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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

[pounding the podium in the republic senate] this is why we MUST establish a strategic force kids reserve

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

--not a privilege which licenses you to wallow in your basest nature

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

i think it was jamelle bouie who said that christopher nolan is fascinating because he's a conservative filmmaker... just one made from a mold we seem to have lost, one who believes that while it is inevitable that some men wield power and some have it wielded upon them, the former is a *burden*

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

Social media is very effective at creating sin-eaters. A sin-eater is different from an ephemeral main-character. It's a recurring "well would you look at that guy" person you see screenshotted on your feed constantly, who is meant to stand in for the evils of some larger group you dislike

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 16h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

I do not regret to inform you we are going to win, etc.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

more memes

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like a homemade Wide Awakes sticker, spotted in the wild in Philly!

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social

Homemade Wide Awakes sticker seen on a Philadelphia lamppost

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

from the memes folder

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

i would even say it's not just a matter of "radical goals, liberal tactics" but rather recognizing the inherent and enduring radicalism of the liberal ideal--namely, the freedom and equality of all persons--and how far we have yet to go in achieving it

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A Dead Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 11h

Radical objectives backed by sensible liberal strategies, what a concept.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

someone should write a book about this

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

anyways

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

lmao i was about to type that out myself

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

all these different systems of oppression are not merely accidentally connected, but are tied together at the roots

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

i think it's worth putting "children are property" "women are property" "other people are property" into a single coherent system of thought--a vision of the human world as divided into biopolitical communities competing for scarce resources

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14h

we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately, more and more people are saying

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 16h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

look starshine this is just luxembourg world conquest. play more hoi and you will understand

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

sadly. like most ground-centric histories, it ignores the immense efforts and sacrifices made by that most central arm, the Navy, to ensure the enemy's lack of boots

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

i enjoyed this retelling of the battle of guadalcanal

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