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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 2d

Hey everyone! I'm doing a virtual book talk with the lovely folks of @firestorm.coop

You can register here:
firestorm.coop/events/3479-...

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 1h

Folks should head over to @fijanational.bsky.social and give them a follow. They should have way more than they currently do.

If you’re following me you’re probably exactly the type of person who should be on a jury. It’s important to know your rights when it comes to voting your conscience.

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Fully Informed Jury Association @fijanational.bsky.social · 2h

FIJA stands with the #jurynulification activists of Defend Our Juries who've faced repression in the UK for basic free speech

fija.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

The Fight for Free Speech Around Jury Nullification

From the US to the UK, activists with both the Fully Informed Jury Association and Defend Our Juries have routinely faced repression for clearly protected free speech

fija.substack.com

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder of the time the Red & Black Cafe kicked out a cop and FOX tried to make national discourse about "racism against cops" for weeks. They literally did an interview with the cop where he cried about the racism against "blue lives."

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 2h

I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 20h

"most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense"

is basically the entirety of the present situation on every front

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 20h

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 22h

Today's version of The Colbert Report would have to be a parody channel of all the "investigate the radical left" Andy Ngos of the world: breathlessly taking gopros into goth bars or farmers markets and acting shocked and horrified about the existence of longstanding subcultures. "Hello, FBI?!!"

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Academic Anarchy🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

honestly it's insane that we still let people bring up the bible as a source in debates. okay well I don't believe in that and this is the real world

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

They believe they will never be out of power and relatedly, even if they eventually are, there will be no accountability.

Refusal to openly, credible, emphatically threaten them with it isn't just a failure on the principle of the matter for what should happen then. It worsens the situation now.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 1d

The outrageousness of this tempts me more towards the evil of Cascadian nationalism than I have been in decades.

Something truly galling about jackbooted foreign invaders somehow being allowed to eat our local food.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 1d

The only way that you can break out of this losing game where the wife is expected only ever focus on deferential persuasion-from-below is by the wife getting armed and breaking the husband's confident monopoly on available force.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 1d

The entire political spectrum is patriarchally coded:

"the left" is a whiny nag that tries to leverage conscience an empathy by sucking up to "the right," which is a big strong alcoholic brute who can't be expected to think and always has the available trump card of just beating/killing his wife.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1d

Keep in mind that many people who initially claimed he wanted protests so he could militarily occupy cities quietly adjusted that narrative without admitting he did what he wanted, regardless. No “excuse” was necessary. Fascists don't need a reason or excuse.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

An elderly German Jewish man was arrested for comparing Gaza to Auschwitz.

His relatives were killed by the German state in Auschwitz.

Talk to me about how Germany was denazified

www.instagram.com/reel/DPL44U4...

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 1d

first of all, fuck gandhi. But secondly.

WE SPENT MONTHS IN 2020 WATCHING COPS BEAT AND SHOOT AND RUN OVER AND EVEN KILL PROTESTERS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THEM $100 MILLION AFTER ALL THAT

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

After Reconstruction, the media refused to believe that white supremacists were massacring entire towns of Black people attempting to claim local sovereignty over their own lives. It is not true that violence, even when it's "plain as day," necessarily moves public opinion.

The white- run news transformed this event from a coup that overthrew an elected Republican government into a horror story of armed Black men, turning the massacre into a legitimate act of white self- defense. The Shreveport Times described the event as “the most deplorable and bloody affray ever

perpetuated.” Years after the event, white Democrats would periodically fearmonger about a Black militia that would return to overthrow the government, blaming power- hungry Republicans.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't listened to the new Swift album yet, but I *love* the discourse.

There's something reassuring about one of the most coldly talented people in the world completely fucking up her entire schtick by being comfortable in love and just writing cringe "his dick is big" drelk.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

there's a conspiracy theory going around that actually Travis Kelce wrote the songs on the new Swift album that everyone seems to hate and torn between stop making excuses everyone does bad work at some point and these are the sort of conspiracies we need as a society

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no bonzo @nobonzo.bsky.social · 1d

cn: domestic violence
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your partner can beat and torture you leading to you fleeing them
then they can just call the police and get them to track you down and investigate you for a "crime"

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 1d

All I'm reading is that Portland is the center of a conspiracy to make the mice trans, and the Swedish are funding it!

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?

Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.

Early life and education

Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]

Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much every public statement made by this administration about military and police force has been an announcement that they’re abandoning the strategic benefits of counterinsurgency in order to cull the population and project a patriarchal warrior fantasy.

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