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Rebecca Solnit is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment,… more

Rebecca Solnit
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Just heard @stevevladeck.bsky.social on the radio paraphrase Orwell to say that with the Trumpists 2 + 2 = 17.
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Today is the 17th day in a row that House Republicans have refused to come to work.

Instead of preventing health care costs from skyrocketing, they’re preventing the Epstein files from being released.
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The land of the brave
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All of us who are US citizens suffer from moral injury from the things done in our name, including the denial of basic needs this country can well afford to address, including healthcare to all immigrants. It would heal that moral injury to do this; it's an ethical act, not just a practical one.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d
I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.
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If there is a mythical land called Apolitical, could everyone who believes in it and wants to live there please set out for it now?

I'm so sorry that this happened to you.
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I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.
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#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!

Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
A paperback copy of HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit, with sunlight beaming across the black and white cover.
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I like this passage from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Perhaps she did, because she's been very active in climate since 2019 or so.
All the Stars Arrested at Jane Fonda's 'Fire Drill Fridays' Climate Change Protests (Photos)
Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Sheen, Fonda's "Grace & Frankie" co-star, are the latest celeb to march against climate change
www.thewrap.com
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Federal officers fired tear gas into a crowd of marchers minutes after they arrived outside Portlands ICE building this afternoon:
Federal agents fire tear gas, make multiple arrests during protest outside Portland ICE facility
Hundreds of protesters marched to facility from nearby Elizabeth Carruthers Park in Southwest Portland.
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She wasn't in retirement. She's been gorgeously active since at least 2019 as a climate organizer with Fire Drill Fridays, has a climate PAC, and hasn't stopped acting in films. firedrillfridays.org
Fire Drill Fridays - Fire Drill Fridays
The climate emergency is now. Fire Drill Fridays brings people together to demand action for a cleaner, greener, more just world.
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My white parents were big-city kids in immigrant enclaves, both 17 when WWII ended; my mom was part of a fair-housing/anti-racist town organization in the 1960s in our fairly racist Bay Area town. Categories are leaky.
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Behind all that is the SFPD quiet-quitting. These tickets are issued by automated devices.
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Speeding on main streets isn't an issue I'd prioritize: double parking, running stop signs and signals, not taking four-way stops in turn are some of the more dangerous things I deal with here as a driver, pedestrian, and cyclist. And speeding on very narrow side streets....
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p.s. " In a 1999 study of 1296 randomly selected male Marine recruits, 4% were found to have incurred a stress fracture during basic training. In fact, the single most powerful medical predictor of discharge during Marine basic training is a stress fracture...."
Stress fractures: Lessons from military research | Lower Extremity Review Magazine
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Sulkypants of Ohio strikes again. Nice line-up with demanding Zelensky say thank you. But I guess being Ukrainian is like being BIPOC in the Book of Vance? Formerly demanded Kamala Harris show gratitude, more recently Mamdani.....
JD Vance Whines That 1 Rising Star In Democratic Party Doesn’t Have Enough ‘Gratitude’
The vice president copped a similar tone when he lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February for not saying “thank you.”
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Weird how in her version lots of upper-body muscle mass prevents stress fractures in the lower limbs. Most famous victim of stress fractures: Edward Snowden during his special services training, ending his military career.
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A young special unit guy got bilateral tibial fractures you may have heard of (and his dude buddy had a broken hip, presumably from the same training)? Edward Snowden. www.youtube.com/shorts/mP682...
Edward Snowden talks about how he broke his legs in the army before jump school
YouTube video by JRE Bites101
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That was such a depressing election. Al Gore was the quintessential neoliberal in that he had been a big WTO advocate, and the left was locked onto that; he would have been amazing on climate and reproductive rights would have likely survived. Quite possibly also no 9/11 and no GWOT.
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He gets extra points for helping overturn Roe. (George W. squeaked in and appointed Roberts and Scalia.)
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Have some 2004. www.ontheissues.org/2004/Ralph_N...
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Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov , @jbpritzker.bsky.social, I thought that when they come for your people they came through you?
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Illinois State Police, acting on behalf of ICE, engaged in violent behavior against faith leaders, community members, and peaceful protestors at the Broadview, IL ICE facility this morning.
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Obviously not only but the Vice President who is noisy about his Catholic conversion while endorsing hideous human rights abuses has been spanked repeatedly by popes this year. www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-fra...
Pope Francis, Vance Clash Over ‘Ordo Amoris’
Ordo amoris, often rendered 'rightly-ordered love,' is a well-established principle considered evident through both revelation and reason, but its practical application can be complex.
www.ncregister.com
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New reporting from MSNBC and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: A source familiar with the matter confirms an FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. Comey is being allowed to surrender for booking at his arraignment next week
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Not sure why medical workers' rather than patients' status is under discussion, but the Hippocratic oath means you take care of people regardless of legal and political status. Hospitals have to be apolitical spaces in that sense: a Jewish doctor tended the Tree of Life synagogue shooter. Also:
Immigrants in the healthcare workforce: 8 things to know - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis
About 1 in 6 U.S. hospital workers are immigrants, according to a June 17 report from KFF. Amid visa and travel restrictions on 19 countries, projections show the healthcare workforce pipeline might f...
www.beckershospitalreview.com
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Hope it's clear to everyone that these blame messages came from the administration itself not from people in the various departments, who found their messages overridden in this Hatch Act violation.
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That is a very good definition, and thanks, not just some guy because Varela refs count for a lot here....
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