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Start w/ the Golden Rule. Identity traits we're born w/into don't determine character. Nationalism makes neighbors into enemies to benefit the ruling classes. Equal rights for ALL, everywhere. Migration = survival adaptation. Anti-migrant = psychopathy.
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They're not "anti-fascists" — they're *users*.
The people who are *against* the "purity test" of standing for universal human rights (universal: ALL people, everywhere, at all times) are making the same arguments that people in the past made to justify allying with enslavers and human traffickers and genociders *against* the victims then.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was one of the many people who took to the streets last night to protest ICE agents abducting people off the streets of Manhattan yesterday.

Immigrants — not ICE agents — belong in our communities
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13% of the US population is on SNAP. Which itself is wild.

But 1/3 of all SNAP users are KIDS.

That means 19% of US children are on SNAP.

1 in 5 kids.
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He’s operating like a mob boss and people are just… letting him.
Right: he's treating Treasury accounts like slush funds to pay military personnel, he's buying luxury jets for cabinet members with our $$, he's using state power to extort bribes to fund his stupid ballroom, and now he wants to help himself to a 9-figure sum while fed workers aren't getting paid.
sorry, man, but this is breathtakingly, shockingly corrupt in every fucking way it can be, and an open and shut and uncomplicated case for impeachment. he didn’t even pay for these lawyers, his donors did, for fuck’s sake.
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food banks have already been under pressure over the past several years, and with SNAP benefits expiring they're going to be the only safety net for a lot of people

please donate what you can. $100 can feed several families for a month because of the discounts and purchasing power they have
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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the emerging left-centrist-right consensus that gutter bigotry is ok is terrifying stuff
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To unite the country, bring a special sweetness to that holiest of days of Christmas, and to honor the bedrock of American society, the family, President Trump invites you to pay him $40 for last season's wrapping paper so you can drive your relatives screaming from your house on Christmas day.
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Holy buckets. This is exactly what the Oregon Silver Shirt fascist I’m writing about thought children should be taught about Communism ca. 1965 (minus the more recent references).
Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month.

No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education.

This is just one page.
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Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"
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Imagine if this was your child. We must all be that outraged.
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
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After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
Taxes are how enforcement of human rights are funded though.
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This is human rights. Its binary. Either you support them for ALL and are therefore not like the guy in office or you don't and ARE like the guy in office.
Here's reality though:

"Trump voters, like others in the GOP, have relatively high incomes..."
fivethirtyeight.com/features/the...

"[S]upport for Trump was strongest among the locally rich — that is, white voters with incomes that are high for their area..."
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Here's reality though:

"Trump voters, like others in the GOP, have relatively high incomes..."
fivethirtyeight.com/features/the...

"[S]upport for Trump was strongest among the locally rich — that is, white voters with incomes that are high for their area..."
archive.li/0wpIR
“The middle classes realized that political democracy, carried to its logical conclusion, could lead to social and economic democracy, and therefore [saw] in the authoritarian regimes salvation from a social revolution of the working and peasant classes.”
www.ips-journal.eu/regions/glob...
“The middle classes realized that political democracy, carried to its logical conclusion, could lead to social and economic democracy, and therefore [saw] in the authoritarian regimes salvation from a social revolution of the working and peasant classes.”
www.ips-journal.eu/regions/glob...
The myth of middle-class liberalism
The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies. In fact, historically they rarely have
www.ips-journal.eu
With *conservative* politics. Even conservative Democrats have these beliefs.
With *conservative* politics. Even conservative Democrats have these beliefs.
Meritocracy myths go hand in hand with Republican politics, White Christian Nationalism, and racism more generally. So, it won't surprise me if Republicans hold their noses and pay more for their ACA plans, to maintain their sense of superiority (and power) over others more vulnerable than them. 5/
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April's views might seem paradoxical, but they stem from her belief in the meritocracy myth (the idea that success comes from "good choices"), and from how those beliefs justify inequality and give people a sense of superiority over others who are worse off--and need government more--than them. 4/
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🎙️ New podcast: “Piercing the Propaganda Bubble in #ElSalvador.”

WOLA's @adamisacson.com talks with Dr. Ricardo Valencia about how Bukele’s popularity depends on a fragile propaganda machine—and why cracks are beginning to show.

🎧 wola.org/multimedia/p...

#HumanRightsAwardsMonth
Piercing the Propaganda Bubble in El Salvador - WOLA
Ricardo Valencia explains why the current popularity of El Salvador’s authoritarian president rests on a surprisingly fragile foundation.
wola.org