Thom Ratkos
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Studying behavior, all the time. Antifascist. BCBA-D, PhD. Associate professor. he/him
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samantha
2 days ago
wow i can't believe trump did this starting 10 years before he ever ran for office
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My country kills children in concentration camps. I have no tolerance or respect for anyone who thinks this can be reformed
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Detritus Books
4 days ago
Itās really hard to take people to concentration camps with flat tires.
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Jessica Pishko
4 days ago
It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all. The system does not hold people accountable.
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Some people don't follow rules. The solution, obviously, is to make a rule that you have to follow rules.
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samantha
6 days ago
death to fucking amerikkka. if you believe in any way that this is justified than i genuinely do not believe we can ever be allies. i will not vote for any politician whose position on cuba is anything other than fully ending the blockade.
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shaka š¦š
6 days ago
How do you convince the average American blue maga liberal to move past "Give the slave catchers better training" as a genuine world outlook? How do you convince liberals that border fascism, especially on stolen indigenous land, is horrible, and a truly bad thing?
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Ryan Sophia McCall (č²č²ļ¼
9 days ago
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It's Going Down
10 days ago
This arrest comes after a week of Fox News and other far-Right outlets turning out a stream of content about one person's Instagram videos. If they can make someone into a "terrorist" simply for speech on social media they don't like - they can and will, do it to anyone.
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Schooley
9 days ago
Iām not sure weāve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
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Just waking up and going to work feels like I'm committing a moral injury to myself every day. I'm so sick of it
10 days ago
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Arizona Right Watch
12 days ago
Itās hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. Itās 400,000-square-feet.
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I think a fun idea would be to publicize a national "ice amnesty day." Any ice employee that resigns can live with their shame, but anyone who still works there after IAD will be promised to be executed for crimes against humanity. Just a fun lil idea I had.
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Reality Winner
13 days ago
ICE are slave catchers and y'all want better trained slave catchers? Y'all want slave catchers with better rules? Fuck out of here
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The powerful will never care about your nonviolent movement, and you'll get brutalized by the state anyway
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Prisonculture
15 days ago
āThereās no single answer that will solve all our future problems. Thereās no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answersāat least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.ā ā Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
15 days ago
Iām glad that more and more people are being radicalised against ICE but at the same time itās hard not to think about how many of those same people wouldnāt feel remotely negative about them had Kamala won the presidency.
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If you're still on Twitter you're an absolute scumbag or dumber than dogshit. Pick one.
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16 days ago
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ICE must be destroyed š³ļøāā§ļøš“
18 days ago
Walz comparing the ICE raids to the Holocaust makes him going on that podcast and saying he hopes Tom Homan works with local law enforcement and does night raids so much more fucking horrifying, he's describing his desire for a quiet and orderly night Holocaust Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Matt Steinglass
18 days ago
Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
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Erin Biba
18 days ago
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Luke O'Neil
19 days ago
For the people still think thereās a meaningful difference between ICE and regular ass pigs
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19 days ago
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good was part of Trumpās ICE, Bidenās ICE, and Obamaās ICE.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
20 days ago
āMany will ask: how did we get here? For those who believed the lies of the US cold war propaganda campaigns, this violence will appear new.ā
nublues.beehiiv.com/p/mask-off-t...
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Mask Off: The Not So New American Fascism
Contemporary fascism is simply neoliberalism with its multicultural mask off. We have been heading in this direction since the latter half of the 20th century, at least.
https://nublues.beehiiv.com/p/mask-off-the-not-so-new-american-fascism
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David Graeber Institute
20 days ago
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Erin Fogg says Free Link
21 days ago
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Feels like these are the weeks where decades happen. i guess I'm just preparing myself psychologically. Loving the people around me, loving my students, and caring for my body so I'm able to help in some way
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PM Press
23 days ago
Know your rights. Our NLG bandana is discounted until ICE is out of Minnesota. Just use code "STRIKE" at checkout. See all discounted merch here:
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molly conger
26 days ago
the people who were scolded relentlessly for celebrating this moment nine years ago have been completely vindicated. punching a nazi in the face now polls higher than any member of congress. (source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)
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W.E.D.em Boyz
26 days ago
Itās really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit Iāve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: āerrrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?ā
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28 days ago
studies have shown that bodycams have zero impact on police brutality complaints but do lead to higher conviction rates for āassaults against officersā in case youre wondering why they seem to be the one thing politicians push in times like these
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shaun
28 days ago
americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
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Standing Together
28 days ago
LAST NIGHT: Israeli settlers set fire to homes and vehicles and injured Palestinian residents in a Bedouin community near Mukhmas, northeast of Jerusalem, in yet another escalation aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their land. (1/3)
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Bill B. ā šµšø
about 1 month ago
āāFreedom of the pressā in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.ā Vladimir Lenin
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
about 1 month ago
When I used to do more talks about climate change, a question I used to get a lot was how do I have "hope." And one time I broke and was there's a right side and a wrong side, and this is like asking me if I would join the nazis if I knew they were going to win.
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Erin Biba
about 1 month ago
The cops are not gonna save us from ICE and yāall gotta fucking stop with this shit.
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bort
about 1 month ago
not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did ādefund the policeā get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. itāll easily happen again
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Thinking about Willem Van Spronsen today
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/will...
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Willem Van Spronsenās Final Statement
Willem Van Spronsen Willem Van Spronsenās Final Statement July 14th 2019
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-von-spronson-to-my-comrades
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New email signature postscript: please do not email me messages written by 'ai' text generation software, I find it insulting. If you cannot compose an email just reply with your 'prompt' and I can make up the details myself.
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Vance really is a disgusting piece of shit huh. Monstrous. He's making a good case that he's in the same league as Miller
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If you tell me the answer is to vote for Democrats I will jump inside of you and make you explode, like neo did to smith at the end of the matrix
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about 1 month ago
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Kelly
about 1 month ago
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Yearās Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.
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Ed Burmila
about 1 month ago
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.
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Bill B. ā šµšø
about 1 month ago
my goal is the emancipation of the working class from the exploitation of capitalism. my goal is a class conscious working class that seizes the means of production and becomes the ruling class. my goals can be achieved many ways but history shows the capitalist class will not go peacefully.
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Overheard at the pharmacy in rural GA: "... because we're governed by a dang cheeto"
about 1 month ago
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I hope I live to see the fall of the United States
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about 1 month ago
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āŖ Happy Black Fistory Month! āŖ
about 1 month ago
Had Ursula K. LeGuinās Omelas on my mind lately āfor no particular reasonā... If youāve never read it before, you should take the time to do so. Itās very short, prose wise, very much worth taking the time to do so and⦠it resonates in ways that should be strikingly obvious.
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https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
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Gregk Foley
about 1 month ago
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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