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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Not "held hostage" but destroyed - to foment more desperation because desperate, ignorant folks turn to fascist leaders. Gutting science & healthcare undermines the economy as effectively as unwarranted tariffs.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Signing opens a whole series of other petitions, also worth "one click" signing! Check 'em out. The capitalist assault on the ocean, from overfishing to deep sea mining, is destroying it, just like they've destroyed the land.

Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: All oceanic devil rays are now Critically Endangered.

🤝 Be part of our #SaveTheMantas campaign:
✔️ Sign the petition: only.one/act/cites-2025
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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Signed!

Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

"No!" will do just fine, thank you. Those yelling "NEIN!" in Germany at the moment are being persecuted by cops in support of the government's support of Zionist genocide.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists! Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

True, but he's guilty of far more than rape! His negligence in the face of Covid has resulted in a million deaths at home, his support for genocide & ecocide abroad has spread death across the globe.

A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is a child rapist & batshit crazy malignant narcissist…

He doesn’t want to go to jail so he never wants to leave office…

He is trying to foment civil war so he can evolve a police state & forego elections…

BECAUSE. HE. IS. A. CHILD. RAPIST.

#NoKings on 10/18

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

The use of generic "humanity" or "humans", instead of properly identifying those truly responsible - capitalists who exploit both humans & the rest of nature - appears to aim at inculcating guilt in ALL readers, This deflects attention from where it should be focused. Target those truly responsible!

George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Humans will leave an endless sea of trash behind them even if they disappear, because this is what you do when you party like there’s no tomorrow. And this is why there won’t be a tomorrow”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

They Came. They Danced. They Went Extinct.

I normally don’t expect a nature hike in the clean suburban air of my beach town to turn into a back-to-the future, post-apocalyptic excursion into the remnants of an extinct society.

open.substack.com

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, DoJ flunkies are coming for political opponents, then trade unionists! Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

How little we notice, or appreciate the little ones, far more numerous than us, but without whom we'd all die! It ain't just bees upon which we depend (to pollinate our food plants) but on all the others as well. Notice 'em, watch 'em, appreciate 'em. Here's a start: xerces.org

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a "backup" plan, it's the primary one: demonize, make others fearful of, and then persecute first "aliens", then any and all opposition. It's the Nazis playbook: Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Trump & his fascist backers require desperation to get people to support "a strong man" to rescue them. WWI Allies imposed it on Weimar Germany; the result: Hitler. Neoliberals, now Trump et al are doing it to the US. Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993)

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists! Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

Dark Grimiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is openly terrorizing my neighborhood today, including an elementary school, and these asshats need to be held accountable to the fullest possible extent on the other side of all this.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 3d

No! Not to bankrupt "farmers" - an unrevealing term. To bankrupt FAMILY FARMERS so that agribusiness gets total control of our food production, processing & distribution. This process has been going on in the US for decades! www.youtube.com/watch?v=joNz...

Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 3d

"Fast & free"? Fast would mean less time riding to & from work, thus less work; free would be a step in the right direction, but given that commuting is an integral part of jobs, it should not just be free, but should be paid for! Wages for Commuting! Paid for by bosses.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 3d

The "wh*te nationalists" being referred to are the Nazis. School books play up their persecution of the Jews, but largely ignore the racism that motivated their claims to be a superior race with the right to remove inferiors.

8647 Nous Defions Mortus Discriminatus @ralphfh.bsky.social · 4d

The last time citizens were silent against wh*te nationalists, 12,000,000 people died.

Open. Your. Mouth.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 3d

Nice recipe! Copied & pasted! Thanks!

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 3d

"better"? Yes! How? The richness of diversity. Folks know it in food: ethnic restaurants thrive, but often fail to either know or appreciate other aspect of our diverse cultures.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 4d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 3d

It's the Nazis playbook: either murder or jail all your political opponents, both politicos and union leaders. Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: Working Class and the 'National Community’, New York: Berg, 1993.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

Reposted by Harry Cleaver

Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 7d

There is no left wing terrorism organization or machine in America.

They just want to kill Americans.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 6d

Malcolm is correct, and Miller is a fascist. Recognize it and fight the bastard. If you don't, he'll turn the country into one big concentration camp full of all his political opponents & "undesirables". THEN he'll start killing them. Just like the Nazis.

Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 7d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 6d

Don't see the parallels? The history you need to know is kept out of your school books. Here it is: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: Working Class and the 'National Community’, New York: Berg, 1993.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 7d

I'll call soon. 😊

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 7d

Nope, not one of my subscriptions & if it's been shown here, I missed it. What date? I can try to find it.

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 7d

Good advice! Not only for Black folks but for everyone. As individuals, do not talk to ICE or any other cop. Better mobilize collectively and drive the motherfuckers out of your neighborhood. Tar & feathers would be appropriate!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 7d

"History" doesn't repeat. Capitalists have recourse to the same nasty methods whenever it suits their purposes. Then & now the objective is the same: terrorize not only some communities but the entire population to quell all dissent!

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 8d

History repeats.

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