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David Rivard
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♤ NW Punk | Artist (Graphic, Film, Vocalist) | Real Fake-Rockstar | Activist ♤ Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Black Lives Matter ✊🏾 LGBTQ Ally 💛
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The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip reports that Israeli forces have committed 875 violations over 74 days of the ceasefire, killing 411 Palestinians and injuring 1,112 as they also arrested 45 people.
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.

It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.

Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Gaza has 2.2 million people. In 2 years, 10% of the population has been killed or wounded. Their entire infrastructure has been destroyed. 

Instead of giving more military aid to Netanyahu’s extremist government, the US must work with the international community to rebuild Gaza.
‘Everything Is Gone’: Gazans Return Home to Find Devastation and Little Hope
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm.

His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN.

When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Labeling an entire demographic of people as dangerous just screams impending genocide of said group of people. It's cowardly. It's cruel. It's inhumane and if you're staying silent you're agreeing to be complicit in this nightmare.
September 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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German police, often accused of targeting protesters in support of Palestine, punched Irish demonstrator Kitty O’Brien at a Berlin rally, breaking her arm and causing potentially long-term injuries aje.io/46uphs
German police brutality targets pro-Palestine movement: Injured protester
Police punch Kitty O’Brien, an Irish citizen, and break their arm at a recent rally in Berlin.
aje.io
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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August 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.
Update on treatment of Handala detainees:

“Christian Smalls reported severe physical violence by Israeli forces. Several female activists described similar abuse and deplorable detention conditions.”
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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At the Israeli prison, US human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs.
We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege
July 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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July 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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July 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Last year Microsoft made $88 billion (that's billion, with a B) in profit on $245B in revenue. That's a 36% profit margin. The idea that they have to put 9000 people out of work in order to improve profitability is absolutely ghoulish. This is not a struggling company, they're swimming in profit.
Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games
Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
www.bloomberg.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Are you paying attention?
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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War kills people, and those it doesn’t kill, end up carrying a heavy burden of trauma.

Americans do not want war and they certainly do not want politicians who cheer it on.

The politicians don’t go to war, the working class does.

We must center humanity and stand against war.
June 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM