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A month ago, Israeli soldier Sarah Yitzhak 🤮appeared in a video mocking the suffering of Gaza’s residents from hunger and thirst.
Today, she was killed by a gunshot to the neck during clashes in Khan Yunis 😘

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine

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The absolute evil that US voters decided on.

#uspol

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LA Times article screenshot: Headline: ‘I already want to cry.’ Undocumented parents prepare for the unthinkable: Giving up their kids A group of children participates in a discussion at the TODEC Legal Center in Perris, California, focusing on their feelings about family and federal agents. The children appear engaged and attentive. Image caption: “Children join a conversation about their love for their families and their fears about federal agents in their neighborhoods with Executive Director Luz Gallegos, at right, while attending a youth leadership and development program at TODEC Legal Center in Perris.”

What happens to kids when parents are deported? These families are making plans

Undocumented parents are preparing for the worst in response to the L.A. immigration raids. Bracing for potential deportation, they’re making emergency care plans for their kids.
Jenny Gold (Los Angeles Times)

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Syrian Interior Ministry imposes curfew in Sweida amid security op. english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Syrian Interior Ministry imposes curfew in Sweida amid security op.

The Syrian Interior Ministry imposes a curfew in Sweida as army and security forces prepare to enter the city amid deadly clashes.
Al Mayadeen English (Syrian Interior Ministry imposes curfew in Sweida amid security op.)

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From April but always worth repeating.
New York Post:
"#LuigiMangione hit with federal charges, making him eligible for death penalty in alleged killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson"

Qasim Rashid, Esq.
"Aurora Shooter killed 12 - no death penalty
Parkland Shooter killed 17 including 14 kids - no death penalty
El Paso Shooter killed 23 while targeting Latinos - no death penalty
The billionaire class is shook & working hard to make an example out of Mangione" npr.org/2025/04/25/g-s1-62736/…

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Mi bebé nace en marzo. Me reincorporo al trabajo en junio y la empresa decide cambiar mis condiciones laborales, pasando de un turno de 7 a 15 horas en remoto a presencialidad con turnos rotativos y disponibilidad.

Demando. Fecha de juicio: febrero de 2026.

¿Y qué se supone que tengo que hacer ahora? ¿Rendirme y dejar mi empleo por una indemnización irrisoria?

Lo de la Justicia en este país es una auténtica vergüenza.

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The only reason why people are talking about Epstein/Israel, is because the elites want you to, they're the ones giving it the spotlight and providing all the drama.

And no, the goal isn't to distract you from something else they're doing, they don't need to distract you when you already have porn, democracy and religion.

The goal is to make "antisemitism" mainstream, Trump will also eventually turn on Israel.
This will justify sending the Jews back to the safety of Israel, before WW3 starts.

in reply to Based_Accelerationist

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Based_Accelerationist

@cjd Regardless, I think it's important to warn everyone about the final part of the plan, which has Jews leaving the West. They're currently building Iron Domes in Europe and the US, which will likely be used to convince people they're at war with Russia/Iran. Putin and Brics are 100% owned by Jews and all the pieces of the puzzle point towards a major conflict.
But the elites need to prevent Jews from being annihilated alongside the goyim. And they all say Jews will be hated before WW3 begins.

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Israel Launches Airstrikes on Syrian Tanks Amid Sectarian Clashes in Suwayda telesurenglish.net/israel-laun…

Israel Launches Airstrikes on Syrian Tanks Amid Sectarian Clashes in Suwayda - teleSUR English

The Israeli military confirmed a series of airstrikes targeting Syrian tanks and armored vehicles near the village of Sami, in the southern province of
teleSURenglish

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alojapan.com/1322559/the-mazda… The Mazda RX-7 From Tokyo Drift Just Sold for an Absurd Amount of Money #ForSale #mazda #news #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 The Fast and Furious franchise has gifted the world some stunning movie cars, and several have rolled across the auction block. The latest to find a new owner is the 1992 Mazda RX-7 FD from 2006’s Tokyo Drift, the third installment, which just sold for a whopping £911,000 (or $1.2 million) at a Bonhams auction.
The Mazda RX-7 From Tokyo Drift Just Sold for an Absurd Amount of Money

The Mazda RX-7 From Tokyo Drift Just Sold for an Absurd Amount of Money - Alo Japan All About Japan

AloJapan (Alo Japan All About Japan)

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An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and other telescopes. Scientists based in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, set their sights on a mysterious cosmic duo called PSR J1023+0038, […]

NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar - NASA

Astronomers with NASA’s IXPE have uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos.
Beth Ridgeway (NASA)

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#canada #law #vs #ebay

Since July 1, 2022, eBay has been automatically collecting taxes on all sales made to Canadian buyers, regardless of the seller’s tax status. This measure has particularly worried occasional sellers, such as those selling items like hockey cards to fund their hobby, who, with an annual income under $30,000, were previously exempt from this obligation. Many have expressed frustration over the increased administrative complexity and new tax burdens imposed by this regulation.

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#canada #loi #vs #ebay

Depuis le 1er juillet 2022, eBay collecte automatiquement les taxes sur toutes les ventes destinées à des acheteurs canadiens, quel que soit le statut fiscal du vendeur. Cette mesure a particulièrement inquiété les vendeurs occasionnels, comme ceux qui vendaient des articles tels que des cartes de hockey pour financer leur passion, et qui, avec un revenu annuel inférieur à 30 000 $, étaient auparavant exemptés de cette obligation. Beaucoup ont exprimé leur frustration face à la complexité administrative accrue et aux nouvelles contraintes fiscales imposées par cette réglementation.

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Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates


#freespeech #anonymity #socialnetworks #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
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If we're honest with ourselves--and no one with formal power has the ability to be honest with themselves-- Hamas has achieved its objective of showing the illegitimacy of the state of Israel, while Israel has completely failed in its objective of killing and expelling all Palestinian people.

(Eliminating Hamas is of course not Israel's real goal, although that's what they pretend)

in reply to Aaron

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Aaron

If we had #FreedomOfExpression in America, it's possible that we could have prevented the suicide of empire, but because we don't, because popular voices have been either too cowardly or misinformed to actually critique the fact that nation states kept falling into the known traps set by these insurgents, well, those traps worked. Most people have no idea why bin Laden planned 9/11. Do you?

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le-libertaire.net/15-juillet-b…
15 juillet: Bayrou l’entourloupeur

"Plus de 211 milliards versés aux entreprises en 2023
La somme est conséquente quand on songe aux petits 40 milliards que recherche Bayrou pour boucler son budget. Elle représente « le premier budget de l’État », financé sans aucun contrôle sur son utilisation. Les entreprises ont bénéficié en 2023 de …
L’article 15 juillet: Bayrou l’entourloupeur est apparu en premier sur Le Libertaire."

15 juillet: Bayrou l'entourloupeur - Le Libertaire

Bayrou entourloupeur, Fériés, ALD, retraités à la moulinette, Première Internationale, société autogérée, écologie sociale et libertaire
lelibertaire_admin (Le Libertaire)

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#ebay #vs #canada #loi

Le cercle vicieux de la loi canadienne qui oblige eBay à collecter les taxes, même pour les vendeurs exemptés :

Plus de régulations → plus de contraintes pour les vendeurs → moins de vendeurs actifs → moins de choix pour les acheteurs → baisse du nombre d’acheteurs → moins de transactions réalisées → diminution de l’attractivité de la plateforme.

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#Invitation #Groupe #MeWe #France

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Un espace ouvert à tous pour parler de la France :
✨ Politique
📸 Culture & photos
🎉 Événements et activités en France
🛍️ Petites annonces entre Français
… et bien plus encore !

Venez partager, échanger et découvrir dans la bonne humeur et la convivialité. Tous les passionnés de la France sont les bienvenus ! 💬🤝

👉 Rejoignez-nous ici : mewe.com/join/france-francophone

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Rant about zsh and fish!!!
In bash this command

"scp name@1.0.1.1:sequences/*.html ."

will wildcard all files ending in .html from the folder and transfer them, but in zsh and fish this causes an error. So you need to use

"scp name@1.0.1.1:sequences/'*.html' ."

with quotes to trigger wildcard globbing when in bash they would render * as a string literal. Stupid!!!!!!!

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redpillproject/substack.com - Josh Reid

Taken from Josh Reid's substack dated 7/15/25

There’s a reason Trump hasn’t dumped the entire Epstein archive onto the public. It’s not because he’s protecting criminals. It’s because, in this kind of asymmetrical war, secrets are worth more than prosecutions.

Once you expose everything, the leverage evaporates. Once the kompromat becomes public, it loses its utility.

Ten reasons the Epstein files remain sealed:

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HunDriverWidow

Institutional Stability

Too many power brokers still occupy positions of influence. A full release could ignite chaos that outpaces any plan to rebuild.

Ongoing Investigations

Much of the evidence is tied to sealed indictments and active criminal probes. Dumping it preemptively would sabotage prosecutions.

National Security

Epstein was entangled with foreign intelligence. Mass disclosure risks revealing tradecraft, operations, and assets.

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HunDriverWidow

Civil Unrest

Names on those lists could spark riots, vigilantism, and social fracture on a scale we haven’t seen in modern America.

Legal Liability

Unproven claims would trigger a tsunami of lawsuits.

Negotiation Leverage

Those files have been used—quietly—to bend nations, corporations, and institutions to Trump’s agenda.

Interconnected Corruption

Releasing the evidence risks collapsing multiple systems at once without a replacement in place.

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#invitation #group #mewe #canada #english #anglais

🇨🇦 Welcome to the ultimate Canada hub! Whether it’s politics, culture, local events, cool pics, or buying & selling between Canadians — this is your space.

Open to everyone who loves Canada or wants to know more. Join the conversation and connect with fellow Canadians!

👉 mewe.com/join/canada-english


MeWe: The best chat & group app with privacy you trust.

Brilliant features with no BS. No Ads. No Spyware. MeWe is the Next-Gen Social Network.
mewe.com

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suicide by cop

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/c…


Crazed Driver Learns the Hard Way That It's a Bad Idea to Take a Machete to a Gunfight with Police Officers in Los Angeles (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

          A crazed driver in downtown LA learned the hard way that it’s a bad idea to take something other than a gun to a shootout, particularly when facing off against police officers.
Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Dozens Arrested After UK Brands Palestine Action a ‘Terror Group’ (Videos) orinocotribune.com/dozens-arre…

Dozens Arrested After UK Brands Palestine Action a ‘Terror Group’ (Videos)

The organization was banned last month after its members broke into an airbase and vandalized two military planes More than 70 people were arrested across the UK on Saturday on suspicion of supporting the activist group Palestine Action, which was re…
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

Part_of You reshared this.

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NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World

Link: nist.gov/news-events/news/2025…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World

This new result contributes to the international effort to define the second with a much greater level of accuracy than before, enabling new scientific and technological advances.
Rebecca Jacobson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

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🖥️Android's Desktop Mode gets a handy shortcut to pin your favorite apps to the taskbar

A new “pin to taskbar” option now appears in the context menu for apps in Android’s desktop mode launcher, but only in the Android Canary release so far.

🔗 androidauthority.com/android-d…


Android's Desktop Mode gets a handy shortcut to pin your favorite apps to the taskbar - Android Authority

You can now easily pin apps to the taskbar in the latest Android Canary release. This will make Android's Desktop Mode even more useful.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

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#Gaza #Genocide
#HindRajabFoundation
@palestine

"The Hind Rajab Foundation, a Brussels-based human rights and legal organisation, announced on Monday that it had filed a formal criminal complaint with the Portuguese judiciary against Israeli soldier Dani Adonya Adega"
"Adega served as a sniper in the Israeli army’s 252nd division. At the beginning of this year, he posted an image on social media holding a sniper rifle with a caption reading: “4 rounds, 0 misses🎯🔥”"

middleeastmonitor.com/20250715…


Hind Rajab Foundation files criminal complaint in Portugal against Israeli soldier

...
Middle East Monitor

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Immigrants in ICE concentration camps in at least seven states of USA are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled food
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Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they're hungry, raise food quality concerns

Immigrants being held in ICE detention centers in at least seven states are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled food.
Didi Martinez (NBC News)

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#aider #notre #refuge #animal

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Notre petit refuge pour animaux à Québec, c’est :
🐹 des sauvetages,
💩 du ménage quotidien,
❤ de l’amour à revendre
…et un mari (le Shoshin) qui s’occupe, plutôt que de parler tout seul au toaster.

Soutenir notre refuge, c’est soutenir :

Les animaux abandonnés.

Un projet de cœur.

La santé mentale d’un humain tout ce qu’il y a de plus vrai.

Un grand merci de la part de Nancy, Shoshin, et toute la clique poilue 🐾

👉 leshoshin.ca/aidez-nous.html
📸 Un aperçu en poils et en plumes : leshoshin.ca/photo.html


Aidez Nous

Aidez-nous et aidez notre refuge animal Toute aide financière de votre part sera dirigée vers notre petit refuge pour animaux à Québec. Le refuge procure une occupation à mon mari (le Shoshin)...
Soshin / Dans l'esprit du débutant / In the beginner's mind ...

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Uncommon Sense


 [quote]During the transfer of power from a legitimate to illegitimate rule, the illegitimate power must maintain an illusion. It must maintain a belief in the persistence of legitimacy, running through the transfer and to the new regime. If this illusion
During the transfer of power from a legitimate to illegitimate rule, the illegitimate power must maintain an illusion. It must maintain a belief in the persistence of legitimacy, running through the transfer and to the new regime. If this illusion is broken, the people become aware that their power has been usurped, a pretender has taken power, and the new authority lacks the legitimacy to rule.

To justify the illegal federalization of the national guard, Donald Trump cited 10 U.S. Code § 252:

“Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.”

In doing so, he highlighted a contradiction within his justification. The specific justification was that the protests “make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States.”

After years of voicing support and meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian agents hack the Democratic Party and spend two years manipulating social media. After directly coordinating with Trump and his collaborators, the Russian government again hacks the Democratic party and escalates their social media manipulation campaign. When Trump is elected, he appoints Russian government assets to government offices. Before even taking the oath of office, Donald Trump begins violating the Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

The power of the federal government to enforce the law had been under attack for years. President Nixon was impeached for his attempt to subvert the electoral process, but the actions he took to forward his party's objectives were never reversed. President Reagan illegally bribed Iran with weapons to sabotage the hostage negotiations then under way with president Carter, in another clear case of illegal election tampering. Yet his presidency was never challenged, nor were any of his actions or appointments challenged or reversed. Post concession recounts showed clearly that President George W. Bush lost in 2000 to Al Gore, despite Gore's concession.

Russia understood how to exploit this power to take over the American government. While the federal government struggled to enforce constitutional protections before 2016, Trump's appointment of 3 Supreme Court Justices ultimately destroyed all ability to enforce any constitutional limitations on presidential power.

Given that the power of all officials in United States is explicitly limited by the law and no people are excluded from said legal constraint, one element of the legal definition of insurrection is the inability to enforce laws, the Constitution and all laws restricting presidential power has not been possible to enforce since Trump took office in 2016, Therefore Donald Trump is leading an insurrection on behalf of the government of Russia, has levyed war against the United States, on behalf of the Vladiamir Putin, the government of Russia successfully overthrow the US government in 2016 using Donald Trump as a proxy, There is currently no legal president. Given that Trump appointed officials to illegally maintain his power Trump selected collaborators to forward his illegal agenda Trump acted at the direction of Vladamir Putin as an agent of the Russian Government, Therefore all appointees and collaborators are equally participants in a successful foreign war against the US government. Given That a war need not be declared to be enacted, to overthrow a government on behalf of a foreign power is always, necessarily, an act of war by that foreign power, Therefore the Russian election interference that allowed Donald Trump to take power was necessarily an act of war against the American People.

Be it resolved that Donald Trump is not the legal president of the United States, and never has been legally the president, the last legal president of the United States was Barak Obama, Donald Trump is a traitor who levied war against the American People on behalf of Russia, Donald Trump must be tried for treason, all appointments made by Donald Trump since his election are necessarily null and void, all laws ratified by Trump are null and void, all land and property sold will be repossessed by the Federal Government as stolen property all land that cannot be repossessed or for which repossession is not pursued by the US government will return to the domain of it's previous authority, all executive orders enacted by Trump are null and void, all appointees and collaborators who interfered with the dutiful enforcement of constitutional restrictions of presidential power must also be tried for treason, a new president must be identified following the 25th Amendment process of succession. Any president who takes office must first execute these resolutions. If the president does not follow the above resolutions for any reason, succession will pass to the next in line who does.

Be it resolved that additional steps must be taken to address the vulnerabilities exploited by the Russian government. These steps are abolish the electoral college and elect presidents directly by vote count remove all judges appointed by Donald Trump remove all other Trump political appointees replace the Senate, as a body that represents each state with two members, with a legislative body that represents the nation by party-based proportional representation, all government elections, at all levels, for which a only a single candidate can be chosen must then use ranked choice voting, universal suffrage for all residents over the age of 18, regardless criminal or legal status, the constitutional definition of treason will be amended to include voter suppression and those who have been convicted of voter suppression will be classified as insurrections for the purpose of holding office, corporations will explicitly be not be recognized as people with constitutional protections

States that pass these resolutions will hold the Federal Government responsible for enacting it within 90 days of passage within the state, or, the Federal Government failing to do so, will secede from the conquered union and form amongst themselves a new union carrying on from the fallen state with vulnerabilities addressed.


I put the notebook down on my desk and let out a long sigh. The look I gave her only lasted a few moments but felt as though it drew on for days, “I think you mean 'Whereas' rather than 'Given That,' just stylistically I mean.”

“You know that's not what we're asking for.”

Straight to the point, always the spitfire.

“Sure. Yeah…. you could go farther. Why don't you nationalize the military industrial complex, make college free, abolish all debt, and summarily execute Thiel and Yarvin while you're at it?”

Her eyes cauterized as they cut.

“OK,” I replied carefully, with another long sigh, “I don't even want to be holding it right now. Do you have any idea how dangerous something like this is? I don't even know how much of this is legal right now.”

She flashed a wide joker's smile, “Shouldn't you?”

We always had good rapport, perhaps that's why she trusted me with this.

“High school teachers aren't known for their law degrees.”

“It doesn't matter. What's legal and what's not doesn't even matter anymore. Anything he doesn't like is illegal. Anything that brings him more power is. The whole system simply serves power now, and that's why this is so important right now.”

I crossed my arms, “I said this about W. It's different now, but in quantity not quality… You were in elementary school when he first took office…“

I nodded at the menacing portrait of Our Leader glaring down at us. I could feel the grey hairs sprout as I trailed off. Every year under him had felt like 10, and I was already old enough without the help.

She got up and leaned across the table, “A constitution is a contract between the people and their government. It grants the government the monopoly on violence and the license to define and enforce those laws using said violence. However, the violation of that contract without mitigation or redress nullifies it. Without this authority, the perpetrators of violence are little more than petty tyrants. The violation of this contract authorizes the people to redress their own grievances against those who illegitimately wield authority in the their name.”

Two other students were in the room. One sat leisurely at his desk, the other curled up in the window sill. The one in the window sill wore a studded leather jacket a size too big. The leather squeaked a bit against the window as they leaned forward, “You almost sound like one of those slavers who wrote the original.”

“Dee,” I remarked as I held up my hand and he smiled a bit, “let's stay focused, please.”

“This,” I continued hesitantly, “can't be a citizens initiative. This lays out the legal basis for a civil war. Do you have any idea how dangerous this is right now?”

“Do you have any idea how dangerous it is to keep going like this?” She stared with amber pools of rage, “We should actually be able to vote on this. When I finally get to vote, I know for a fact that it won't mean anything. At least you got to choose between two puppets, we don't even get that. He's looting everything he can and leaving corporations to steal our futures.

“You act like there isn't already a civil war going on right now,” she raged on, “You act like there hasn't been a civil war since before he even took office.”

“If anyone found out you wrote this, you could be arrested. Your family could be arrested.”

She smiled a bit, “'For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.'”

“You could be sent to the camps.”

”'He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws.' But who would he send to arrest us again?”

I sighed deeply and sat back in my chair.

She pointed out the window at a group of troops outside, “'He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.'”

I tapped a pencil on the desk and thought for a moment. Her curls bounced as she sat back down. After a long pause, I spoke again, ““Even if I wanted to, I couldn't submit this. I couldn't ask for signatures. Someone would probably kill me before I was even able to collect enough signatures if I tried. It will be censored by the algorithm. We would all be arrested immediately. What do you expect me to do with this?”

“I don't care if we're arrested. We're going to die anyway. It's probably already too late for most of us. 'It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees'”

I hadn't noticed the Che Guevara shirt she had been wearing, nor did I realize those were back in style. She wore the uniform of a young radical. I wonder if she will also look back at that shirt and cringe. Then it struck me, I wonder if there will be a world for her to look back from.

The studs tapped against the window a bit as the student in the window sill shifted again and spoke up, “Enlightenment thinkers dogged censorship by presenting their ideas as stories and dialogs. You can never really tell what side someone is taking in fiction. The 'savage critic' was one of the most popular literary modes of the period.”

I looked over to the window, “You've been reading Graber again, haven't you?”

They smiled a bit and and settled back in.

“What are you even doing with something like this? Aren't you an anarchist Dee?”

“Yeah, aren't you Mr. Brand?”

I leaned forward a bit, “Don't say that too loud. I could loose my job. I've never talked about that for a reason.”

“You do on your Mastodon,” they replied slily.

“How do you know about my Mastodon?”

“Dee is a furry,” the curly haired girl piped up again.

“Ez,” I snapped at her, “not everyone on Mastodon is a f-”

“Mr. Brand, that's not important right now” Dee cut me off. I hadn't noticed the Kitsune Luigi shirt under the leather jacket until now. Cleaver. “I know you're a bit of a writer yourself Mr. Brand. I suppose that's expected for an English teacher.”

I sat back again as they continued, “We won't survive if this keeps going. We're cut off. The crops are rotting in the fields with no one to harvest. If we don't starve, you know we'll all die in the camps. It has to break. It has to stop. These changes will destroy both parties. We have an opportunity to not only survive, but come out the other side better.

“During the first Civil War, progressive states were able to pass a lot of legislation after the Rebel states left. This government can only collapse. If a few states pull out, it may be enough to topple everything. When the rest of the country joins the New Union, we could have jumped decades forward.

“To be honest Mr. Brand, I don't know how much time I have. You know people like me are pretty high on their list. This doesn't fix everything, not even close. But I think it gives us a fighting chance. They're not going to exterminate us all if they can't even keep the country together.”

The boy sitting leisurely at his desk adjusted his sweater and sat up. “I just want to know my parents will be safe. I want to know I'll be safe.”

Ezra leaned back in her chair again, “Honestly, I just want a chance at a future. The current road leads to death and I'll do anything to get off it. Will you help us Mr. Brand?”

I sat for several minutes and thought about the question before answering quietly, “Yeah…. I'll do my best.”

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