... who seem quite different from us. But whether it's the transatlantic slave trade or Nazism or genocide... We see again and again that evil... is the product of demented social orders.

-John Green

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 25d

The current(illegitimate) occupants of the US White House led a violent, attempted self-coup. Afterward, the Supreme Court forced him onto the ballots —in contravention of the US Constitution— and the highest-ranking Dem politicians didn't even protest the ruling. MSM normalized it all and moved on.

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 26d

The abdication by US for-profit media to inform society about sociology, philosophy, or human rights; whilst nurturing support for ultranationalism, militarism, worship of wealth and physical strength, and everything as competition cultivated support for fascism.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrana...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Flexed it on whom? You do understand that the Marines are a branch of the US military. Flexed on citizens of the United States is what you mean.

You really want to be The Fascist Times lol.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

Vice President JD Vance used a speech at a military base in California on Saturday to attack Democrats over the government shutdown, as people in cities across the U.S. gathered to protest the Trump administration.

Vance Flexes Marines’ Might as Mass Protests Against Trump’s Agenda Take Place

Vice President JD Vance’s trip to a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders.

nyti.ms

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graveyard raven hi-fi @shrike17.bsky.social · May 11

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 4h

A great program is in trouble due to direct, political interference by administration. Jewish Studies is only to be allowed to serve the purposes of the U.S. and Israeli states.

Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.

Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say

Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”

www.idsnews.com

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 1d

Roger Peet

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 1d

Madhuri Shukla

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 1d

A thread of immigrant solidarity graphics from Just Seeds. 🧵

By Jesus Barraza.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23h

L.A. More gratuitous police violence. Cops knock man off his bike. He lands on his head.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23h

A bicyclist riding in the intersection tried to join the group on the outside of the police line after it moved and was shoved off his bike by two officers and wrecked into the pavement. He’s bleeding from the head

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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 22h

CBS says in centrist puff piece that ”U.S. Border Patrol…agents are trained to catch drug traffickers and human smugglers in the deserts” but what they’re trained to do is to, among other horrific things, chase regular people into the desert and leave them for dead nomoredeaths.org/abuse-docume...

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Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 1h

January 12 2019

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924
theintercept.com/2019/01/12/b...

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Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 1h

January 12 2019

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924
theintercept.com/2019/01/12/b...

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924

Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.

theintercept.com

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 1h

October 21, 2021

“They Treat You Like You Are Worthless”
Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials
www.hrw.org/report/2021/...

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 1h

October 21, 2021

“They Treat You Like You Are Worthless”
Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials
www.hrw.org/report/2021/...

“They Treat You Like You Are Worthless”

The 26-page report, “‘They Treat You Like You Are Worthless’: Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials,” details internal reports made by asylum officers within US Citizenship and Immigra...

www.hrw.org

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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 11h

“Many of the first Border Patrol agents came from organizations known for racial violence and brutality, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Texas Rangers.” www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/border-...

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KittyWampus @kitty-wampus.bsky.social · 3h

Only a 5 minute speech. He calls for General Strike at about 3:50 minutes in.

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

Mayor of Chicago gives fiery 'No Kings’ speech against ICE, Donald Trump

YouTube video by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession

Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right

www.thetimes.com

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 5h

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

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Dylan @drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social · 2h

And because it leads to equally terrible places, end the reverse nationalism that also supplants it as the sole arbiter of evils in the world. That “Anti-Imperialism” of Fools does nothing but make its own harm against others, a tool to other despots. You’re still an American doing harm that way too

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Dylan @drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social · 2h

Leave your patriotism at the door. You will never deal with this country as it has existed and now exists, without ending the myth in your head for what is reality.

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Dylan @drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social · 2h

Not as a dig against that post, but “murdered hundreds of thousands innocents” is a big underestimate of the US’s entire history. The body count of innocents, is well into the tens of millions. That, even in this moment, is not a conversation people in this country want to have broadly.

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Saisons @saisons.bsky.social · 5h

Under this flag we genocided native Americans, perpetrated slavery, assassinated civil rights leaders, taught despots to torture, overthrew democracies, bombed Philly, spied on everyone in the world, tortured people, stalked journalists, and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocents, but go on.

The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 12h

Antifa is not a real organization. It's simply an acronym, a philosophy - it means anti-fascist.

And every American President - before the current one - has opposed fascism.

Let's take back our flag.

#ResistTrump

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death to settler colonialism @wallamide.bsky.social · 5h

was it anti-fascist when george washington used his power to profit off of the genocide of indigenous people, the speculation of stolen indigenous land, and the forced labor of his personal slaves?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis

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social media enjoyer @8bitblunder.bsky.social · Dec 12

The right, obviously, believes differently: that we are all made inherently different for the benefit of those who can take advantage. Whether it's God's will, the law of the jungle, or because you just happen to be a race descended from the antediluvian lemurians, strength rules.

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social media enjoyer @8bitblunder.bsky.social · Dec 12

If you believe that God (or evolution, etc.) makes people stronger or smarter or richer because he favors them, there are implications to your morality. If you're Better, morally, than others, that excuses what you can do to them. Both the perceived superiority and what it enables factor in.

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