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Trying to stay positive and keep working hard on everything despite the depressing and isolating conditions of the pandemic and the larger society. #socialism
Rockville, MDJoined April 2009
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Postsecondary education in America.
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Rooted in enslavement and imperialism, policing is always how colonizers have controlled people and deprived communities of autonomy.
Read our Automating Banishment report, about policing's roots in settler colonialism and conquest:
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The janitors are the lowest paid workers at Twitter.
Elon Musk’s sudden decision leaves them without pay and, soon, without health insurance.
"We practically have nothing, we depend on our work. But he's a billionaire, he doesn't care," one worker told us.
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Be like Fiona! Contact MD legislators in support of MD HB133 and SB43! 🤩
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Fiona Apple (& dog Mercy) have a new story to share w/ you.
She & other court watchers were retaliated against for reporting on injustice. Denied access. She just submitted testimony in MD legislature to defend virtual court watch.
A video series on court access. The intro:
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Fiona Apple & courtwatchers have observed over 5000 hearings. No issue. Now courts claiming all sorts of concerns that never arose for past 2 years. They're just trying to shut the public out. Why?
"We all know there's some bad shit going on in the courts." The bad shit:
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More of Fiona Apple's video message coming, but she & local MD advocates wanted to share what you can do to take action now.
"Take what I said. Pick what you can make your own. And put it in your own words. Write to them. Call them in support of Public Online Court Access Bill."
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A major study finds that having COVID-19 makes you much likelier to suffer over twenty different heart conditions, including heart failure and strokes.
“It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, diabetic or not, obese or not, if you smoked, or didn’t.”
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Fiona Apple (& dog Mercy) have a new story to share w/ you.
She & other court watchers were retaliated against for reporting on injustice. Denied access. She just submitted testimony in MD legislature to defend virtual court watch.
A video series on court access. The intro:
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Be like Fiona! Contact MD legislators in support of MD HB133 and SB43! 🤩
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Fiona Apple Series Outro: “You just want to slam on the breaks & hit rewind & go just 'Stop, stop ruining everything. You're not helping anything.’”
Fiona is a true one. Doing the work. Not asking, wanting for attention. But also knows her voice may make a difference. Gratitude.
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The CIA: We used to do terrible atrocities at home and abroad
The public: You still do!
The CIA: Yeah, but we used to, too
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"pure coincidence"
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At the hospital meeting with victims of a mass shooting when I get pulled away to be briefed about another shooting. This time in Half Moon Bay.
Tragedy upon tragedy.
Men: read a nonfiction book by a woman and tweet the cover challenge 2023.
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Thank you. I accept.
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Men: read a nonfiction book by a woman and tweet the cover challenge 2023.
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Elon Musk owns this shit and he's doing an absolutely terrible job, like worse than Dan Snyder. I feel like in that light I have an obligation to share this.
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Hi. Here is the latest episode of #SomeMoreNews with @drmistercody.
youtu.be/r-Y7U4LOTYY
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I wrote about the prison industrial complex in Atlanta for .
In September 2021, the Atlanta City Council voted to create a massive police training facility, despite overwhelming public opposition and outcry. This piece asks how that happened.
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A nationwide auto parts distributor has to pay $5.6 million after stealing wages from 1,398 workers. Larry Browne is the owner of Diligent Delivery Systems. He will never see jail time for this theft and the media will never give it the coverage it deserves.
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Our most elite newspapers viciously target destitute people who steal from Walgreens — they literally created a national hysteria over shoplifting last year. But those same newspapers are remarkably quiet — often totally absent — when rich people steal millions.
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A nationwide auto parts distributor has to pay $5.6 million after stealing wages from 1,398 workers. Larry Browne is the owner of Diligent Delivery Systems. He will never see jail time for this theft and the media will never give it the coverage it deserves.
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Anyone who claims that they operate on "logic and facts" instead of "emotions and feelings" does not. They have simply convinced themselves that all of their emotional reactions are logical ones. The fact that they don't realize this makes them MORE subject to their emotions.
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Blaming the egg shortage and price-hike on “socialism” is ignoring the fact that it’s happening in a hyper-capitalist country.
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“But without police, how will we protect people from rapists?”
Meanwhile:
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BREAKING. David Carrick, a Metropolitan police officer has admitted at least 80 sex attacks, including 47 rapes, against a dozen women. It means that one of the country's worst sex offenders has been working at the force for 20 years
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The collective obsession with normalcy is actually dysfunction & dissociation masquerading as resilience
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But that’s the fallacy right there, because “normal” has always been about ignoring the mass death happening around us whether it’s gun violence or the increase in natural disasters due to climate change. They have primed us to ignore millions dying from plague
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Whenever I die, please don't allow my image to be co-opted by the power establishment. Don't let my name & likeness be used to argue for peace in the absence of justice. I believe uncompromisingly in the liberation of the black, poor and oppressed from systems of white supremacy
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showed up to Sunset Park and not only used MLK legacy but also Sunset park community as pawns to push her conservative judge. And the worst part was she brought police with her and kicked out a respected, afro-latina leader who belongs to the church. #NoLaSalle
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? The CIA asks the question, is it *really* torture or do you think we can find a judge in Texas to sign off on it?
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Can't reply because censorship... But usually the right likes when businesses are allowed to decide who may patronize their business.
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Lol. Yeah, best to not give people a platform who intend to talk about how bad censorship is.
Numpty.
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Yep, the caucus that lost their minds over the suggestion that they should wear masks during a pandemic to respect the safety of others is now spending its time focusing on the fine details of what women have to wear (specifically how to cover their arms) to show respect here.
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Breaking a rail strike.
Going easy on airline cancellations.
The Southwest meltdown.
Now the FAA computers are down.
At a certain point, neoliberals need to come to terms that the DOT is not performing well.
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So are you paying attention?! This isn’t a one off. It’s a COMMON problem. I have reported it several times to you directly. Other professionals have as well. This isn’t a game. It’s dealing with the long term health of each individual.
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Imagine if paedophiles of the eighties and nineties realised they could just put on some mascara and people would go "YES, PLEASE READ STORIES TO OUR CHILDREN". At least Catholic priests had to learn Latin!
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It's amazing how publications like the New York Times and Washington Post will quote Summers like a sage without questioning him on this stuff (or fact his personal & financial connection with Jeffrey Epstein persisted long after arrest).
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NEW: Larry Summers advised the crypto conglomerate DCG for six years. Now its trading desk has been publicly accused of fraud, and is under DOJ and SEC investigation.
Summers quietly left DCG a few months ago.
Is anyone going to ask him about this?
therevolvingdoorproject.org/larry-summers-
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if I was an advisor to a crypto conglomerate, I would simply advise them not to get publicly accused of fraud, thus avoiding the need to quietly leave them a few months ago.
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NEW: Larry Summers advised the crypto conglomerate DCG for six years. Now its trading desk has been publicly accused of fraud, and is under DOJ and SEC investigation.
Summers quietly left DCG a few months ago.
Is anyone going to ask him about this?
therevolvingdoorproject.org/larry-summers-
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He’s escaped scrutiny for hanging out with a known sex trafficker, so I’m going to guess no.
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NEW: Larry Summers advised the crypto conglomerate DCG for six years. Now its trading desk has been publicly accused of fraud, and is under DOJ and SEC investigation.
Summers quietly left DCG a few months ago.
Is anyone going to ask him about this?
therevolvingdoorproject.org/larry-summers-
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I obtained surveillance footage of the self-driving Tesla that abruptly stopped on the Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash that injured 9 people including a 2 yr old child just hours after Musk announced the self-driving feature.
Full story: theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tes
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It rules that we have all just become unwilling test subjects for this totally unproven extremely dangerous technology
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I obtained surveillance footage of the self-driving Tesla that abruptly stopped on the Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash that injured 9 people including a 2 yr old child just hours after Musk announced the self-driving feature.
Full story: theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tes
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A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.
The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores.
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