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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2d

We need universal basic income and healthcare and a 4-day workweek. That's what we need.

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Technological Unemployment with Unconditional Basic Income

Invisible Sheep, the Missing Right, and the Return of Common Wealth The following essay is a pre-edited and updated version of my chapter published in the book: Surviving the Machine Age [https://am...

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.

What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?

AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 8h

FYI; all of this is exactly what you get when a hostile takeover is MEANT TO DESTROY a country

They’re not just incompetent, they’re WORKING FOR FOREIGN POWERS

Some are paid, many are leveraged in various ways, but the results are all the same.

Decades in the making, for #Putin.

#TREASON #Trump

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 10h

That is not how you science.

Fucknut.

That’s how you keep killing people.

#RFKJr #Tylenol #PublicHealth #Trump

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 9h

AKA “we’re currently purchasing the study results that we want.”

#RFKJr

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 6h

#Trump #Putin #Netanyahu

Deep down, they know this.

I’ll add this, from #KathyReichs:

“Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul.

Of the predator.

Of the prey.

Of the mourners.

Of collective humanity.

It diminishes us all.”

#WarCrimes #Genocide #Hague #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity

KATHY REICHS
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul.
Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
In my view, death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. To spend eternity under a Jane Doe plaque. To disappear nameless into an unmarked grave without those who care about you knowing that you have gone. That offends. While I cannot make the dead live again, I can reunite victims with their names, and give those left behind some measure of closure. In that way, I help the dead to speak, to say a final good-bye, and, sometimes, to say what took their lives.
I knew I would do what Emma was asking. Because of who I am. Because of what I feel. I would not walk away.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 7h

Follow the decades-long trends on how Republicans have systemically murdered education in this country,

& look at the trends of illiteracy that have resulted,

& you’ll see that there were vested interests in getting us exactly here.

Can’t have an “educated proletariat,” after all.

#Trump #Putin

karrie1.bsky.social @karrie1.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's been following Hitler's playbook since 2015. We ARE Nazi Germany now. Americans obviously don't learn from history 🙄

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 10h

Get
The
Fuck
Out
Of
My
State
You
Goddamned
Pathetic
Nazis

#ICE #Gestapo #Trump #Chicago #Illinois

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Mar 19

Love this tip tho haha

Elmer’s & glitter in breakable bottles

From 2020’s summer protests

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Mar 19

Targeting journalists & food & medics. Fuckers.

I lost track of which daily protests had committed what bullshit upon the people via either police or National Guard but it was a rough fucking summer.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Mar 19

National Guard was around to contain “riots” when really they gassed peaceful protesters & committed war crimes like clockwork.

I watched so many streams. Rubber bullets directly to faces.

Plain clothes cops were also caught throwing the first brick though.

www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

www.nationalguard.mil

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 5h

This is what the #MAGAts have brought here, proudly.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

#ICE #Gestapo are holding people indefinitely.

Children.

Disappeared. By the thousands.

Hope all of you traitors are ready for your trials.

“Just following orders” ain’t gonna cut it.

#Nuremberg #Trump #Putin

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 5h

This is what the #MAGAts have brought here, proudly.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

#ICE #Gestapo are holding people indefinitely.

Children.

Disappeared. By the thousands.

Hope all of you traitors are ready for your trials.

“Just following orders” ain’t gonna cut it.

#Nuremberg #Trump #Putin

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 9h

#ICE #Gestapo

A text I received;

“They grabbed my classmate’s niece yesterday in Park City! Right down the fucking street from us! I’ve been on the verge of a panic attack all day.

She’s 16 and they don’t know where she is yet.”

This is human trafficking. CHILD trafficking.

#Trump #Putin

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Apr 9

From #Milwaukee in 2020

Coming soon to a city or town near you!

Courtesy of #Krasnov

#PutinPuppet

#RussiaIsATerroristState

#WarCrimes #WhitePhosphorus

#StandWithUkraine #UkrainianView

#DonaldLovesVladimir

#RESIST #WeAreTheFlood #TrueBlue #MeidasMighty #HandsOff

DonaldLovesVladimir.com

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 6h

#VictoriaRoshchyna

#Torture #WarCrimes #ICC #Hague

#CrimesAgainstHumanity

#Journalism #FreeSpeech

#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SlavaUkraini

#UkrainianView #NATO #Europe

#KGB #FSB #Treason #PutinPuppets

It’s time to end all of this.

Viktoria Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist, disappeared in the Russia-occupied part of the Zaporizka region of Ukraine in August 2023. A year later, she called her family from Russian custody. That was the only time they heard from their daughter after her disappearance.
During that call in August 2024, Roshchyna told her parents she loved them and that she would return home as part of a prisoner exchange by September. Instead, in October her parents received a three-line communication from Russian authorities stating that their daughter had died a month earlier.
Roshchyna's family received no further information about the circumstances of her death until last week, when Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office reported that Roshchyna's body was identified among those of Ukrainian servicemen returned to Ukraine in February.
The forensic examination found numerous signs consistent with torture and other inhuman treatment on her body, including bruising, a broken rib, and "possible signs of electrocution."
An investigation by Ukrainian and international media found that Roshchyna had been detained for four months in Russia-occupied Melitopol, where she was held incommunicado and tortured with electric shocks. She was then transferred to a pretrial detention facility in Taganrog, Russia, known as a "hell on earth," notorious for torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees alike.
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Human Rights Watch and other groups have extensively documented enforced disappearances and torture by Russian forces during their occupation of Ukraine. We have found that Russian occupation forces in Khersonska and Zaporizka regions have arbitrarily detained, and in some cases forcibly disappeared, civilians, and unlawfully transferred many to Russian detention facilities where they were tortured. In March 2025, a United Nations investigation concluded that Russian authorities' use of torture and enforced disappearances amount to crimes against humanity "as part of a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population and pursuant to a coordinated state policy."
Russia's abhorrent treatment of Viktoriia Roshchyna and her subsequent death in Russian custody require urgent investigation and underscore the need for justice for atrocities. As talks continue around ending Russia's war against Ukraine, all actors involved in negotiations need to ensure that in line with international law, there can be no amnesty for grave crimes, and that the immediate release of thousands of Ukrainian civilians unlawfully held by Russia is prioritized. Remaining in Russian custody means facing torture and other mistreatment.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 10h

He often posts videos in the early mornings of the “hellholes” where spooky joggers and doggos roam (long before I’m awake)

#Chicago #Illinois @jbpritzker.bsky.social
#JBPritzker

It’s safe enough to walk my kids down the street and visit museums, but we don’t do that NOW, because #ICE #Gestapo.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 9h

#FauxNews #RegimeMedia #Fox Chiron today:

“Trump: We settled 7 conflicts, Gaza-Israel is 8th”

These people fully live in their own curated fantasy reality, as they have for decades.

By design. For profit. For power.

They need to go bankrupt.

Now it’s “just kill” the homeless? Fuck off.

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Melissa Smith ❌👑 @melissa4thrivingmt.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely truth. And yet, so many are seduced by weak charlatans to commit great evil.

Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 6h

#Trump #Putin #Netanyahu

Deep down, they know this.

I’ll add this, from #KathyReichs:

“Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul.

Of the predator.

Of the prey.

Of the mourners.

Of collective humanity.

It diminishes us all.”

#WarCrimes #Genocide #Hague #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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Mark @drmjl.bsky.social · 5h

They can fuck off.
Civilians will begin shooting National Guardsmen
Am I joking?
Wait.

Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Apr 9

From #Milwaukee in 2020

Coming soon to a city or town near you!

Courtesy of #Krasnov

#PutinPuppet

#RussiaIsATerroristState

#WarCrimes #WhitePhosphorus

#StandWithUkraine #UkrainianView

#DonaldLovesVladimir

#RESIST #WeAreTheFlood #TrueBlue #MeidasMighty #HandsOff

DonaldLovesVladimir.com

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty much sums it up

& if the #Epstein bomb is indeed finally dropping

There are a whole lot of intertangled people involved in that international crime ring, AND with #Putin and/or #Netanyahu, & have killed to hide it.

They’ve evaded accountability THIS long & it’s their endgame.

#Trump

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty much sums it up

& if the #Epstein bomb is indeed finally dropping

There are a whole lot of intertangled people involved in that international crime ring, AND with #Putin and/or #Netanyahu, & have killed to hide it.

They’ve evaded accountability THIS long & it’s their endgame.

#Trump

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Spiked Doormat @spikeddoormat.bsky.social · 5h

Putin owns the Republican Party, while he's blackmailing Europe with the aging Soviet nukes.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 5h

I ask myself this on a daily basis

NobbyXStyles | Comms Open @nobbyxstyles.bsky.social · 7h

That is seriously fucked up, why is the rest of the world allowing this to happen

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