It would sure frost dear leader if the city of Minneapolis won the Nobel Peace Prize for its pioneering work in nonviolent resistance!
(h/t @bettybarcode.com)
Graphic says: If you're reading this, DHS paramilitaries have shot another person.
BREAKING: 1 person is in critical condition after being shot by Border Patrol in Arizona.
The individual, who has not been identified, was shot in southern Pima County near milepost 15 of West Arivaca Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Santa Rita Fire District.
From November 25 (some people say the 28th) through December 2, here are some suggestions of how to observe the beginning of the holiday season.
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Sustained resistance - protest, boycott, strike.
Allowing these ICE kidnappings to become a common occurrence works to normalize this cruelty. This is how the βfirst they cameβ poem happens. No one speaks out or resists until, inevitably, they come for you. Itβs up to our communities to look out for themselves when the systems meant to, wont.
Jeff Bezos systematically dismantled the Washington Post. Now, heβs looking to purchase CondΓ© Nast and CNBC.
Paramount & CBS have bent the knee.
Tech billionaires are manipulating their platformsβ algorithms to favor fascists.
NPR & PBS have been defunded.
This is state propaganda in the making.
Mass question: Are you somebody I gave an explanation of the Five Petals of Thought? If so, please DM. If not, please rebleat (or whatever we're calling it).
I always found that if you said hello once, that was sufficient to weed out robocalls. That way, if whoever was on the other end was a real person, they'd know that I picked up. Otherwise, it felt like ESP.
fyi: please remember that 3.5% of the population nonviolently protesting has to be sustained. we. cannot. afford. to. stop.
nothing will instantly change. trump isnβt going away via a magic wand. we are in this, not for a day or two or even a month. this is a fight that will last for years. resist.
A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared PechaΔek Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Posters reading βMelt ICEβ and βDue Processβ
The posters Lori and I took to the Hands Across Chicagolandβ demonstration today
Protest sign reads: "Billionaires: The Only Minority Destroying Our Country"
Estimated attendance at the Hands Off protest in Lisle Illinois was 3,000!
Author, voice actor, puppeteer, AND translator? Damn, girl! Congratulations to you both!
Chilling
Hey, @durbin.senate.gov , can we donate to you and get you to use the money to buy @booker.senate.gov dinner and some throat lozenges? Signed, one of your constituents
New blog post about Mexico
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New post about the Mexican vacay!
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Trump Admin sets up portal for polluters to get exemptions to clean air rules.
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LOL! Well, it was your story to tell.
Reproduction of art from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, Mexico.
I wrote a blog post about our first night in Mexico: brennancm.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/b... with
@digopheliadug.bsky.social
While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs!
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Any type of personal grooming and food consumption do not belong next to each other
It would be impolite to do it anywhere!
Good thread. The more I think about it the more the "Zelenskyy shouldn't have made him angry" argument sounds like someone making terrible excuses to the partner of an abusive man.
