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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Since people were asking about the words I shared today at the no kings protest, here's the full text. Thanks @indivistwincities.bsky.social and @mn50501.bsky.social.

Wrote it last week, but because it ended up being about how we carry grief and what we might do with it, it felt appropriate:
“no kings, all bricks”
Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Bad news for you haters. One of the researchers behind the 3.5% rule, which studied how people power has changed governments, found that one aspect of winning movements is "the ability to get people to defect from the opponent's pillars of support."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTck...
Erica Chenoweth - Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
YouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology
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June 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birthplaces have the weight of a throw of the dice and all people are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." – Josephine Baker
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March 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem
For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…
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December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM