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It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Horror/comedy movie: being haunted and constantly roasted by these two.
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The student gotchas might be the second most disruptive thing happening in higherEd. It’s the Heritage “debate me” model with the Turning Point edgelord leveling-up.
You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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You can see right now the Epstein-adjacent sex pest technofascists desperately and relentlessly trying to pull the same shit with generative AI, painting opposition as having complex and weird problems with it.
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Capitalists managed to turn a very simple and *completely normal* problem with automation, into the popular conception of luddites, to the point where they convinced people it's weird to not want to come home missing limbs for a fraction of the wages you deserve.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"I produce 10x more than I did last year but still make the same money. And the machine I now use eats human fingers. Who the fuck is benefiting here?"

Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"

The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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An easy way to explain luddites:

Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.

And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.

That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women & Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a Reading Club, and more

Read more on how to support literacy power

www.thefreeblackwomenslibrary.com/new-page
The Free Black Women's Library
www.thefreeblackwomenslibrary.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is built by and for low-wage workers across the service industry. We are building our union by any means necessary, and building it in a way that makes sense for us.

Read how to support workers

ussw.org/actions/
Take Action - Union of Southern Service Workers
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December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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THE TENANT UNION FEDERATION IS A UNION OF UNIONS.

TUF organizes tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections… and to establish tenants as a political and economic class that cannot be ignored. Read how to support a local.

tenantfederation.org/tenant-unions/
Tenant Union Federation
We organize tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections, to disrupt the flow of capital to those who commodify our homes, to secure alternatives to the current housing...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Hi, future 👋🏿
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine.

“They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM