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Dual US/Australia citizen, vote in Maryland & Queensland. Post-capitalist, anti-fascist activist, organizer at Democrats Abroad, XR, among others. Overlanding on sabbatical. Stop the genocide, free Palestine 🇵🇸
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#USProtests event calendars (DC/MD/VA & Beyond) 👇👇👇
1. bit.ly/49rxq3f - #ActionAlert Feed
2. bit.ly/49TVFrl - Movement Infrastructure
3. freedcproject.org/events
4. bit.ly/3NaZHnr - Allies for Democracy
5. fiftyfifty.one/events
6. r/ProtestFinderUSA

#ActionAlertUS #TakeAction #3E #Protest
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The only mainstream movie I've seen that portrays the Black Panthers even remotely close to historical reality, is "Judas and the Black Messiah."

Strong recommend.

A lot of people today say terms like "Rainbow coalition" and "It's not race, it's class" but have no idea where these terms come from.
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Classic Movie Clip
YouTube video by Douglas Tooley
m.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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In the US, we vaccinate school kids, so that they miss fewer days of school, and get better grades.

We give a poor kids free lunch, because they get better grades.

Do you support these policy positions?

These are what Black people know the Black Panthers for.
February 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.

We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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My god do we need UBI

“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.

We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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In honor of the 1-year anniversary of #teslatakedown, here's my sign-making journey since last March, when I started going to @teslatakedownbmore.bsky.social. Today's Valentine's special was a bit of a rush job but I'm still proud of it - and of all of us who braved the snow banks.
February 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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Let the Oppressed Go Free
Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America www.pennpress.org/978151282832...
February 14, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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Wait til DOGE hears about this
February 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
One year of resistance at #TeslaTakedown in Owings Mills tomorrow @ 9428 Reisterstown Rd

For federal workers
For people killed by slashed aid budgets
For women and girls
For victims of Elon's hubris
To demand a stop to future harms

#Baltimore #Maryland #USProtest

@teslatakedownbmore.bsky.social
This Sat, Feb 14th will be the 1 year anniversary of the Tesla Takedown

These projections are a fab way to kick it off!

@teslatakedown.com
@alexwinter.com

#DumpMusk
#TaxTheRich
#EatTheRich
#BillionaireWealthTax
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."
TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE
TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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Like? What a fucking boot licker
February 11, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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The U.S. killed two more civilians in a boat strike today. A survivor will likely die at sea.
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in , KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.

It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call (202) 224-3121 #StopTheSaveAct

social.demcast.com/s/R45R2G16
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Polite way of saying Albanese is a spineless time wasting ****-***
'Albanese is a manager, not a leader, and it's inflicting real damage on the country ' www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/11/a...
Albanese is a manager, not a leader, and it's inflicting real damage on the country
Anthony Albanese is all about political management, not genuine leadership. And his instinct merely to manage and not lead is inflicting serious harm on our social fabric.
www.crikey.com.au
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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More Palestinians return to Gaza via Rafah as Israeli attacks continue https://aje.news/lcey1u
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Eleven years ago today on February 10, 2015, three young Muslims--23 year old Deah Barakat, 21 year old Yusor Abu-Salha, and 19 year old Razan Abu-Salha--were shot to death in their home, in what came to be known as the Chapel Hill Shooting.

Thinking of their loved ones today.
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Finally! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“The university and Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) have announced that 116 artefacts will be returned to their home country.

The objects, known as the Benin Bronzes, were taken by British armed forces during the occupation of Benin City in 1897”
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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All eyes are on the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu today, but I find it hard to believe that the war decision hasn't already been made. Looking at the size of the military buildup, it's hard to assume otherwise, even if Trump can be unpredictable.
February 11, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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At some point in the future, maybe years or even decades from now, it will be a widely acknowledged fact that the moment we are living through was the result of a total legitimation of virulent Islamophobia, buttressed by and interwoven with age-old, All-American genocidal ‘anticommunism’ tropes.
Like? What a fucking boot licker
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM