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🇸🇩 SUDAN — 3 major hospitals in Dilling, South Kordofan, in central Sudan have been knocked out of service by shelling & drone strikes, and 4 medical personnel were killed in the attacks, severely degrading health services in the city, Sudan Doctors Network reported today.

The network...

Photo: NRC
January 12, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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despite everything, palestine will one day be free
May 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.

Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
May 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Oh, did you forget more and more stores are organizing every week?!

CONGRATULATIONS to Starbucks workers in Fort Collins, CO - the College & Stuart location just won their union election, joining nearly 600 other unionized Starbucks stores!! 🥳
May 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Say it with me: Disabled people deserve to live even if they can’t work.
May 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches
March 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I’ve heard the most horrible stories about this, including literally running off life support machines. What’s sad to me is the people losing this aid didn’t matter to most outlets until they could be used as a cudgel against Trump. I’ve been pitching their stories for years and getting nothing back
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This week, 100s of baristas and allies are hitting the streets and talking to thousands of partners at not-yet union stores about why NOW is the time to organize.

To kick things off, workers in Pittsburgh alongside allies marched on their boss to address scheduling + more:
February 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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"what do you expect dems to even DO?" filibuster every bill. refuse to cooperate on anything unless demands are met. then cancel their vacations to filibuster some more. tell every single dem in gov that disloyalty = no reelection funds

yknow, the stuff GOP have been doing successfully for years
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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🚨 BREAKING: Israeli Forces Escalate West Bank Violence To Tulkarm Under "Operation Iron Wall"

Israeli forces have expanded their "Operation Iron Wall" from Jenin to Tulkarem, deploying Gaza-like tactics—drone strikes and attacks on healthcare infrastructure. Here are the details:
January 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Antonio Guterres urges the M23 rebels to immediately cease all hostile actions as thousands of civilians flee Goma in eastern DRC.
UN chief calls for Rwandan forces to leave DRC as rebels press offensive
Antonio Guterres urges the M23 rebels to immediately cease all hostile actions as thousands of civilians flee Goma.
aje.io
January 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Important to remember, as history gets re-written in real time to eclipse Biden's border cruelty with Trump's, that CBP1 was a core feature of Biden's asylum ban—Trump's metering by another name.

These people would have already had asylum screening were it not for Biden.
January 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely

The need to do that hasn’t changed

If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
January 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).

You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Distrust every social media platform. Criticize everyone in charge. Become ungovernable
January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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And yet for 16 months people have been in my comments with "free the hostages." It was never about the hostages. It was only ever about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, as it has been since 1948.
January 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:

Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)

Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)

Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)

Bé Ù (Silver Lake)

Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)

Oy Bar (Studio City)

Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)

Dudley Market (Venice)

LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We spent some time walking through some of the neighborhoods within the Altadena evac zone before sitting down to talk with neighbors providing mutual aid. According to one resident, he only had minutes to get his brother and 89 y/o mother out of the house b4 the fire ripped down the hill
January 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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this is the party that keeps texting me and asking for money
January 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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the culprits for both the Vegas and New Orleans attacks were GWOT-era veterans. this is a trend that will continue. we have millions of vets from a quarter century of careless war, a media ecosystem designed to break people's brains and an ever-rising cost-of-living. buckle up
January 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Our union went on the biggest Starbucks ULP strike in history right before the holidays, and as we head into 2025, we’ll keep fighting until Starbucks bargains a fair contract with us.

Make no mistake — this was just the beginning. ✊🔥 Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Considering attending if you are in the San Diego area!
We are honored to collaborate with our friends at Dollar Lunch Club UCSD for an in-person event on January 12th in order to raise funds for mutual aid efforts based in Beirut to support people displaced by Israel's genocide.
January 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM