Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
I know all the reasons we can't have it. I will say it anyway. Pressure campaign on Bezos to create an endowment with his wealth, sell the Post to a nonprofit board, and step away completely. Do one great thing and leave.
people need to stop being naive about this
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people need to stop being naive about this
Democrats aren’t going to vote to fund DHS/ICE. The public doesn‘t approve of masked federal agents murdering American citizens in broad daylight.
The people of Minnesota are showing how it’s done. We can win together.
Democrats aren’t going to vote to fund DHS/ICE. The public doesn‘t approve of masked federal agents murdering American citizens in broad daylight.
The people of Minnesota are showing how it’s done. We can win together.
- The GOP governor candidate dropped out
- Numerous DOJ officials resigned
- GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure
- Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility
The campaign is winning.
- The GOP governor candidate dropped out
- Numerous DOJ officials resigned
- GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure
- Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility
The campaign is winning.
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
And now they're on top and it's all turning to ash and they do not and can not understand how.
And now they're on top and it's all turning to ash and they do not and can not understand how.
They're here because they're cowards who'd run and hide if they encountered someone stronger, with more guns, who could kill them.
They expected us to do that, and don't understand why we don't.
And now they're stuck.
They're here because they're cowards who'd run and hide if they encountered someone stronger, with more guns, who could kill them.
They expected us to do that, and don't understand why we don't.
And now they're stuck.
—Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” #1, published December 19, 1776
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
—Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” #1, published December 19, 1776
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them.
It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them.
It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps