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📍Join us on April 2 at 1pm HST/4pm PT/7pm ET for a presentation on the connections between the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy retrials and the 1980s coram nobis reopening of the resistors of the WWII Japanese American mass incarceration, with scholars Eric Yamamoto and Miyoko Pettit-Toledo!
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March 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📍Join us on April 2 at 1pm HST/4pm PT/7pm ET for a presentation on the connections between the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy retrials and the 1980s coram nobis reopening of the resistors of the WWII Japanese American mass incarceration, with scholars Eric Yamamoto and Miyoko Pettit-Toledo!
RSVP at bit.ly/jejuja
RSVP at bit.ly/jejuja
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Oh cool it’s almost as if “cutting waste” wasn’t the point at all and the point is to gut then privatize the entire government
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
apnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Oh cool it’s almost as if “cutting waste” wasn’t the point at all and the point is to gut then privatize the entire government
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A few pics from today's Rally for Trans Visibility at Stonewall National Monument in NYC, organized by The Transexual Menace.
February 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A few pics from today's Rally for Trans Visibility at Stonewall National Monument in NYC, organized by The Transexual Menace.
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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.
February 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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Miss Major Griffin-Gacy, one of the Black trans women who was at Stonewall on the night of the first riot - she fought back, got knocked out and spent the rest of the night in the Tombs - is still fighting for trans rights. She spoke with @samtlevin.bsky.social in 2023.
‘Get off our backs and let us live’: Miss Major is still fighting for trans rights after 50 years of resistance
The survivor of the Stonewall riots and mother to countless trans women has built a refuge for her community in the south: ‘I make joy here’
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Miss Major Griffin-Gacy, one of the Black trans women who was at Stonewall on the night of the first riot - she fought back, got knocked out and spent the rest of the night in the Tombs - is still fighting for trans rights. She spoke with @samtlevin.bsky.social in 2023.
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The National Parks Service has removed Trans folks from the Stonewall National Monument, the riot they led. Fight for Trans people like they have always fought for everyone else. Trans folks, you are loved, valued, and a vital part of our world. You can't erase Trans people. We won't let you.
February 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The National Parks Service has removed Trans folks from the Stonewall National Monument, the riot they led. Fight for Trans people like they have always fought for everyone else. Trans folks, you are loved, valued, and a vital part of our world. You can't erase Trans people. We won't let you.
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“The walkout was organized in part by an eighth-grade student who is not yet 14 years old, she and her mother said in a joint phone interview…The student said that she and other students decided to act after seeing how Trump’s executive orders would target diversity events.” Tiny badasses
NEW: Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout
The civil disobedience by dozens of middle schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“The walkout was organized in part by an eighth-grade student who is not yet 14 years old, she and her mother said in a joint phone interview…The student said that she and other students decided to act after seeing how Trump’s executive orders would target diversity events.” Tiny badasses
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During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
February 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
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February 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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70,000 people in a stadium yelling "a minor." Christ
February 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
70,000 people in a stadium yelling "a minor." Christ
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"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar
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Three graduate students identified over 30 violations of longstanding protocols by Columbia University, including using the NYPD to mass-arrest activists, in a New York civil suit against the school.
Columbia Students Sue the University for Its “Heinous” Crackdown on Palestine Protests
Three graduate students identified over 30 violations of long-standing protocols, including using the NYPD to mass-arrest activists, in a New York civil suit against the university.
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Three graduate students identified over 30 violations of longstanding protocols by Columbia University, including using the NYPD to mass-arrest activists, in a New York civil suit against the school.
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student protests did not stop. students protest year-round, even if you only pay attention when you're cheering for cops to round them up. hope this helps
February 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
student protests did not stop. students protest year-round, even if you only pay attention when you're cheering for cops to round them up. hope this helps
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
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MLK Jr’s speech against America’s war in Vietnam, Riverside Church Harlem, April 1967: “we must undergo a radical revolution of values.. from a thing oriented society to a person oriented society”. Listen or read the whole thing here. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlk...
January 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MLK Jr’s speech against America’s war in Vietnam, Riverside Church Harlem, April 1967: “we must undergo a radical revolution of values.. from a thing oriented society to a person oriented society”. Listen or read the whole thing here. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlk...
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ICE is trying to deport Native American people to Mexico. This one from the Mescalero Apache Tribe.
That's right. People indigenous to the United States, tribal members. ICE is trying to remove them from the US.
This is the second verified incident I've heard about.
We were here 1st.
#ICE
That's right. People indigenous to the United States, tribal members. ICE is trying to remove them from the US.
This is the second verified incident I've heard about.
We were here 1st.
#ICE
January 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
ICE is trying to deport Native American people to Mexico. This one from the Mescalero Apache Tribe.
That's right. People indigenous to the United States, tribal members. ICE is trying to remove them from the US.
This is the second verified incident I've heard about.
We were here 1st.
#ICE
That's right. People indigenous to the United States, tribal members. ICE is trying to remove them from the US.
This is the second verified incident I've heard about.
We were here 1st.
#ICE
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like the dictators they worship, the american right cannot distinguish between the aesthetic and appearance of power and actual power
i genuinely wonder if the right realizes that this basically means that a lot of US soft power will basically evaporate in the next 4 years
February 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
like the dictators they worship, the american right cannot distinguish between the aesthetic and appearance of power and actual power
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“Probably wish we were the ones committing genocide now don’t you 😌😌” is a really strong message that’ll definitely help you with the midterms keep up the good work 👍🏾👍🏾
February 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Probably wish we were the ones committing genocide now don’t you 😌😌” is a really strong message that’ll definitely help you with the midterms keep up the good work 👍🏾👍🏾
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The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article)
A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.