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God Speed You! Molly Maguire @abrightgreencity.bsky.social · 1d

Could?

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 1d

I like being the bearer of good news. Today Louay's daughter Malak, which means Angel in English, was born. She is a symbol of Palestinian resistance & joy, but she is also a newborn in need of everything. So donate, share, do not let this sweet angel down.

shorturl.at/48ieS

A young Palestinian girl sitting beside the newborn Malak, a teeny thing inside a white blanket. More beautiful than anything.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the most infuriating part of this is that if you just gave most of these people $4200 a month they’d find their own damn housing and get their lives back on track

ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

www.propublica.org

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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🎃Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎃 @bonstrous.bsky.social · 2d

LOLOLOL WHAT

buddy, this is all the things you wrought, what the fuck, you need to keep it in your nose like the smell of poo that it always was

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 4d

1921 Tulsa Oklahoma, 1986 Philadelphia, 2025 Chicago Illinois…

the words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background .

Alt: the words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background .

media.tenor.com

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 3d

I was lucky to be raised by my Comanche grandparents with an almost completely absent non-Native dad, so I grew up very aware of the different between culture and blood.

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 3d

Last week was a shit week, for me, personally, and for the fam as a whole, I am hoping this one is better.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 3d

Also notice how much anti vaxxers pushed so much propaganda about heavy metals. And taking dewormers to detox. Meanwhile when u point out the corporations that mass produce lead, mercury, arsenic and Cadmium laced products of their fave corporations. Suddenly it's crickets.

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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 5d

A shocking incident unfolded in Chicago when about 300 ICE agents descended from Blackhawk helicopters onto an apartment building, rounding up everyone living there. Many residents, according to witnesses, were pulled outside in zip ties, wearing little or no clothing.
#Chicago #USDemocracy #NoKings

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 3d

True. When it comes to detribalized folks (like Beltran) it's not their fault they were detribalized, but at the same time their experience is not our experience. They are relatives, for sure, and I would like to see them re-Indigenized, but they aren't representative.

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 4d

While Voyager was in production, Russell Bates, a Kiowa citizen who won an Emmy (the only Emmy of any Trek series up to that point) for his writing on the animated series was available.

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 4d

There are a METRIC FUCK-TON of Indigenous actors and writers, shows shouldn't randomly insert an Indigenous character unless they are willing to hire both.

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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 4d

nativenewsonline.net/currents/nca...

NCAI: "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle, It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota

On Friday, the National Congress of American Indians pushed back on the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to retain the Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre ...

nativenewsonline.net

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JG Duke @duke-of-earth.bsky.social · 5d

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
- Haruki Murakami

#booksky #quotes #readers #indieauthor #library #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #📚💙

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wscottc.bsky.social @wscottc.bsky.social · 7d

Unions
nwu.org

National Writers Union

All Writers. All Genres. All Mediums. Book Authors, Journalists, Business and Technology Writers, Escritores en Español. Contract and Grievance Assistance.

nwu.org

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 7d

Lets talk about "Soft Banning" in schools and in publishing. Unlike Kimmel writers are not as able to rally huge numbers at a moments notice, but they (we) are on the front lines of the suppression of ideas. How can writers deal with this problem with precious little support? #booksky

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 8d

Same

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 8d

I think it's about mouth feel. Cocoa fats have a specific texture in the mouth.

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 8d

THIS is exactly how I feel about this issue. I have no use for chocolate ice cream, and chocolate doughnuts taste like chocolate playdoh. At the very best these things are chocolate flavored. Real chocolate has a dark, fruity, sweet, bitter marvelously complex flavor and melts at body temperature.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8d

And please remember when military brass is asked how they’re going to respond to the President saying they’re going to be a big part of fighting the “enemy within” it’s not the “purity” people or woke left who put them in the position to have to answer that question. Donald Trump did.

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 8d

being a Serious Political Pundit means watching today's speech where the president announces his desire to have the military murder liberals and penning a column about how the woke mind virus is about to become a victim of its own excesses

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Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social · 9d

It was a very good experience.

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