@mhendrick

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Chrysty and I went for a little hike this morning, and saw this.
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After 50 years of the failed War on Drugs, it is now apparently "racist" to complain about the government putting poor people in cages for using drugs. Take a look at the San Francisco Mayor yesterday, and then compare it to what one of Nixon's key advisors said:
Mayor London Breed fiercely defended her controversial policy to arrest drug users to get them into treatment against criticism from Supervisor Dean Preston, calling him a “white man who’s talking about Black and brown people as if you’re the savior.”

ALT Mayor London Breed fiercely defended her controversial policy to arrest drug users to get them into treatment against criticism from Supervisor Dean Preston, calling him a “white man who’s talking about Black and brown people as if you’re the savior.”

We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hilppies with marijuana and the blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up meetings, and villify them night after night on the evening news. did we know we were lying....?

ALT We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hilppies with marijuana and the blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up meetings, and villify them night after night on the evening news. did we know we were lying....?

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Washington State enacted a 7% capital gains tax levied on annual profits in excess of $250,000, and made a *fortune*, $600m more than projected in the first year, despite a 25% drop in the stock market and blistering #InterestRate hikes: theurbanist.org/2023/06/01/l… 1/
The Washington State flag; the circular device featuring George Washington has been altered so that it is now the head of a naked man clothed in a barrel with two wide leather shoulder straps.

ALT The Washington State flag; the circular device featuring George Washington has been altered so that it is now the head of a naked man clothed in a barrel with two wide leather shoulder straps.

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He really thought he did something xitter.cf/R3dJ0k3r/status/166374…
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Gen-Z dunks hard on Climate Deniers
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The markers of impending fascism are growing more alarming, and many liberal and “progressive” politicians and journalists are not treating the situation with urgency. This is the role that police play:
Akela Lacy@akela_lacy3 May 2023
NEW: Activists in Georgia posted flyers naming one of the cops in Tortuguita’s killing. They were arrested, placed in solitary confinement and now face a felony and 20 years in prison. W/ @natashalennard theintercept.com/2023/05/02/…

Activists Face Felonies for Distributing Flyers on "Cop City" Protester Killing

The activists face 20 years in prison for distributing flyers that identified a state trooper they linked to a protester's killing in Atlanta’s “Cop City.”

theintercept.com
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I have been informed that during tomorrow’s floor session there will be a motion to either censure or expel me. I've also been told I'll get a chance to speak. I will do as I have always done—rise on behalf of my constituents, in defense of my community, & for democracy itself.
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More liberals are noticing that expansion of police, and the alarming expansion of police surveillance budgets in Democratic cities, poses a profound threat to the health of women and trans people. It is this bureaucratic machinery that'll be used to enforce all right-wing laws.
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Pay close attention to what is happening in Tennessee. This is the decline of democracy in real time and the re-assertion of white supremacy. The GOP is acting as if there are no consequences but there are. Vote. Protest. Demand change.
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Florida has a bill to ban Jewish studies
US Holocaust Museum
@HolocaustMuseum4 Apr 2023
After the Nazis took over Austria, Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter's life changed quickly. She could no longer attend her school and friends rejected her for being Jewish. In 1940, her family came to the US where they opened what would become a bridal empire. Hedda died last week.

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Interesting read full of contradicting ideas. unis.unvienna.org/unis/uploa…
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Police, corrupt politicians, and large corporations raised $90 million in private cash to destroy the forest to make way for a place where cops can learn how to do things like urban combat. They have been engaging in the predictable lies. theintercept.com/2023/03/08/…

Atlanta Cop City Protesters Charged With Domestic Terror for Having Mud on Their Shoes

The police's guilt-by-association allegations aren't designed to get convictions, but to break up a movement.

theintercept.com
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). Inside: Excuseflation; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/p… #Pluralistic 1/
An old general store. Instead of a grocer, the counter is manned by an ogrish, top-hatted capitalist caricature, yanking on a lever in the shape of a golden dollar-sign. He holds aloft a carton of eggs, disdainfully, pinched between a gloved thumb and forefinger.

ALT An old general store. Instead of a grocer, the counter is manned by an ogrish, top-hatted capitalist caricature, yanking on a lever in the shape of a golden dollar-sign. He holds aloft a carton of eggs, disdainfully, pinched between a gloved thumb and forefinger.

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THREAD. One of the biggest political scandals of our time is coming to a head today. Democratic leaders just announced they will vote with the far-right to overturn a democratically passed DC law. The story is important, and full of weird lies.
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#OTD in 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. It is estimated that of the 120,000 prisoners who passed through the Gross-Rosen camp system, at least 40,000 died either at the camp or during its evacuation. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conte…

Gross-Rosen | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Learn about the Gross-Rosen camp, including its establishment, prisoner population, subcamps, forced labor, and liberation.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org
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How is cocaine bear real and not a joke?
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Calling poor, deliberately segregated neighborhoods “high crime areas” is one of the most disgusting and persistent examples of modern copaganda. The New York Times should be ashamed, four times over.
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NEWS: My god. $820 million. NYC taxpayers will pay *$820 million* in just overtime for NYPD this year. Could instead house all 14,000 homeless families in NYC. Then years of rent for 7,000 families out of work & at risk of eviction. With millions left over.thecity.nyc/2023/1/12/235529…

NYPD’s Track Record on Overtime Spending Casts Doubt on Budget Claims

The police department was previously budgeted for $454 million in overtime pay for the current fiscal year — but is already on pace to spend over $820 million.

thecityreporter.nyc
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