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Progressive killjoy against genocide everywhere. She/her. Pay attention to deeds not words. Let’s not destroy the planet, ok?

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The French left formed a coalition in THREE WEEKS and basically made every pundit look like clowns and rendered the polling almost meaningless. It is possible.

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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We know 550 of 577 districts in France. Left bloc: 188 Macron bloc: 149 RN/far-right bloc: 139 LR/right: 44 Other left: 8 Other right: 16 Others: 6 REMAINS: 27 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Not visible to the public is the fact that this administration has alienated some of the strongest organizers I know. And here I mean those who focus on electoral organizing.

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Congrats to other country’s liberal coalitions for ever being able to get their shit in gear tell us what that’s like

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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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

Courage is contagious, LFG U.S.

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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France telling their fascists to fuck off.

Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit pollwww.aljazeera.com The second round of France’s snap parliamentary election called by President Emmanuel Macron has drawn a high turnout.

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Gift link generously shared below. *Link card >> screen shots, especially without alt-text

Constant training with munitions will be the death of many current military people and Veterans. There have been a few articles recently about this. I'm sure it's troubling for the DOD and our government. Many probably knew. Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/u...

Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicidewww.nytimes.com A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.

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A combination of the growing cost of materials and investors demanding higher returns is making it harder to build housing, thus exacerbating the inflationary impact of high housing costs for renters and homebuyers. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/b...

A 10,000-unit housing development at Suffolk Downs is on hold indefinitely. Here’s why. - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The construction pause is a testament to how high interest rates and materials costs are preventing developers from building much-needed projects.

Who the F is running things in the Biden administration? Do they want to win? Dem/left voters (AKA the majority of the country) do NOT agree with murdering babies in their dens or anywhere else. We go to National Parks to see these creatures and learn about them. Call your reps!

Outrage after Biden administration reinstates ‘barbaric’ Trump-era hunting ruleswww.theguardian.com Rules allow hunting practices that target bears and wolves, including pups or cubs, on federal land in Alaska

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Letting people murder babies in their dens? Seems bad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Google “Massachusetts crisis pregnancy” and this link pops up. It’s part of a statewide campaign, including public signage (highway billboards!), urging people to avoid crisis pregnancy/anti-abortion centers. The Commonwealth is not fucking around with this.

Especially when you see people like Nancy P causing doubt about her own candidate when she should be targeting trump, GOP, SCOTUS and paving the way for a Democratic win both up and down ticket. When she's trying to push an idea, it's always to aid the authoritarian project.

I think it’s important in the current moment we find ourselves in with the media playing a massive part in trying to undermine things in a crucial moment for democracy in a coordinated way for people to understand that many of us on the academic side have been trying to warn you for literally years.

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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NEW: updated edition of our American Autocracy Threat Tracker Shows the full range of Trump’s dictatorship would look like— including proof of his close ties to Project 2025 “He is lying when he denies it and we have the receipts.” www.justsecurity.org/92714/americ...

American Autocracy Threat Trackerwww.justsecurity.org A comprehensive catalog of the autocratic threat to democracy based on former President Donald Trump and his associates’ autocratic plans and promises.

Stephen Miller should have been held accountable for child separation. F this POS.

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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1. Trans ppl can now serve in the military. 2. Plan B is now OTC. 3. 12 MILLION more ppl have healthcare 4. Vastly improved access to paid leave esp. when needing a safe place to avoid domestic abuse 5. C'mon. 6. Restored April 25. 7. Major expansion of wind & solar. 8. Boyfriend loophole closed

Anyone remember the absolutely bonkers shit that would happen when trump was president? WH dot gov turned into trumpland on day 1, important links gone. WH twitter account once tweeted a photo of the Washington Monument with snow coming down as an image from that day -- it was 80F and sunny.

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Academic freedom is in peril @katestarbird.bsky.social exposes the disingenuous attacks on misinformation research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...

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Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...

Dem leaders should use these plans as a counter to trump's depraved 2025 project. Copy the homework off the only one who did the assignment and LFG.

We deserve leaders who have their shit together and their priorities on protecting the country. These plans were posted in each of Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign offices for anyone to read. Note the 1st plan on the right - "Holding Presidents Accountable."

Also recommend scrolling through the 2025 document. It's organized into sections so you can see what twisted shit they're planning for every aspect of a government and society. Dems should use Elizabeth Warrens plans from her presidential campaign and create a 2025 New Deal.

We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Progressive legislators could consult experts and come up with a plan identifying what Biden can do NOW to protect us. They could hold a press conference highlighting the dangers of project 2025 and their plan for NOW. Then they should walk the plan over to Biden and ask him to implement it.

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We’ve all watched the GOP drag rapists, criminals, florid wackos, and brain-dead white supremacists to electoral victory over and over again. Perhaps the Democrats can summon up some of that energy to save our democracy and our lives.

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This is shockingly solipsistic. And dangerous.

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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They’re gonna ban TikTok because the KPOP army made fun of his empty rally that got his internet guru fired. The right made one of the world’s richest men buy Twitter because we were bullying fascists and organizing. American journalism has become almost exclusively transcribing tweets.

People are like "there's no point in posting it doesn't make a difference to anything," 8 years after Donald Trump posted his way to the presidency of the United States

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Pay attention.

Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”

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Another post from the thread of video and images of picketers in front of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house today. Their actions are pure speech like law textbooks discuss. tweet: x.com/LiteraryMous...

Thousands showed up in DC every week to demand the Dem controlled House impeach the MFer for every offense. We wanted every crime documented so he could never run again. Largest protests in U.S. history during trump. F this shit. Dems need to fight FFS