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The penguins react to tariffs
Running penguin brandishing a sword
April 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
joannelea.bsky.social
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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cori-elise.bsky.social
here’s the official fundraising site for the government of Ukraine. u24.gov.ua
If everyone who voted for Kamala Harris gave $10 we’d raise 750M.It’s a good way to boost democracy and stick it to Trump and Vance.

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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
March 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:
February 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Let me translate two things this libertarian light nincompoop is saying: Personal liberties means doing whatever the fuck I want. Free markets means doing whatever the fuck I want. He’s an adult toddler.
February 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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You have questions. We get it. Here’s some information on the structure of this movement, WHY we need a General Strike, and WHY we need 3.5% of the population to commit.

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A photo with text describing Phase 1 of the General Strike. This phase is all about building a connected groundswell of people who are committed to The General Strike. We are reaching out to organizations and influential individuals who are already taking action (such as planning strikes or boycotts; providing homeless services or advocating for healthcare reform) and plugging them into The General Strike network. We are building an organizational structure with the capacity to explode into independent and interconnected regional chapters, and laying the groundwork for exponential growth. Picture describing Phase 2 of the General Strike. With a powerful, diverse base of 6M signed strike cards we will be well on our way to meeting our final goal of 11M strikers. Now it'll be time to bring our demands into focus, and to map out what Strike Days) will really look like. Organizing and outreach efforts will continue as normal, and a series of Strike Day meetings will commence. The goal of these meetings will be to draft a limited list of highly specific demands to specific controlling entities, to pick a strike date(s), and to plan the events of Strike Days). Emphasis will be on having many voices heard and building consensus, using modern crowdsourcing technology to uplift all voices. Specific demands will come from the leaders and experts of our various existing fights for racial, economic, gender and environmental justice that have the on the ground experience in their unique areas. Picture describing Phase 3 of the General Strike. As we near our critical goal of 11M strikers we will finalize our demands and prepare for Strike Day. Accumulated strike funds and partners in mutual aid will help distribute support to all registered strikers as needed, and Strike Day events will be in their final planning stages. A team of legal aids will formulate the official language for the strike, and communications specialist will hone in on messaging. If employees so choose, strike notices will be distributed to employers per their request, with a legal framework outlining their right to strike and constitutional protections against retaliation. Now all that's left to do is STRIKE! What is the 3.5% rule. THE 3.5% RULE REFERS TO THE IDEA THAT NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS CAN ACHIEVE SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL OR POLITICAL CHANGE WHEN JUST 3.5% OF THE POPULATION ACTIVELY PARTICIPATES. THIS CONCEPT IS BASED ON RESEARCH BY POLITICAL SCIENTIST ERICA CHENOWETH, WHO STUDIED HUNDREDS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND FOUND THAT NO NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT THAT REACHED AT LEAST 3.5% PARTICIPATION EVER FAILED TO ACHIEVE ITS GOALS.
February 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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thedanrather.bsky.social
When real world headlines read like The Onion…
Trump administration wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power.

They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!
February 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Holy shit this cartoon.
February 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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cwebbonline.com
The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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February 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!
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NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post) To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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maile.bsky.social
We miss you Pete. This is leadership.
January 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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jimacosta.bsky.social
About the presidency, Harry Truman famously said “the buck stops here.” Trump is trying to pass the buck and blame everybody but his administration for the DC plane crash. This is a time for consoling the families and investigating the cause of this tragedy, not shameful finger pointing.
January 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major e...
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM