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Don’t mourn, organize! Organizing takes many forms. For every racist, fascist, homophobe, sexist, millionaire, or billionaire in Tennessee, there’s a reason to organize.
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https://ucwtn.org
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Do you live and work in Knoxville? If you’re not already part of a union or other organizing group, consider starting a conversation with the wonderful people of the Southern Workers Assembly! Organize the South!

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“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it” moment about to happen.

Despite Georgia VS. Worcester, Andrew Jackson still forced the expulsion of native peoples in what would be remembered as the Trail of Tears.

Seems like Congress created this law. Now how will it be enforced?
Q: If DOJ doesn't release the files it has by next Friday, is there anything Congress can do to compel that to happen?

MASSIE: It's a crime if they don't. This is a new law with criminal implications if they don't follow it.
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sounds like a fair, just, and objectively virtuous system [sarcasm].
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Boats with maximum cruising range of 200 miles that are 1.200 miles from the US are not an actual threat, even in the unlikely event they are carrying drugs.

This is random killing as political theater.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Well. It’s the truth.
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sure, organizing is often about living wages and better working rights, but this right here is the cornerstone.

If people are de-humanized from poor labor conditions, how can we humanize labor and, by extension, make our brief lives better through human connection?
who's up seeking meaningful human connection during our all-to-brief existence 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Wait, people can win if they work together? [sarcasm, of course this is how it works]
seiu.org SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · Oct 12
We’re still not over this historic win! 💜

32,000 Michigan home care workers just got their union back — proving what’s possible when workers stand united.

This is democracy. This is solidarity. This is power. ✊🏽💪
October 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is legitimate. I’m not saying Wikipedia is the authoritative source of all information, but the fact that there is even a Wikipedia page points to the lasting impact of these detrimental policies. Exploiting and excluding a population like this is wrong.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican....
October 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If we have to live in a capitalist society fueled by monetary capital, how much good could those funds have done had they been redirected to local wellbeing? Does Tennessee, and the larger USA, benefit from Israel’s aggression?
-$33 BILLION in military aid over 2 years
-$45 MILLION every day
-$144/month per every 🇮🇱 citizen from 🇺🇸

As 🇮🇱 has free health care, free college, subsidized child care… and we do not.

Study: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/AidToI...
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Ah yes, the richest and most free country in the world being demoted on the Human Rights Watchlist is a good sign.

monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-ma...
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Let's focus on Steven Millers slip up on CNN.
Who the hell does he think he is?

Plenary?Plenary authority?

No Steven Miller, Wrong again!!

No! You do not plenary authority to harm the American Public. It is cruel and illegal. You do not have the executive power to overthrow our own government
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?
October 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I’ll say here what I’ve said before: the U.S. needs a strong, competitive multiparty system — but has no need for the Republican Party at all.
this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...
October 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is the new American dream!
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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October 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“BuT fOx NeWs Is A rEpUtAbLe NeWs SoUrCe.”

What Fox News looks like to anyone with basic media literacy:
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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We’re trying to Imagine the reaction from Tennessee Republicans if New York deployed the National guard into Tennessee without @GovBillLee’s approval to to enforce a policy Tennesseans were overwhelmingly against
October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Isn’t it funny how what is considered legal just so happens to make sense with what is economical? IE, American Slavery being fueled by cash crop agriculture in the US South such as cotton and tobacco.
October 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How many people have suffered “collateral” trauma outside of Chicago? How many people have been injured because of overreaching police tactics?
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM