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Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author:

I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.
NYTIMES, Jan. 2, 2025
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Perfect.
reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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A Democratic socialist mayor resulted in a Congressional resolution "Denouncing horrors of socialism" even before he enters office—but an actual fascist in the White House still has not resulted in a Congressional resolution denouncing horrors of fascism even after 5 years

GOP fights
Corp Dems fold
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Come, then, let’s go fight with them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My niece, wondering who could possibly hate candy corn.
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago.

masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.

this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*
Video from witness here from the moment CBP gassed neighbors who had gathered outside after the kidnapping.

Agent rolls a canister at the crowd out of the window of their car as they reverse away from people with whistles and bikes.
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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“Then he came, the speaker. He stood in the square. He told us who to hate.”

Been starting my mornings with William Stafford. Did not expect this one. (From The Way It Is)

#poetry #writing
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The always brilliant @mluckovich.bsky.social.
September 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Read this thread
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
September 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy 5th birthday to one of the few things that brings me joy on a daily basis.

Holler if your pet has kept you alive more often than you'd like to admit.
September 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
August 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Spotted by the Dupont Circle Krispy Kreme. #SandwichGuy @katestarbird.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
Breaking News: President Trump said he was taking control of the police in Washington, D.C., and deploying 800 National Guard troops there in response to “out of control” crime — even though violent crime in the city has fallen. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3H9yVcu
August 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
July 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Local journalists are reporting that Israeli military just bombed the very church in Gaza that Pope Francis used to call every night, killing 2 Christians and injuring 6 more.

If you still actually believe this is "Muslim vs Jew" & not War Criminal vs Civilians, you're helping whitewash genocide.
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Simply cannot relate anymore to anyone not levitating with rage every moment of the day at these Nazi fucks terrorizing our streets
June 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Jesse Welles "No Kings"

Anthem for the people. 2025.

youtu.be/kWG0K3Y8ZU8?...
No Kings
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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What I did not anticipate in the Trump-Musk breakup was that the general public was going to feel the need to pick sides instead of wanting them both to lose which is the only proper and correct response.
June 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM