Katie
@hekatie.bsky.social
Gnostic Friend | Thomas, Mary, Judas
Antifascist, Anarchist, Radical Southerner, Left Solidarity, Photographer
This Week in the South | Scalawagmagazine.org
Metaphysics | Teskey, Kingsley, Kastrup
Antifascist, Anarchist, Radical Southerner, Left Solidarity, Photographer
This Week in the South | Scalawagmagazine.org
Metaphysics | Teskey, Kingsley, Kastrup
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Advance Financial has sued over 110,000 borrowers in Tennessee since 2015.
In one county, where nearly half the households make less than $50,000, the company has filed one case for every 32 residents in that time, @tennesseelookout.com and ProPublica found.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
In one county, where nearly half the households make less than $50,000, the company has filed one case for every 32 residents in that time, @tennesseelookout.com and ProPublica found.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Advance Financial has sued over 110,000 borrowers in Tennessee since 2015.
In one county, where nearly half the households make less than $50,000, the company has filed one case for every 32 residents in that time, @tennesseelookout.com and ProPublica found.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
In one county, where nearly half the households make less than $50,000, the company has filed one case for every 32 residents in that time, @tennesseelookout.com and ProPublica found.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
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"Sinners" has made $161 million at the box office, but residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is based, are unable to see it because there are no open theaters in town. The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of hosting a screening. capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-r...
‘Sinners’ Is Set in Clarksdale, Where There’s No Theater. Locals Are Asking for a Screening.
The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of bringing director Ryan Coogler and his team to the community that helped inspire the hit film.
capitalbnews.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Sinners" has made $161 million at the box office, but residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is based, are unable to see it because there are no open theaters in town. The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of hosting a screening. capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-r...
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a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!
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In his final hours, Keith Gavin’s request for a halal final meal was denied by Alabama officials. "I’m a Muslim, I’m supposed to be eating halal food,” he told Bolts shortly before his execution this summer. “There’s nothing else to eat but junk food.” boltsmag.org/alabama...
Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
Keith Gavin made a number of requests about his final moments, all stemming from his Islamic faith. But the prison largely ignored them, as it has with Muslim prisoners in the past.
boltsmag.org
May 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In his final hours, Keith Gavin’s request for a halal final meal was denied by Alabama officials. "I’m a Muslim, I’m supposed to be eating halal food,” he told Bolts shortly before his execution this summer. “There’s nothing else to eat but junk food.” boltsmag.org/alabama...
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens
Woman from Haiti died in ICE custody at a for-profit immigration detention center owner by GEO Group 👇
Woman from Haiti dies while in ICE custody at detention facility in Broward
She’d been at the facility for 20 days and in ICE custody for two months, 13 days.
www.miamiherald.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens
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Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers
April 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers
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Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.
April 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.
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Donald Trump stripped funding for legal assistance for storm victims. @ryangrim.bsky.social on his latest Drop Site scoop with independent journalist Sarah Hay:
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February 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Donald Trump stripped funding for legal assistance for storm victims. @ryangrim.bsky.social on his latest Drop Site scoop with independent journalist Sarah Hay:
(The link to the story is provided below)
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James Davis wasn't sentenced to die in prison. He has a release date. But with stage-four cancer, he will die behind bars as North Carolina deems him ineligible for medical release.
boltsmag.org/north-c...
boltsmag.org/north-c...
Terminally Ill People Languish in North Carolina Prisons, Even After Reforms
State lawmakers expanded the law for people seeking medical release from prison, but eligibility remains limited.
boltsmag.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
James Davis wasn't sentenced to die in prison. He has a release date. But with stage-four cancer, he will die behind bars as North Carolina deems him ineligible for medical release.
boltsmag.org/north-c...
boltsmag.org/north-c...
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Large health insurers made $371 billion of profit since the ACA, 7 insurance CEOs were paid $335 million in one year - all while premiums & denial rates have skyrocketed.
And yet now the WaPo is responding to people's health care anger by insisting corporations are victims.
And yet now the WaPo is responding to people's health care anger by insisting corporations are victims.
December 14, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Large health insurers made $371 billion of profit since the ACA, 7 insurance CEOs were paid $335 million in one year - all while premiums & denial rates have skyrocketed.
And yet now the WaPo is responding to people's health care anger by insisting corporations are victims.
And yet now the WaPo is responding to people's health care anger by insisting corporations are victims.
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i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:08 PM
i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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In understanding how Private Healthcare can get away with what they do - you need to look into their relationship with the state, with Government and politicians.
December 14, 2024 at 2:52 PM
In understanding how Private Healthcare can get away with what they do - you need to look into their relationship with the state, with Government and politicians.
