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Reedie '88. I don't take naps; they take me.
https://www.filminquiry.com/author/brian-walter/
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Buffalo City Blues
Life on the margins of the American Dream
https://open.substack.com/pub/bdwlecteur/p/buffalo-city-blues?r=1l8khi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Anti-Abortion Extremists Could Get Taxpayer-Funded Payouts Under Trumpâs New Fund
The fine print of the Anti-Weaponization Fund specifically invites anti-abortion extremists prosecuted during the Biden administration to file claims
https://www.jezebel.com/anti-abortion-extremists-could-benefit-from-trumps-slush-fund
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Leah McElrath
2 days ago
The likelihood of another US-Israel bombing campaign against Iran or a US military action against Cuba just went up.
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"Sunshine and Haze", (1915) -Charles Courtney Curranâ
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Both a disaster capitalist crime syndicate and a death cult masquerading as a govât.
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Moby Dick
4 days ago
you would have thought the craft had two keelsâone cleaving the water, the other the airâas the boat churned on through both opposing elements at once
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Once again,
@michaelharriot.bsky.social
w/ the đŻ. âThe activists of the civil rights era made a new democracy where none had ever existed . . . The âland of the freeâ did not exist before Black people emancipated America.â
www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-second...
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The Second Nadir: Yes, This Is Jim Crow.
The states that are using the Louisana v. Callais decision to increase white power are not taking us back to Jim Crow. We are already there.
https://www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-second-nadir-yes-this-is-jim
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DrDinD.bsky.social
6 days ago
This is so corrupt, blatant large scale theft of taxpayer monies. "93 Democratic lawmakers filed court papers accusing the Justice Department of having âcolludedâ with Mr. Trump and asking the judge to throw out the case herself."
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Erin Grievances
7 days ago
I still remember the incredible primary source quote I had to leave out of my dissertation because I lost the citation to it. But to lose a citation, you had to have had it in the first place, because you read things. If reading the sources in your field is too much, I don't know why you're in it.
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Jonathan Loves X-Men
27 days ago
Gerry Conway hated that cops and military had co-opted the Punisher logo and started an initiative crowdsourcing art from People of Color that incorporated the logo with Black Lives Matter, and the funds went to a local chapter. Rest in peace.
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Alejandra Caraballo
11 days ago
"The need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
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Brooke
11 days ago
All Cats Adore Boxes
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Donna Ladd said what she said. đ
12 days ago
Pure unadulterated racism
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Charles Ornstein
12 days ago
The California hub is part of a broad set of initiatives weâre taking on to grow ProPublica. Weâre also expanding our D.C. bureau, launching a flagship podcast, a new business investigations team and YouTube team. More to come! 8/8
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ProPublica to Launch Investigative Reporting Hub in California
New team will bring accountability journalism to the nationâs most populous state as part of a broader expansion.
https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-to-launch-investigative-reporting-hub-in-california
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andré
28 days ago
they posted like this when beyoncé won a grammy for best country album
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For Vendetta? đ
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Matt Zoller Seitz
22 days ago
In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.
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Kashana
23 days ago
The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Letâs kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich
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Rabbi Sandra
25 days ago
People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. This is not ancient history. This is my parents' generation. Today the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. We cannot forget what it cost to get it.
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Radley Balko
25 days ago
Jim Crow was in my dad's lifetime. Mass incarceration and the drug war continue in mine. The Interstate highway system and urban renewal destroyed -- and continues to destroy -- billions in heritable black wealth. And that's just the most prominent, state-endorsed, institutionalized stuff.
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The Supreme Court Delivers Another Victory for the Jim Crow Southernization of America
We must not forget how poorly buried the racial tyranny of the South's past is in America's present.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-court-delivers-another-victory-for-the-jim-crow-southernization-of-america/
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Max Berger
25 days ago
5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
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More needful medicine from
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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@truthout.org
. Highest and most grateful recommendation!
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
about 1 month ago
He is the 17th person to die in ICE custody this year and the 55th person to die in immigration custody since Trump got back into the White House. We will include Carbonell-Betancourt in our next weekly update of our database. May he and all who have died rest in peace.
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
https://prospect.org/2026/01/29/ice-trump-killed-injured-list-dhs-cbp-border-patrol-renee-good-alex-pretti/
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes
about 1 month ago
ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.
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about 1 month ago
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Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.
https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-paid-no-federal-income-tax-in-2025-as-it-partnered-with-ice-pentagon/
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Mark Baxter
about 1 month ago
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the TannhÀuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
Americaâs defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism.
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Why Pete Hegseth's Tarantino blunder wasn't the least bit surprising
America's defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/pete-hegseth-quentin-tarantino-pulp-fiction-ezekiel-bible-verse-violent-christian-nationalism/
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Unusual Whales
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, 10% of workforce, in major bloodbath next month, per NYP
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Matthew Gertz
about 1 month ago
Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.
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Meg
10 months ago
Eviction, healthcare denial, food scarcity, overwork, imprisonmentâall these things are violent.
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Mark Harris
about 1 month ago
And if your idea of narrative derives not primarily from books or movies or TV shows but from games in which you ARE the main character, then main characters who are not behaving the way you imagine you would are really going to baffle you. That's how we get to "It's bad that Dr. Robby turned mean!"
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Mark Harris
about 1 month ago
I'll just add that if the way you're taught to read texts when you're young is predicated entirely on "relatability" and right v. wrong rather than on empathetic leaps of imagination and the exploration of mixed motives, you're not going to be well prepared to encounter icky things like ambiguity.
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Leah McElrath
about 1 month ago
â ïž Trump promises mass pardons to staff before leaving office, per WSJ (
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Truthout
about 1 month ago
In their third report on the subject, researchers reach the same conclusions that have twice bedeviled the anti-wage hike sector of the restaurant industry: Californiaâs $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment.
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Californiaâs $20 Fast Food Wage Hike Didnât Kill Jobs, New Study Finds
The data-driven study pushes back against multiple industry-backed reports that cast a grim light on the higher wage.
https://buff.ly/3KldrsY
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 month ago
For years, we were told the biggest threat to free speech were college students being upset by professors or fellow students making insensitive or bigoted comments. Now that states are banning entire concepts from curriculum, it's crickets.
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Texas Tech University System Shuts Down All âPro-Gayâ and Transgender (SOGI) Ideology in Courses
LUBBOCK, TX â The Texas Tech University System (TTUS) is eliminating every academic program âcentered onâ Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and imposing the strictest-ever system-wide ban on promoting transgender ideology or gender fluidity as science in the classroom.
https://sanangelolive.com/news/education/2026-04-10/texas-tech-university-system-shuts-down-all-pro-gay-and-transgender-sogi-ideology-courses
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Nothings Monstered
about 2 months ago
A university shows what its mission is when it soothes donors and mollifies a tyrant instead of upholding its ostensible principles. A university with a $16 billion endowment is a hedge fund with a school attached for tax purposes.
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A writer and advocate who once again faces massive, systemic outrage with brave vulnerability and turns it all into a great gift. Highest and most grateful recommendation!
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the cityâs libraries have to offer â including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."
blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...
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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access
Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/chicago-turns-all-public-school-ids-into-library-cards-to-boost-student-access/
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unraveled
about 2 months ago
Paul, from the Ironworkers, is addressing the crowd. He denounces the war in Iran and again calld for a day of action on May 1. "I know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna put my fucking tools down," he says. He leads several chants, ending on "working class ain't nothing to fuck with!"
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SaĆĄa ÄurÄeviÄ
3 months ago
Turning 24 today! đ§ââïž Shares of my art are very much appreciated đ
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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P
2 months ago
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentorsâ grants evaporate over âwokeâ.
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Wrenching, beautiful, and indispensable (as usual). Highest and most grateful recommendation!
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2 months ago
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Eiderdown Records
2 months ago
Portland đȘđ
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Jay Lender
2 months ago
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daryl "frot with peril" b đłïžââ§ïž
2 months ago
reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"
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Sharon Murdoch
2 months ago
A $3.5billion data centre is to built in Makarewa, just outside of Invercargill. It will suck up 220 million litres of water a year, be the 2nd biggest draw on electricity in Aotearoa, and generate one hell of a hum. My Stuff
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Spencer Ackerman
2 months ago
Muellerâs FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Muellerâs FBI:
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