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activity, as courts have repeatedly affirmed the public’s right to do. Even small acts (sharing verified information, checking on neighbors, and staying alert) can help keep communities safer.
Stay informed, look out for one another, and remember to protect your friends, loved ones, and community!
Stay informed, look out for one another, and remember to protect your friends, loved ones, and community!
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
activity, as courts have repeatedly affirmed the public’s right to do. Even small acts (sharing verified information, checking on neighbors, and staying alert) can help keep communities safer.
Stay informed, look out for one another, and remember to protect your friends, loved ones, and community!
Stay informed, look out for one another, and remember to protect your friends, loved ones, and community!
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There are also simple, lawful ways communities can help: business owners can choose not to serve ICE agents food or allow them to use the restroom; hotel and restaurant staff can ask to see a judicial warrant before granting access to private areas; and bystanders can legally record ICE
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
There are also simple, lawful ways communities can help: business owners can choose not to serve ICE agents food or allow them to use the restroom; hotel and restaurant staff can ask to see a judicial warrant before granting access to private areas; and bystanders can legally record ICE
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Legal-aid networks connected detained immigrants with attorneys and helped families understand their options. The city even issued policy protections, including an executive order barring the use of certain city-owned properties for federal immigration enforcement.
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Legal-aid networks connected detained immigrants with attorneys and helped families understand their options. The city even issued policy protections, including an executive order barring the use of certain city-owned properties for federal immigration enforcement.
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Volunteers distributed plastic whistles and other noisemakers to alert neighbors and bring witnesses when agents were nearby. Rapid-response teams and community patrols coordinated through encrypted apps and social media to monitor activity and support families in real time.
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Volunteers distributed plastic whistles and other noisemakers to alert neighbors and bring witnesses when agents were nearby. Rapid-response teams and community patrols coordinated through encrypted apps and social media to monitor activity and support families in real time.
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Thank you to everyone organizing in Charlotte. As we saw in Chicago, you can send them packing, and we know similar efforts are already underway in Charlotte. In Chicago, neighborhood groups held “Know Your Rights” trainings so residents understood what to do if ICE appeared.
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Thank you to everyone organizing in Charlotte. As we saw in Chicago, you can send them packing, and we know similar efforts are already underway in Charlotte. In Chicago, neighborhood groups held “Know Your Rights” trainings so residents understood what to do if ICE appeared.
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This is a take-one-for-the-team moment.
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is a take-one-for-the-team moment.
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
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Radical idea: The next Dem nominee should run on making bribery actually illegal. In every way.
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Radical idea: The next Dem nominee should run on making bribery actually illegal. In every way.
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What Ceasefire? Israel Is Back to Its Genocidal Ways as Trump Demands a Peace Prize.
Trump's alleged historic peace deal is about as real as a diploma from Trump University, yet that hasn't stopped Republicans from kissing up to their King and ignoring a genocide.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Trump's alleged historic peace deal is about as real as a diploma from Trump University, yet that hasn't stopped Republicans from kissing up to their King and ignoring a genocide.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
October 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What Ceasefire? Israel Is Back to Its Genocidal Ways as Trump Demands a Peace Prize.
Trump's alleged historic peace deal is about as real as a diploma from Trump University, yet that hasn't stopped Republicans from kissing up to their King and ignoring a genocide.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Trump's alleged historic peace deal is about as real as a diploma from Trump University, yet that hasn't stopped Republicans from kissing up to their King and ignoring a genocide.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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We still want the Epstein files btw
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We still want the Epstein files btw
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It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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The Brian Kilmeade apology looks like a hostage video
September 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Brian Kilmeade apology looks like a hostage video
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This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.
When Charlie Kirk, who put together lists of professors he didn't like so people could target & harass them, used the phrase "free speech", he used it in the same way creationists use "teach the controversy." For Kirk, it was just another way to bludgeon the left and also to promote his propaganda.
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
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Do Fox News hosts and commentators agree with their colleague Brian Kilmeade that the United States should "just kill" homeless people?
He still has a job. No apology. No retraction.
Just let us know, Fox.
He still has a job. No apology. No retraction.
Just let us know, Fox.
September 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Do Fox News hosts and commentators agree with their colleague Brian Kilmeade that the United States should "just kill" homeless people?
He still has a job. No apology. No retraction.
Just let us know, Fox.
He still has a job. No apology. No retraction.
Just let us know, Fox.
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The supposedly Christian Right's response to the violence that took Charlie Kirk (a violence they claim is abhorrent) is to call for greater violence against—well, everyone who doesn't align with them politically and theologically, apparently.
September 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The supposedly Christian Right's response to the violence that took Charlie Kirk (a violence they claim is abhorrent) is to call for greater violence against—well, everyone who doesn't align with them politically and theologically, apparently.
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While two winners from yesterday’s Charlotte City Council primaries will officially join uncontested incumbents Malcolm Graham and Ed Driggs on the next council body, the rest will still need to prevail in the general election. Who’s in, who’s out and who’s recounting:
Election Results: Two Incumbents Fall in Council Primaries | Queen City Nerve
We're getting a clearer picture at what the next Charlotte City Council will look like when members are sworn in on Dec. 1.
qcnerve.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
While two winners from yesterday’s Charlotte City Council primaries will officially join uncontested incumbents Malcolm Graham and Ed Driggs on the next council body, the rest will still need to prevail in the general election. Who’s in, who’s out and who’s recounting:
Russia is attacking Poland because Republicans have severely weakened the U.S.
September 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Russia is attacking Poland because Republicans have severely weakened the U.S.
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I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
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JD’s mom was not getting drugs from cartels, she was a nurse who was stealing painkillers from her patients.
Her patients suffered and she got high.
As a medical professional, I will tell you the lowest life form is someone who steals drugs from their patients.
Zero sympathy for JD or his mom.
Her patients suffered and she got high.
As a medical professional, I will tell you the lowest life form is someone who steals drugs from their patients.
Zero sympathy for JD or his mom.
September 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
JD’s mom was not getting drugs from cartels, she was a nurse who was stealing painkillers from her patients.
Her patients suffered and she got high.
As a medical professional, I will tell you the lowest life form is someone who steals drugs from their patients.
Zero sympathy for JD or his mom.
Her patients suffered and she got high.
As a medical professional, I will tell you the lowest life form is someone who steals drugs from their patients.
Zero sympathy for JD or his mom.
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The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here.
This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here.
This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
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Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
www.motherjones.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
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Vol. 7, Issue 20: As Petra’s marks 18 years, we look back on what makes it such a special venue and how it’s helped shape Plaza Midwood. Plus, the impacts of HB 318, Kirsten Stolle’s activist art, building community at Pasquales’ Farm, a visit to McHale’s and more.
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Vol. 7, Issue 20: As Petra’s marks 18 years, we look back on what makes it such a special venue and how it’s helped shape Plaza Midwood. Plus, the impacts of HB 318, Kirsten Stolle’s activist art, building community at Pasquales’ Farm, a visit to McHale’s and more.