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When you see the pain and suffering that especially medical debt does to people in the USA, debt really needs to be seen as a form of violence.
December 14, 2024 at 12:50 PM
When you see the pain and suffering that especially medical debt does to people in the USA, debt really needs to be seen as a form of violence.
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This zine presents Aaron Bushnell's politics in his own words, along with memories of Aaron from four of his close friends.
crimethinc.com/Aaronzine
Please print these out and share them.
crimethinc.com/Aaronzine
Please print these out and share them.
March 5, 2024 at 3:07 AM
This zine presents Aaron Bushnell's politics in his own words, along with memories of Aaron from four of his close friends.
crimethinc.com/Aaronzine
Please print these out and share them.
crimethinc.com/Aaronzine
Please print these out and share them.
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For the longest time the right peddled a self-congratulatory narrative that had as one of its most defining moments of the Civil Rights era the supposedly decisive excommunication of the John Birch Society by National Review’s William F. Buckley.
Welp.
Welp.
February 18, 2024 at 1:17 AM
For the longest time the right peddled a self-congratulatory narrative that had as one of its most defining moments of the Civil Rights era the supposedly decisive excommunication of the John Birch Society by National Review’s William F. Buckley.
Welp.
Welp.
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"..The weapons that are being manufactured at this facility are being sold to empires around the world, including Israel, for genocide & violence. Knowing that these weapons are being produced right here in our communities in the heart of empire, we have a responsibility to stand up & take action.."
Six protesters were arrested as dozens of people blockaded a Northrop Grumman weapons manufacturing plant in Minnesota last week with banners reading "Genocide Made in Minnesota by Northrop Grumman" "No More Minnesota Bombs" & "From Plymouth to Palestine - Stop the Weapons."
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vimeo.com/912432312
Protesters Blockade MN Northrop Grumman Munitions Facility in Solidarity With Palestine
Six protesters were arrested as dozens of people blockaded a Northrop Grumman weapons manufacturing plant in Minnesota last week with banners reading "Genocide…
vimeo.com
February 17, 2024 at 4:02 AM
"..The weapons that are being manufactured at this facility are being sold to empires around the world, including Israel, for genocide & violence. Knowing that these weapons are being produced right here in our communities in the heart of empire, we have a responsibility to stand up & take action.."
Grateful for principled and professional journalism now more than ever. Quality is evergreen, and there is Truth lying somewhere under the rubble, hanging on by a thread.
theintercept.com/2024/02/07/g...
theintercept.com/2024/02/07/g...
Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians
Since October 7, Israel has systematically flooded the public discourse on Gaza with a stream of false, unsubstantiated, and unverifiable allegations.
theintercept.com
February 7, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Grateful for principled and professional journalism now more than ever. Quality is evergreen, and there is Truth lying somewhere under the rubble, hanging on by a thread.
theintercept.com/2024/02/07/g...
theintercept.com/2024/02/07/g...
On 5 October 2023, a major western ally began a ferocious air campaign against a small Middle Eastern territory, destroying vital infrastructure and sparking a humanitarian crisis unlike anything experienced in the region’s decades-long liberation struggle.
January 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
On 5 October 2023, a major western ally began a ferocious air campaign against a small Middle Eastern territory, destroying vital infrastructure and sparking a humanitarian crisis unlike anything experienced in the region’s decades-long liberation struggle.
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rhetoric alone isn't fascism -- fascism is a particular social movement organized around political violence from the right-wing whose goal is to transform politics along "masculine," violent, authoritarian lines
January 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
rhetoric alone isn't fascism -- fascism is a particular social movement organized around political violence from the right-wing whose goal is to transform politics along "masculine," violent, authoritarian lines
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Wait. You’re telling me an antidemocratic, extreme Right Wing movement funded by a group of billionaires who have tirelessly undermined experts and public education are actively attacking professors and institutions?
The hell you say. I wonder if that’s ever happened before.
The hell you say. I wonder if that’s ever happened before.
January 4, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Wait. You’re telling me an antidemocratic, extreme Right Wing movement funded by a group of billionaires who have tirelessly undermined experts and public education are actively attacking professors and institutions?
The hell you say. I wonder if that’s ever happened before.
The hell you say. I wonder if that’s ever happened before.
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Occasional reminder that while elites obsess about whether Claudine Gay should still be president of Harvard, Gordon Gee is destroying public higher education in West Virginia yet remains president of WVU. Where is the investigation into Gordon Gee and the boards of trustees that keep hiring him?
December 12, 2023 at 9:29 PM
Occasional reminder that while elites obsess about whether Claudine Gay should still be president of Harvard, Gordon Gee is destroying public higher education in West Virginia yet remains president of WVU. Where is the investigation into Gordon Gee and the boards of trustees that keep hiring him?