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Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance. And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

The strategy of the Trump administration is mostly firing less lethals via press release, post, video or spectacular example, and we need to stop yelling "ruuun" every time

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Sanctuary policies aren’t a silver bullet, but they throw sand in the gears of the deportation system, says historian Brianna Nofil, the author of a book on the history of immigration detention in the United States.

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

We are witnessing the reification of the dual state in the US that never really went away. A normative state for the predominant socioeconomic class in power, white men, and a prerogative state for minorities and women. It will be a dual legal system imposing two totally different systems.

Will this turn out to be "left" or "right" wing in motivation? It's still too early to say! But this is clear evidence of the time we've stepped into as a country. Domestic terrorism is going to look more like this going forward than the attacks of yesteryear.

Picard management tip: Admitting one's failures is a sign of confidence and strength. It reassures others that failing is okay.

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

these are great fall outfits

I have to wonder how many children have seen the video of Charlie Kirk dying horribly seeing it was all over social media.

I know this is not a popular take, but having spent a lot of time watching these sorts of spaces and the pipelines connecting them... I really do consider internet nihilism to be a coherent political ideology undergirded by fascist thought

"There’s a real rewriting of history going on. It’s what far-right regimes do after tragedies like this: They try and weaponize them to go after their enemies."

#OtD 11 Sep 1973 right-wing general Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. Backed by the US and UK, Pinochet went on to torture, jail and kill 10,000s of working class activists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8360...

24 years after 9/11, it's long past time to rein in the endless war machine and demand investment in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnR84h7t5kI

Every time I've posted a story about an Indigenous person getting killed by the police my replies have filled with liberals and conservatives going into their past: "Oh he was no angel" "Did you know he was on fentanyl?". Yet posting Charlie Kirk's own quotes is being disrespectful to the dead?

Just a reminder: Kirk’s organization established the Professor Watchlist, which even the NYT framed as a threat to academic freedom. I don’t get why ppl keep describing him a a good-faith debater. One can say “Kirk should not have been murdered” (which is true!) without engaging in hagiography.

Again, he died doing what he loved: demonizing marginalized people

Please hear me when I say that this man was a Nazi propagandist and fascist organizer, and must be loudly remembered as such in the coming days

I don't understand the impulse to chide people who are worried about what escalations might occur. Not everyone is expressing those concerns from a position of comfort or privilege. Some people were already in danger and are worried that danger could increase. They don't deserve anyone's angst.

Check your public television schedules. “Becoming Thurgood” will air multiple times this week and throughout the month. Catch it!

Lemme fix this for you: Proponents claimed school vouchers would save taxpayers money, but their real goal was to dismantle public education while generating massive profits for private companies. And since people believed the lies they told upfront, they've now succeeded in achieving that goal.

I wrote about going to Saturday's March in DC! And why virtue signaling is one of the best things you can do right now. Corporations and universities have no innate values of their own—institutions respond to the values we establish for ourselves. And standing up is a key part of how we do that.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

“Today’s SCOTUS ruling puts farm workers — and every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant — in greater danger,” said UFW President Teresa Romero. “This does not impact immigrants in a vacuum, it will affect all of us. 1/ www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

In its renewed push to displace Palestinians, Israel has begun leveling high-rise residential towers in Gaza City. "The situation is worsening," says local aid coordinator Eyad Amawi, speaking to Democracy Now! from Deir al-Balah.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Protesters fill the streets against ICE in Chicago 9/6/25

Every teacher worth a damn makes Pedagogy Of The Oppressed mandatory reading

New contributed post: An anonymous scientist who worked on Operation Warp Speed couldn't believe RFK Jr's lying about COVID vaccine data, and sent this to us. 🧪

Monte Mader @montemader.bsky.social

Paging Betty Friedan

#OtD 4 Sep 1838 revolutionary and Paris Communard Victorine Brocher-Rouchy was born. She fought on the barricades during the bloody week and was sentenced to death for burning down the Court of Accounts but managed to escape. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

“weakening centuries-old power” is another way of saying violating the Constitution. But why speak clearly when euphemisms will do?

"Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing" The ridiculous and leaked 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave & includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,' writes Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu for Zeteo.

The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution. We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Sometimes news is good

The people clapping their hands and giggling at the jingling Gavin Newsom meme keys will never allow themselves to understand that the Harris campaign lost all on its own by agreeing with Trump that immigration was a serious problem that needed to be solved with stern faces and barbed wire

Fast forward through the horribleness. At some point, someone will make a Downfall-style movie about Stephen Miller in the White House bunker. And the memes that will be made, riffing on that movie, will be funny af.

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