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{𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone

{𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone except Michel Foucault
July 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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If not for He, then Who?
IF NOT...FOR WHO WAS IT WRITTEN?
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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My apologies to Washington Irving. I would've asked permission to adapt your story, but you died in 1859. 🙏
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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And they wonder why we despise them.
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Fascist university
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.

Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.

Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Oh look yet another example of why we need UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL CODIFIED RIGHT NOW
May 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Probably one of the last times I'll share something from the NYT, if only to demonstrate that you shouldn't rely on them for information or spread their articles:

They lie.

It's illegal in New Jersey to run for-profit immigration prisons. The mayor had every right to be there.
Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un
May 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Melt all ICE
May 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive.

In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
May 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Bunny Gothic armor ver 2.0
May 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The British Empire (and later the United States) just divided the whole world into little boxes with arbitrary lines and made marginalized people fight each other.

Want to know why we can't let bygones be bygones about colonialism?

It's because people are STILL DYING.
May 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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At least three US citizens have been kidnapped to another country by this administration and Senate Dems are still, even now, voting to confirm. Primary them all
April 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Whatever happened to other countries assassinating each other's leaders?
April 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Killer sign. A+++ sign
April 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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It’s no longer safe for Australians to go to America. This is insane. We ALL have American friends. Mine are like family. Dear god.
April 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"

"That theory has been debunked"

"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed

Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?
April 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM