Portablescholar
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.
August 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.
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You’d think the President not knowing he appointed the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve would be a scandal.
Someone alert Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper!
Someone alert Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper!
Trump on Powell: “I was surprised he was appointed” (Trump appointed him)
July 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You’d think the President not knowing he appointed the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve would be a scandal.
Someone alert Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper!
Someone alert Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper!
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ICE operations aren't legitimate. The agency needs to be disbanded and any of their personnel that broke laws need to be atrested, charged and locked up.
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
July 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
ICE operations aren't legitimate. The agency needs to be disbanded and any of their personnel that broke laws need to be atrested, charged and locked up.
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Democrats are in a primarying mood, and these 128 House members should be *real* concerned right now.
June 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Democrats are in a primarying mood, and these 128 House members should be *real* concerned right now.
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Israel is obliterating women and children waiting in line for food and trying to drag us into a war based on Netanyahu’s lies and yet we’re still subjected to the same daily bullshit about how The Real Bad Guys are people who say that’s bad in different ways.
Fuck off.
Fuck off.
June 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Israel is obliterating women and children waiting in line for food and trying to drag us into a war based on Netanyahu’s lies and yet we’re still subjected to the same daily bullshit about how The Real Bad Guys are people who say that’s bad in different ways.
Fuck off.
Fuck off.
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
June 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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The concept of "Privatization" is Nazi ideology. Democracy, the rule of the people, should be above all, not the dollar.
June 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The concept of "Privatization" is Nazi ideology. Democracy, the rule of the people, should be above all, not the dollar.
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I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
June 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
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It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.
May 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
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No one is free unless we are all free. Our liberation is bound together, in the struggle against oppression & exploitation. It is our duty to resist, it is our duty to build, & it is our duty to win. For a free & just humanity.
#Generalstrikeus
Let's Get Free.
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#Generalstrikeus
Let's Get Free.
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May 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
No one is free unless we are all free. Our liberation is bound together, in the struggle against oppression & exploitation. It is our duty to resist, it is our duty to build, & it is our duty to win. For a free & just humanity.
#Generalstrikeus
Let's Get Free.
linktr.ee/generalstrikeus_detroit
#Generalstrikeus
Let's Get Free.
linktr.ee/generalstrikeus_detroit
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The crazy thing about humans is this:
We could provide food, water, shelter, healthcare, & education to everyone on earth.
The reason we don’t is because we’ve decided to put profits first.
That’s it.
The acquisition of bits of green paper over all else is a choice.
Greed is holding us back.
We could provide food, water, shelter, healthcare, & education to everyone on earth.
The reason we don’t is because we’ve decided to put profits first.
That’s it.
The acquisition of bits of green paper over all else is a choice.
Greed is holding us back.
April 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The crazy thing about humans is this:
We could provide food, water, shelter, healthcare, & education to everyone on earth.
The reason we don’t is because we’ve decided to put profits first.
That’s it.
The acquisition of bits of green paper over all else is a choice.
Greed is holding us back.
We could provide food, water, shelter, healthcare, & education to everyone on earth.
The reason we don’t is because we’ve decided to put profits first.
That’s it.
The acquisition of bits of green paper over all else is a choice.
Greed is holding us back.
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Cis allies loudly declaring support also helps push back on one of the main goals of the anti trans movement, convincing the world that hating trans people is Normal
Every random cis person going "well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't" means that idea can't spread
Every random cis person going "well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't" means that idea can't spread
not to invalidate my trans siblings but, personally, cis allies loudly declaring support for us right now does help keep despair at bay even if it changes nothing. I don’t care how you phrase it, how clumsy. Please be there for/with us, loudly. It fights the voices that scream everyone hates us.
April 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cis allies loudly declaring support also helps push back on one of the main goals of the anti trans movement, convincing the world that hating trans people is Normal
Every random cis person going "well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't" means that idea can't spread
Every random cis person going "well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't" means that idea can't spread
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#NoBuy2025
Try to patronize locally owned health food stores, local farmers markets, and close-by farms.
Stop buying big ticket items, unless absolutely necessary.
Use public transportation more often.
Billionaires need us, but we don't need them.
#BoycottAmazon
#BoycottTesla
#BoycottPublix
Try to patronize locally owned health food stores, local farmers markets, and close-by farms.
Stop buying big ticket items, unless absolutely necessary.
Use public transportation more often.
Billionaires need us, but we don't need them.
#BoycottAmazon
#BoycottTesla
#BoycottPublix
April 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#NoBuy2025
Try to patronize locally owned health food stores, local farmers markets, and close-by farms.
Stop buying big ticket items, unless absolutely necessary.
Use public transportation more often.
Billionaires need us, but we don't need them.
#BoycottAmazon
#BoycottTesla
#BoycottPublix
Try to patronize locally owned health food stores, local farmers markets, and close-by farms.
Stop buying big ticket items, unless absolutely necessary.
Use public transportation more often.
Billionaires need us, but we don't need them.
#BoycottAmazon
#BoycottTesla
#BoycottPublix
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Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
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a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
March 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
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Too many Democrats spent a good part of last year demonizing campus protesters, refusing to acknowledge Palestinians as humans, and painting people who want an end to Israel's genocidal actions as terrorists.
Trump is pouring on the gas, but Dems lit the match and threw in some logs.
Trump is pouring on the gas, but Dems lit the match and threw in some logs.
The lawlessness, incompetence and brutality are accelerating as the Republic tips toward dictatorship.
Senate Democrats, under Schumer's leadership, are useless and essentially collaborators. Democratic governors need to get straight on what the plan is.
Senate Democrats, under Schumer's leadership, are useless and essentially collaborators. Democratic governors need to get straight on what the plan is.
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
March 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Too many Democrats spent a good part of last year demonizing campus protesters, refusing to acknowledge Palestinians as humans, and painting people who want an end to Israel's genocidal actions as terrorists.
Trump is pouring on the gas, but Dems lit the match and threw in some logs.
Trump is pouring on the gas, but Dems lit the match and threw in some logs.
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Don't accept this. Don't accept ANY of this. There are more of us than them.
March 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Don't accept this. Don't accept ANY of this. There are more of us than them.
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To be absolutely clear, what ICE is doing is a crime. These arrests and deportations are broadly accepted as illegal, and the claim that they do not need to abide by the law is horse shit. We need to start petitioning our local PDs, posting anti ICE notices, and organizing to stop these arrests.
March 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be absolutely clear, what ICE is doing is a crime. These arrests and deportations are broadly accepted as illegal, and the claim that they do not need to abide by the law is horse shit. We need to start petitioning our local PDs, posting anti ICE notices, and organizing to stop these arrests.
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Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
March 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
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Elites like Musk and Trump push the conspiracy theory that "Soros" is behind protests, because it's central to their ideology that there is no genuine, grassroots resistance movements that oppose them, that everything is an AstroTurf grift, animated by a cabal. itsgoingdown.org/george-soros...
Soros, ‘Globalism,’ and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary
In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, a global movement against corporate globalization and neoliberal capitalism developed, with anti-authoritarian and anarchist politics at it's head. In 1994, the ...
itsgoingdown.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Elites like Musk and Trump push the conspiracy theory that "Soros" is behind protests, because it's central to their ideology that there is no genuine, grassroots resistance movements that oppose them, that everything is an AstroTurf grift, animated by a cabal. itsgoingdown.org/george-soros...