Leah Brewster
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11 years on: For 79 days in 2014, a pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign that came to be known as the Umbrella Movement brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill. hongkongfp.com/2025/09/30/h...
HKFP Lens: Scenes from Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement
The protest that would become Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, a largely peaceful 79-day pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign, began with class boycotts on September 22, 2014. A protester …
hongkongfp.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
11 years on: For 79 days in 2014, a pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign that came to be known as the Umbrella Movement brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill. hongkongfp.com/2025/09/30/h...
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The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
MAGA voted for the Book of Revelations, and we’re getting it.
Trump announces on social media that the US has bombed Iran
June 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
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“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”
June 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”
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Another gem from one of the authors of the open letter re NZ's relationship to China.
Of course, it is Taiwan that is responsible for the destruction of the rule of law and limited democracy that HK had! 🤦♂️
It's scary that people like this have occupied senior positions in MFAT. #nzpol
Of course, it is Taiwan that is responsible for the destruction of the rule of law and limited democracy that HK had! 🤦♂️
It's scary that people like this have occupied senior positions in MFAT. #nzpol
June 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Another gem from one of the authors of the open letter re NZ's relationship to China.
Of course, it is Taiwan that is responsible for the destruction of the rule of law and limited democracy that HK had! 🤦♂️
It's scary that people like this have occupied senior positions in MFAT. #nzpol
Of course, it is Taiwan that is responsible for the destruction of the rule of law and limited democracy that HK had! 🤦♂️
It's scary that people like this have occupied senior positions in MFAT. #nzpol
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Good morning and happy Sunday to everyone. He’s like a president, but for stupid people.
June 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Good morning and happy Sunday to everyone. He’s like a president, but for stupid people.
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Critical safety reminder for journalists in Los Angeles: DO NOT GO OUT WITHOUT EAR PROTECTION.
Also, Sean is OK and out of the ER but was about an inch from losing his eye. Wear helmet and real goggles (NOT swim goggles on eye socket).
Safety first. If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t go.
Also, Sean is OK and out of the ER but was about an inch from losing his eye. Wear helmet and real goggles (NOT swim goggles on eye socket).
Safety first. If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t go.
June 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Critical safety reminder for journalists in Los Angeles: DO NOT GO OUT WITHOUT EAR PROTECTION.
Also, Sean is OK and out of the ER but was about an inch from losing his eye. Wear helmet and real goggles (NOT swim goggles on eye socket).
Safety first. If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t go.
Also, Sean is OK and out of the ER but was about an inch from losing his eye. Wear helmet and real goggles (NOT swim goggles on eye socket).
Safety first. If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t go.
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Hong Kong: there is no money for dedicated health care professionals for schools.
Also Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities are planning to set up a fifth counselling centre for gamblers, funded by the money they lose.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Also Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities are planning to set up a fifth counselling centre for gamblers, funded by the money they lose.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
June 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hong Kong: there is no money for dedicated health care professionals for schools.
Also Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities are planning to set up a fifth counselling centre for gamblers, funded by the money they lose.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Also Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities are planning to set up a fifth counselling centre for gamblers, funded by the money they lose.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
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🎵 It was the third of June, another sleepy Delta covid day...🎵
On "Ode to Billie Joe" and the last five years: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
On "Ode to Billie Joe" and the last five years: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 It was the third of June, another sleepy Delta covid day...🎵
On "Ode to Billie Joe" and the last five years: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
On "Ode to Billie Joe" and the last five years: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
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Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.
Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.
June 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.
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Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.
they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.
Which makes me think that this is an effort to claim the insurrection act’s power without invoking the insurrection act’s authority. None of this is necessary, at all, and the governor should say so.
June 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.
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According to the official White House account, the US is in the midst of an "insurrection" that warrants federalization of the National Guard, which is why the President is attending a UFC fight and hanging out with Dana White.
June 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
According to the official White House account, the US is in the midst of an "insurrection" that warrants federalization of the National Guard, which is why the President is attending a UFC fight and hanging out with Dana White.
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Live shot of the respectability police joining the protest discourse
June 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Live shot of the respectability police joining the protest discourse
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Reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is illegal to deploy in warfare, yet cops are allowed to blanket civilians in clouds of the stuff.
OPINION | Why police use of tear gas should be banned | CBC News
Tear gas is illegal in warfare under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and should be banned for use against civilians under international human rights law, write Vincent Wong, Natasha Williams and Maij...
www.cbc.ca
June 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is illegal to deploy in warfare, yet cops are allowed to blanket civilians in clouds of the stuff.
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chinga la migra
May the spirit of rebellion grow & multiply!!
I absolutely reject the logic that comrades are ever responsible for any increased state repression. We are living in fascist time, they don't need "excuses."
Be ungovernable, maintain solidarity, & keep tactical differences internal
May the spirit of rebellion grow & multiply!!
I absolutely reject the logic that comrades are ever responsible for any increased state repression. We are living in fascist time, they don't need "excuses."
Be ungovernable, maintain solidarity, & keep tactical differences internal
June 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
chinga la migra
May the spirit of rebellion grow & multiply!!
I absolutely reject the logic that comrades are ever responsible for any increased state repression. We are living in fascist time, they don't need "excuses."
Be ungovernable, maintain solidarity, & keep tactical differences internal
May the spirit of rebellion grow & multiply!!
I absolutely reject the logic that comrades are ever responsible for any increased state repression. We are living in fascist time, they don't need "excuses."
Be ungovernable, maintain solidarity, & keep tactical differences internal
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Donald Trump is trying to illegally hijack California’s National Guard in an end run around posse comitatus, which prohibits the deployment of troops on domestic soil.
This is not just lawless, it is a direct attack on our democracy and our Constitution.
This is not just lawless, it is a direct attack on our democracy and our Constitution.
June 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Donald Trump is trying to illegally hijack California’s National Guard in an end run around posse comitatus, which prohibits the deployment of troops on domestic soil.
This is not just lawless, it is a direct attack on our democracy and our Constitution.
This is not just lawless, it is a direct attack on our democracy and our Constitution.
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It absolutely is, and the sooner y'all admit that the sooner we can all move on.
This is not America
June 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It absolutely is, and the sooner y'all admit that the sooner we can all move on.
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Why does “learning to live with covid” mean accepting repeat infections as inevitable?
Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability?
That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up
We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.
Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability?
That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up
We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.
May 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Why does “learning to live with covid” mean accepting repeat infections as inevitable?
Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability?
That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up
We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.
Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability?
That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up
We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.
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Tick .. tick .. tick ..
I'm at the point now where the utter stupidity of COVID denial worries me more than the actual COVID denial .. because if people can be brainwashed into denying COVID, even as their family and friends drop in front of them, they can be brainwashed into ignoring ANYTHING.
I'm at the point now where the utter stupidity of COVID denial worries me more than the actual COVID denial .. because if people can be brainwashed into denying COVID, even as their family and friends drop in front of them, they can be brainwashed into ignoring ANYTHING.
May 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tick .. tick .. tick ..
I'm at the point now where the utter stupidity of COVID denial worries me more than the actual COVID denial .. because if people can be brainwashed into denying COVID, even as their family and friends drop in front of them, they can be brainwashed into ignoring ANYTHING.
I'm at the point now where the utter stupidity of COVID denial worries me more than the actual COVID denial .. because if people can be brainwashed into denying COVID, even as their family and friends drop in front of them, they can be brainwashed into ignoring ANYTHING.
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I thought when it affected sports people Australia might start to care. But it seems we care about no one and nothing except the fucking economy.
People are a renewable resource, of course. Except to the ones who love them.
People are a renewable resource, of course. Except to the ones who love them.
May 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I thought when it affected sports people Australia might start to care. But it seems we care about no one and nothing except the fucking economy.
People are a renewable resource, of course. Except to the ones who love them.
People are a renewable resource, of course. Except to the ones who love them.
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Pick up any honest history book and read it. Because this is who America has always been.
We live in alarming times. The rampant racism and misogyny. The anti-immigrant fervor. Decent people, church going people, people who love their dogs and kids and would give a neighbor the shirt off their back, have fallen in line behind a deceitful, hateful vision of American white nationalism.
May 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Pick up any honest history book and read it. Because this is who America has always been.
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It shouldn’t be radical to say that disabled people deserve the right to exist, but here we are.
May 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It shouldn’t be radical to say that disabled people deserve the right to exist, but here we are.
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The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law
Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.
www.11alive.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
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Vietnam calls for continued vigilance against COVID-19.
Vietnam's Health Ministry urges caution as COVID cases slightly rise, advising mask use in public, on transport, in healthcare settings, and avoiding large gatherings unless necessary.
Source: archive.md/2XeAl
Vietnam's Health Ministry urges caution as COVID cases slightly rise, advising mask use in public, on transport, in healthcare settings, and avoiding large gatherings unless necessary.
Source: archive.md/2XeAl
May 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Vietnam calls for continued vigilance against COVID-19.
Vietnam's Health Ministry urges caution as COVID cases slightly rise, advising mask use in public, on transport, in healthcare settings, and avoiding large gatherings unless necessary.
Source: archive.md/2XeAl
Vietnam's Health Ministry urges caution as COVID cases slightly rise, advising mask use in public, on transport, in healthcare settings, and avoiding large gatherings unless necessary.
Source: archive.md/2XeAl
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Addressing the chronic illness epidemic will take more than just disappearing the chronically ill. We need:
Universal healthcare & basic income
Affordable food & housing
Paid time off
Clean air & masks in healthcare
Without those things, it’s eugenics. It’s blaming the disabled for being sick
Universal healthcare & basic income
Affordable food & housing
Paid time off
Clean air & masks in healthcare
Without those things, it’s eugenics. It’s blaming the disabled for being sick
May 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Addressing the chronic illness epidemic will take more than just disappearing the chronically ill. We need:
Universal healthcare & basic income
Affordable food & housing
Paid time off
Clean air & masks in healthcare
Without those things, it’s eugenics. It’s blaming the disabled for being sick
Universal healthcare & basic income
Affordable food & housing
Paid time off
Clean air & masks in healthcare
Without those things, it’s eugenics. It’s blaming the disabled for being sick
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Rafah no longer exists.
Israel has flattened an entire city to build a buffer zone and carve Gaza into military corridors.
This about permanent occupation and ethnic cleansing.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
Israel has flattened an entire city to build a buffer zone and carve Gaza into military corridors.
This about permanent occupation and ethnic cleansing.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
Rafah no longer exists. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently occupy Gaza.
Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its people.
mondoweiss.net
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Rafah no longer exists.
Israel has flattened an entire city to build a buffer zone and carve Gaza into military corridors.
This about permanent occupation and ethnic cleansing.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
Israel has flattened an entire city to build a buffer zone and carve Gaza into military corridors.
This about permanent occupation and ethnic cleansing.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...