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#TenForJustice: The Road to Abolition • Founded 2020 • Harm Reduction, Decriminalization, Decarceration, Reparations, Dual Power, Mutual Aid, Community Defense, and Transformative Justice • thisisawkword.com/ten-demands • tendemands@gmail.com
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Yes, it took some time, but we promised Google couldn’t hold us back…

TEN DEMANDS finally has a home, again — for #TenForJustice (the demands) and all our easy calls to action!

Check it out: thisisawkword.com/ten-demands
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October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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This country is a 🗑️🔥

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October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
End the criminalization of drug use and drug addiction.

thisisawkword.com/ten-demands
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Icymi: The government shutdown ended with a federal ban on marijuana above 0.4 grams — effectively destroying the $28-billion hemp industry, and hard-hitting farmers at the worst possible time.

Many of us use marijuana to stay calm; unlike alcohol, it *reduces* violent crime — it doesn’t *cause* it
New law killing "THC loophole" could hurt state programs and businesses, advocates say
A last-minute provision re-criminalizes many hemp-derived products, reversing their 2018 legalization.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This !⤵️⤵️
“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Even Fox News ain’t happy
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”

- @emily.gorcen.ski
GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
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November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Highly recommend 👇 #thread
“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”

- @emily.gorcen.ski
GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
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November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I wrote this eight months ago and it’s as relevant now as it was then.
The Time of Cowards · EmilyGorcenski.com
A poem of our times originally written as a Bluesky thread
emilygorcenski.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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It’s too bad that those of us on the research and academic side who’ve been correctly saying that the goal for the Republicans was global ethnic cleansing and mass murder have been getting smeared by liberals and others on this site as conspiracy theorists or doomers for pointing this out months ago
Ooh, @bigthink.com this exchange between @joscha.bsky.social and Jeffrey Epstein is so eugenics-smeared. Contemplating using climate change and involuntary euthanasia of infirm and elderly to cull the population… I think I’m going to be ill.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The 5 years proceeding the Trump presidency many well intentioned people said to me:

“Why are you so obsessed with Nazis? No one wants to hear about that. It’s a small group of people and most are deadbeats without jobs.”

2025:
“The GOP kids are not alright. For a significant and growing faction of the early-career operatives entering the party ranks, irony-drenched, nihilistic transgressiveness and theatrical bigotry aren’t just considered acceptable—they’re at the heart of politics.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-conser...
The Conservative Old Guard Wakes Up and Smells the Groypers
Older Republicans and professional right-wingers are suddenly recognizing the GOP’s young-Nazi problem.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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"The complaint details alleged 'decrepit' conditions, where sewage bubbles up shower drains, insects crawl up and down the walls of cold concrete group cells the size of parking lots, calls for medical help go unanswered for weeks and people are excessively punished"

www.latimes.com/california/s...
Why California's newest detention facility faces federal lawsuit over medical neglect and 'punitive' unsanitary conditions
At California City Detention Facility, immigrants file lawsuit over alleged 'shockingly deficient' medical care, frigid temperatures, bugs crawling on walls, sewage backups, inadequate food and water ...
www.latimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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For The Redoubt (@theredoubt.bsky.social), I wrote about Trump's killings in the Caribbean — his "kinetic strikes" — and the euphemisms we use to describe murder. www.theredoubt.net/how-we-talk-...
How we talk about murder
Interrogating the euphemisms used to legitimize state killings.
www.theredoubt.net
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Dec 7, 11 AM PST: Fascism in Modern America: Drawing Parallels to Historical Fascist Regimes. Join historian Dr. Craig Johnson for a virtual talk on how today’s radical right echoes the past. Register now.
@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social

Register here.
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Hey folks,

I just had to renew my health insurance and I’ve got to pay my car registration this month—all while I’ve finally got the big move to a permanent new home underway. I could use about $300 so I don’t get overdrawn in a few days. See the post below if you can help. Many thanks.
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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“Come hang out, and you hopefully make some really good friends out of the whole process.”

There's a growing number of Queer Social Clubs that offer sober alternatives to the bars, from hiking to yoga to line dancing and soup. My first for "Big and Bright," @thebarbedwire.com's queer news section.
Looking For Queer Community Outside the Bar? There’s a Walking (and Hiking and Yoga and Line-Dancing) Club For That.
Tired of alcohol? Join a queer walking club. “Sometimes, a sense of belonging can genuinely be lifesaving.”
thebarbedwire.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Episode 2 of #COPOut is LIVE! Tune in to hear from @lisaschipper.bsky.social and @rodschoonover.bsky.social about how climate change overlaps with development and security, the unintended consequences of climate adaptation, and what they expect from #COP30. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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NEW:

Starbucks is still stonewalling its workers, but…

You can now support the Starbucks Workers United STRIKE FUND with a simple click!

sbworkersunited.org/

@sbworkersunited.org has won elections at 640+ Starbucks locations — supporting a community of 12,000+ baristas
September 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Trump and team are “waging a coordinated disinformation campaign to seize illegitimate control by eroding progress and rewriting history.”

A new report “exposes 15,723 distinct impact points-each one an instance in which Black opportunities, lives, or histories have been directly attacked.”
The Blackout Report
Exposing the campaign to erase Black progress. Explore Onyx Impact’s Blackout Report — data, stories, and action to defend our history.
blackoutreport.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Emily and all the folks who put their bodies on the line to protest the unite the right rally are fucking heroes. Really excited to listen to this convo.
“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”

- @emily.gorcen.ski
GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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You ever travel? Well, when you book a flight through any major travel site, a data broker sells the government:

❌ Your name
❌ Your credit card
❌ Your destination

Here’s how to opt out…
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM