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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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ding ding ding it's capitalism all the way down

They don't have an inside to go to. This is "increase jail population and slave labor" ruling.

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A republic, if you can keep it.

Suburban communities where community membership is based primarily on property ownership, property protection and property value will always have that foundational flaw that you can’t really get past

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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.

The YIMBY response to climate change and rising sea levels is pouring funding into the house boat industry to drive prices down

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My main take on the just stop oil stonehenge action is that an ancient heritage site is actually perfect for this protest cause it matches the scale of climate catastrophe. It forces a confrontation with the history of humanity and what we leave behind for the future

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If a tornado outbreak killed a few hundred people, it would be remembered as a national tragedy. When a heat wave kills a few hundred people, it's the butt of countless jokes. It's a mistake to shrug off the deadly threat of extreme heat.

Extreme heat kills. It's no joke. Folks shouldn't treat it like one.www.damweather.com Heat is responsible for nearly half of all weather-related deaths in the U.S. over the past ten years.

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can we discourse abt this instead of queer shit plz

Five albums I can’t live without 1. Southeastern — Jason Isbell 2. Born To Run — Bruce Springsteen 3. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You — Big Thief 4. Fetch the Bolt Cutters — Fiona Apple 5. …? (Holy Ghost — Modern Baseball)

Five albums I can't live without 1. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People 2. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser... 3. Frank Ocean - Blonde 4. Taylor Swift -folklore 5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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The "pro-natalist" movement claims low birth rates will bring societal collapse. Those rates reflect declines in teen pregnancy. If they want adult women to pick up the slack, it's time for governments to start paying moms like the world depends on it. www.momleft.com/p/but-the-bi...

But The Birthrates!www.momleft.com If "pro-natalists" really believe we're on the brink of civilizational collapse, they'd better start paying moms like it's the end of the world.

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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Florida’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors and many of its restrictions on similar adult care are unconstitutional. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

Well, yeah. And President Josh Hawley will be much better at that than Trump

Folks really need to internalize this more. Fascists don’t make the trains run on time. They don’t make garbage collection smoother or roads better. They’re very very dumb! They do one and only one thing well: inflict pain on their perceived enemies.

Agree with most of this thread — but are we sure Biden is more liberal than Obama?

Presidents are as liberal or conservative as their Congresses. The legislature is the first branch for a reason. It is the driving force of all policy. Is Joe Biden really more liberal than Barack Obama, or does he simply have more liberal Reps and Senators to do the work?

The “lesbians are more accepted that gay men” thing is Very Wrong and Weird

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You might think this story isn’t applicable to you because you’re not in New York, but it’s important because it illustrates our basic problem: Every issue you care about is held hostage by a ruling class that is incapable of doing the right thing because it might make some suburban cops mad

New: I wrote about Kathy’s big week of fucking up everything

Opinion | New Yorkers are faced with a terrifying question after Gov. Hochul's costly gambitwww.msnbc.com The plan would’ve generated revenue for sorely need mass transit updates, while reducing traffic and the environmental destruction brought by cars.

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Hochul managing the rare achievement of making literally every single person in New York angry for some reason or another there's still time to re-reverse! then you just look like a waffling, incompetent moron instead of a waffling, incompetent moron who is also a sellout

NYC's Independent Budget Office is steamed: "The sudden loss of this anticipated revenue coupled with the lack of any long-term financial alternative to support crucial improvements for tracks, signals, and cars, will complicate the long-term competitiveness of NYC" www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/pressrelease...

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In sociology, a recurring methodological problem encountered by those trying to study the very rich is that their domains of existence are so far removed from the experiences of ordinary people that the researchers, before they even start, have to fundamentally reshape their social ontologies

When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.

The way we have changed the languaging around abortion from pro-life to pro-forced-birth, I propose labeling anti-crime or tough-on-crime politicians as pro-arrest or pro-imprisonment

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Texas' abortion ban prevented doctors from providing an abortion to a woman with a failing pregnancy—forcing her to instead pass the pregnancy on her own. She spent days in agony, vomiting and bleeding, until she passed out from blood loss and nearly died. www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...

How a couple found themselves tangled in Texas’ strict abortion laws after miscarriagewww.dallasnews.com A Texas woman needed help passing her incomplete miscarriage and wanted a surgical abortion. Her husband said that two medical centers denied or delayed a...

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This is thoroughly disgusting behavior on the part of the Biden Administration: a wholesale surrender to reactionary conservatives and a further entrenchment of militarized border policies in the face of a completely fake crisis

None of the US media coverage of this fascist move acknowledges that this is illegal under international law. The US creates economic, political and environmental crises in the Global South only to deny refugees humane treatment and the right to seek asylum here. “Kids in cages”!

Re: straights at pride I think it’s counterproductive & missing-the-point to police who is allowed to be at pride events when the point of the pride movement is to deconstruct policing of normativity that we all suffer from

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I have posted before about how the average very offline resistance lib's opinion of Trump at this point is "someone should shoot that motherfucker on fifth avenue" what people are really begging is for someone, preferably the entire party but at the very least Biden, to match that energy

i honestly think a hot mic leak of biden saying “fuck that racist motherfucker” would be worth more than every speech he’s ever given or will give. tack on a “and is it just me or does he want to fuck his own daughter” & we’re into exponentially more than every speech he’s given or will give.

“Tiedrich” as a noun is incredible

whoop whoop the sound of the (handle) police

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I really wish academia worked like this

sweetie I have seen some of the people who are lawyers. if they can do it, you can do it.

Subcultures become gentrified and lose all of their anti-capitalist value

does it feel like counterculture is a dead idea or am i just being 40 over here

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While we're talking about how everyone should be able to marry the person they love, here's a reminder that disabled people still can't get married legally because they will have their benefits taken away. In many places, they can't even -live- with their partner unmarried without losing benefits.

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Remember, it isn't a "Cybertruck" It is an "IncEl-Camino"