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Akiva Schwarzbard
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i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay
September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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All these years I thought the New York Times only knew how to write headlines that go like, “At a Gaza hospital, explosions appear.” Turns out they do know how to write in normal English!
June 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“Our country is willing to accept the fruits of migrant labor, but is not willing to accept the humanity of people,” says Pablo Alvarado, with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
June 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Getting shot for taking video of a cop. Being at the whims of a dangerous roving gang of militarized police who don’t like a spotlight on their violence ain’t great, man.

Keep filming anyway
June 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@margaret.bsky.social broke Goodreads!
June 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

It can't get a distributor in the US.

Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Moderate friend: My girlfriend’s such a leftist

Me: What kind of leftist?

Friend: She loves the Democrats
January 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
January 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Really grim. He murdered a man for being homeless, and got away with it because the man was homeless. We should be clear about this and the fascist implications here.
A judge has dismissed the manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny, who is accused of choking Jordan Neely to death on a NYC subway train
Judge dismisses manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny in subway chokehold trial
The jury said it was unable to come to a unanimous decision on the charge of manslaughter.
gothamist.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM