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crab rangoon evangelist // chicago
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Also, did the reform work? Did the trainings work? Did funding the police work? Are we living in the success of your efforts?
April 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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wired.com
happy friday! just leaving this here...
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment (Gift Article)
President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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jamellebouie.net
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Feb 5
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
ACT UP, 1990
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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oooof. I knew all of this, but seeing it listed in one paragraph really hits different.
In the last four years, mainstream Democrats have: nominated a former prosecutor for president; elected an ex-NYPD officer to run New York City; campaigned on deporting more people; funneled money and weapons to regimes committing war crimes; overseen the beatings and arrests of people demanding police reform; sent more police officers to wallop students protesting for Palestinian rights; ratcheted up the War on Drugs; worked with major corporate retailers to arrest more shoplifters; filed racketeering_and conspiracy charges against police-reform protesters in Atlanta; made it easier to arrest New Yorkers and Californians with mental illness; defended the use of solitary confinement; supported a landmark Supreme Court case to let cops arrest unhoused_people; tried to imprison one of the world's most famous rappers; promised to build Donald Trump's border wall; ran endless ads about Trump's criminal record; and applauded as the president chanted "Fund the Police!" during his most-watched yearly address.
November 13, 2024 at 6:40 PM
rachbake.bsky.social
a few of my favorite shots I got of Chicago this summer 🏙️
A Chicago flag waving in front of a blue sky and 2 skyscrapers. Unfortunately one of the skyscrapers is the back of Trump tower, but its sign is not visible. A picture of a sidewalk intersection, with a large house and a tall sunflower plant on the right; two mailboxes on the left; and a large tree in the center. Sunlight is filtering through the leaves. Montrose Harbor is in the center, with the lake shore curving from the bottom right corner to the center of the picture. Some scattered people are on the left. The water, on the right, is blue, as is the sky. Uptown Theater's fire escape takes up the top third of the picture and the sidewalk occupies the bottom third. A white Volkswagen bug is parked on the street to the left.
November 17, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
I love when half these stories are still like "safestableforeverlegitcoin goes bankrupt and also crimes"
December 15, 2023 at 12:15 AM
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manicpixiedckgrl.bsky.social
you should know gay history bc it's important and powerful but you should also know gay history because queer activists from the 60s dropped the hardest bars ever.
August 29, 2023 at 12:44 PM
rachbake.bsky.social
all my twitter drafts got deleted except for one brave soldier
A screenshot of Twitter drafts that reads "we as a society are not talking enough about how 'raising cane's is a psychotic name for a dog."
August 21, 2023 at 11:01 PM