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Random question: If one of these unidentifiable ICE goons not wearing a standard-issue uniform had his melon popped, would ICE release the victim's name, or would it withhold that information because ICE is doing what many of us suspect, which is recruiting white supremacist, pro-MAGA militia members?
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100 days ago, we couldn't envision the toll of death and suffering this man would cause. Now scientists are estimating the body count, the new rise of infectious diseases once subdued. My latest for The Nation. thenation.com/article/politics…
Less than 1% of beef sold in the U.S. is truly grass-fed. Misleading food labels and industry loopholes surround the grass-fed beef marketing lies. Find out ...
The impending acquisition of Amsterdam University Press (@AmsterdamUPress) by Taylor and Francis is a stark reminder that almost everything within the commodified publishing industry is vulnerable to the insatiable appetite for growth inherent within the commercial imperative.
Trust in federal agencies such as the NIH, CDC, and FDA will not be restored without accountability. If the U.S. Supreme Court declines to address the egregious miscarriages of justice accomplished under the PREP Act, all American children are at continuous risk, and public schools will attract suspicion. Similarly, public confidence in the ...
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nation’s highest court will be tarnished along with the federal agencies and Congress it is entrusted to hold to the highest law of the land.
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Since the early 1980's, the public schools, Coast to Coast, have been involved in taking or directing minor children to Planned Parenthood for advice and/or abortions. There is the chance that any of these minors could die or end up sterile!! Who holds the liability for this murder and maiming?
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The Green Party of the United States is a grassroots national party. We're the party for "We The People," the health of our planet, and future generations instead of the One Percent.
Beyond economic woes, the West faces a profound collapse. Material decay triggers ideological erosion, fueling atomization and nihilism.
External defeats act as psychological blows, while political opportunism prevents vital course corrections.
This creates a self-reinforcing spiral of decline, fracturing society and plunging it into an anxiety-ridden void. The US leads this unraveling of the dying world order.
Dr Neal Curtis argues that we should avoid the neoliberal-inspired phrase of ‘taxing the rich’ and instead use ‘reclaim the wealth’. He points out the many social inequalities which exist in New Zealand.
"... the tax giveaway to landlords is estimated to cost the country $2.9 billion. To put this in perspective, that is more than the amount paid in Treaty settlements since 1985, which is about $2.7b. In other words, in one year, the current Government awarded landlords more money than has been paid out to Māori in 40 years as compensation for historical wrongs."
Opinion from the University of Auckland: As society groans under the weight of wealth inequality, Dr Neal Curtis calls for a different slogan to ‘tax the rich’.
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In America, we don’t do kings They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings. On June 14th, we rise up. nokings.org/ #nokings #politics #trump #june14th
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.
Do not let anyone get away with calling ICE “law enforcement.” That term is wrong. They are operating outside the law. They aren’t law •enforcement•; they’re law •circumvention•. Their purpose is to grant a would-be authoritarian military power against his own country, unconstrained by either law or democracy. med-mastodon.com/@gregggonsalv…
These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-i…
Say what you will about the police who supposedly maintain the rule of law (and I’m from Minneapolis, hoo boy could I say a lot), but keep this in mind:
The Trump administration is pumping up ICE to massive proportions and trying to give it absolute free reign because they find even the police — even the police! — too legally constrained for their purposes.
The party that subjected Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Michael Byrd, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Ashley Thomas and countless other public servants to death threats demand that you to stop posting the names of the ICE agents who are snatching innocent people off the street and disappearing them. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6m7rb…
What I think should make me happy, and what makes me happy, are not the same.
What makes me happy is accepting whatever bullshit Life dishes out (including accepting hating it).
What I think should make me happy is Life dishing out different bullshit. This doesn't make me happy because it doesn't happen. Life dishes out what She dishes out.
These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-i…
I'll never forget this one time I was organizing with a music workers' group against YouTube, and we met with another music union to see if they'd sign on to our demands.
One guy says, "No, YouTube is like a Creative Commons."
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Really? Google owns a creative commons, huh? You're just gonna let them be cultural landlords?
He says, "Where else will I get to see Miles Davis perform at such-and-such back in the day?"
Dude, if you'd rather let Google continue to be evil than risk your favorite videos being taken away from you, idk what to tell you. Maybe you shouldn't let your favorite videos just exist on a corporate server then?
This kind of pernicious entitlement that comes from some "leftists" is why we need to talk more about #degrowth, but that's a rant for another day lol.
Lemme tell you something about YouTube, as a music streamer. Google is making bucks off pirated music. Whatever you think about piracy, doesn't matter: the question is, why is Google making money off of Joe Schmo's file-share of his favorite deep cut album? They have the technology to content ID music, right? So why aren't they sending that money where it belongs: into the hands of artists?
Now, when we brought this to the attention of the other union, they fixated on the piracy part and essentially defended people's right to piracy, as Gen X/Millennial leftist dudes are wont to do lol. Now I'm not saying that they're wrong. But hearing it from a bunch of cis white guys is not convincing, if you know what I mean. It was me, a Black woman, a Black dude, and another GNC white person on the call with them.
I don't mean to be reductionist about their concerns with our campaign. That's why they're to remain nameless. They had some legitimate concerns. But I believe their hang-ups were ultimately not in music workers' best interests and did not serve our immediate needs.
They said they couldn't sign on, which was a disappointment since they had had some repute, and then they said, "but we are still your allies in the fight for streaming justice."
Maybe that's why we need comrades, not just allies.
i like that ending quite a bit. comrades not allies. make coalitions where we can on specific issues. i was chatting with my friend @resl a week or so ago about a similar situation. there's a huge disconnect between the general left and the tech-left. where the former often feels that the latter is barking up inconsequential trees no one cares about. maybe most people don't care, but inconsequential i do not think. tech is the primary economic driver in today's world. if our tech isn't left, the activism isn't (effectively) left. not to devalue the work they do, but i must ask... if your activism is really threatening the power structure, don't you think they would pull the plug?
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@benda Yep. If it begins to look genuinely powerful, it can be policed and suppressed on those platforms easily. That is just one of many reasons to boycott those things as much as we can, and if someone can't or doesn't, at least they can be aware of the limits and risks of popular participation.
@benda That's well said. I've been disturbed about that disconnect you describe, but it has been hard for me to articulate.
Seems more of us have started to get wise to it since we've become aware that Big Tech has their hands in Palestine. But I'm continually surprised by organizers (and friends and comrades) who still primarily use Meta for their organizing. Seems to me like it's shooting yourself in the foot, at best.
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in reply to Clambino • • •— nope. But I do sometimes think about eating eggs!
Which one is weirder, I wonder? 🤔😂