Kipp Dawson
@kippdawson.bsky.social
Retired (woman) coal miner, public school teacher; not at all retired from 70+ years "good trouble" work for justice and a verdant, peaceful planet for all; find me at https://kippdawson.com/
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Kipp Dawson
@kippdawson.bsky.social
· Dec 29
“This above all: to thy planet and all the most vulnerable on it: listen! and be true! together! And thus be true to thine own self.”
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"the senseless sacrifice of decades of common-good investments in everything from medical research to national parks..."
thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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A storm of dissent against MAGA is brewing into a hurricane
President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to MAGA governance is generating shock and disgust among Americans.
thehill.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"the senseless sacrifice of decades of common-good investments in everything from medical research to national parks..."
thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Join us on April 17!!
🗣️🗣️🗣️Only 2️⃣ days to go until the #DayofActionforHigherEd this Thursday, April 17! More than 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ events will be taking place on campuses across the country 😃 and we have organized 1️⃣4️⃣ online panels, workshops and teach-ins. Get the resources you need to participate at our toolkit below! 👇👇
👀 Check out the toolkit below for our #DayofActionforHigherEd on April 17th! An event guide, media kit, Zoom background, graphics and flyer are all available for you to use on your campus. ⬇️
www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit
www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit
April 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Join us on April 17!!
Pittsburgh. April 17.
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Pittsburgh. April 17.
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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I’m sure they’d love to move us actual autistics to the camps anyone else who is disabled, different, dissident, ill, artist, compassionate, queer.
April 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I’m sure they’d love to move us actual autistics to the camps anyone else who is disabled, different, dissident, ill, artist, compassionate, queer.
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OMG, this is trump's America. 😔
April 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
OMG, this is trump's America. 😔
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Do we think ICE doesn’t apply to us because we were born in Ohio or California? Trump made it clear - “Homegrowns are next.” But first they gotta build more camps for all of us.
April 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Do we think ICE doesn’t apply to us because we were born in Ohio or California? Trump made it clear - “Homegrowns are next.” But first they gotta build more camps for all of us.
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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
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File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
Ugly and uglier.
NYT absolutely *loved* the imagery around Trump announcing the he is going to toss US citizens who cross him into foreign work/torture camps to die without any due process (no mention in the article about the death camps).
April 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ugly and uglier.
Nothing new on the POTUS playbook; second time as dangerous farce.
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Nothing new on the POTUS playbook; second time as dangerous farce.
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Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.
February 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.
Please recognize this: what POTUS/SCOTUS get away with doing to immigrants & green-card & visa holders, they can get away with doing to the rest of us.
April 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Please recognize this: what POTUS/SCOTUS get away with doing to immigrants & green-card & visa holders, they can get away with doing to the rest of us.
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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🎉BREAKING: We won! The judge just officially stayed (blocked) the federal notice that was set to end humanitarian parole for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on April 24th. The court also granted us class certification. Stay tuned for more details on what this ruling means!
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🎉BREAKING: We won! The judge just officially stayed (blocked) the federal notice that was set to end humanitarian parole for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on April 24th. The court also granted us class certification. Stay tuned for more details on what this ruling means!
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Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.
The next step for Trump is to send a US citizen convicted of something like child murder and rape to CECOT in El Salvador. It'll set the precedent to send citizens there while neutralizing outrage over it because of the heinous nature of their crimes. Then it'll any felony and then protestors.
April 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.
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Incredible news on TDOV.
The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Incredible news on TDOV.
The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
And so, as it must for all years, 1984 came. But instead instead of leaving, it crept into dark places and grew, awaited its time and grew some more, and forty years later it sprang out and shouted, “Here I am! Greatness!!” Some rallied around it. Some said, “It’s not so bad.” So the fight is on.
March 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And so, as it must for all years, 1984 came. But instead instead of leaving, it crept into dark places and grew, awaited its time and grew some more, and forty years later it sprang out and shouted, “Here I am! Greatness!!” Some rallied around it. Some said, “It’s not so bad.” So the fight is on.
And today, Trump transforms more than half a million legal residents of the USA into illegals subject to deportation. With a wave of his royal hand.
March 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And today, Trump transforms more than half a million legal residents of the USA into illegals subject to deportation. With a wave of his royal hand.
“Bizarre,” yes; but true
It is bizarre to me that people not only support a policy of killing tens of thousands of people to drive them from their homes, but believe no one could oppose this policy in good faith, and are willing to compromise the core values of their institutions to prevent protests against it.
March 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“Bizarre,” yes; but true
Yes, please, Canada
And time to end the Safe Third Country Agreement. Canada needs to welcome those fleeing this authoritarian regime, especially trans people who are in very real existential danger. The U.S. is no longer a free and democratic country.
At what point does Global Affairs Canada issue a travel warning to Canadians heading to the US?
Because I think we're thoroughly at the point at which this is necessary.
Because I think we're thoroughly at the point at which this is necessary.
March 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yes, please, Canada
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Holy f*ck. No, Adam, this is not a "test case," this is real fast-blooming fascism, right now. You voted for most of Trump's nominees. At least you didn't join Chuckles in his big yes, but you're not exactly inspiring anyone.
The path back to power for the Democratic Party is to be the party that gets shit done.
March 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Holy f*ck. No, Adam, this is not a "test case," this is real fast-blooming fascism, right now. You voted for most of Trump's nominees. At least you didn't join Chuckles in his big yes, but you're not exactly inspiring anyone.
Yes, please and thank you, Canada.
And time to end the Safe Third Country Agreement. Canada needs to welcome those fleeing this authoritarian regime, especially trans people who are in very real existential danger. The U.S. is no longer a free and democratic country.
At what point does Global Affairs Canada issue a travel warning to Canadians heading to the US?
Because I think we're thoroughly at the point at which this is necessary.
Because I think we're thoroughly at the point at which this is necessary.
March 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Yes, please and thank you, Canada.