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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I did an interview with my alma mater, and the result is a useful long-form interview that might provide a useful primer on the current tariff mess, for those who want to dig in a bit further:
How Much Pain Will New Tariffs Bring—and For How Long?
University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers, PhD '01, argues that this set of tariffs, unlike those from President Trump's first term, will have dramatic effects on the US economy. And, Wolfers…
gsas.harvard.edu
April 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"

(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Rather than restoring the previous status quo, the next Democratic administration should remove gender markers from identification entirely to protect privacy, prevent harassment, and reduce bureaucracy aridrennen.substack.com/p/the-cultur...
The Culture War Over Sex Markers on IDs Is Causing Chaos. Here’s How We End It
Most people assume sex markers have always been a passport requirement.
aridrennen.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Hey Gang! The incredible people at @distributeaid.org are putting together kits providing desperately needed supplies for trans people across the country. Me and 19 others have bundled some outstanding games together to raise money for this incredibly necessary project!

itch.io/b/2889/hrt-h...
HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Bundle by Sandy Pug Games and 19 others
HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Bundle: 30 items for $25.00
itch.io
February 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I FUCKING love drinking SOY and listening to WOMEN
January 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Whenever the media or transphobes talk about mental health and suicide rates of trans kids, they are always deliberately concealing the fact that trans healthcare brings trans kids to the same place as cis kids on these things
January 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Daily bunny no.2815 is doing some rooftop gardening
December 26, 2024 at 4:44 AM
FBI led GRAFFITI investigation???? leads to searching 2 students’ house for six HOURS
George Mason University, the FBI and local police conducted a pre-dawn, door busting raid of two Palestinian students. The two have already been barred from campus for four years. The alleged offense: some graffiti. And it looks like officials have little evidence they even did that.
Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.
theintercept.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
great to be a michigan wolverine
November 30, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM