Mesmerizing J
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Defender. A necessity, not a luxury.
Happening TOMORROW at 12:30 PM EST! Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares Discuss "Will Work for Food", a Fresh Look at the Hidden Labor Behind How We Eat. Registration required at link below.
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Book Event 📚: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares Discuss "Will Work for Food", a Fresh Look at the Hidden Labor Behind How We Eat
Want ethical food? Start with the workers. "Will Work for Food" exposes worker exploitation across the food system in and makes the case that labor justice is essential to a sustainable future.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Slavery is White History. We white people need to take responsibility for it and the unending aftermath for Black people. We need to create and commit to solutions, including a meaningful truth and reconciliation process and Reparations.
Slavery is White History. We white people need to take responsibility for it and the unending aftermath for Black people. We need to create and commit to solutions, including a meaningful truth and reconciliation process and Reparations.
October 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Slavery is White History. We white people need to take responsibility for it and the unending aftermath for Black people. We need to create and commit to solutions, including a meaningful truth and reconciliation process and Reparations.
Slavery is White History. We white people need to take responsibility for it and the unending aftermath for Black people. We need to create and commit to solutions, including a meaningful truth and reconciliation process and Reparations.
Demonizing trans and LGBTQ+ people was a big part of the Nazi movement, btw. When the Nazis came to power, one of their earliest actions was to destroy the Institute for Sexual Science, a center for trans healthcare and LGBTQ+ rights.
Anti-trans hatred isn’t new. It’s fascism 101.
Anti-trans hatred isn’t new. It’s fascism 101.
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This. We are paying for all of this. Every element of it, every drop of tear gas lingering in the air, that military-ass vehicle in the middle, the flash bangs, the government employees whose salaries are paid by our taxes.
All
of
it.
All
of
it.
More video of that assault:
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Whom we pay.
We paid for the tear gas they're using in Broadview (Chicago).
We paid for the rubber bullets.
We paid for the full-body armor.
We paid for the masks.
We're paying the salaries of the people assaulting protestors. (Who are among the people paying their salaries.)
We paid for the tear gas they're using in Broadview (Chicago).
We paid for the rubber bullets.
We paid for the full-body armor.
We paid for the masks.
We're paying the salaries of the people assaulting protestors. (Who are among the people paying their salaries.)
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
13,300 confined children in the U.S. are detained pretrial – aka, they’re legally innocent
Locking kids up in deplorable conditions is traumatizing and counterproductive to public safety in the short & long term
Locking kids up in deplorable conditions is traumatizing and counterproductive to public safety in the short & long term
September 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Charlie Kirk should not have been murdered for using his words to spread hate and bigotry and divide this country. In death he should not be sanctified for a life used to inspire people's worst demons to target the marginalized.
September 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
THIS is the original ANTIFA logo from WW2.
THIS is their mission. They have been the good guys for 80 years...until Sean Hannity decided that you can't have a resistance to right wing fascism.
THIS is their mission. They have been the good guys for 80 years...until Sean Hannity decided that you can't have a resistance to right wing fascism.
September 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
September 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
September 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is sooo messed up.
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
September 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They want you numb. Overworked. Distracted. Apologizing for how much you feel in a world that profits off your disconnection. But staying soft in a world broken like this is not a weakness. It’s proof that you haven’t given up on being human.
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
September 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.”
- Fred Hampton
- Fred Hampton
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 AM
August 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
August 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
August 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We’ve heard more about whether or not a mayoral candidate in NYC condemns certain language than we’ve heard about starvation in Gaza.
It’s absolutely unacceptable.
Children are starving to death and our government is helping fund it.
It’s absolutely unacceptable.
Children are starving to death and our government is helping fund it.
July 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
July 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If you're cheering the erasure of Black history while cheering for Black athletes, you can eat ALL the shit.
July 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Today we learned that some people hate poor, old and sick people more than they love their own families.
July 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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July 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Thank you for the reminder that this incredible work exists. I hope it’s alright if I share it. 🤟
July 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM