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The thing about “European voters reject facism” applying to us is that Trump does indeed seem to have a pretty hard cap on his vote % in the mid 40s. You just gotta motivate everybody else to get out and vote against him!

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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If for no other reason, turn out to vote to spite the “men who have never done anything but sniff their own farts” club.

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Shout-out to Freedom Oklahoma, who have been fighting hard for 2SLGBTQ+ folks in OK and are my go-to rec when people ask about red-state groups to support:

And if you're doing the Blue State Challenge, feel free to talk up any Red State groups you're supporting that want that kind of exposure. On any/all your platforms. It can make a difference in a lot of ways.

Freedom Oklahomawww.freedomoklahoma.org Freedom Oklahoma

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If they keep impoverished people, especially Black people, scrambling to keep themselves and children fed... then those people have to take what low wage jobs they can, be practically indentured in their work and have little time and energy to organize against them The cruelty IS the point.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Consider Wayne Knight's career, beginning in 1979 and including shit tons of iconic movie and tv roles. Where are the modern Wayne Knights, who is out there casting actually fat dudes for fat characters instead of thinking "we'll just slap a fat suit on em"

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This figure illustrates how record warm ocean temperatures fueled Hurricane Beryl, causing it to intensify faster, reach greater strength, maintain that strength for longer, and likely dump more rain than it would have otherwise. Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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a political party loses elections to this

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Media depicted Le Pen's rise, Brexit, and Trump as a sign of the growth of rightwing 'populism'. Will it depict the victory of the republican front and UK's Labour as a sign that the left is ascendant?

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I bring good tidings from the other site: French Lefties win, Le Pen eats shit, Macron eats more shit

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Bro if France resists the tide of fascism and we don’t it will be so fucking embarrassing

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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What if normies don’t like nazis

Breaking: A left-wing coalition is on course to win the most seats in France’s legislative election in a surprise blow to far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s hopes of forming the next government Read more: bloom.bg/frenchelection

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FASCISM IS NOT INEVITABLE

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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there’s a certain kind of writer (frequently cishet white guys, but not always!) who thinks about intense emotional experiences as something you do TO your audience, not a journey you go on WITH them. they function like jump scares and rely on shock. but then they cut off all your story potential!

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that quintessential American experience when you see a headline that we’ve stopped doing something so fiendishly soulless that you can only react by going “wait, we were doing WHAT????? for HOW long???????? until JUST NOW??????” and it makes you want to lie down on the floor for the rest of the day

The Oregon DOC will no longer force people who are incarcerated to pay hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars for medical devices, such as hearing aids and prosthetic limbs. People incarcerated in Oregon typically make less than $100 per month.

Oregon Department of Corrections ends practice of charging prisoners for medical deviceswww.opb.org The Oregon Department of Corrections will no longer garnish the wages of prisoners who need medical devices, like hearing aids or prosthetic limbs.

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So then how is it a *squints* you know, a ceasefire deal If the fire will not cease

“Any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow Israel to resume fighting until its objectives are met, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as talks over a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war were expected to restart.”

Hamas says it's waiting for Israeli response on Gaza ceasefire proposalwww.reuters.com Hamas is waiting for a response from Israel on its ceasefire proposal, two officials from the militant Islamist group said on Sunday, five days after it accepted a key part of a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war in Gaza.

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largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy. So frustrating.

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pink paintings

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Unironically put this post on ads in swing states

there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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When the France election results are good

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There is particular power in such an ideologically diverse coalition rejecting the French right because fascists should be reminded often that they’re repugnant to a broad swath of society, not just getting outmaneuvered by the wily left

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How the fuck is DeJoy still the Postmaster General Like, he was actively destroying the Postal Service four whole years ago, and this was in fact all over the news for months