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politijohn · 18 hours

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Faculty expressing solidarity with students during this movement cannot go unnoticed.

Free Palestine

#free Palestine #Gaza #news #current events #students #free speech #education #college #important #politics #us politics #government #the left #acab #Palestine #Israel #columbia university #activism

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geminisee · 2 days

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#politics #us politics #palestine #free palestine #tiktok #tiktok censorship #free speech #video #video post #columbia university #nyu

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tomi4i · 2 days

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catchymemes · 7 hours

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#funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #tweet #twitter #economy #politics #us politics #news

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flouryhedgehog · 2 days

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Voting is a tool.

By which I mean, voting is just a tool; it isn't sacred or magical.

And by which I also mean, voting is one tool that is good for one kind of purpose. If it isn't suitable for the goal you're trying to achieve, you need different tools.

Every time someone makes a post on here rightly criticizing Joe Biden's support for genocide, there's at least one person in the notes saying "but remember, you still have to vote for him!" or, "did you know Trump wants to deport Muslims?" or, "then who do you want me to vote for?"

But that's like going into a plant nursery and demanding they sell you the correct drill bit for planting a tree. They will never sell you the drill bit you want, because the drill bit you want--the drill bit suitable for planting trees--doesn't exist, and also plant nurseries don't sell drill bits.

Standing in the plant nursery asking about drill bits will probably initially get you people explaining to you where to find a shovel, and a watering can, and some mulch, because those are tools that will help you plant the tree. If you ignore the attempts to educate you, and start yelling about how they must just want you to throw away your drill, and also they probably hate trees and hate you and want you, personally, to suffer in a world without shade, you'll start getting different answers, like "please stop shouting" and "I'm going to have to ask you to leave now."

Because you're demanding that they tell you how to use the wrong tool for the job. They can never give you the answer you want; the answer you want doesn't exist.

I can't tell you who to vote for to prevent the rise of fascism in the United States, both because you can't prevent something that's already happened, and because you can't vote your way out of fascism.

You need different tools; you need to ask different questions and be willing to sit with the answers, even if they aren't the answers you want.

Boycotts are a tool. Protests are a tool. Shutting down highways, physically blocking weapons shipments, picketing arms companies, those are tools. So is going to your library and checking out books about Palestine, and about decolonization generally.

Instead of asking which war criminal you should vote for, perhaps ask how you can organize members of your community to support and look after each other and keep each other safe. Perhaps ask how you can support Land Back and prison abolition. Ask how you can organize a union in your workplace.

The tool you're most comfortable using isn't going to work for this job. Learn how to use another.

#palestine #joe biden #genocide joe #us politics

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intersectionalpraxis · 3 days

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vaspider · 2 days

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The AZ Senate had the votes to repeal the ban last week, so a repeal seems likely. While this would simply put a newer 15w ban in place, this is an immediate benefit to a lot of people who are pregnant and don't want to be, and an indication that the GOP is unable to stand in the face of how pissed off people are.

If you live in AZ, especially, but even if you don't, you need to read the whole article, bc I guarantee that the GOP where you live is going to try to pull bait-and-switch tactics similar to those being tried in AZ, where a pro-reproductive-freedom item is on the ballot. GOPers there are going to try to confuse the vote into failure.

#politics #pro-choice #reproductive rights #reproductive health #reproductive justice #az politics #us politics

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kaurwreck · 2 days

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I typically keep work/Tumblr separate nowadays, but the Senate passed the TikTok bill, and the President is aching to sign it.

It's wildly unlikely TikTok will manage to divest within 270 days, and the potential three month extension won't do much either, so this amounts to a ban. But more than just TikTok, the language of the bill-soon-to-be-law grants the President incredibly broad authority to ban or force the sale of other foreign-owned apps, too, especially given its very expansive definition of "foreign-owned apps."

I don't have a particular call to action that I care to offer here. But, it's something people (not only US citizens) should be aware of, as this is a pretty big fucking deal.

#tiktok #tiktok ban #us politics #im not just parroting news coverage btw ive read the language of this bill and broken it down #for whatever it's worth

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social-battery-low · 2 days

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Another multi-billion dollars was approved for Israel meanwhile here in America prices are still soaring, more and more people are unable to afford basic needs, and the government is trying to criminalize homelessness.

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politijohn · 2 days

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Huge win for workers

#politics #us politics #government #the left #working class #workers rights #capitalism #progressive #current events #news #good news

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troythecatfish · 2 days

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shybiii · 1 day

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#fcc #net neutrality #us politics

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archive-pl · 15 hours

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Weird how all these institutions of higher learning let pricks like Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson come in and speak in the interest of "promoting free speech" but bring in the cops when people want to say Israel shouldn't be doing a genocide

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #all eyes on palestine #genocide #usa #protests #police brutality #us politics #police violence #universities #conservatives #mine #media #current events

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troythings · 3 days

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today in the U.S, congress passed a bill banning tiktok and sending more aid to israel. joe biden is expected to codify it into law.

columbia threatened to sic the national guard and NYPD on pro-palestine protesters. as of now, “counterterrorism” forces have arrived on university grounds.

nyu built an apartheid wall.

the university of minnesota is shutting off the water supply to pro-palestine protesters.

zionism has come home to roost in america. keep raising awareness. nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

#free palestine #free gaza #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #end the occupation #🔻#us politics #politics #student protests #columbia university #nyu #boycott divest sanction #bds movement #current events

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understand-person-service-nor · 1 hour

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#ivf #eye makeup #memories #mini dress #stefan salvatore #hot pics #camila cabello #ebonycurves #a hat in time #us politics #arsenal

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workersolidarity · 2 days

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REPORT: UNITED STATES OCCUPATION CONTINUES SUCKING WEALTH OUT OF EASTERN SYRIA

The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is reporting that the American military occupation in eastern Syria continues to suck wealth and resources from the West Asian nation.

According to SANA News, the US occupation is stealing wealth from the areas it continues to illegally occupy in the Hasakah province of eastern Syria, using its forces to load tankers and trucks with Syrian resources including oil and grains.

Local sources in the Al-Yaarubiya countryside, near the Iraqi border, in the Al-Hasakah Governate, told SANA that a US-occupation convoy consisting of 69 vehicles, including 45 tankers loaded with Syrian oil, along with 24 trucks loaded with grains stolen from silos in the Hasakah province, left Syrian territory through the illegal Mahmoudiyah crossing headed for US bases in Iraqi territory.

The report was published by journalist Nisreen Othman on April 22nd, 2024.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

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