takegod.bsky.social

@takegod.bsky.social

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Brooklyn educator. Always learning.

Movies, man.
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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I know this is a boring point to make but it fucking kills me that one side is saying "we'll bring back 12 hour days, child labor, and Jim Crow" and the other side is saying "you can continue to grill on Sundays with your neighbors, who might look different to you" and it's a 50/50 split

This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda

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Glad to see some members of Congress taking the issue seriously.

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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Malcolm X: "I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalise them for not being able to stand up under the weight."

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

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

This is beyond the normalization of publications like the Times at the time. But the Times specifically was wrong on Hitler, wrong on MLK Jr, wrong on Ida B Wells, wrong on the famine in ukraine, wrong on weapons of mass destruction. Being wrong somehow isn't disqualifying.

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Democratic pundits are worse at their jobs than Joe Biden is at debating.

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the ny times in one helpful infographic. stop reading this paper.

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Ok so midlevel takeaways from this fiasco of a “debate”: 1) CNN’s design let their anchors be supine & abdicate any responsibility 2) This is a contest between confident, fluid lies & challenging policy tradeoffs 3) Ds shaking their heads & dismissing Rs doesn’t come across well on national TV

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Dusk, Woodstock, New York (1910) - Birge Harrison

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An apt visual metaphor as CUNY Ph.D. student Jawanza Williams is wrestled over the threshold of City Hall and tossed out by a police officer. The photo highlights who gets govt resources and who suffers in unnecessary austerity. Williams & Peoples Plan NYC want to stop the boondoggle. #StopCopCity

Last week Jawanza James Williams and comrades from @PeoplesPlanNYC visited City Hall to spread the word about NYC's version of #CopCity. They demanded a people's budget for social services, CUNY, and public libraries. They were all thrown out. link: x.com/Jawanza/stat...

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can't find it right now but someone said a couple of days ago that Palestinians generally find the history of the Jewish diaspora irrelevant to their plight but Westerners view Palestinians almost exclusively through the lens of the history of the Jewish diaspora

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Uh, holy shit. This is actually awesome. www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-p...

Biden preparing to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in U.S. for 10 yearswww.cbsnews.com The program would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, sources said.

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San Francisco's David Sacks -- champion of the Drug War, opponent of Harm Reduction, supporter of Trump and ... an investor in a massive online pill mill that just got busted for $100 million fraud and is responsible for multiple overdose deaths sfstandard.com/2024/06/13/t...

SF startup CEO and president arrested in $100M illegal drug schemesfstandard.com Prosecutors allege that Done Global execs Ruthia He and David Brody sold 40 million pills of stimulants like Adderall, Vyvanse and Ritalin through their platform with few guardrails, leading to the ov...

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@ndhapple.bsky.social: "Just talk a little bit about what you've learned about Governor Kathy Hochul over the last couple of weeks." MTA chair Janno Lieber: "No." x.com/JMartinezNYC...

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This is one of the ten most psychotic rampages by a military we've seen in history. There was only a handful of conflicts that happened to drop bombs equal and greater than WW2, and every last one of them was a genocide that occurred after WW2. We need the imperialist cycle of genocides to stop!

This pretty much says it all. www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

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Can’t believe this isn’t satire

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Powers Gold Label Irish Whiskey neat and a High Life at trivia night at Skylark, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, USA. @skylarkbrooklyn

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At campuses across the US, cops and vigilantes are laying siege to Palestine protests at the enticement of wealthy donors, universities, and politicians. This teaches us something fundamental about policing. My latest for @thenation.com with @tripeggert.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Palestinian Liberation and Police Abolition Go Hand In Handwww.thenation.com The severe repression of the recent encampment protests proves that these struggles are inexorably linked.

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At least Chan dropped the coyness and is now putting her name directly onto her own conspiracy theory

Holy shit this is embarrassing. Five points of "evidence," none of which are evidence. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Pointswww.nytimes.com The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.

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I salute E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels for being braver than all three branches of our government.

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Dave Weigel

i strongly believe that american politicians would be apex predators if dropped into the UK

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The ICC charges are the perfect exit ramp for Biden on this disastrous crisis in Gaza and instead of taking that ramp and saying "look I supported our ally but the ICC has findings and we will allow the legal proceedings to play out" he's doubling down on defending Netanyahu's unhinged regime.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wants to work with Congress on legislation to penalize the International Criminal Court after it applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Blinken says he wants to work with Congress to penalize International Criminal Court | CNN Politicscnn.it US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wants to work with Congress on legislation to penalize the International Criminal Court after it applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Ben...

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she's so cool.......

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In a different, better world, this fascist traitor to the Constitution would be impeached and removed.

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Let's go

@jbouie.bsky.social hey I was wondering how you set up a website. Is it through a service or did you just by the domain and do basically html. Want to use one for my classroom.

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"Why are our politics so hostile?" Oh, I dunno, but one factor is how rich scumbags, unsatisfied with unimaginable wealth, have declared war on the rest of the population and are trying to extract even more from people who live paycheck-to-paycheck. That tends to raise the temperature, y'know?

Billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick, owners of the world's largest pistachio and almond grower, Fiji Water, Pom pomegranate juice and Justin wines, and Teleflora flower service, are suing to roll back legal protections for farmworkers.

Column: Inside the effort by two Beverly Hills billionaires to kill a state law protecting farmworkerswww.latimes.com The billionaire owners of Wonderful Co. — grower of almonds and pistachios — say a California farm labor law is unconstitutional.