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tj WATCH INVINCIBLE FIGHT GIRL 😷😷😷 @atjscreams.blacksky.app · 4d

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test people in the U.S. failed miserably, and we’re all still reeling from it. The results revealed to the ruling powers just how much they could get away with."

YES!!!!!!! you cannot leave your community behind and then be confused when you get lost

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 24d

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

prismreports.org

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 6d

I wore my “Jews say let Gaza live” shirt at HSB. I assume the huge number of fist bumps and thumbs up I received in response from San Francisco folk music fans are representative of American public opinion as a whole.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 8d

TONIGHT. It's Yom Kippur, so come break your fast with me. We have a lot of atoning to do.

Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 20d

SAN DIEGO! Do people like me there? The last stop of In the Darkest Hour Tour is Mic Drop Comedy on Thursday 10/2. Comrade Janesh Rahlan is coming too. Let's do some comedy against the machine while it's still legal. Tickets at the link in bio.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 11d

When the host or platform "fact-checks" or offers an opposing point of view without simply quoting "one side says this and one side says that" is very revealing of their ideological orientation.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 11d

Today in media bias: I was listening to NPR Morning Edition. They had on a Palestinian human rights lawyer who said "why should Palestinians have to negotiate an end to genocide?" The host, unprompted, said "while many human rights groups and a UN committee say it's a genocide, Israel denies this."

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 11d

SAN DIEGO THIS THURSDAY. I hope to see you there. Tell everyone you know.

Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 20d

SAN DIEGO! Do people like me there? The last stop of In the Darkest Hour Tour is Mic Drop Comedy on Thursday 10/2. Comrade Janesh Rahlan is coming too. Let's do some comedy against the machine while it's still legal. Tickets at the link in bio.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 13d

Oh that’s so generous. Thanks heaps.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 13d

No agent.

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Kalie Caetano @kaliecaetano.bsky.social · 14d

This will be unequivocally the greatest thing since sliced bread. @natogreen.bsky.social is the most eminently quotable labor organizer in the game, and I cannot wait to read this.

Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 15d

BIG NEWS. I’M WRITING A BOOK. What if there was a book that tried to teach people how to build strong unions, but make it funny?

Now it’s official on socials so I have to write it or @haymarketbooks.org will chain me to my desk until it’s done. Can’t wait to share it with you all.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 14d

It wouldn’t have happened without you, bub.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15d

The big news tonight is two-fold — Trump's "domestic terrorism" memorandum and James Comey's reported indictment — and both are signs that Trump's authoritarianism is here. Now.

Both situations, though, show how weak Trump actually is.

That will be coming tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

www.lawdork.com

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 15d

Not a fan of any of this.

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 15d

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 15d

BIG NEWS. I’M WRITING A BOOK. What if there was a book that tried to teach people how to build strong unions, but make it funny?

Now it’s official on socials so I have to write it or @haymarketbooks.org will chain me to my desk until it’s done. Can’t wait to share it with you all.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 18d

well well well wouldn't you know it. organizing does get the goods.

Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension

Late-night host reinstated after brief suspension related to comments on Maga and Charlie Kirk that Disney called ‘insensitive’

www.theguardian.com

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19d

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

After his condemnation and censure, McCarthy continued to perform his senatorial duties for another two and a half years. His career as a major public figure, however, had been ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or received with intentional and conspicuous displays of inattention.

The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled almost to nothing. Eisenhower, finally freed of McCarthy's political intimidation, quipped to his Cabinet that McCarthyism was now
"McCarthywasm".

McCarthy died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Hepatitis, acute, cause
unknown"; previously doctors had not reported him to be in critical condition. It was hinted in the press that he died of alcoholism (cirrhosis of the liver), an estimation that is now accepted by modern biographers. Thomas C.
Reeves argues that he effectively died by suicide.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 20d

So good. They unleashed the comics.

The Word: Shhhhhh!

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 20d

SAN DIEGO! Do people like me there? The last stop of In the Darkest Hour Tour is Mic Drop Comedy on Thursday 10/2. Comrade Janesh Rahlan is coming too. Let's do some comedy against the machine while it's still legal. Tickets at the link in bio.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 20d

I do not believe that Democrats can recover by accepting bad faith dishonest right wing bigotry as legitimate. This is not an issue they can triangulate and compromise their way out of.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20d

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 21d

Not all heroes wear capes.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21d

This guy with a "LICK MY BUTTHOLE FEDS" sign has been standing on top of his car this whole time.

Confirmed at least one protester snatched by ICE in the chaos.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 21d

When workers go through struggle and learn what it means to fight, those lessons get applied to the next thing. The right wing isn't used to fighting people who are ready and willing to be fight back. They will RUE THE DAY.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes authoritarian regimes overreach, and the attack on Kimmel by the Trump gang and right-wing media companies like Sinclair may be such a time. The WGA had a 148 day strike against some of the biggest corporations in the world. SAG-AFTRA had a strike. They won.

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 21d

This brother looks like he does a podcast about LARPing and I am here for it.

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 21d

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 22d

I am so glad @coyotemedia.org has launched, and with this important bit of reporting on the Mayor's new version of the old version of failed responses to homelessness. Anything but give people the services they need, I guess.

SF Streamlined Its Street Teams. Now, Fewer People Are Getting the Help They Need

Street medicine outreach workers describe a new, expensive, and disorganized program that lacks clear objectives.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 22d

Solidarity at work.

Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 22d

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

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