I read once, passingly, about a man named Shakespeare. I only read about him passingly, but I remember one thing he wrote that kind of moved me
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Safer in the Streets, drawing from protest and direct action vets who have my trust (even once snatched me back from violent cops) & imo deserve yours, have released a handy best practices guide.
jewishcurrents.org/safer-in-…
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Our Philadelphia street got its first Harris canvasser and this poor woman, having to handle so many people telling her they *want* to vote Harris but are struggling with their conscience. It’s wild to watch this be the opposite of most Twitter things: irl, people are sickened
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jfc Biden’s team barred pro-Palestine Black members of the congregation from even entering the church in the first place
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She’s doing a good job but I’m not sure you *can* move people in a 5min chat. I really hope someone is listening — there is an internet echo chamber that hates Trump so much they think this doesn’t matter, but real people in real life value children, value their agency in this.
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On elite campuses we’re seeing the cravenness and lack of foresight of elite administrators, a shock for many, but at state flagships — IU snipers, UT-Austin stormtroopers, Ohio cop riots — we’re seeing the real nature of contemporary America, a shock to no one paying attention
Chaos on the @ohiostate campus as police drove demonstrators off the green and made well over a dozen arrests.
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I’m going insane. Rocky loses! ROCKY LOSES!!
Rocky wasn't the most eloquent in speech. But he was a fighter. His character conveyed his eloquence. Our message: Biden's character is his eloquence. latimes.com/politics/story/2…
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I know that support for Palestine is a scary, risky proposition because of elite retribution against the supermajority support for a ceasefire.
But I will say this in Philly: this is the line for Lombard Cafe rn after it was harassed by local rich Zionists
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I share the shock — and worry — that its not national news that a non-binary student was beaten to death in an Oklahoma school, with the school refusing to call an ambulance despite their head being smashed repeatedly into the ground of a girl’s bathroom
pghlesbian.com/2024/02/griev…
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Warren going totally blank, totally cruel and unsympathetic in what should have been a moment of humanity will really stick with me. Bleak indeed
Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston
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“Cops Sweep In, Arrest 300 Jews During Passover Seder” feels it should set off alarms re: antisemitism on the rise but I guess I’m just concerned with state repression of Jewish people! I forgot the word had already been hollowed out
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Anti-government forces in Kenosha burned down a Department of Corrections outposts in the lakeside city. In WI, prison doesn’t end on release and criminalized citizens have been forced since 1995 to “pay a portion” of their own supervision, a monthly tax
nitter.app/SVNewsAlerts/status/12…
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Jill Biden — perhaps as cynical parachute — was made the Chair of Save The Children in 2017. Save The Children now is releasing almost daily missives about the starvation of children, their slaughter, their torture and sexual abuse in Israeli captivity.
Jill is silent.
“Jill, when are you and the President going to call for a ceasefire in Gaza?”
Protestors in Arizona disrupt Jill Biden’s speaking event to #ShutItDown4Palestine 🇵🇸
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Huge bummer that between the Bush administration and now there was no chance to roll back the national security state, severely restrict executive power and punish executive crimes eg torture, assassinations etc. No one to blame though! Entirely GOP presidents :(
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such a minor thing, but: N+1 already reacting to the Twitter obviating of headlines by creating a custom, well-designed header image that links pull which includes the title and author should be best practices going forward, and is more evidence of their general excellence
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Last year, the American Academy of Ophthalmology had to condemn the US regime and call for restricting the munitions used against protestors because in one week people in CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, D.C., MD, MN, MS, NE, OH, OR, PA and TX lost eyes or sustained life altering wounds
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I can gently and earnestly say, so I hope you read it like that, that if my worst enemy told me 68 people they love had *just* been killed, I would take their hand and maybe even weep.
If a stranger came up to my table and said that, I would invite them to sit down.
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these screenshots are from here, in the context of Truffaut and Godard shutting down Cannes in solidarity with the greater wave of French/global rebellions in 1968
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It’s absolutely psychotic to post this — to give yourself permission to feel this way with blood on your hands — and have written this article *yesterday*, pushing an administration lie (uncorrected!) so outrageous the IDF & Israeli right had to correct it.
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As a day 1 John Ganz hater for precisely “this is a mid-normies idea of smart, dilettante musings with no ethical backbone” and “the prose is boring and arrogant, a slog with little to reveal” I welcome everyone to just stop wasting their time. Only a peer if you think he is one!
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That’s crazy — so you’re saying these people *didn’t* quit their jobs after Kalief Browder, the teen they imprisoned without trial for 3 years, killed himself out of hopelessness due to their negligence… but the reforms that prevent that from reoccurring DID make them quit?
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I’m tweeting from handcuffs because I cannot log off — the cops are holding several people in an unair conditioned van directly in the sun. Absolutely fucked up from the PPD, overt punitive behavior
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Point: "They told the Mayor of Philadelphia the biggest secret in the country as a courtesy and she told her comms director who told a junior staffer to go into the CMS and schedule a tweet before the weekend and it accidentally sent"
Counterpoint: "No they didn't."
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I am complaining that, prior to any disruption, President Biden screening out members of Mother Emanuel AME from attending their own church; makes the comments from a CNN analyst who reported a video of a Black churchmember chanting as “two white people” more egregious
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Cops shot someone in the face last night — short-range, on video, and similar to the numerous instances of blinding in 2020, you’ll see very little in the news & no accountability
Life is not precious in America, and it’s Democrats running into the arms of the police & the right
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it is a difficult hypothetical because, a real part of my judgement here, is if my *constituent* did, I *would* change my policy stance.
Sympathy is easy, but being responsible to people means being responsive to people. In real life, talking real lives, that should impact her.
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In the last *hour*, they eliminated every remaining member of the Hijazi family in Rafah, including 15 children huddled together.
The preciousness of each life scales, and the horror meted out by Israel isn’t hypothetical
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important to note these are real events, so (1) yes, I’m not only very comfortable mourning with civilian kibbutznik victims, we did (2) no Israeli has had 68 members of their family killed. In the first week, the IDF wiped out ~50 entire families, each living generation…
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This evening’s march in Philadelphia is enormous, and I’m almost shamefully emotional at the number of children here, so many full families flooding the streets demanding an end to genocide
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Nex succumbed to their injuries after their grandmother (their primary caretaker) brought them to the hospital herself. Hard to fathom
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watching in real time as a multi-block, Palestinian-Jewish march from Rittenhouse to UPenn including a segment passing Goldie with a chant riffing on the 45 minutes of “Netanyahu/Biden/we charge you with genocide” turn into a mob full of “fake” Jews descending on “random” Jews
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Language is a shifting thing, but I remember when major US Jewish groups were quite concerned with the colloquial drift.
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Your smartest talent knows Princeton leadership is shameful. This is the opposite of prestige generating to me — people of conscience and caliber know the higher echelons of Princeton admin are low-quality and immoral. Drop the charges on the Princeton 15
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As the Drexel and Temple marches converge with Penn students and Philly residents outside Van Pelt, I am once again blown away by the *amount* of resources Philadelphia has for repression and crowd control. The police presence is overwhelming, millions in spend pre-deployed
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They're emptying the AIDS fund to steal brown children.
Money talks much louder than words; this is a vicious taunt wrapped in a measured explanation of exactly what they're planning to do once the cameras are elsewhere.
slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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A common misconception — you have to group EU-15 to find a definition where USians are more generatively productive than Europeans; country by country, US loses to financial hubs & those with better work life balance. UBI doesn’t exist, but Norway is closest & more “productive”
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Manic Pixie Drone Girl Avril Haines bought a plane, crash landed in a remote Newfoundland w/ her lover, dropped a Physics PhD to start a bookstore in Baltimore, and -- get this - committed war crimes as DD/CIA incl launching 4 Hellfire missiles at a bride driving to her wedding
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This isn’t hyperbole! It might be uncomfortable language, to discuss the US landscape the way other countries are discussed, but all of it is accurate (legally & stylistically). The most provocative aspects (a state agent that surveils second-class citizens) is *their language*
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I remain a bit confused by this common “attempting to delegitimize Israel” line. COGAT and various State organs have been caught lying several times.
If they say something is an attempt to delegitimize Israel, then it turns out to be true, is Israel delegitimized? Then what?
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It took a single google search, first page of results to see that Dan Crenshaw is a co-sponsor of (among several other frivolous anti-sex work laws) H.R.4326 -- literally the "Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act".
Come on Glenn, I thought calling out hypocrisy was your beat!
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I witnessed the Philadelphia cops instigate a riot — just got home from taking my housemate to the emergency w/ two major head wounds from a police beating, which officers denied even doing despite hundreds of witnesses to their assault
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France took one good nude, snapped it to 25 guys & yet we’re out here like “I met the one 😍” smdh
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Under supervision, after their prison sentence ends, residents are assigned a DOC agent, who documents their professional life, surveils their romantic & personal pursuits and is given access to their home. If they disobey or displease an agent, they are often thrown back in jail
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Increasingly seems like being an Opinion editor at any major American newspaper requires immense ignorance and an impressive capacity to stare right at the point and miss it
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Your *own* line-in-the-sand for when personal privacy is outweighed by the public good is sponsorship
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if the cops killed someone playing airsoft, but also suffered gunshot wounds, does that mean the cops shot each other or the cops lied in the aftermath. You can't get a gunshot wound from that, only from the real weapons police love to use
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An agent is an internal security officer like police, but they only carry out specific surveillance rather than making arrests. Americans with supervision agents cannot travel internationally and have to apply for the right to leave their state (say, to drive one hour to Chicago)
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I think, as people reflect on Sinead O’Connor’s foresight, integrity and principled stance on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church & AIDS, they ought to also remember her stance on Palestine. She had a deep love of Jewish people, and before BDS, she was threatened with death
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If the agent decides they will allow that, the DOC issues an internal visa, a travel permit for up to 15 days of movement. There isn’t recourse for this — agented Wisconsites can’t vote as they aren’t considered to have full civil rights w/out agent restoration “to” those rights.
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certainly renders the commentary about “disrupting a sacred space” very dishonest if congregants were barred and others put in the pews in their place. Many center-right Dems have adapted to a Trumpist disregard for to truth as Biden’s support craters, and its worth pointing out
Mother Emanuel AME is hallowed ground in the AME church community and in Charleston especially. The shock of people in the crowd at protesters yelling out while President Biden was speaking from the pulpit cannot be overstated. I too couldn't believe it.
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Always a good chance to re-up
theroot.com/hillary-clinton-…
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I think you’re getting pretty embarrassingly blown out of the water, but the more interesting angle is how clear it is that this was an attempt to ingratiate The Drift to media ecosystem members who can help your career. The NY circlejerk of networking over talent stays winning
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Glenn, we both went to school in Florida — it was an issue when I was around, it was an issue when you were around, and these are reports from the last 4 years for public and private schools. Rather than a scandal, curricular failures are treated as basically not newsworthy
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Scruff is opening up this hole a 35 minute drive from where your parents live, a safe spot for people to meet up for a first date. Love this brand extension
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This man has been put in charge of Israel’s domestic torture sites, given special and specific powers during the war to approve otherwise illegal acts in specific ones without oversight, and is keeping the Red Cross out after credible allegations conditions are like Abu Ghraib
💥Speaking of the devil: Netanyahu NatSecMinister Itamar Ben Gvir screams "To be clear, when we say that Hamas should be destroyed, it also means those who celebrate, those who support & those who hand out candy– they're all terrorists, and they should also be destroyed!"
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sorry to be loud about my “cultural diffusion & recombination is one of the spices of life” takes but food history is a great site for “it’s all ‘fake’”, no region excluded:
🇯🇵 ramen is barely 100, Ulysses published before tacos al pastor existed, bahn mi younger than Joe Biden
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#OTGWestPhilly mourning en masse, but massed cops intimidating it from every side / a moving focus on all victims of trauma and loss from community members, whether the murderer has a badge or not, with people coming out from nearby homes to address the crowd
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These are Trump era regulations, and a perfect example of the widespread failure of the Biden administration. Two years in, much more energy has been expended on continued implementation, rather than “recovery” of norms they wanted to restore (let alone actually humane actions)
re-applying for my U.S. visa and this is a new question.
Community note
This has been a question on visa applications since 2017, and a required question since 2019. The government cannot request the password to any account, nor can they change any privacy settings to access information that a user as set to private or ‘friends only.’
travel.state.gov/content/dam/vi
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“My takeaway from this painting is it is about shit that happened in Europe, nothing more” -Just Kansas Things
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playing pre-recorded b-roll and then trapping Trump and Harris in a windowless blue prison so they can say this debate is in Philadelphia without showing Philadelphia right now
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Difficult to not read “please don’t start with [the 1940s]. We know the story” as an ultimate indictment of Germany memory culture.
Rather than inoculate them against repetition, repetition of the particular German responsibility for atrocity has made an entire nation numb
Remarkable exchange between Mustafa Barghouti and an interviewer from Taz, Germany's largest left-wing newspaper taz.de/Mustafa-Barghouti-ueb…
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Major, shameful error of fact that you sneeringly sent to your audience — today, three protestors: a Palestinian, an African-American, & (reportedly) a local Jewish man interrupted Biden to call for an end to slaughter.
Typical of Edward-Isaac Devore to fumble important stories
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exceptionally telling — I’m sure you live in a world with mostly writers, where perhaps this is true, but *you* are the one ignoring experts in genocide because the word makes you uncomfortable. Warnings of genocidal acts have been appropriate & genocide is now the correct term
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There is video of the LASD chasing a scared man, and then handcuffing #DijonKizzee’s corpse after riddling him w/ bullets. Just this weekend, news broke of a 4th whistleblower reporting on an internal LASD gang, “The Executioners”, hunts people. They admit Dijon was unarmed.
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Meagan Day, whose monetary contributions to the soft left are nice and buy a place for her forgettable writing, is auditioning for a shift towards the MSNBC sphere. If she seems stubbornly unresponsive, it’s because it isn’t a debate — and the advice isn’t meant to be actionable
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For those interested, this is more in depth
theintercept.com/2020/01/29/…
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A March led by medical professionals in Philadelphia, #CareNotCops, has taken the entrance of Hahneman Hospital, a privatized facility being kept empty to extort the City of Philadelphia for millions. It’s true cost has been the lives of the poor, predominantly Black & Brown.
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Weren’t the suicide attempts as a result of American torture — torture this country still engages in? This is an aggressive and illustrative response.
Who could speak to you about patterns of behavior in a way that you would listen?
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Officers also won’t answer direct, polite questions about the crew of un-uniformed tattoo’d white men joking with cops in front of the precinct when we arrived // they scoped they vans and disappeared. Taking us to a precinct in South Philly isn’t normal protocol
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If you can stomach the ramble without zoning out, Fetterman makes an interesting point at the end! He seems scared even. I mean if young people are so frustrated they are hardnosed and happy about the death of a CEO they hadn’t heard of, can you imagine a politician they had?
.@JohnFetterman on Luigi Mangione and the online reaction: “He’s the asshole that’s going to die in prison. Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer. That's what social media is about this. And I don't know why the media wants to turn that into a story, just with these trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously like that. I don't know why that's news. Remember, he has two children that are going to grow up without their father… It's vile. And if you've gunned someone down that you don't happen to agree with their views or the business that they're in, hey, you know, I'm next, they're next, he's next, she's next.”
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Joshua makes a good point, and Biden should listen to the Zionists: send $50 million in arms to Palestinian resistance fighters, allow international forces to destroy the Israeli artillery positions bombarding Gaza and Lebanon, and fire missiles directly at Netanyahu & Kan.
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Who, in this imagined scenario, would find pronouns humiliating but feel welcomed by Robert’s Rules of Order
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Fully agreeing here — honestly, especially because of Philly’s unique vulnerability. Our pediatric asthma rate is 3x higher than average, and Black children are hospitalized at rate of 5:1 vs white kids. Our public health efforts need to be proactive
inquirer.com/health/philadel…
My sweetie had to go outside (masked) for a couple hours today and saw so many people out in the city with no masks, looking concerned and confused about the smoky air. Where was the text alert, like we got with the water situation? Not everyone checks the news @CityofPhila
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People are running into the streets from multiple houses in South Philly to hug each other, screaming “fuck Tom Brady” as a salutation
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Obsessed with the Kamala Harris campaign doing everything it can to lose votes, demobilize people, and send a clear “wouldn’t it be exciting if America’s re-entrenching racism felt fresh? Cool?”
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Waiting on even more shelves but the Refaat Alareer Memorial Library is overflowing & the sun is shining // 🫡 to @phillywawog, the piles of zines from other campuses and of Refaat’s writings are moving quick, who knew college students liked reading so much
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These tactics — arresting protestors who held up blank signs — were condemned by Germany last year, as proof of authoritarian backslide in Russia, and drew official rebuke from the UN, which I’m sure must be coming here too.
Worrying developments in a nation with their history
at the Palestinian demonstration in Berlin, our friend is currently detained by police for a sign that reads “From the --, to the —“ with the nouns blanked out, just unimaginable police repression every day here from a country that blocked the EU resolution calling for ceasefire
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Assuming you meant recent, would you mind expanding on how this is more devastating than say the Windrush Scandal or the Grenfell Fire?
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Police refused to assist once the paramedics clarified it was wounds sustained from them, we arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle. @PPDCommish can’t control her force, the blame lies squarely on their shoulders. They need to be defunded and made liable for their violence.
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Texas Tribune reporting that State Troopers are refusing to shut down the protestors in the gallery! #txlege #standwithwendy
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if you're sad cuz "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" bangs but is too seasonal, the millions of strikers in the 1840s agree & got you covered
(w/ bonus intersectionality & good structural analysis)
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This is not friendship! This is a network where *extremely* atomized and alienated subjects negotiate their connections while waiting to die! It’s genuinely sad and deserving of sympathy / intervention, but evangelizing it is harm multiplication 👀
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Canadians once again behind Hillel Stanford, but a pattern is emerging — running defense for genocide harder than it appears with lazy, slipshod lies
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Hello to the officer checking the window for phones. No one told me I couldn’t! In fact, no one has told me anything since grabbing me before I could finish my rosary, other than “I’m going to cut your bag” and then ruining my 2nd favorite bag 👀
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City is controlled by Dems, and our demands are pretty clearly aimed at their failures. If you’re only voting, that is how we get here. I hope you grab five friends and join us
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rarely can you smell a tweet, but this has a distinct whiff of boozy expat breath and Bradford Pear trees.
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you’re historically literate, often very thoughtful and principled so genuine question....how would you have handled Reconstruction in a more successful way & what was unacceptably “authoritarian” about it? What is the Greenwaldian solution to class stratified, racial oligarchy?
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I wasn't going to tweet again today, and am stepping back after this, but this dude is Atlig, the owner of Infusion Lounge which, pre-pandemic but hopefully not post, hosts the Philly Comedy Club upstairs ✌️
phillycomedyclub.com/about
Yesterday on 2nd ST in Old City Philly
Brother was on his bike just reminding people at the bars to practice social distancing when this white man got mad & held him at GUNPOINT!
Victim left soon after this. Can anyone identify him?
HE DESERVES JUSTICE!
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That’s a sloppy at best summary of the analysis, which is an on-going article that mentions most experts wouldn’t go on the record, that wound analysis isn’t complete yet, but *does* directly contradicts your confidence that the casualties numbers are “implausible” and a “lie”
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“Fallen to his death taking a selfie” wow so convenient that Thiel’s “beautiful kept twink has been growing a conscience and talking about how to exit this relationship” problem solved itself
theintercept.com/2023/03/23/…
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Joe was part of a line in a public park blocking cops from protesters they threatened to “end”— the officer reached over shields & wailed on his skull w/ a baton. After, the same cops looked me and medics in the eye to say “we haven’t touched anyone”
home now. @heterofobe was incredibly brave to stand in front of rioting officers like he did; so many young people put their bodies on the line to protect the people of our city. Multiple lacerations and CT scans for skull damage + a concussion and a ton of staples as a souvenir.
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It’s actually insane, and yet we will keep hearing how liberal California is. The ballot arg everyone read literally starts “Proposition 6 ends slavery in California”, no published opposition argument, and the left coast went “hmm…and you’re sure our vote is private?”
Removing slavery was on the ballot in California. It literally had no opposition campaign at all, and it still lost.
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