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"'When we saw that the police wasn’t helping us, every able-bodied man in the neighborhood, with or without a gun, has stood guard and has been standing guard ever since,' said Dominic Brewton Jr., who runs a maintenance and repair company in the town..."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch.
Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Yosemite National Park’s annual budget is around $30 million, as of 2021.

They spent $25 million just so POSOTUS could attend the Super Bowl and Daytona 500.

Instead of shutting down the parks, just sit him in front of a TV.
February 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Hitler's reign was forced to an end by the Allied Powers, 11 million people were murdered in the Holocaust, and 70-85 million were killed in WW2 /13
January 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Face the death penalty.

Despite all of this, the German people didn't have a similar historical parallel to look upon as a warning.

Most Germans never acted like the sky was falling.

Most just went along with their lives as usual, until many of their lives were snuffed out. By the time /12
January 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.

He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
January 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI
Civil rights advocates may well file suit immediately against the Justice Department to secure an injunction.
slate.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Read history. Oligarchs have owned and controlled our government before. They’ve attacked oppressed groups, gone after migrants, and enacted mass violence against workers who dared resist. But people kept fighting. They organized. They built power. What we need to do is not unprecedented.
February 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Trump acting like he is the CEO of the U.S. doesn’t mean he is. He literally is not allowed to do much of what he is declaring. He is neither the CEO nor king. Do not comply in advance.
February 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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February 12th will be the 125th anniversary of the first public performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” also known as the Black National Anthem. We are facing much of what we faced in 1900. The song speaks volumes about endurance and organizing. Curious about it? bookshop.org/p/books/may-...
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
A History of the Black National Anthem
bookshop.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land.

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons

grist.org/justice/biso...

#bison #Coal #Rewild #Climate #Kentucky
Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org
February 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
January 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up
With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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pushback works, part infinity:

apnews.com/article/immi...
February 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM