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antifascism. harm reduction. bookworker.
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By the time the House passed the State Department bill with $3.3 billion for Israel last week, the US had already given Israel $352 billion in aid since its founding.

www.stephensemler.com/p/how-much-a...
January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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We hold a new world here in our hearts my friends and that world is growing every day. 🥰
January 21, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Useful🧵
Lots of leopards eating faces comments etc but I am curious about the extent to which the discourse has been shifted to the right by propaganda because polls show that people were more progressive until the sustained campaign

We should not assume queerphobia is a fixed state of mind
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Data visualization: Every human language, from modern day back through protolanguage to a hypothetical common origin. Accurate, sourced, possibly complete. Includes sign language!

Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info.

🛌 this project has been a beast
Networking
7,370 languages visualized as a force-directed network
dr.eamer.dev
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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100 rainbow whistles. About 5 hours, here in a few seconds. I do this three times a day now.
January 21, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Folks this is at $3,780 and the goal is $10k. Can we get a push to get that gap narrowed?
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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they’re skeets 😌
That insane bus thread ended up on national news and "live skeeted" is the official term used
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Would love to hear y’alls thoughts on some things I’ve been pondering the past few weeks.

1. How can communities track and respond to ICE presence in ways that don’t reinforce cop culture and white vigilantism that treat surveillance and suspicion as “public safety”?
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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No Country for Hard Pants
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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They are destroying our precious businesses. And that’s the point. Tear apart the fabric of our communities.
Last night Maya announced they would be closed until further notice because they couldn’t guarantee the safety of their customers and staff due to ICE’s occupation of our City. ICE is actively making our neighborhoods less safe and hurting anchor businesses in our community like Maya.
January 21, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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What if instead of datacenters we built dadacenters?
January 21, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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This image is saying so much more than it meant to.
January 21, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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Be gentle with people & ruthless with systems.

Or, locally:
Let's be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together.
Many people in my circles seems a little extra crispy, scatterbrained, and/or prickly today. I don't think that's coincidental. Folks are tired; constant crisis wreaks havoc on our body and mind.

Drink water, rest, extend kindness. Sustaining ourselves is hard to prioritize, but deeply important.
January 20, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Lake Street shows up for its neighbors. ✊

Join the You Belong Here Cash Mob to support a local small business. We stand firmly against federal immigration actions, our diversity is our strength.

📍 Location: Shared 24hrs before
🗓️ Jan 21 | 4-7PM
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/you-belong...
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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"History will not look kindly upon______"

Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
January 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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One day, the masks will be off and we will know justice
Minnehaha Creek
Minneapolis, MN
1/20/26
January 20, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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a lot of people left of center wittingly or not buy into the republican profession that they hate immigrants because they vote for democrats but republicans hate immigrants because it's a white supremacist party
January 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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This is what you do when you’re running death camps
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Opsec is important but a lot of it can be solved by simply using common sense, assuming what you say is public, and not talking about anything sensitive in a public chat
It’s actually really liberating from the grip of paranoia to assume you’re being read or listened to and act accordingly. If you assume what you say is public, if you don’t want someone to see it or hear it, don’t say it or do it. But if you do say it, say it with your whole chest
January 20, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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SLUTS is a crew, there are a few members known - Fuego, Skoler, Omex. They do really eye catching end to end burners on railcars, they are pretty wise to tag the crew name instead of individual names imgur.com/gallery/all-...
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
January 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM