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Margaret Wright
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Empire
is its own
undoing.

- Diane di Prima, "Revolutionary Letter #96, poem at dawn"

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🖤 she/they, union delegate, writer 🖤

Albuquerque thrash noise, so-called New Mexico, USA LOL
Pinned
feels like forever ago. and I'm still proud of everything we published. we had no money, just love for our community and the practice of public truth-telling. and an amazing crew who believed in what we were doing, including our local correspondent in Palestine
Dispatches: Palestinians Protest Obama’s Visit
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nmcompass.com
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The world would be better off if the Palestinians just didn't exist, says former president of the United States
December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The International Court of Justice will hear a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its minority Muslim group, the #Rohingya, on January 12-29, the United Nations’ top court said on Friday english.dvb.no/world-court-...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#genocide
World Court to hear Myanmar genocide case in January - DVB
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hear a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its minority Muslim group, the Rohingya, on January 12-29, the United Nations’ top co...
english.dvb.no
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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It also goes without saying that these folks are the elite, quite literally being groomed to run the world. They are not the mythological working class reluctantly going fascist because of economic anxiety.
December 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.

We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Aside from being a ridiculous rationale, once again the executive is asserting the power to nullify any law they don't like. If you want to do this, have congress amend or repeal the relevant act. Every fucking day these assholes just hereby declare new illegal shit
The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Yknow it might be a good idea for Dems to counter this any time soon
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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If you told me that this is how Marco Rubio spends all of his time not on camera, I would believe you without hesitation.
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Union Starbucks baristas are striking for living wages, appropriate staffing, and a fair contract.

As union educators, one way we can support their fight is by not buying Starbucks.

Support via the SBWU merch store: https://unioncoffeegear.com/

#WeAreCTA @sbworkersunited.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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We’ve never had a crisis at the border. It’s always been a policy crisis. And now trump admin is turning crisis into a catastrophe.
NEW: The Trump administration is stepping up its battle against NYC's immigrants—stopping their asylum cases and instead filing motions to send them to other countries across the world.

One Latin American woman was told this week she'd be sent to Uganda.

hellgatenyc.com/trump-asylum...
The Trump Administration Wants to Send NYC's Asylum Seekers to Uganda and Beyond
And other links to start your Thursday.
hellgatenyc.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Accidentally set my google maps to only show ways to get around by public transit that are wheelchair accessible and whoops now I’m enraged.
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Yes, the government can track your location.

ICE and other agencies can track your movements using data gathered by apps and online ads on your phone, and sold by private companies. You probably don't realize how easily you can be found.
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Please fucking relegalize new hotels, what are we doing here??
The Council's Airbnb bill appears dead, as sources say a prelim call has been made to not vote on it tmrw.

This comes after a messy battle that had Adrienne Adams (outgoing speaker) on one side and Julie Menin (incoming speaker) on the other.

Full rundown: www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/17/c...
City Council unlikely to consider bill that’d permit more Airbnb rentals in NYC
A City Council bill that would allow more New Yorkers to open their homes for short-term rentals appears effectively dead since the chamber is not expected to consider the measure Thursday at its f…
www.nydailynews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I don't know how to describe yet how disturbing Pluribus is in large part because my near lifelong hometown is both main character setting and its primary unnamed art director
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Another student walkout happening now at Beaverton School District schools in Oregon demanding proactive protocols for ICE activity near schools. The walkout last week had a massive turnout and even resulted in some students from one of the middle schools who participated being suspended.
Beaverton Students Stage Largest Walkout in Years Amid Silence and Inaction from District
By late morning on December 8th, the rain in Beaverton, Oregon was coming down hard, flood-warning hard. But at 10 a.m., students poured out from their classrooms anyway, chanting through the wind and...
www.wewillfreeus.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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not even the pretense of a coalition of the willing this time
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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New attack on immigrants: the Trump administration is demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices start drumming up “100-200 denaturalization cases per month.”

Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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speaking of gratitude,

🌟 sign the pledge to not cross our picket lines 🌟
www.nocontractnocoffee.org
🌟 support our strike fund for New Mexico's flagship union store workers (who are currently up against active union busting) 🌟
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ri...

🙏
Donate to NM Union Baristas Can't Afford Even One Day Off To Strike, organized by Kyra blakeman
Most baristas at our store can't afford even one day off of wo… Kyra blakeman needs your support for NM Union Baristas Can't Afford Even One Day Off To Strike
www.gofundme.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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"Starbucks, the company, is behaving irrationally.

As more and more stores go union the companies shortsightedness will become glaring and indefensible.

It will become clear that Starbucks management is creating structural fragility."

@sagaftra.org President #SeanAstin in LA right now
December 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Something profoundly unwell about a culture where you can abuse the living with impunity but spark outrage if you speak ill of the dead.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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so like, i’m aware that it’s not a done deal that all dems vote no on this bill

flooding folks’ offices with calls tomorrow is probably a good idea if you care about the trans folks in your life
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child’s play
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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This is a harrowing account of city under siege

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM