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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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cailin @cailin.gay · 11h

I’ve been in Madison, Wisconsin for 20 minutes and it has already jumped towards the top of my favorite city power rankings because I’m biking and had to pee and went to a park with a bathroom and the doors were unlocked. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa I am inside the walls of your house

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 7h

it seems that what the left is trying to communicate is that people's neighbors and friends getting kidnapped off the street by extralegal jackboots is an order of magnitude more important than empty words on healthcare from the people who gave us the aca. that importance isn't being recognized.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 7h

when, in your heart of hearts, you know you should be chairing college football playoff selection committee:

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 10h

and that it's just signaling, that people are saying and doing these things because it's what they need to do to get ahead, and not that they actually believe any of what they're doing.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

i mean

The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize went to the EU. 2013's went to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

Also because all their biggest influencers and talking heads are getting more money than God for parroting what the Koch brothers have been wanting for decades.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

The paid-protestor myth is big among conservative honks because none of them can fathom the idea that people would want better things for their communities and neighbors out of the goodness of their hearts.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

Every year the Nobel committee gets together to have a serious discussion about whether they should give their most prestigious prize to organizations attempting to remember and prevent humanity's worst atrocities against itself or to center-right technocrats who lay the groundwork for said crimes.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

what the fuck man

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

No idea what's going on here (tried asking about it, did not get an answer, lol). This vehicle with an ISP plate has a second license plate beneath it—a Texas one, and it reads "WILL RUN."

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

looks like some bullshit i'd try to pull at the Y if i wanted to get a swirlie immediately after the game

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 11h

JB Pritzker doing Resistance-speak vox pops in Daley Plaza while aiding and abetting the actual evil going down less than 15 miles away.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

Something very helpful to know about TPUSA is that it functions as a one-stop shop: a minor-league system for up-and-coming GOP politicians and influencers, a policy house (at least for talking points), and a money-moving enterprise. Wouldn't be a shock if they put this whole thing together.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.

they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence.

The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system.
Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments.

We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility.
Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …

… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings.

Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense.

Sincerely,
The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations:
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
Access Living
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE
Apna Ghar, Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice ||
Chicago
Beyond Legal Aid
BlackRoots Alliance
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual
Exploitation | CAASE
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Therapy Collective
Chicago Torture Justice Center
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Votes
Children's Best Interest Project
Circles & Ciphers
Color Of Change
Community Renewal Society
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy
Project | FLAP
First Defense Legal Aid
HANA Center
Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Impact for Equity
Indivisible Chicago-South Side
Inside Out Network
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
KAN-WIN
Legal Council for Health Justice
Liberation Library
Lucy Parsons Labs
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition
& Solidarity | MAMAS
Muslim Civic Coalition
NAMI Cook County North Suburban
National Lawyers Guild Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Pretrial Justice Institute
Restore Justice
Revolution Workshop
Sana Healing Collective
Saving Our Urban Leaders
Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
SisterReach Illinois
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and
Liberation | SOUL
Stick Talk
TASC, Inc.
The People's Lobby
The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary
Trinity United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of
Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of
Ilinois
Uptown People's Law Center
West Town Law Office
Wolf Pack Therapy
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah soccer is, charitably, the fourth- or fifth-most popular sport in Puerto Rico.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

“why would we talk about basketball when we could talk about football?” –someone in the c suite at espn

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 1d

he was actually having a flashback to the time he saw The Birdcage on the netflix menu

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Kershaw couldn’t retire before one final postseason blowup

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

roberts should send kershaw out for the ninth that would rule

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

man i don't know if anyone in baseball has ever loved anything more than Dave Roberts leaving Kershaw out there to get annihilated in a playoff game

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

One last postseason diaper blowout for Clayton Kershaw. A beautiful sendoff for a legend.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 2d

farm upstate

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

again, that we were able to push this deal through once Trump got fed up with Bibi just shows that we could’ve ended this shit whenever we felt like it. it’s a horrible stain on our nation‘s history, on Biden, on Trump, and on their administrations.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 2d

since when has he given a shit about health care

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Beavis, Etc. @bonejob.bsky.social · 2d

I take this with a grain of salt because Durbin is 800 years old and dying and also about to retire but he’s hearing this shit from somewhere

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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