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As we get ready to shop for Thanksgiving remember the farm workers who harvest the food. We wouldn't enjoy a #Thanksgiving dinner without their hard work. #WeFeedYou

Peyrin Kao: "Every day, I have trouble getting out of bed. But my experience is nothing compared to what the people of Gaza have been going through. I don’t have to worry about being displaced or bombed. I don’t have to watch my children and loved ones starve in front of me."

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.

Houses for the houseless
Food for the hungry
Medicine for the sick

These should not be revolutionary ideals, but under capitalism they are.

If you actually watch Gavin Newsom's podcast I think you will lose any faith you have misplaced in him. I'm sorry! He capitulates repeatedly to the conservative provocateur B-team. I don't think he can do combative discourse well enough in person and I suspect he does not write his own tweets

Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.

political right: *defunds government so it doesn’t work well for people*

political right: *seeds narrative government is bad and can never work*

political left: “let’s use government to do good things”

Very Smart People: “government can never work and is bad”

Austerity feeds the right. It fuels their narratives and heightens divisions.

Don’t do austerity.

@oaklandroots.bsky.social What's up with the sound system. Can't understand anything.

It’s impossible to express how radicalized I’ve become against the Democrats in the past two months. Just an absolutely worthless political party that’s sold us out to literal fucking fascism.

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

People use terms like “radical left” and “far left” to make it seem like our ideas are unpopular.

They are popular.

A majority of Americans support universal healthcare, tuition-free college, and living wages.

These terms are propaganda of the ruling class.

Okay, so you're using Signal for encrypted messaging. Cool. It's a good time to use usernames instead of a phone number to talk to people. That and lots more about how to make the most of Signal's security features in here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...