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Maria

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Climate crisis, reader, me/cfs, allergies. You DM, I block.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 16h

The Israeli military echelon has recommended not opening the Rafah crossing until Hamas returns the bodies of the captives, pending a final decision by the political leadership. At the same time, Israel has decided to reduce the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip,

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

A group calling themselves the "guardian angels" is volunteering to watch over children entering and exiting Chicago schools to make sure they avoid unwanted interactions with ICE.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

We are going to do what we are going to have to do to keep people safe, and free, and capable of making decisions for their own future.

But we must not keep making that same mistake.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

Now we are in a situation where the only political language that we have for opposition runs toward repression, where our leaders are talking about us the way that our leaders talked about people in distant lands.

We are here because we did not fix the violence in our hearts.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

I also need to add the violence we are doing in the form of rapidly worsening environmental damage as a result of our outsized use of fossil fuels.

Violence is *never* free. It *always* carries a cost.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

Everyone who complains about countries sending refugees to the US needs to grapple with our role in creating those refugees: funding paramilitary organizations in those countries, overturning democratic elections because the leader put in charge was too communist.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

I say all of this from a country that feels like a powder keg: we are a powder keg because we have told ourselves the lie, over and over, that the key to peace is enough violence against people who are too different.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

The greatest difference we could make to our future generations is not…any of the shit we hear people saying about tech.

It is learning how to care for each other enough to create and hold a real, lasting peace.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

9. As a species, we have figured out war to an astonishing degree. We are still working on the ability to hold peace.

Real peace requires self-determination and justice. It requires trusting that differences do not make us enemies.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

8. We are living in a world that was formed by violence, and more violence, and yet more violence, and those echoes are still reverberating.

We will not achieve real peace by refusing to recognize active fault lines.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

7. (In tension with 7) The people who are most responsible for ordering the commission of violence are most shielded from retaliation.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

6. There is no such thing as free violence. All violence harms the wielder.

Every time someone tries to sell you on the idea that there is something we can do, without cost, that harms other people, realize that they are lying to you.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

5. Just because the other guy is using indiscriminate violence does not mean you are justified in doing the same.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

4. Violence is very rarely the correct answer, and usually only because another party has left you with no non-violent alternative.

Please note that this includes people using the threat of violence to rob you of basic human dignity, rights, and self-determination.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

3. Whatever you’re planning to do to bring people around *after* you fight a war, so you don’t have to murder millions of people in cold blood?

Consider doing that first.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

2. A war without a specific military objective is inherently a forever war.

If you fight a war with the expectation that you will simply kill all people who you believe disagree with you, the war will be long and bloody and genocidal.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

(It is my personal belief that the US government agrees with me that violence is self-replicating and have chosen to stoke violence on purpose; language to the contrary is posturing for the masses who don’t want a forever war.)

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence.

1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible.

All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

🚨BREAKING: 3rd Circuit DENIES Republican Party petition to rehear critical voting rights case involving Pennsylvania’s date requirement for mail-in ballots.

A BIG VICTORY for the DSCC, DCCC, AFT of Pa. and the voters of Pennsylvania. Proud on my ELG team. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections

Learn more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 2d

Portland protesters held a naked bike ride Sunday to oppose Trump's National Guard deployment and ICE enforcement expansion.

Portland Naked Bike Riders Protest Trump Admin Immigration Enforcement

www.newsweek.com

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 2d

Just love seeing this “war zone” in Portland, OR. The Emergency Naked Bike Ride. @ericowens.bsky.social

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4d

An emergency naked bike ride is such an intriguingly and outstandingly Portland (OR)-specific activity

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ljoeckel.bsky.social @ljoeckel.bsky.social · 2d

More from war torn Portland. The glorious naked bike ride

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/naked-bike-riders-cycle-through-the-rain-in-a-day-of-portland-protests.html