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Working class.
Land back.
Abolish police.
Build community.
Grow food.
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12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime.

As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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An intro to Community Defense (ComDef)

What is Community Defense, and how does it differ from Self Defense?

This thread will go into a brief explanation that we hope will encourage others to take brave action in the physical world around them.
December 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
“Pipes, pavement and police”.

Marcus Chambers makes plain his priorities.

Fuck you Marcus. You’re directly responsible for funnelling tens of millions in wpg tax dollars to the racist colonial killers the WPS.
March 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Already ranked #10 in the Social Media category of the German App Store! 🚀
February 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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We‘re trending #1 on @bsky.app !
February 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The needs of racialized people are more important than the feelings of white people.

The needs of trans people are more important than the feelings of cis people.

The needs of disabled people are more important than the feelings of abled people.
February 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Deep Space 9

Season 3, ep 11+12

I’ve never watched Star Trek, but started with DS9 after a recommendation. It can be kind of soap opera and thin at times but then they smack you with some real bangers. This pair of episodes are great. Riots in the 2020s.
February 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wpg free press platforms this cop-owned business for tariff story 🤨

They will retire with a cushy pension if their side hustle fails from a tariff driven recession.

There are plenty of small businesses that could have used a large picture and interview for some added publicity.

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February 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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They closed Community Connections over like $600k and wring their hands about where they’re supposed to get the money when we demand they reopen it.
January 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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$18.8 million more in annual operating funding in 2025. A second $415,000 armoured vehicle. And now this.

There's literally nothing the WPS demands that Gillingham, Chambers, and the rest of city council won't gleefully blow public funds on. Sickening.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Police, mayor push for new $13.5-M chopper
A city police report is recommending a new $13.5-million helicopter be cleared for takeoff, with the current aging chopper outdated. The report, on the city’s executive policy committee’s agenda for n...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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“We see bodies that no one dares remove as far as the eye can see. We hear the injured call for help and some of them die,” he said. “Whoever feels brave enough to go to their succour falls next to them and then we hear two voices crying for help instead of one.”
January 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Every bad thing about landlords really is true
Hundreds of L.A. landlords have hiked rents on desperate people fleeing the wildfires.

Landlords for at least 400 properties appear to have ignored the law and the warnings of California's Attorney General and illegally raised rents since the fires began.

www.yahoo.com/news/hundred...
Hundreds of L.A. landlords hike rents to capitalize on 'desperate' fire evacuees
Price hikes of more than 10% are illegal during a state of emergency. But that hasn't stopped landlords seeking to profit from the L.A.'s ongoing disaster.
www.yahoo.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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If the passage “‘I feel liberated,’ said a top banker” is in any article, that means whatever they’re about to say next is the most pathetic bullshit imaginable.
If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?
January 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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“it’s a new dawn where we can say slurs with our whole chests” mused an anonymous billionaire who refused to give us his name
“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

www.ft.com/content/cf87...
Is corporate America going Maga?
Donald Trump’s election has accelerated a cultural shift in the nation’s boardrooms
www.ft.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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First, from Palestine. The US and its Western allies do not care about human rights and international law when it comes to the South. They are willing to inflict apocalyptic, genocidal violence if it serves their material interests, and they will do so with impunity. See also: Iraq, Libya, etc.
January 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Israel's relentless attacks across Gaza continue to worsen the humanitarian situation, with Doctors Without Borders warning of a 'catastrophic situation' for patients as hospitals run out of fuel for power generators.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/jgxs7w
January 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.
MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
docs.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Uninsured Americans defending for-profit health insurers is the most extreme level of bootlickery I've ever seen
January 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Friendly reminder for this new year: if you want to draw you only need one thing: DRAW
It's okay if you don't have art studies, if you're bad at anatomy or color, if you draw on a napkin or if it looks “ugly” to you...
You don’t need to be “good” at something to have fun!
January 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Years ago, my insurance stopped covering my physical therapy because I *wasn’t* showing adequate improvement. They’ll stop paying because you’re not getting better fast enough, and also stop paying because you’re getting better. This is why Mangione has supporters.
“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 PM
I can’t remember the name of the Black woman I heard this quote from, but it is always on my mind.

“I am kind, but I am not nice.”

I lean on this a lot when confronting harmful behaviours.
Was I too mean to that landlord? No.

Jimmy Carter: War criminal who built houses. It’s nice but not kind.
December 31, 2024 at 5:49 PM