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Emily
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welp. here we are!
she/her
Up late… thinking bout the massage therapist who got away…
a kermit the frog is looking out of a window in the rain .
ALT: a kermit the frog is looking out of a window in the rain .
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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"the greatest social desensitization laboratory ever"

That is exactly what it is.
The whole information infrastructure was also very different. Palestinians can and do film their own deaths daily. We see and abhor daily the cruelty of the israelis murdering them.

And nothing happens.

Brazilian philosopher Safatle called this "the greatest social desensitization laboratory ever"
August 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Sheryl Cole, one of the Texas Democrats who broke quorum:
August 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is suing over "illegal confinement" after Republicans locked her in the state Capitol for refusing police surveillance
Texas Democrat Sues After Republicans Lock Her In State Capitol
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was told she was not free to leave the building after refusing to sign a permission slip requiring a 24-hour police escort.
www.huffpost.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Amanda Trebach, a member of Unión del Barrio and an ICU nurse, was monitoring ICE operations in the Los Angeles area when she was targeted and arrested herself. Video of the scene shows masked agents in plainclothes forcing her to the ground and briefly kneeling on her head.
LA Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents
“The way that we’re going to win … is through solidarity for all people,” said Amanda Trebach.
buff.ly
August 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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A shocking investigation, published in August 2024, revealed a well-funded, right-wing campaign to criminalize homelessness across the country. It’s a cruel and counterproductive effort, and looking at where we are today, it’s working. 1/10
Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless
How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.
inthesetimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Ideal scenario:
You are close with a couple who are friends with you (also a couple) and live in the city. You and your partner live in a lovely home in a more rural, idyllic setting. Every month, you do a weekend house swap with your city friends - they get a country vacay, you get city fun! 👌🏻
July 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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“People dare to be comfortable with uncertainty if they are in solidarity with each other… There is almost no limit to what we can do for the sake of each other.”

Rest in power, Joanna Macy💔

truthout.org/articles/lea...
Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
Theorist Joanna Macy discusses the necessity of perceiving the full reality of the current ecological situation, difficult as that may be.
truthout.org
July 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.
July 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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For 30+ days, ICE has invaded communities & snatched people—immigrants & citizens alike—throughout LA. As the city remains under siege, disability & immigrant rights advocates reshape outreach to protect disabled immigrants, ‪@andreagtrrz.bsky.social‬ reports.
prismreports.org/2025/07/14/l...
The Los Angeles raids make Deaf immigrants more vulnerable
Both disability rights and immigrant rights advocates are limited in the help they can offer disabled communities
prismreports.org
July 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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How do they manage to ruin EVERY day? Every single day I find out about something new that pisses me off
July 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A great help in working out how best to stop them in your county is this great collection, The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration::
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
The Jail is Everywhere
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are...
www.versobooks.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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What they're going to do to immigrants is horrendous enough, but this should be understood more broadly. They've just built a police state that is larger than most country's militaries. The DOJ said de-naturalization is its priority. ICE doesn't need warrants. This is Trump's secret police force.
$171 billion of new funding for immigration enforcement.

that's $45 billion to fund more detention centers
$14 billion to fund state + local law forces collaborating
$30 billion more for ICE

staggering, gigantic figures in the bill that Congress just passed

boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement - Bolts
Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.
boltsmag.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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need the universe to strike this entire administration down in the most cartoonishly evil ways
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right.

I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
July 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
PERIOD
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike

“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)
TIMES WRITER VISITS REICH PRISON CAMP; Taken Through Entire Place at Dachau in Bavaria Except Possibly Disciplinary Cells. 2,000 INMATES GLOOMY Incautious Word Has Landed Many There -- Machine Guns an...
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
GET 👏🏻 THIS 👏🏻 SHIT 👏🏻 OUTTA CHICAGO 👏🏻 ISTG!!!!!!!!
What to know about the NASCAR Chicago Street Race this weekend: blockclubchi.co/4lgcLUK
July 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
HYFR
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
me looking at all the pride events going on and thinking about the energy it would take to rally and actually Go Out
June 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM