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Mike 🍁

@thewarrenisempty.bsky.social

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Trade unionist & troublemaker Queer, AuDHD & CPTSD Perpetually exhausted Educate. Agitate. Organize.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · May 5

Let's talk about the elephant in the room regarding the current fascist US regime and Alberta seperatism: Christian Nationalism.

Long🧵 ahead

#canpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #turtleisland #Indigenous #mbpoli #skpoli #DanielleSmith

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 7h

No matter what happens next, this did not happen in nazi germany.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 9h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 13h

Privatization erodes accountability. Once public services become businesses, decisions serve investors before communities, and the people those systems were built for lose any real voice in how they’re managed. It’s democracy hollowed out through contracts.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19h

People get so weird about blocking, as though it's punishment for something. And I understand. But also:

People have the right to curate their spaces. If someone needs to NOT have me in THEIR space for their peace, good for them! I don't have the right to be in someone else's space.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 11h

Also check your local laws, but there's a good chance your employer is responsible for providing the PPE required to do your job.

Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 11h

Full-face respirator + side impact rated hardhat with chinstrap.

I wouldn't attend any protest where there's a chance of violence without them.

Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 15h

"I need a partner who lacks the real world experience necessary to clock how shitty I am" vibes

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 22h

Being autistic is being told why didn’t you ask for help.

Because asking required social scripting, shame buffering, tone analysis, and a risk assessment.

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 19h

Every time someone talks about “curing” autism, what they’re really saying is:

That autism is a disease
That we are broken
That we shouldn’t exist

It’s not just wrong - it’s dehumanising

We’re not a problem to be solved.
We’re real, valid humans

Why is that so hard to see?

#AutismAdvocacy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 21h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1d

Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't been paid yet this week

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 2d

I demand to speak with the manager of antifa

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymark...

Probably a good time for folks to familiarize themselves with this

We've seen all of these tactics before

Haymarket affair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2d

This is not just a matter of electoral strategy either, it also aligns with research on the topic regarding mainstreaming and normalisation

Trying to appease or integrate the far right only makes things worse, particularly for the communities at the sharp end but for democracy more generally too

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 2d

open.spotify.com/track/3brN0Q...

Punks make some damn good country too

Bound and Determined

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SilverMoon FAFO 💙🦋💙 @silvermoonfafo.bsky.social · 4d

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

"Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs." - Exodus 8:1b-2

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

These are your words of the week

flotilla
oeuvre
alderperson
vindictive
plenary
paraph
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

The Words of the Week - Oct. 10

Dictionary lookups from calligraphy, Sweden, and the Mediterranean

www.merriam-webster.com

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irish fish @neutralgena.bsky.social · 2d

you guys gotta prepare yourselves for real on what you will do when an ICE raid happens in front of you. remember SALUTE when reporting. REPORT IMMEDIATELY! call the hotline BEFORE you post on social media, BEFORE you text your friends, BEFORE you engage with ANY state or federal officers.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 2d

an administration ruling Congress with an “iron fist” would be able to pass a budget. Johnson is keeping the House in recess because things are going to go completely off the rails once Grijalva gets sworn in, and he knows it

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

That's right. Laugh right at these sweaty losers and double down on the peaceful protests against them.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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