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I think this is a racing snail.

We share the world with amazing creatures.

Small things that make the world a brighter day.

"This keeps happening" can quickly become "this always happens" and then "it's always been this way," until you're locked into a sense of permanence and inevitability that have been manufactured by the oppressor.

Of course, corruption is not exceptional or unheard of, but the normalization of corruption *as* governance, so that the two concepts become indistinguishable, is crucial to the fascist project. People have already begun to shrug off Trump's manipulation and extraction as par for the course.

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Fake Jesus...the funniest one yet. Sound up! 🤣🤣🤣 #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

PLEASE read this one. Kinda required reading. If you agree, which I hope you do, print in color and magnetically attach to your refrigerator. It is marvelous and very clear to all who visit: this is what we stand for. PERIOD.

This one hits hard.

The greatest gift we have is the gift of the imagination. Everything we now have was once imagined. We have a lot of wonderful, beautiful things in this life. Let us put our hopes into doing, making, creating. We can’t spiritually bypass our way into just praying for good.

No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire The best of us live and die in relative obscurity, generally being subjected to scorn and derision from the ruling establishment the entire time. The worst of us become plutocratic demigods. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/no-healthy...

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This quote is not from this week...it's from 1975 about the post-WII period. You combine that with the political and xenophobic policing and deportations of the 1910s and 1920s, and you have a history of federal law enforcement that has always been dangerous. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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We're in week 4 of the government shutdown. FAA air traffic controllers missed paychecks. Staffing issues are impacting flights. It's past time for Republicans to come to the table and negotiate a budget that will protect Americans' access to health care.

On Monday, Momodou Taal, a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University, left the United States under threat of detainment and deportation after the Trump administration revoked his student visa for his participation in pro-Palestine protests on campus.

The charge is always "Palestinians want to destroy the State of Israel." The reality is, and always has been, that Israel wants to destroy any possibility of a Palestinian State and want to rid the entire area of Palestinians. THAT is the truth and has been from the outset.

The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses and genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/when...

Related: The National Association of Letter Carriers is calling all branches to organize local rallies on Sunday March 23 to say “Hell no!” to dismantling the Postal Service. Tell your local PO branch you support a local rally! #HandsOffUSPS #SaveThePostOffice www.nalc.org/news/nalc-up...

Private equity has fingers in our homes, hospitals and jobs. Resisting it is crucial to our fight for a just society.

A humble observation: if people protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you "feel unsafe", then perhaps you are the fucking problem.

Mutual Aid is such a morale booster, it's such a community booster, it's such a spiritual experience (speaking as a Theravada Buddhist). Do it! Because, like, we're all in this together

The United States broke from its European allies Monday, voting with Russia against United Nations resolutions calling for Russia to be held accountable on the third anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine. www.democracynow.org/2025/2/25/he...

Journalists are allowed to cover protests even after cops (often unlawfully) disperse protesters. This isn’t some radical position. Even the DOJ agrees. This case should’ve never been brought and the new DA in Multnomah County should clean up his predecessor’s mess and drop it now.

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Israeli media reports indicate that Netanyahu is telling Smotrich and others that Israel essentially has an alternative interpretation of the actual ceasefire terms and not to really take the official text of the agreement seriously.

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