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Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement
October 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”

(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
www.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism—and in the process, have become Israel's most important American allies.

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social reports on God's "blank check."
God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism
Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.
How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones
ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.
www.forbes.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
August 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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This is 100% correct.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
August 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Erica Chenoweth, "Civil Resistance What Everyone Needs to Know"--

"Nonviolent resistance is a stunningly successful method of creating change...one of the most important success factors for civil resistance campaigns is the ability to bring in a broad range of supporters."
June 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seekonk MA no kings standout. At peak at least 120 people.
June 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Comrade card for 6/10/2025.
June 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gaza aid ship activists accuse Israel of ‘forcibly intercepting’ vessel as Israeli foreign ministry says ship heading to Israel – live
June 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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After being forced out of their homes by violent Israeli settlers, the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir joins a growing list of Palestinian Bedouins whose villages have been taken over by settlers since October 7, 2023. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/meet...
Meet the Palestinian Bedouin community that no longer exists
After being forced out of their homes by violent Israeli settlers, the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir joins a growing list of Palestinian Bedouins whose villages have been taken over by…
mondoweiss.net
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Gaza Harbor May 2014. #Fastforgaza
May 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@markey.senate.gov please please show leadership in stopping US complicity in the starvation and extermination in Gaza. Speak out. Every day. Stop funding. Enforce the Leahy Law.
May 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Report: Police killings rose in the five years after George Floyd's murder
An analysis shows how little has changed for Black victims of police violence in America.
www.motherjones.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Butler Hospital workers renew call to end workplace violence one week into their unfair labor practice strike

“In the three years I was there, I experienced three serious injuries - including having my wrist sprained, a concussion from getting punched in the face, and being bitten on the shoulder.”
Butler Hospital workers renew call to end workplace violence one week into their unfair labor practice strike
“In the three years I was there, I experienced three serious injuries - including having my wrist sprained, a concussion from getting punched in the face, and getting bitten on the shoulder.”
steveahlquist.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The arrest of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver during a visit to a migrant detention facility is about authoritarianism, not justice, @higherheights.bsky.social’s Glynda C. Carr says. If a Congresswoman can be charged “what hope do ordinary citizens have of being heard?”
wordinblack.com/2025/05/lamo...
A Dangerous Precedent: Criminalizing Black Women’s Leadership
The arrest of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver during a visit to a migrant detention facility in Newark is about authoritarianism, not justice.
wordinblack.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
May 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
May 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide:

“War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social

www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...
Militarism: A Leading Cause of Environmental and Climate Crises
By Manabendra Nath Bera. Synopsis - The climate and environmental impacts of war and military operations are often neglected in global climate negotiations. This article highlights how war, being the...
www.iuscientists.org
April 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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On Friday, Israel’s military shot & killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank.

He is the 24th child killed by Israel in the West Bank since the start of 2025. Israel is systematically targeting & killing Palestinian children in both Gaza & the West Bank.
Israeli forces kill 16-year-old Palestinian boy working at a shop near Nablus
Israeli forces shot and killed Abdulkhaleq Jabour in the Palestinian town of Salem on April 25.
ow.ly
April 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM